The Center for Adult Career Development Testing
Vocational Choices and Interest Assessment
Many adults, both college age and senior, have questions about their career interest patterns and choices. Many professionals are confused, depressed, unhappy or burned out in their jobs. If any of these describe you it may well be due to being in a career field that is not best suited for your personality type. Quite often people do not end up working in the same field they studied in college, and to be happy at work it is crucial to discover what you are passionate about.
Selecting a college major, contemplating a career change, or finding oneself bored with the everyday routine of the workplace are appropriate times to consider objective assessment of ones abilities and interests n a wide variety of career alternatives. The Center can provide you with the ability to come to a more complete understanding of interest patterns and personality variables that will lead to a greater probability of a successful beginning or career transition through our vocational assessment tools.Pre-employment Screening for Businesses
Businesses spend a great deal of capital on the hiring, training and employment of individual employees to do divergent but specific job-related functions for the company. Psychological assessment can help the employer place the right person in the right job, thereby increasing productivity and longevity with the company. This type of accuracy has the potential to obviate the need for frequent rehiring and retraining, resulting in significant cost savings from the start.
The Center can work closely with your business to define job related tasks, both physical and psychological, and then aid in the selection process to fit the right employee into the right position.
Frequently Used Tests for Adult Vocational Assessment:
Vocational Assessment Rating Scales:
Campbell Interest and Skill Survey (CISS 15yo+)
Interpersonal Rating Scales:
Sixteen Personality Factors – 5th Edition (Human resources development report)
Millon Index of Personality Styles – Revised (MIPS-R)
Fundamental Interpersonal Relationship Orientation – Behavior (FIRO-B)
Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator
Pastoral & Ministerial Screening*
The assumption of the yoke of leadership for a church and its congregation is a formidable responsibility, one that taxes mind, body and spirit. Psychological and psychometric assessment at The Center serves two major goals within the Clergy Candidacy process. The first goal is to facilitate an increased understanding and awareness of the Self by the candidate in the context of capacities for, and interests in, ministerial work. The second goal is to enable the church to examine with greater objective accuracy the candidates who present themselves as aspirants for professional ministry.
During this process the Candidacy Team works with the Exploring Candidate in a relationship that is primarily focused on nurture and growth, particularly in terms of the exploration of the vocation of ministry in the context of understanding ones personality, the church as community and mission, and the sense of calling within the individual candidate. In addition, psychological assessment is utilized as a means to get an early reading of the fitness or potential of the candidate for functioning in the role of ordained minister. Typically, recommendations from the psychological assessment to the candidate include experiences that would be helpful in the development of the candidate’s full potential during his or her preparation for professional ministry, and suggestions about achieving and maintaining optimal mental health, balance, and effective interpersonal functioning in whatever vocation if finally selected by the candidate.
Frequently Used Tests for Ministerial Vocational Assessment:
Vocational Assessment Rating Scales:
Campbell Interest and Skill Survey (CISS)
Mental Health & Stability
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory – Second Edition
Interpersonal Rating Scales:
Sixteen Personality Factors – 5th Edition (Human resources development report)
Millon Index of Personality Styles – Revised (MIPS-R)
Fundamental Interpersonal Relationship Orientation – Behavior (FIRO-B)
Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator
*Screening assessments ares not a covered benefit under medical insurance plans, and are therefore private pay or paid by the referring diocese or seminary. Please contact The Center to talk with our Clinical Director regarding costs.