Career Assessment Testing
Career Assessments Links
What Can I Do With a Major or Degree In...?
RIASEC and Holland Codes
MBTI Profile Types
Career Education Library Resources for Choosing a Major
Career Links for Specific Majors

Career Assessment Testing

The Career Services Office offers two types of career assessment testing: Strong Interest Inventory (SII) and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).

Strong Interest Inventory
The Strong Interest Inventory (SII) helps you make career decisions by identifying your likes and dislikes. It compares your choices, analyzes them, and makes a general summary of possible career choices based upon your responses. This allows you to plan your career direction and determine which path is right for you.

The SII helps you to:

• Decide which career path to take
• Help you reach more fulfillment in your job
• Make a career move
• Decide which educational programs and training are necessary
• Work towards a wonderful retirement
• Incorporate business with pleasure

The SII contains 317 items that determine your level of interest in occupational institutions, professional activities, hobbies, leisure activities and diverse types of people. It comes with a detailed printout of results.

Myers/Briggs Type Indicator
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) helps determine your preference for gathering information and making decisions. The MBTI recognizes these preferences allowing us to interpret and realize how we can effectively work together in the workforce environment.

IUSB students and alumni interested in taking the online assessments, must first contact the Career Services Office at (574) 520-4425 or sbcareer@iusb.edu to schedule an initial appointment. After the initial appointment, a career counselor will administer the assessments and the client must register for an SII and/or MBTI Group through the Career Services Office.

Career Assessments Links on the Web

The following are links that offer free career assessment testing on the web. You do not need to be an IUSB student or alumni to take these assessments and results are immediately given to you upon completion.

• RIASEC Interest Inventories
• The Career Key
• Princeton Career Review Quiz
• TypeFocus.com—Personality Test Based on MBTI Types

What Can I Do With A Major or Degree In...?

The Career Services Office offers the following informational handouts on what you can do with the various degrees offered through IU South Bend:

• Accounting
• Advertising
• Art
• Biology
• Broadcasting
• Chemistry
• Computer Science
• Counseling & Human Services
• Criminal Justice
• Dental Assisting
• Dental Hygiene
• Early Childhood Education
• Education
• Electrical Engineering Technology
• English
• Film Studies
• Finance
• General Studies
• History
• Human Resources
• Information Systems
• International Studies
• Journalism
• Labor Studies
• Management
• Marketing
• Mathematics
• Mechanical Engineering Technology
• Music
• Nursing
• Paralegal
• Philosophy
• Physics
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Public Affairs
• Public Relations
• Radiography
• Religious Studies
• Social Work
• Sociology
• Special Education
• Speech Communication
• Theatre
• Womens Studies
• World Language Studies

Choose a major on the IU South Bend Majors and Programs page for career information.

Match Major Sheets: Match your major to potential careers in the world-of-work.

RIASEC and Holland Codes

One way of exploring majors and careers is by looking at occupations according to occupational interest. John Holland conducted research that divided jobs and job seekers into six broad categories: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising and Conventional. Your Holland Code is a generalization, not likely to be an exact fit. However, it might help you discover where you can find occupational satisfaction. Click on a section below to view the different Holland Types, their characteristics and possible career paths. (You will need Adobe Reader to view the following files. Get Adobe Reader here.)

MBTI Profile Types

The most widely used personality inventory in the world, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) provides an accurate picture of your personality type. The MBTI determines preferences on four dichotomies:

• Extraversion (E)/Introversion (I)—Describes where people prefer to focus their attention and get their energy from, either the outer world of people and activity or their inner world of ideas and experiences
• Sensing (S)/Intuition (N)—Describes how people prefer to take in information, either focused on what is real and actual or on patterns and meanings in data
• Thinking (T)/Feeling (F)—Describes how people prefer to make decisions, either based on logical analysis or guided by concern for their impact on others
• Judging (J)/Perceiving (P)—Describes how people prefer to deal with the outer world, either in a planned orderly way, or in a flexible spontaneous way

Combinations of these preferences result in 16 distinct personality types. Understanding characteristics unique to each personality type, provides insight on how they influence an individual’s way of communicating and interacting with others. Click on a the profiles below to view the characteristics of each personality type.

Career Education Library Resources for Choosing a Major

The Career Education Library, located in the Career Services Office, has several resources for undecided students. Click here for a list of resources within the Major and Career Options category. For a complete list of resources available, click here. Students and alumni are encouraged to browse through the Career Education Library and check-out books. To check out books, please visit us in the Administration Building, Room 138 or contact our office at (574) 520-4425 or sbcareer@iusb.edu.

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