Further Exploration
After you have answered the questions on natural talents and purpose and completed the exercises, you may wish to look at various self-assessment tools for more information about yourself. Keep in mind the following:
What we like about these tools is often their shortcoming: they label us in a way that is too black and white. This simplicity is often comforting but not the whole truth. Human beings are much too complicated to fit into one little niche.
If you take this information too literally, you can trap yourself in a label that limits your growth.
Each of these tools has strengths and weaknesses. Some will appeal to some of you and not to others based on the way you like to process information.
The sheer number of these tools can sometimes be confusing rather than clarifying.
With that cautionary note in mind, the following websites contain self-assessment tools that may be useful for further exploration:
The University of Waterloo's Career Development e-Manual addresses a range of career needs. The first step is Self Assessment.
MAPP Assessment is in narrative form. You are allowed a free sample and must pay a nominal fee for the complete report.
The Keirsey Type Sorter
Authentic Enneagram
Recommended resources in the Filene Center library
