The Strong Interest Inventory® assessment provides robust insight into a person’s interests, so you can help them to consider potential careers, their educational path and the world of work. Built on psychologist John Holland’s theory, it’s backed by more than 80 years of research into how people of similar interests are employed, and what motivates individuals in the workplace. It delivers effective and powerful results that contribute to your students’ success.
The Strong Interest Inventory assessment helps individuals identify their work personality by exploring their interests in six broad areas: realistic, artistic, investigative, social, enterprising, and conventional (often referred to using the acronym RIASEC). ). It then breaks the RIASEC areas into 30 specific areas of interest that can be directly related to fields of study, careers, and leisure activities. In addition, it describes an individual’s personal style preferences in five areas: work style, learning environment, team orientation, leadership style, and risk taking. Depending on the report you choose, it ranks the individual’s top 5 or 10 most compatible occupations from a list of 260 specific jobs.
As a professional, you understand that people need individualized guidance to help identify careers that suit their strengths, preferences and abilities. The Strong Interest Inventory assessment is one of the world’s most respected and widely used career planning tools, providing robust insights into a person’s career interests. Using the Strong, your clients will discover potential careers they may not have considered and a wealth of information about how they approach the world of work
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The Strong assessment helps students uncover their career interests and identify which areas of study are appropriate or required for a particular field. Students become more engaged because they are focused on classes relevant to their goals.
By identifying personal interests and how these relate to different occupations, the Strong assessment opens up the world of work to first-time career seekers and people considering a career transition.
The Strong assessment heightens people's self-awareness and provides deeper understanding of individual strengths and blind spots, including work style and orientation to risk taking.
The Strong assessment helps employees align their interests with areas of responsibility in their job, or in other jobs within your organization where those interests can be applied.
The Strong assessment helps individuals re-enter the workplace after a period of disconnection or absence.
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For us, the Strong Interest Inventory® assessment really helps as part of our program, to help students or clients discover and verify their calling.
The Strong Interest Inventory® has helped us increase our focus on helping students decide on a college major at an earlier point in their college career.
The Strong Interest Inventory® opens their eyes to career areas they had little or no knowledge of.
The Strong Interest Inventory® has helped our students either confirm their current interests or open their eyes to new possibilities.
The Strong® assessment gives our students a valid direction to explore.