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Which career fits my personality type?

By Marc Jerrard

Career coach Marc Jerrard, who with Marianne Cantwell delivers our Careershifters workshops, shares a psychometric (personality) test for you to try! More

Understand Yourself: Four Personality Tests And A Warning

By Sarah Cooper

Sarah Cooper looks at four personality tests, assesses their usefulness, and provides two useful tips to help with your career change. More

New free skills assesment site for career changers

By Sab on 3 August 2010 at 15:03 in Careershifters Blog

You may have tried out some of the online tests Nisa Chitakasem tested in her recent article. Well, we have another one for you!

It's hosted by the University of Essex's online business support portal VentureNavigator, and is totally free to use by anyone at any stage of their career.

You receive personalised feedback and tips linking through to skills related articles on VentureNavigator by signing up at http://www.venturenavigator.co.uk/skills

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Matching Your Personality To Your Career

By Nisa Chitakasem

We all know how important matching up our personality with a suitable role is to a successful career change. Here, Nisa Chitakasem tries out online personality tests to see how helpful they can be. More

Resources for your successful career change - our new section has just launched

By Richard on 24 November 2008 at 18:46 in Careershifters Blog

It's something that you've asked for and it's something that we've long wanted to include in the site... and now it's here.

Check into our brand new Resources section.

Whether you're looking for a coach to help you navigate your career change journey, psychometric tests to better understand yourself, information on retraining courses, help with starting your own busines, assistance with writing your CV, or pointers on how to take time out from your career, we've started to pull together the people we believe are the best in the business in these areas.

Our aim? To create the most comprehensive list of recommended people, organisations and suppliers that can help you further in your successful career change.

And, to help us do that, we'd love to hear your suggestions on who we should include. Let us know here and let us know too what you think of the new section!

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The low-down on psychometric tests

By Anonymous

Psychometric tests can be a great help when you're career shifting and working out what careers and work-style will suit you best. But with so many different tests out there, it can be hard to know which one to go for. Not to worry, we've found a career psychologist to give you the low-down on the best psychometric tests out there. More


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