{"id":390,"date":"2020-01-01T14:08:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T14:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bawendi.demo.ly\/?p=390"},"modified":"2020-01-01T14:08:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T14:08:39","slug":"take-career-assessments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bawendi.ly\/en\/take-career-assessments\/","title":{"rendered":"Take career assessments."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Google search \u201ccareer assessment\u201d and you\u2019ll return about 434,000,000 results. Do they actually work? Should you shell out money to take online quizzes? Clearly, there\u2019s a big market for career aptitude tests, many of which are unproven and costly. That\u2019s why you should stick to ones that are inexpensive or free and have helped millions find careers.\nAtlanta-based career coach Kathy Brunner recommends clients take John Holland&#8217;s SDS (Self Directed Search)\u2014an assessment, that helps determine potential occupations and corresponding work environments based on your personality type.\nThe test is based on the scientific findings of award-winning psychologist, John Holland, who invented the \u201cHolland Codes,\u201d a system that places individuals into one of six categories: Doers, Thinkers, Creators, Helpers, Persuaders and Organizers. Each category corresponds to a variety of different career paths. The test will cost you $9.95 to take, but if it helps you find your true calling, it\u2019ll have been the best $9.95 you ever spent.\nDon\u2019t want to spend the money? Monster reviewed some of the free tools out there and picked these 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google search \u201ccareer assessment\u201d and you\u2019ll return about 434,000,000 results. Do they actually work? Should you shell out money to take online quizzes? Clearly, there\u2019s a big market for career aptitude tests, many of which are unproven and costly. That\u2019s why you should stick to ones that are inexpensive or free and have helped millions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bawendi.ly\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/career-assessments..jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bawendi.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bawendi.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bawendi.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bawendi.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bawendi.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bawendi.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bawendi.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bawendi.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bawendi.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bawendi.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}