Career Assessments

Name: Career Assessments
Rating: 4.6 (1189 reviews)

You'll learn assessments and tests to uncover your true career drivers and goals

Role Play

Created byVasco Patrício

Last updated 11/2025

English

What you'll learn

You'll learn about your key career preferences, in terms of people vs. data, real world vs. theory, and several other key dimensions
You'll learn how to identify your desired values and culture from prospective companies through your past experiences
You'll learn about the major drivers that guide your career decisions, regardless of position, throughout life
You'll learn to gauge the fit between your preferences and a given position

Course content

3 sections • 28 lectures • 2h 29m total length

Introduction2:55
Explore seven key topics in career assessments to reveal your experience, skills, and preferences. Identify your ideal work environment, influence archetypes, past relationships, and industry knowledge to guide career decisions.
Useful Information2:09
The RIASEC Test7:06
Explore the six dimensions of the RIASEC test—realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional—and learn how high-score patterns reveal your professional DNA and career fit.
The RIASEC Test - Links0:08
The RIASEC Test Quiz
Career Anchors9:10
Identify your dominant career anchor among eight options. Learn how this single anchor guides your career decisions, from functional skills to autonomy, entrepreneurship, service, and challenge.
Career Anchors Quiz
The Influence Archetypes5:07
Explore the four influence archetypes: dominant, analyst, passionate, and nurturer—each defined by fast or slow and logical or emotional—and learn how they shape career choices, communication, and teamwork.
The Influence Archetypes Quiz
Past Relationship Audit5:51
Audit your top three and bottom three professional relationships to extrapolate core values such as loyalty, honesty, and initiative, and evaluate which company cultures align with them.
Past Relationship Audit Quiz
Preferred Work Environment5:47
Identify your ideal work environment by evaluating pace, location, presence, guidance, and creativity. Consider how COVID-19 has changed this dynamic, and map preferences to suitable roles and industries.
Preferred Work Environment Quiz
Hard and Soft Skills5:48
Explore how to quantify your hard skills, soft skills, and personal values, build a skills and traits catalogue, and prepare for interviews with a 1–10 rating system.
Hard and Soft Skills Quiz
Industry and Company Knowledge3:35
Gain deep industry and company knowledge by researching market dynamics, revenue streams, and key players to prioritize opportunities, bridge skill gaps, and align with a firm's value creation.
Outro3:25
Review the seven career assessment topics, from realistic self-assessment and six dimensions to career anchors, archetypes, relationships, work environment, skills, and industry knowledge.

Course Intro1:21
Explore navigating corporate change as an employee, including workload shifts, reporting lines, and remote work. Build productive habits and soft skills for remote communication and adapting to new roles.
Fundamentals: Module Intro2:17
Explore the fundamentals of change in organizations, including types, emotions, and coping strategies, from restructuring to managing stress, job security, and identity at work.
Fundamentals: The Psychology of Change8:07
Explore the psychology of workplace change, including fears of job security, new responsibilities, identity shifts, and uncertainty, plus the Kubler Ross change curve stages.
Fundamentals: Corporate Restructuring7:00
Explore why corporate restructuring happens, from mergers and acquisitions to regulation, and how it manifests in layoffs, team changes, and new departments.
Fundamentals: Preempting Change9:22
Identify industry trends and disruptive technology to anticipate change and mitigate its impact. Leverage your network, audit key skills, and use Riasec dimensions to plan future career moves.
Fundamentals: Dealing with Stressors8:24
Identify stressors from change and daily work life, including uncertainty and coworker conflicts, and mitigate them through proactiveness, acceptance, a strong support network, and healthy habits.
Fundamentals: Module Outro1:49
Close the fundamentals of change module by outlining what change is and how it affects individuals and organizations. Cover psychology of change, restructuring, preempting change, and stressors with reflection questions.
Role Play: Fundamentals
Dealing with Change: Module Intro2:05
Explore practical strategies for dealing with change, adapting to remote work, new roles, and changing workloads while applying soft skills and managing emotions in a corporate setting.
Dealing with Change: Remote Work: Remote Routines9:17
Develop remote routines that safeguard your workspace, time separation, and mental health, using time-blocking, clear communication, and task apps to boost productivity and social connection.
Dealing with Change: Remote Work: Remote Soft Skills10:04
Learn to apply soft skills in remote work by leading with clear expectations, open communication, and regular check-ins; master remote selling, collaboration, bonding, and visual communication.
Dealing with Change: Role Changes: Different Functions/Teams7:54
Navigate role changes across functions and teams by assessing activities, metrics, reporting lines, team culture, and skill gaps; build a structured ramp-up plan and coaching plans.
Dealing with Change: IC to Manager/Automator11:01
Master the shift from individual contributor to manager or automator by learning to curate team and automated work, adapt metrics, and apply results toward broader goals.
Dealing with Change: Workforce Changes: Adapting to Changes7:51
Learn to adapt to workforce changes by understanding new reporting lines, evolving metrics, and required skills, embracing new technology, and communicating to prioritize and manage workloads.
Dealing with Change: Workforce Changes: Negative Emotions6:34
Identify and address negative emotions that surface during workforce changes, including stress, anxiety, fear, betrayal, and survivor's guilt, and learn empathetic strategies to support others.
Dealing with Change: Module Outro2:10
Concludes the dealing with change module by guiding you to adapt to remote work, role changes, and workload shifts in a corporate context, with practical questions on communication and skills.
Role Play: Dealing with Changes
Course Outro1:50
Review the course’s three modules on change, covering why corporations change, effects on people, and coping with remote work, new job functions, and team dynamics.

Requirements

You don't need any prior knowledge (naturally, any past test results or past career coaching will help, naturally, but are NOT required)

Description

Have you ever wished to know more about what drives you professionally? Have you ever wondered why you get along with some professionals and not others? Have you found yourself trying to plan your long-term career but without a clear idea?

This course will provide a set of assessments that will help you uncover your career goals and drivers. By the end of it, you will have a much better idea of what you value in your career, and in specific positions, as well as how to obtain the most fulfilment possible from them.

We'll touch on assessments related to:
- The values you most seek (and want to move away from) in a company's culture;
- What actual dimensions and components of work you are most aligned with;
- Your ultimate career drivers and motivators;
- And others;

By the end of it, you will be able to effectively tell what professional conditions motivate you the most, what you preferred promotion and reward system is, what your specific language and goals are, among other assessments.

By the end of this course, you will be more prepared to apply to new positions - or craft your current one - to better match your needs. You will now more about what drives you, and how you can be fulfilled by your work.

As a bonus, a course on how to deal with professional changes is also included. It touches on how to transition to manager/automator, to different skills, how to work remotely, and much more. After you secure a position more aligned with your career - how do you perform well at it?

Who this course is for:

You're any professional who is rethinking their long-term impact, legacy, and fulfilment
You're anyone who is curious about what drives and motivates them professionally
You're anyone trying to assess the fit between their current work experience and any specific industry

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