So today I was reintroduced to something that I think a lot of you would find useful. It's a career guidance application sponsored by the California Career Resource Network. While you need to be a CA resident to register and save your information for later, the tools provided are accessible to anyone living in any location.

The site for the application is here. It has four types of assessments; one based on Interests, one on Skills, one based on Work Importance, and a short three question one if you don't have time to take the longer ones (which can be upwards of 200 Agree/Disagree questions).

Once you've completed an assessment it gives you a summary and lists occupations which are closest to your personality. You can then compare up to four occupations at a time, and find detailed information for each one. As many of you are in high school and college, I strongly recommend giving it a look through.

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I went through all the quizzes, but none of them were very useful. I feel like they could have a lot more diversity to their questions instead of making it so obvious which answers would lead to what. They were also quite repetitive, even in the same tests.

I like the idea of it, but it didn't really tell me anything I don't already know. Hopefully someone else will have better luck tho o:

>>3 California is trying, Baba!

>>3 When I took the Skills exam it (quite predictably) directed me toward the type of fields I have already been looking into (Environmental Technician, Survey Technician, Forestry Technician), but I like it because it has dozens of selections, some of which I'd never heard of before, and many of which I had never considered.

It seems to me that you already know full well what you want to do, therefore a career advisory application probably wouldn't be for you. However, I feel that there are quite a few people here who have literally no idea what they want out of life (and I've seen many threads to affirm this). Those are the people I feel will benefit most from this.