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Job Info: Sokanu
Sokanu helps you find the perfect career path by assessing your personality traits. It also offers detailed articles on what, exactly, each career path involves doing. Useful tool if you’ve yet to decide what you want to do.
Check it outJob Info: CareerOneStop
CareerOneStop provides a huge database about everything from trainings and self assessments to networking and applications. A strong feature that the platform has is targeted help which proposes relevant resources to different categories of people according to their situation (age, experience, disabilities, etc).
Check it outCareer Tests: Gallup Strengths Test
Gallup offers a number of tests that help you find your strengths, and recommends ways to improve them. Regardless of whether you’re a student or an executive, knowing your strengths & weaknesses will take you a long way.
Check it outCareer Tests: Good & Co
Based on the Myers Briggs archetypes, Good & Co provides insights on your personality, as well as compatibility with different companies, jobs, and even other people.
Check it outBook: The Element
The Element tells the story of different successful people, and how each of them ended up finding their passions.
Check it outTurning Your Passion Into a Career
Most people think of work as something unpleasant, being forced to do something in order to get by. The article explains that it doesn’t have to be, and gives a brief intro on how to make the jump.
Check it outYour Career Path May Be Wrong
There are cases where the job you’ve always wanted turns out to be a drag, and not something you’d want to stick with. The article helps ask the right questions to see if you’re going the right way, and what action to take if you’re not.
Check it outTaking a Break From Your Career
Sometimes, you just need a break from what you’re doing - and the article explains why it’s ok. You’re not going to fall behind, and you might even end up gaining a new perspective.
Check it outExamples of Career Changes
If you think that it’s too late to do something you love, think again. The article goes through the most bizarre and interesting career changes. If they could do it, so can you.
Check it outHow I found my Career
The journey to finding your path is full of road bumps. It might either be really easy, discovering your passion straight off as a first-year in college, or very hard - only finding it after graduating university, or even much later on in life. This article is an example of the later: it’s a story of an economics major, who ended up pursuing a career in UX.
Check it outMost Important Advice For Career Start
For anyone just starting out their career, there’s no better article to read than this. Jason goes through all the important skills needed nowadays, and how you can reach success by mastering them.
Check it outMost In-Demand Skills of 2015
Upwork made a really interesting blog post about most in-demand freelance skills. If you want to try out the life of a digital nomad, this is some pretty useful intel.
Check it outPathSource
An all-inclusive tool for learning about different careers, with informational interviews with people holding all sorts of jobs. The app also offers information on career paths based on majors, information on different education paths, and a lot of other services.
Check it outTruity
Online tests on finding your personality type and discovering different career paths
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