The new Career Scout assessment is our second generation career-interest instrument. The test provides a fast but effective survey of a candidate's work-related interests and affinities and uses results to match to suggested job types using the US Government Occupational Information Network database (O*NET).

Note: This assessment is fully equivalent to the Career Interest Inventory. It appears under a second name to make it easy for customers to find.

Like many interest surveys, the Career Scout asks the candidate questions about what they like to do. However, this assessment also asks about activities they actually do or have done in the past. High levels of interest, correlated with actual activities for a strong indication of preferences and affinities.

The Career Scout also evaluates the candidate's Job Zone based on their work, education, and training experience, to match them with positions appropriate to their current history and educational accomplishment. Typically, 10-20 match positions, in priority order are presented. However, the report also lists the careers and positions available to them if they can advance their job zone by by one level, usually through pursuing additional education or training, or through experience.

The Career Scout job match report is automatically emailed to candidates and is also posted to the employer's online account. This can be disabled for clients who do not wish to have the report sent automatically.