The Strong Interest Inventory® (SII) is the most respected and widely used instrument for career exploration / planning in the world. Moreover, the newly revised SII is more powerful than ever as its content reflects the way we work today. That is, the many changes in the workforce, the very nature of the jobs we do, and the mirroring of the U.S. In particular, the folks at CPP (Consulting Psychol
ogists Press) are most proud of the huge sampling size as well as the widest possible range of demographic, racial, ethnic and socio-economic data gathered so as to ensure the highest level of validity and reliability for the SII. Simply put, the Strong Interest Inventory® “soldiers-on” with its reputation as being the gold standard in career development. At its core level, the SII is based on the idea that individuals are more satisfied and productive when they work in jobs or at tasks that they find interesting and when they work with people whose interests are similar to their own. To say it in another way, a person’s interests are compared to thousands of individuals who report being happy in their jobs AND are successful in their jobs. Again, the Strong Interest Inventory does not examine your abilities and skills; it is an inventory of your interests and a summary of “who you are”. Consisting of 291 questions, the SII will ask you to indicate your preference for a wide range of occupations, school subjects, activities and types of people. It will take about 30-45 minutes to complete and it's all taken and results received on-line. The result is a person’s highly personalized report which identifies optimum career choices based on interests. It also includes additional related occupations with concise job descriptions. For example, the results may tell you that your interests are similar to those of engineers who are very satisfied with their career choice. The results do not tell you what you should be or whether you’d be good at that job. Click the link to see a sample of this highly personalized career interest portrait of what you would be electronically receiving (in the form of a PDF file).
