The Usefulness of Career Inventories

Career inventories are very useful for several reasons: first, they are built to expose the hidden strengths and weaknesses of the individual that is using them. You can learn a lot about yourself, both professionally and personally from a test such as the Myers-Briggs Personality Test. Second, a career inventory test is built in such a way that the information that is garnered is at least marginally trustworthy, since the test is impartial and mathematically weighted. For example, it would not be easy to foul up or otherwise misstate yourself accidentally in the Myers-Briggs test, since the same question is often stated in many different ways. Third, a career inventory is able to be given out to most anyone at any age, since it assumes a low basic level of literacy from the test-taker. all in all, career inventories are definitely an asset to both the prospective employee and employer.