What career should I pursue?

You have probably asked that question many times, and if you have you are not alone! It is a very common question, and one that unfortunately goes unanswered for many people. Studies show that the match between your career and your skills, interests, personality, and make up plays a major role in your overall satisfaction and success in life.

First off, thank you for visiting our site! If you are looking at this site you are probably looking for some direction with your career. If so, then you have definitely come to the right place. We give you expert help in making the right career choice, as well as help with career changes, planning, job skills, and helping you ultimately choose a college major or educational path.

The Career Match Tool, the "Profiles XT" is an instrument based on the most advanced psychometric testing available today! This instrument has been validated with years of experience, and is 100% compliant with all Department of Labor assessment guidelines. This instrument will give you the most complete and accurate information to assist in making an informed decision as to which career path to go down. Don't waste another day of your life being unhappy, invest in yourself, find the right career fit, and live a much happier and fulfilled life!

People all across the world have used this instrument with successful results. Our goal is to help all people make the right career choice, and to change the way people look at their careers.

For Parents

First off congratulations on sending your child off to college. It is always a fun, exciting, scary, and interesting time. If you are sending your teenager off to college, you can't afford to miss out on this for your teen! For the cost of a trip to the grocery store with your college student, you can help them find the right career path saving you time, hassle, headache, and most importantly YOUR MONEY.

Consider these statistics:

• 70% of high school students fail to graduate "college ready" (Manhattan Institute for Policy Research)
• 50% of college students report feeling so depressed at some point in the last semester that they had trouble functioning. Suicide remains the second leading cause of death of college students. (The American Psychiatric Association)
• 45% of students who attend college drop out or fail out (The U.S. Department of Education)
• 37% of students receive a BA do so in four years. The rest take six years, costing them on average $30,000 to $60,000 more. (The College Board)
• 70% of students have attended a program that did a "good job" teaching them to succeed in college (2006 College-Bound Reality Report)
• 500,000 collegians fall short of acquiring their degree every year (The Education Trust)
• $15,162 is now the average debt a college student graduates with, an increase of 66.5% since 1993. Last year 76% of college students had credit cards and their average debt was $2,169. Nellie Mae, the student lender, found that 55% of all borrowers felt hampered by debt in some way: They changed career plans, gave up on school or on going to graduate school, put off buying a home, getting married, or having kids.

For Baby Boomers

Most Baby Boomers that are retiring today are thinking to themselves, "what do I want to be when I grow up?" A lot of Baby Boomers today are retiring from their current career, and moving into another career. They don't necessarily want to quit working. If you fall into this category this Career Match Tool is for you as well.

Many Baby Boomers are using this tool to find there "new second career" and a lot of them are much happier because they are finally doing what they have always wanted to do. The Career Match Tool can help narrow down your "second act" and help you choose a second career or field that is the perfect fit for your make-up.

About The Tool

A Career Match Tool helps you find the right career! Did you know that 54% of all students going to college do not end up where they started? One major reason they leave college is because they don't know what career path to follow and feel that their efforts are for nothing. WE DON"T WANT THIS TO BE YOU! Another scary statistic is that nearly half of all workers in the workforce are not satisfied with their jobs; 40% to 50% say they would change their line of work, if they could. Once again nearly half of the working population is potentially in the wrong line of work. WE DON"T WANT THIS TO BE YOU! Use this career match tool to narrow down your interests and find which career path you should be pursuing!

This instrument will help you:

• Get on the right track from day one of your college experience.
• Save you frustration, time, and money during your college years.
• Reduce the chances of backtracking during your college years.
• Make sure the career focus you choose is right for you.
• Get you focused on the right career after college.
• Help you make the right choice if you are changing careers.
• Help you understand yourself better, and truly know what you are built for.

The Profile XT

The Profile XT is a "Total person" assessment that has a myriad of uses. It measures the job-related qualities that make a person productive - Thinking and Reasoning Style, Behavioral Traits, and Occupational Interests. It is convenient and easy to use on the Internet - no administrator or proctoring is required.

The Profile XT is used for placement, promotion, self-improvement, coaching, succession planning, and job description development. Our clients tell us The Profile XT is three to five times more effective than any other assessment they have used. It is a versatile management tool that develops Job Match Patterns that can be customized by company, department, manager, position, geography, or any combination of these factors.

Job Match Patterns Make the Difference

Job Match Patterns are effective because they compare the qualities of your job candidates to the attributes of your most productive employees. The patterns tell you whether candidates are like or different from your top performers. A study published in the Harvard Business Review concluded that Job Match more accurately predicts job success than any of the commonly accepted factors, such as education, experience, or job training. Matching people so they fit the work they do builds productivity and job-satisfaction and diminish negative factors such as stress, tension, conflict, miscommunication, and costly employee turnover.

Several Valuable Reports

The Profile XT produces these informative reports:

• Individual Reports - Providing a guide for self-understanding
• Placement Reports - For putting the right people in the right jobs using Job Match Patterns
• Multi-Job Match Reports - Used for succession planning and assigning employees to new positions
• Multi-Candidate Match Reports - Compares the attributes of several candidates to the requirements of a specific job
• Coaching Reports - Used for training, development, and motivation
• Job Analysis Reports Ideal for accurately defining job requirements and job descriptions
• Summary Reports - They give you a "snapshot" of essential information about employees and job candidates
• Graph Reports - A visual representation of Job Match data

Easy to Use

The Profile XT is conveniently administered on the Internet, so you can assess employees and job candidates anywhere there is Internet access. Other administration options are available on request. Results are available immediately and can be shared with decision makers in any of your company's offices, anywhere in the world. You can retrieve any or all of the variety of Profile XT reports at no additional cost. Results are immediate thanks to computer technology and you get your requested reports in minutes.

Use with Complete Confidence

The Profile XT satisfies all requirements of the EEOC, the ADA, the DOL, and the Civil Rights Act. It was designed and developed to be specifically job-related and has been validated in accordance with American Psychological Association standards. The Profile XT is validated to be Age-blind, Gender-blind, and Ethnicity-blind. It measures only those factors relevant to selecting the best people to fit the requirements of specific jobs.

The Profile XT is the One to Use

The Profile XT is much more than an assessment. It gives you customized Job Match patterns, suggests relevant interview questions, yields a percentage match when comparing a candidate to your top performers, provides a detailed positive analysis of the individuals you assess, and can provide thousands of "experienced" Job Match Patterns for use in developing your own patterns.

The Profile XT is the assessment to use for a thorough analysis of people, job responsibilities, and Job Match. It is an extremely valuable management tool that will help you build a stronger, more productive organization and reach your important goals because you are putting the best people in the best jobs.

How It Works

The Career Match Tool, the Profiles XT, isn't just another personality test that gives you limited information. You can purchase a personality test for $8-$35 depending on which one you are looking at. The information is very general and only gives you some good ideas. The fact is, personality tests alone do not provide enough data to help in making an informed career decision.

The Profiles XT is a whole-person assessment that measures your thinking and learning style, behavioral patterns, and most importantly your occupational interests. After you complete the Career Match Tool, we will provide you with a wealth of information on the careers that you choose and be able to tell you where you best fit. The research that has been done on this instrument goes back decades. Over those decades data has been collected on what truly makes up the top performers in many different careers.

We will match your data with each career you chose and provide comprehensive graphs and reports so that you will be able to see how you fit into that career compared to the top performers in that field. You can then use this personal feedback information to make an informed decision as to which career path to follow. The information will also help you identify your strengths and areas of opportunity in each career choice and clearly point out what areas will need concentration if you truly want to pursue a certain career path.

The Investment

It is estimated that you will pay somewhere between $10,000 and $25,000 per year for your total college experience (tuition, fees, room and board, meals, etc...). Many students today are taking five years (additional $10,000 to $25,000) to complete college, not because of their major, but because they didn't know which career (major) path to go down and end up switching course two or three times. By getting on the right path now, you not only save money, but also time, as well as opportunity costs. For example, say you stay in college an extra year, what is the true total cost?

We have ventured a guess, see below:

• One extra year of tuition ($10,000 on the VERY low end)
• One year of missing income ($31,000 average salary coming out of college)
• Time wasted on retaking classes
• On the job experience missed: 1 full year

There are a lot more opportunity costs involved, but that gives you a glimpse of what the true cost could be. This Career Match Tool can and will save you from all this potential headache, hassle and additional expense.

We believe this is one of the best INVESTMENTS you can make in your future! For all pricing and ordering information please contact us and we will email you all the information for purchasing this tool. We look forward to helping you find the right career!