“Are there resources to help me find out what I would be good at?”

The CAREERinsite website is a great place to start. The website includes quizzes, exercises, and activities to help you find your strengths, abilities, interests, and skills. Then you can figure out where your skills and interests overlap. And once you know that, you can look for careers that suit you.

To find out what you’re good at, you need to get to know yourself:

• Figure out your interests and learn how to match them to jobs you want.
• Figure out your values and what’s important to you in a career.
• Learn about your strengths and abilities. Understand how the talents you’re born with are abilities that employers need.
• Learn what motivates you.
• Find out what thinking and learning styles suit you best.
• Identify your skills and learn about the core skills employers expect.
• Identify your traits. These are the tendencies that make you the person you are.

Knowing what you’re good at helps you understand what type of work you might enjoy and what work environment might suit you. It’s the first of 4 steps in planning your career.

What would you like to know?

An alis staff member will review your question and respond via email. If it’s something that can help others look for work, explore careers, or succeed on the job, a version of your question and answer may even be added to the site.