Career Interest & Aptitude

OFTC’s Assessment Centers offer CareerScope, a career and aptitude assessment designed to measure both your interests and abilities through valid and reliable tasks. The results are instrumental in helping to begin the career and educational planning process, identifying the occupations and fields that best fit your strengths and preferences.

CareerScope Online connects your interests to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Interest Areas and measures key aptitudes important for today’s high-growth, high-demand careers.

To schedule your CareerScope assessment, contact the Assessment Center at your local OFTC campus:

More about CareerScope

An interest inventory helps to target key areas of interest. The Interest Inventory measures and identifies a user’s attraction to careers that correspond to twelve Interest Areas. These areas include:

The results from the Interest Inventory are compiled into a comprehensive Individual Profile Analysis (IPA) that objectively identifies each student’s most significant interest area preferences. This reporting system includes Assessment Profile and Summary Reports tied to GOE/DOT, O*NET, and U.S. Department of Education’s Career Cluster/Pathway System.

Critical Aptitudes Measured by CareerScope

The aptitudes measured by CareerScope are the most critical for today’s high growth and high replacement rate occupations, as well as for the emerging careers of the 21st century. The aptitudes measured are: