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Take the Online Career Inventory
- Online Inventory takes about 30 minutes to complete
- Receive an in-depth report assessing your teen's interests, skills, and potential career matches
- Receive an 18-page Career Planner with additional exercises, explanations, and illustrations to help you understand your personalized report
$20 per student
Much like the paper/pencil assessment tests we took in high school, this nationally recognized career counseling opportunity is available to homeschoolers through Hand In Hand Home School.
Designed for ages 15 and up, teens answer a series of 320 multiple choice questions about their interests and the skills they think they already possess. Their answers are compared to almost 6,000 adults working in jobs from art therapists to zoologists.
Too many questions to answer at once? No problem. Just save the online survey and come back to it the next day.
Once completed, families will automatically receive an approximately 20-page comprehensive report that breaks down your teen's answers and matches them with occupations worth pursuing - interests to develop - areas to explore - and jobs they might want to avoid.
You have 30 days to view your results online. You can easily print your Report and the Career Planner and keep it on hand as you make your way through high school.
See our Frequently Asked Questions about Career Planning. Or contact Hand In Hand for more information.
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"Why do I want to go to college if I don't know what I want to do?
It's a common teenage lament. On one hand, as parents, we may want to nag, "Get off the couch and just get a job." On the other, we can empathize with the uncertainty of growing up. Few people have a clear idea about future careers at age 15.
Medical research tells us that the teenage brain undergoes a new wave of development. Around 15, new connections form within the brain that ultimately help with processing emotions. This accounts, in part, for the moody nature of teens. Their brains are rewiring how they think about their own feelings.
"What were you thinking?!?" Apparently, not much, if you're a teen.
The brain does not finish maturing until around the age of 25. MRI scans show that parts of the brain responsible for thinking ahead, considering options, and making good choices, the pre-fontal cortex, undergoes a major reorganization after kids graduate from high school.
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