CPD Career Assessments
Career exploration assessments serve as a valuable compass, guiding individuals toward careers that align with their interests, strengths, and values. At CPD, we offer a variety of assessments designed to illuminate potential career paths and provide insights into personal aptitudes and preferences.
LMU Career Launch
These 7-8 minute assessments will provide you with insights into your holistic career development and offer you actionable steps you can take to grow in the areas below:
- Relationship Building Skills
- Professional Communication
- Career Planning and Exploration
- Career and Self-Development
- Internship/Job Search and Interview Preparedness
To better assess your growth in career readiness, we recommend you take the first assessment at the beginning of a semester and the second at the end.
*NOTE: To access your Career Launch Assessment, you must sign in with your lion.lmu.edu e-mail address.
Focus2Career
Choosing a major is a big decision—if you’re unsure what you want to major in, the Career Center can help you explore your options. We’ve partnered with Focus2Career to help students learn about different major and career possibilities. Focus2Career is an online series of self-assessments that will help you to identify a major at LMU and help you learn about different career options. Focus2Career provides in-depth information about hundreds of different occupations and the necessary steps to get there.
CliftonStrengths
This assessment, which is grounded in Positive Psychology and created by Gallup’s Higher Education Division, can help students identify and develop their strengths by building on their natural talents – the way in which they most naturally think, feel, and behave as unique individuals. With the help of a career counselor, students can strategically determine a rewarding career path based on who they are, and can maximize their potential for strengths by building on their talents. This is also a great tool to help students prepare for interviews.
Accessing the CliftonStrengths Assessment
Note: The cost of the CliftonStrengths assessment is about $22-25 per person depending on where you purchase your assessment code. See below for more details.
How to Purchase CliftonStrengths as an Individual Student
Step 1: Purchase the Assessment
- Option 1: Purchase the CliftonStrengths Assessment through Amazon (book included)
- This option comes with the CliftonStrenghts book (which has the assessment code embedded) that describes all 34 themes. You’ll need to wait for the book to come in before you can take the assessment.
- Option 2: Purchase the CliftonStrengths Assessment directly from Gallup (digital report only)
- This option does not come with a physical book describing all 34 themes (which is not necessary to understand your results). With this purchase, you will receive a digital in-depth analysis of your top five strengths right away.
NOTE: If you are required to take the CliftonStrengths assessment for a class, please check in with your professor to see how they want you to access the assessment before purchasing on your own.
Step 2: Make an Appointment with CPD
After you complete your assessment, make an appointment with CPD to go over your results with a certified CliftonStrengths career coach.
How to Purchase CliftonStrengths Assessment for Your Students
Step 1: Purchase the Assessment
- Option 1: Purchase the CliftonStrengths Assessment through the LMU Bookstore
- The LMU bookstore can order the Clifton Strengths book (which has the assessment code embedded). It takes about a week for the books to arrive. Please contact the bookstore directly if you want to set up a bulk purchase. Their phone number is (310) 338-2889
- This option may be preferable if you need to use department funds to purchase the book in bulk
- Option 2: Purchase the CliftonStrengths Assessment directly from Gallup (digital report only)
- The cost is $25 with about 10% off at 10 books plus tax and free shipping. This option is best if you want your students to take the assessment immediately.
- This option does not come with a physical book describing all 34 themes (which is not necessary for them to understand their results). With this purchase, each student will receive a digital in-depth analysis of their top five strengths right away.
- Option 3: Purchase the CliftonStrengths Assessment through Amazon (book included)
- This option comes with the CliftonStrenghts book (which has the assessment code embedded) that describes all 34 themes. You’ll need to wait for the books to come in before they can take the assessment.
Step 2: Make an Appointment with CPD
- Option 1: Have your students meet with CPD one-on-one
- After your students complete their assessment, they can make an appointment with CPD to go over their results one-on-one with a certified CliftonStrengths career coach.
- Option 2: Request a CPD CliftonStrengths Workshop
- CPD can come to you (online or in-person) and we can facilitate an interactive group workshop discussing CliftonStrengths and their results. You can book a CPD Clifton Strengths workshop here.
- NOTE: CPD needs at least 3 weeks’ notice for Clifton Strengths workshop requests and students MUST complete the assessment and have access to their results before the workshop begins.