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Trades for Teens: Interests and Skills Quizzes

Helpful links for teens interested in a career in the trades.

Fun Quizzes to Get You Started

It's okay not to know what you want to do for a career. Have some fun while taking these quizzes to learn more about potential careers based on your interests, skills, and the level of training/education you might be willing to tackle.

Peterson's Test & Career Prep

Peterson's offers a career quiz to see what kinds of careers might match your interests and anticipated education level. You must create a free Peterson's account to access the quiz. Click Log In/Sign Up at the upper right corner to get started. After you have created an account:

1. On the Peterson's homepage, click the Browse Menu button.

2. Click Explore Careers.

3. Click Find a career. This moves the career quiz to your personal learning resources.

menu items with explore careers and find a career highlighted

4. At the top of the screen, click My Resources. This opens your personal learning resources page, which holds all the courses you have selected.

resources screen with my resources and find a career highlighted

5. Find the Find a Career course, and click Go To Course.

 

Interest Profiler

1. Complete the quiz.

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2. Take a look at the interest categories O*NET explores. Click on the blue links to learn more about the categories.

Interest categories

3. Click on the blue links to learn what each level of training/education includes.

4. Select the level you think you might be interested in attaining.

Learn about job zones

5. View your results.

6. Click on the job zone numbers to change your possible job zone.

Examples of career that match your interests and expected training/education level

Skills Matcher

1. Click Sign In/Register to create an account.

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2. Click the Home button on the banner to go back to the homepage. Make sure Public Library is selected under the search box rather than College Library or High School Library.

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3. Click on Job and Career Accelerator.

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4. Select Find a Career Match.

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5. Select Find a Career Match again.

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6. Click on Skills Matcher.

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7. When you have completed the quiz, click Submit My Answers.

Submit answers button

8. Click View Matches.

View Matches button

9. Click on one of the matches to learn more about the occupation such as what it is, how to become that, how much they make, etc.

Matches