Career Assessment Definitions
You can locate a wide array of career assessment tools, often called "tests" or "indexes." The overall purpose of any such test is to define career-related characteristics of the test-taker such as skills, interests, and aptitudes.
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Primary Tests
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According to the article "Online Career Assessment Tools Review for Job-Seekers, Career-Seekers," at Quintcareers.com, many individual tests are based on recognized methodologies established by three particular assessment tests: the Birkman Method, Holland Codes, and Myers-Briggs.
Birkman Method
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The Birkman Method uses a 298-question personality evaluation to produce an overall assessment that includes behavioral, motivational, and interest measurement into a combined appraisal.
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Holland Codes
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Holland Codes, developed by psychologist John Holland, identifies personality types with relation to career choice. The Holland Codes "types" are: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional.
Myers-Briggs
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Like the Holland Codes, Myers-Briggs tests for personality types. In the case of Myers-Briggs, types are assessed in matched pairs of characteristics considered opposites in terms of career settings and preferences. The Myers-Brigg characteristics pairs are: Extraversion or Introversion, Sensing or Intuition, Thinking or Feeling, and Judging or Perceiving.
Other Tests
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The article "Online Career Assessment Tools Review for Job-Seekers, Career-Seekers" evaluates more than 25 additional tests, ranging in cost from free to $80: many of them based on the methodologies of Birkman, Holland, or Myers-Briggs. The article incorporates a table that briefly describes each test and rates the assessment tests from "marginally useful" to "extremely useful."
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