You don’t need to have your life figured out, but the better you understand yourself, the better your choices become. These self-discovery tools can help you notice what energizes you, what matters to you, how you work best, how you relate to others, and where you want to grow. Use them as clues, not labels, as you explore meaningful work and become a stronger leader, teammate, and human being.
Sewanee students have free access. Use access code: "Sewanee". Instead of starting with job titles, SparkPath helps you discover the real-world challenges and problems you most want to work on, then use those interests as clues for career exploration.
My Next Move, developed through the U.S. Department of Labor’s O*NET program, lets you explore 900+ careers, including typical tasks, skills, education, salary, and job outlook. Its Interest Profiler helps you identify the kinds of work and work environments that fit you best, then connects those interests to real career options. It’s a practical, research-based place to start if you’re asking, "What kind of work might I actually enjoy?"
What essential nature of work fills you with meaning and lets you feel fully expressed, alive with purpose, and absorbed in flow (“sparked”)? Your Sparketype can offer clues as you consider the kind of work that brings energy and meaning.
You have a purpose in life. Your mission and values are expressed every day by how you live, even if you have not yet named them. Use this step-by-step Personal Mission Statement Builder to help put words around your mission and purpose.
Personal values are what you consider important in life. They shape your choices, priorities, and responses, whether or not you are consciously aware of them. This assessment helps you identify your top values.
What’s your purpose in life? This Greater Good Science Center quiz explores the strength of your current sense of purpose and offers ideas for strengthening it.
Sewanee students can request a free CliftonStrengths code by emailing careers@sewanee.edu. The assessment takes about 20–40 minutes. CliftonStrengths, formerly known as StrengthsFinder, is an online assessment that helps you discover your top strengths. Knowing what they are and how to use them can help you flourish in your work and everywhere else. Being aware of your strengths can also help you understand the value you bring to any context.
The MBTI framework can be a useful way of understanding ourselves and our commonalities and differences with other people. It helps you explore preferences for how you re-energize, learn, make decisions, and organize your life.
This assessment was built to help people learn what they are really like. It applies results to real-life situations so you can see your tendencies in action and consider how they may affect your goals.
Explore your personality through the Five Factor model, often called the Big Five. You’ll see how you score on Openness, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Extraversion, and Neuroticism, five widely researched dimensions of personality.
The Enneagram explores recurring motivations beneath behavior. Knowing your type can give you greater awareness of why you may think, feel, and act as you do, and can provide a framework for personal growth.
Based on 30 years of data science and real-world experience, the PATH test measures how you rely on Purpose, Approach, Thinking, and Habits as you go about your work life. It has 13–16 questions and takes less than 10 minutes.
This professional and personal development platform measures workplace motivations, talents, and blind spots and provides AI-based coaching connected to your assessment results.
The SCARF model identifies five domains in social experience: Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, and Fairness. Use this resource to consider which social rewards and threats affect you most.
Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences framework proposes different forms of intelligence, including linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, spatial-visual, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalistic, and existential. This quiz can help you reflect on how you may learn and engage best.
Developed by Gretchen Rubin, the Four Tendencies framework explores how you respond to inner and outer expectations. Knowing your tendency can offer practical clues for decisions, deadlines, habits, and working with others.
Daring leadership is organized around four teachable skill sets: Rumbling with Vulnerability, Living into Our Values, Braving Trust, and Learning to Rise. The assessment can help you gauge strengths and opportunities for growth.
We all possess habits and instincts that show up when we have an opportunity to lead. Identifying your leadership style can help you become more intentional about how you lead.
Effective delegation frees you to focus on important work while empowering others. This quiz helps you examine your delegation habits and offers resources for strengthening them.
Your conflict style represents your natural tendency when faced with conflict. Offered by the U.S. Institute of Peace, this assessment introduces five main conflict styles and can help you see the choices available for managing conflict.
This assessment explores several traits associated with effective interpersonal relationships, including emotional intelligence, teamwork, empathy, integrity, and social boldness.
How willing are you to recognize the limits of your own knowledge and beliefs? This research-informed quiz explores intellectual humility and how you respond when your thinking is questioned.
Humans naturally divide the world into groups of “us” and “them,” but those categories are not fixed. This quiz explores your capacity to expand your sense of connection across differences.
Consider how you feel most valued at work and how others may prefer to receive appreciation. Understanding these differences can support stronger communication and collaboration.
This quiz draws on research by forgiveness scholar Michael McCullough and colleagues and offers insight into how you tend to respond when someone has wronged you.
Our connections include both close relationships and weaker ties. This quiz explores the web of relationships in your life and the benefits that come from those connections.
Positive Intelligence focuses on mental fitness: the ability to respond to life’s challenges with less stress, frustration, and negativity. This assessment introduces the framework and helps you explore your mental habits.
This assessment explores recurring “saboteur” patterns that may contribute to stress, self-doubt, frustration, regret, or other unhelpful responses.
The Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale measures the amount of significant life stress you have experienced over the past year and can help you notice the cumulative load you may be carrying.
This Greater Good Science Center quiz helps you assess the amount of stress in your life and points you toward resources for responding to it.
Inspired by Adam Grant’s work on rethinking, this assessment explores your willingness to question opinions, reconsider assumptions, and open your own mind and others’ minds.
This assessment helps you examine how you prioritize, focus, and manage obligations and offers practical ideas for improving productivity.
Explore productivity systems that may fit your strengths, challenges, and goals for organizing tasks, managing time, maintaining focus, and reducing procrastination.
Procrastination is common, but understanding your own patterns is an important first step toward changing them. This resource helps you examine why you may delay and what can help.
This self-compassion test from Kristin Neff helps you explore how you tend to treat yourself in moments of difficulty, inadequacy, or failure.
How mindful are you in everyday life? This quiz explores present-moment awareness and offers ideas for cultivating greater mindfulness.
This research-informed quiz explores how actively you notice and appreciate the good things in your life and offers ideas for cultivating gratitude.
