(Analytics) Tests

"Tests" are one of the ways to help you possibly choose or change careers. The real name for this is instruments or assessments. You can use these tests to possibly help, direct, guide, or even redirect you to a new career. There are six learning tips about testing that you should consider when using this as a career decider:

1. You are absolutely unique. There is no person in the world like you. It follows from this that no test can measure YOU; it can only describe the family to which you belong. Don't take it personal if you don't get the results you wanted from the tests. It is simply an easier help you choose the career that could possibly best fit you...if not then keep searching.
2. Don't try to figure out ahead of time how you want the test to come out. Stay loose and open to new ideas. The point of this test is for you to experiment and find yourself. If you go in with a predetermined notion that you only want a certain career, then doing a test will be a waste of your time. Be open to new ideas and you will be surprised at the possible careers that you can pursue.
3. In taking a test, you should just be looking for clues, hunches, or suggestions, rather than for a definitive answer that says "this is what you must choose to do with your life." As I stated before, this is simply a tool to help you decide what career you want to pursue...key word is "help". This does not mean that you have to choose the career that it highlights, it only gives you clues or hunches towards the right career.
4. Take several tests and not just one. One can easily send you down the wrong path. We've all dreaded that one class that has the one exam and your whole class grade depends on it. Well this is somewhat like that class. You don't want you final decision to depend on just one test...so take as many as you need to in order to find the career path that best fits you.
5. In good career planning, you're trying, in the first instance, to broaden you horizons, and only later narrow your options down; you are not trying to narrow them down from the outset. This is a process. Its somewhat of a marathon...not a sprint. So make sure once you take these test, you go through all your options to make sure this is the path you want to take. You will be surprised that once you take one of these tests, it will open your eyes to other possible careers. 
6. Testing will always have "mixed reviews." Some people will say that these tests help them choose the career of their dreams and that they are lucky to have ever found such a test. Others will tell you that these tests were a complete waste of time and they wish they would've never did them. Just know that doing tests doesn't work for everyone and there will always be a positive and negative review.