Personality and psychometric profiling are increasingly used in the recruitment process today. Personality tests facilitates greater understanding of a potential employee's personality style and the suitability for a particular job situation. The term "Career Profiling" is used to refer to the number of different profiling activities included in this area.

Career profiling uses personal traits such as personality, motivation, task preference, work environment preference, personal interests, values, personal honesty etc. These characteristics are aligned with career areas, the salary, current demand, future outlook and location of specific jobs to match one's preferences with positions to be filled. Some of the significant outcomes of Career Profiling are,

• Finding out your work and leadership style
• Gaining self confidence in your job and related skills
• Improve your interactions with others
• Becoming aware what sort of jobs that you are likely to be fitted in to
• Improve your CV and better focus your job search

Career Profiling is one of the concepts that is still developing. We at EDEX will keep you updated on the developments that are taking place. As for now, anyone interested in career related choices can get valuable insights , and assistance in making future career choices with Career Profiling.

Given below are some of the internet links that you can try-out.

Career Interest Profiler - http://www.peoplemaps.com/?page_type=questionnary

Online career personality test-http://www.collegetoolkit.com/Career-Search/CareerInterestProfiler.aspx

Career Action Plan and Career Profiling System - http://www.findyouridealcareer.com/free_career_planning_tools_for_college_students.htm

Monster's Job Assets & Strengths Profiler - http://my.monster.com/JobStrengthProfile/Intro.aspx

Westwood Career Profiler - http://www.projectcareer.com/westwood/

Leveraging your personality for a better career(payment required) - http://my.jobstreet.com/career/premium/career_profile.htm