Academic and career assessments combined with thorough consultations have shown to be highly effective at providing students and adults with self-knowledge that is comprehensive and holistic. This enables them to make informed life decisions (like the ideal career choice) based on their wants, needs, values, skills and own self-development.
Academic Development Assessment aims to make more children, more effective strategic learners, who can demonstrate their knowledge and study skills accurately. Through identifying their academic skills (strengths and weaknesses), and then working to eradicate or improve upon these weak academic areas, your child is capable of achieving his or her full potential.
Identifying Strength and Weaknesses within the Following Areas:
- Study Strategies/Study Skills/Learning Skills
- Concentration
- Memory
- Academic and Exam Anxiety
- Reading and Comprehension Skills
- Writing & Research Skills
- Note-Taking and Listening Skills
- Test Taking Skills
- Organisational Techniques
- Low Academic Motivation
Psychometric career tests can help you discover aspects of yourself that are fundamental to overall career satisfaction:
- Values: The things that are important to you, like achievement, status and autonomy.
- Your values are important when choosing a career as they lie at the core of the personal choices you make, and they go hand in hand with your sources of motivation.
- Interests: What you enjoy doing.
- Understanding your interests will allow you to discover which careers you will enjoy doing so that you are able to attain overall job satisfaction.
- Personality: Your individual traits, motivational drives, needs, and attitudes.
- A personality test can give you an indication of which jobs match your personality type.
- Skills: The activities you are good at, such as writing, teaching, computer programming
- Aptitude tests are used to predict success or failure in an undertaking. For Career Guidance they are used to measure different aptitudes such as general learning ability, numerical ability, verbal ability and spatial perception, in order to establish the correct abilities "fit" with a chosen career. Aptitude tests are especially useful for choices in the Engineering, Science and Accounting fields.
