Aptitude Testing and Research since 1922
Since 1922, we’ve helped hundreds of thousands of people understand their innate potential and choose careers that fit how their minds like to work, naturally.
Schedule Your Test Who Should Get Tested?
There are half a million careers in the world.
How do you find yours?
Just like scientists use data to make predictions, aptitude testing can help you predict the types of careers you’ll thrive in. Our work is rooted in the scientific study of human abilities and the mission of our founder, Johnson O’Connor, who believed that everyone has natural talents that should be nurtured and used.
What Are Aptitudes?Who Can Benefit From Our Approach?
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Aptitude testing is a predictive tool that helps high school students identify their natural abilities before making major life decisions or investing time and money in higher education. By understanding their potential, students can make data-backed choices about the college majors, vocational training, or career paths that will be the most likely to bring them success and satisfaction.
COLLEGE STUDENTS & GRADS
College students may have already made some decisions about education and career, but if they've found themselves in the wrong major, aptitude testing can help them find a new direction that's a better fit for their talents. Students can also use the information from our testing to plan for the types of internships, graduate programs, or roles they may want to pursue after graduation.
WORKING ADULTS
About half our clients are working adults who want help in planning their career path. Aptitude testing provides objective data to help adults decide on a career change, choose between opportunities, or even find ways to make their current career more enjoyable. Anyone at a crossroads in their working life can benefit from understanding their natural approach and motivations.
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Scheduling & Cost
Our aptitude testing program consists of two in-person testing sessions, each about three-hours long, and the evaluation conference, which is conducted in person or over Zoom and runs between 60 and 90 minutes. Most of our clients choose the one-day testing format (testing in the morning and afternoon with a lunch break in the middle of the day), but separate, half-day testing appointments are also available.
What are Aptitudes?
Aptitudes are natural talents for doing certain kinds of things quickly and easily. We measure 21 different aptitudes ranging from reasoning abilities to musical talents to workplace personality. These abilities aren’t related to what you’ve learned in school or your interests, which can change over time. Aptitudes are talents you’re born with, so you can use your test results to make decisions throughout your career.
Our Tests are Different
Most career tests stop at measuring personality or interests, which can provide an incomplete view of the individual. Our service goes a step further by combining research-backed personality measurements with comprehensive, data-driven aptitude testing to provide an objective picture of your natural approach and abilities and the careers that will best match your whole self.
How will Aptitude Testing Help Me Choose a Career?
Knowing your strengths and weaknesses is one of the most important aspects of career planning. Aptitude testing provides objective data about the areas you’re likely to succeed in and the ones you might want to avoid. People tend to be more satisfied and successful in occupations that use their aptitudes.
The Testing Experience
Our service is a mix of hands-on tests given individually by a trained test administrator and digital assessments. Our tests aren’t like school tests but feel more like puzzles or games. There are no “good” or “bad” scores on our tests, just objective measurements of how naturally a task comes to you.
“The Individual who knows his own aptitudes, and their relative strengths, chooses more intelligently among the world’s host of opportunities.”