So many students change college majors mid-stream, or have already graduated, but still aren't sure what career direction to take. It's frustrating for everyone--and expensive.   Give your student an edge with an ability assessment - and make the most of your tuition dollars.

 

The Highlands Ability Battery gives the student a new lens through which to see themselves.  More than any other test, it will paint a unique and highly personal view of what's "inside". 

 

What is your son naturally drawn to do well - and where will he thrive and succeed?  What kind of work or study environment suits him best? SATs or GPAs won't tell him.

 

Many of us have taken career assessments, such as Myers-Briggs, True Colors, Strength Finder or 360 feedback sessions.  These tools depend on self-inserted responses to leading questions.  While they provide some useful information, they are limited by the extent to which we might deceive ourselves about our strengths.  According to Peter Drucker, "Most people think they know what they are good at.  They are usually wrong". 

 

Does your daughter really know what she's good at?  Rather than relying on her own or other's impressions of her strengths, you can both be assured of receiving objective, reliable and very accurate information from the Highlands Ability Battery.  Only the Highlands obtains objective, reliable data though a series of timed, online work samples.  Over 50 years of research and hundreds of studies have demonstrated the essential validity of Highland's work samples. Collectively the scores are predictive of the roles, work environments and career paths that are uniquely suited for her.

 

Does she prefer immediate results from her efforts?  Or can she plan, and wait? In one test, we measure her natural tolerance of the time between action and result. Those who score low in this work sample are excellent "fire-fighters" - they thrive in situations where they can turn things around and see immediate results. Those who score high do well in jobs that require long-range strategy or planning - and can wait months, or even years to see the results of their efforts.   

 

How does your son approach problems?   He'll thrive in a role that pulls on his natural approach to problem solving.  Let's face it... any job, any career, any profession is a daily  exercise in solving some kind of problem. Highlands will tell us if he is an analytical, or a diagnostic thinker.  Analytical thinkers bring deductive, step by step logic to problem solving.  They can easily arrange ideas and information is some logical order. Diagnostic thinkers, on the other hand, quickly find relationships to seemingly unrelated ideas, and come up with solutions based on little information. It's a faster paced approach to problem solving.   

 

Does your student love to construct and build things, getting her "hands on" a project?  Or is she a more of a "systems" thinker - more abstract, working things out in her head? Whichever world she prefers - either "concrete" or "abstract" - she needs to match her academic and career choice accordingly. 

 

Only an ability assessment will dig this deep.   

And only Highlands offers the full assessment online.