The Center for Research and Service provides assessment and counseling for career development. Comprehensive evaluations are tailored to an individual's needs. The evaluation involves an in-depth personal interview and administration of a comprehensive test battery to assess aptitude, career interest, motivation, personality, and career values. Structured feedback and career counseling follow the evaluation. The counselors take a mentoring or coaching role to assist the client in finding the best direction for career development, including search strategy based on abilities, interests, and personality style.

• Career Direction: How your aptitudes, talents, strengths, interests, and personality style fit with specific careers, education, training, and the job market.         

• Action Plan: The educational, training, career, or job search steps you need to take to achieve your career goals.           

• Job Search: Strategic résumé, cover letter, networking and interviewing skills (Certified Professional Résumé Writer available).            

• Your Motivational Quotient (MQ): How you can best motivate yourself to achieve your career goals.           

• Testing and Interviewing: An individually tailored combination of over 10 specialized aptitude tests, personality tests, interest tests, motivation tests, and interviewing by a Ph.D. Psychologist with special expertise in career guidance, job search skills, and motivation.           

• Materials You Take Home: Over 100 pages of test results and interpretations, a 1-page résumé tailored to your strengths, and a tape recording of the counseling sessions.           

• Counseling and Coaching: 3 follow-up sessions (1 hour each) with a Ph.D. who has years of experience in career counseling, job search guidance, coaching, and motivation training.

• For out-of-town clients who wish to come to our offices for this service, testing and counseling can be arranged for the same day, call 312-567-3358 for details.           

Additional programs, testing, coaching, and counseling can be customized to your needs. We can show you how to become more successful in...     

• Interviewing for a job.       
• Networking.     
• Improving your motivation.
• Researching the job market.
• Handling difficult situations on the job.
• Learning how to market yourself for a new job or in your current job.           

 ...and other skills necessary for career development in today's "bottom line" world.

Our counselors, all experienced Ph.D.'s, take a mentoring or coaching role, and will help you in the process of finding a career direction and job search strategy that fits your needs.

Snapshot Career Counseling

The Center also offers an abbreviated version of the career assessment process.  The Snapshot Career Counseling program includes:

• Career Direction: How your career interest patterns (and selected motivational and personality factors) fit with specific careers, education, and training.        

• Action Plan: The educational, training, career, or job search steps you need to take to identify the best career fit.         

• Testing: A brief battery to measure career interest patterns and selected motivational and personality factors related to career direction.          

• Materials You Take Home: Over 75 pages of test results and interpretations, and a tape recording of the counseling session.          

• Counseling: 1 follow-up session (1-hour) with a Ph.D. who has years of experience in career counseling and motivation training.

Counseling can be either at the Center’s offices or by phone.  For out-of-town clients who wish to come to our offices for this service, testing and counseling can be arranged for the same day.  We will send you a battery of the latest tests (including personality tests and our motivational test), score them, bind your test profiles, and send them to you.  We will give you a ½-hour on the phone with a Ph.D. Psychologist to discuss the results.