<p>I heard a radio talk show host talking about some professional testing service that offers "Interest Inventories". He was recommending that high school kids who have no clue what degree they should pursue should try one of these tests to help them decide.</p>
<p>It sounds like a good idea for my son (a junior). He mentioned that his daughters took their tests through a company named "Brinkman"(sp?). Wondering if anyone here has any experiences they could share. And/or any recommendations for test-givers.</p>
<p>Any college Counseling Center should be able to offer students there interest inventories (best-known is the Strong-Campbell) free of charge. I'd take them up on it rather than pay for it in HS. For that matter, your HS guidance counselor may have access to it as well.</p>
<p>Bear in mind, such inventories don't tell you what your aptitude is or which fields you "ought" to be in. They merely survey the intellectual and work-related interests of thousands of professionals in a variety of fields and then tell the test taker those fields with which their responses more strongly correlate.</p>
<p>Our high school does this with kids freshman or sophomore year. Somehow they managed to tell S2 he should be a garbage man. He's still puzzled about that one! My older son got the suggestion to be a meteorologist which makes some sense, but never suggested computer scientist where he had lots of expertise and had already earned money in the field. They aren't a bad idea, but keep in mind that they aren't definitive either.</p>
<p>The free online quiz from rocket career at rocketcareer</a> (Find Your Dream Career) is okay. Try it yourself and see how well it suggests what you might like.</p>