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Check out Shmoop’s Career Test to help you find the job of your dreams. Unless you’re like us and had a dream you were Pegasus. Not even Shmoop could help us with that one.


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Thank you We sneak in careers assessment Ah la shmoop

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well there are a few ways to figure out what

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you want to do for a living Your number one

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try a little of everything until finally in about fifty

00:14

years you realize that you were born to wealth Yeah

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that's awfully time consuming door number to ask a psychic

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The only real problem here is that well psychics aren't

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really so they might tell you to become a sushi

00:29

chef in brazil for no good reason Fortunately there's a

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third door shmoop career advice centre right here So instead

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of sitting around wondering what on earth you're doing with

00:40

your life you can log in and let your fingers

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do the career counseling and for starters products one hundred

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percent free which you might appreciate because those student loans

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are going to start popping up before you know it

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free is about to become your favorite word We promise

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Okay well so the process is simple We've got two

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quizzes in each of them will ask you a number

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of questions designed to get an idea of your abilities

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goals desires and more It will show you how say

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supporting your significant other while he or she is permanently

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fun employed may limit your career options You better make

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dough when you're done Taking each assessment will know you

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better than you know yourself We'll even know what you

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did last summer Although hopefully it's something less horrifying and

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with that movie Okay so what sort of probing questions

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are we gonna ask you Wonder Well we'll ask you

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stuff like how important is it to you to retire

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at age sixty five You can pursue your lifelong dream

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of crushing a docks in the size of the state

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of indiana Or uh well whatever it is you're into

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or if you had a job in an office would

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you be tempted to steal a state park Well you'll

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answer all our questions using five point scales so if

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we ask how important retirement is to you then you

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can respond Not at all not very shrugs pretty or

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harry Then our smarty pants algorithm assigns a numeric value

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to your response and we use all the data we

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collected generate a list of careers that you may be

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well suited for One quiz called what should i do

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With my life simply has you click through a few

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questions and then spits out some sort of a ll

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share a ble results at the end The other quiz

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called shmoop or consequences includes updates in real time based

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on eat decision you make keep in mind that we're

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not just matching your skills in the one two three

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and abc departments with corresponding career past We know there's

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a lot more that goes into it How busy do

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you want to be How extravagantly when you liketo live

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do you dream of travelling Are you opposed to getting

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your hands dirty We'll break things down and find out

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about your money goals your personality and the amount of

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school you're willing to put up with every time a

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particular career lines up with who you are and what

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you want out of life we keep it in the

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careers you might like Category Likewise if you tell us

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you're dead set on having a yacht one day Well

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guess where bee keeper is going Yeah this assessment tool

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is not haphazard not by a long shot We've done

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the research on how much schooling you need to make

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It in a given field What kind of moolah you

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turned in this vet job and so on way gauge

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your personality and how well you'd fit into a particular

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career by using the holland code system And we've applied

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all our extensive expertise to returning the most accurate taylor

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recommendations to you All right Still not satisfied Hey if

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you're not happy we're not happy We'll continue to tweak

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and fine tune the product until it does everything but

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pick you up move you across town and seat you

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at the desk you were meant to inhabit Although well 00:03:52.105 --> [endTime] technology these days you never know

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