I hear from a number of people who are interested in changing to a computer career, but they're not sure whether it really is for them or not. This is natural. This is what careers tests are for. When you've spent your adult life as a salesperson, a teacher or a fast food restaurant manager, you just aren't sure whether or not IT would be a good industry for you, and so you need careers tests to help you find out.

A few dollars invested in careers tests can help you discover whether it's wise to spend a lot of time and money learning how to become a techie.

Of course there's no easy to know how suited you are to be a techie. I'm sure there are born techies, the creatures we joke about who took apart hard drives before they could walk and spent their college Saturday nights learning Assembler instead of getting drunk and dating like everyone else. They don't need careers tests - they aren't allowed to do anything else.

Is the IT field limited only to those classic geeks and nerds? I'm happy to report that's not true. In fact, if you have ever consulted a techie about a computer problem, you know there is a dramatic shortage of techies who can communicate to real people from their own viewpoint. Some techies barely speak English.

So, even though you prefer a day at the beach to a day spent debugging Delphi, you may still have what it takes to have a successful IT career.

Assuming you are willing to learn the techie stuff, of course. That doesn't mean you have to design motherboards in your spare time. You don't have to dedicate your entire life to computers, just be willing to learn what you need to know and to apply it on your job. These careers tests help you decide what you're capable of.

Still, that doesn't mean an IT really is a good job for everybody who's willing and able to learn the OSI networking model. I've had people buy my book and thank me for writing it, because although they had been considering changing to a computer career, my book convinced them it was not for them, and they were grateful to find that out for only $24.95 and a few hours reading time. That may seem odd, but remember that IT training classes run $5000 and up. The cheapest IT books run at least $30, and most are $50+.

The thing is, a lot of us are burnt out at our current jobs and careers and ready for a change. I believe that our longer on average life spans are creating problems that generations before us never faced. Are human beings really designed to stay at one job for 45 years? Probably not - another reason for careers tests.

The IT field is attracting a lot of attention because of all the stories that came out around the dot com boom period of programmers becoming millionaires through their stock options. Even those IT people who don't work for Internet startups, make a lot more money than they used to, and a lot more in comparison to the rest of us.

So the potential of making a lot more money and of having a job skill that is always in demand even though one employer may lay you off is attracting a lot of people to check it out. Too many of them are shelling out the big bucks to training schools without first making certain that an IT career is really a good fit for them. Take the careers tests before you make the leap or waste thousands of dollars.

That's where this careers tests site I found fits in.

It contains careers tests to help you decide whether or not IT or any other field is right for you.

They have careers tests for your personality, your aptitudes, your occupational preferences and even your entrepreneurial inclination. All of them come from a psychologist who has nearly twenty years of experience in the career assessment field. The site also contains information and colleges and some interesting articles on careers.

There are free samples of all the careers tests, so try them out and see what you think.

Who knows? Maybe you should really be a concrete pourer? Or a tourist guide? Or a soybean farmer? Better take careers tests and find out for sure.

Check out careers tests at:

Click here for careers tests to find out whether a computer career is right for you -- you can't flunk, you can only learn what's best for you

Sincerely,

Rick Stooker

Author, Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

P.S. - Because you want a job that will make you happy as well as make you money.

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