Career Aptitude and
Outlook Assessment
(CAOA)
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Uncover students’ aptitudes and best-fit careers
The CAOA is the only personalized aptitude-based career guidance solution available. Students who understand their aptitudes are empowered to make wise education, career, and life decisions. They discover they have purpose and value.
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Developed by experts
Originating in 1918, these tools have been updated and refined for over 100 years. During that time, millions of people have used these assessments to find the careers that fit their God-given design. All types of careers, not just those that require going to college! Skilled trades (electrician, welder, EMT, cosmetology, aircraft mechanic), professional careers (doctor, lawyer, engineer), and more (even private investigator)!
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Delivers personalized results
Results are AI-matched giving each student a personalized report that surfaces their aptitudes, matching education pathways, and careers opening opportunities students may never have considered previously.
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Connects to 600+ real-world careers
Students’ results are aligned with 600+ real-world, in-demand career opportunities from O*NET OnLine and the education and training paths to get there.
How it works...
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Over the next 2 - 3 days, have fun working through the series of online assessments
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Make wise education, career, and life decisions
Please watch this short video about the CAOA
Your Personalized Results
Together, we will spend 60 - 90 minutes walking through the "goldmine" of personalized results:
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Exploring your unique design
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Matching your unique design to over 600 different career and discovering how well you fit those careers
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Researching the 10 year outlook for careers
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Reviewing salary projections
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Finding the schools that have the education programs for the careers
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And digging into the details of the cost and how to get into those schools
What is an aptitude?
An aptitude is an individual’s natural ability to learn or perform in given areas. Aptitudes are not the same as interests, personality, or learned skills, which are environmentally dependent and change over time. For example, someone can’t be interested in something they’ve never been exposed to, but aptitudes are innate and solidify around the age of 14.¹ Someone is good at something that is innate regardless of exposure.
We recognize that a person's aptitudes are part of their God-given design (see Psalm 139:13-14 and Ephesians 2:10). We also recognize because of our unique design and the free will He has given each of us, we have interests and desires (see Psalm 37:4). Therefore, our approach is to understand both aptitudes AND interests placing a greater weight on unchanging aptitudes. The CAOA uses 16 assessment activities. Of those, 14 assess aptitudes and 2 assesses interests. We have found this to be a good balance for discovering the career paths that best fit you.
What aptitudes do we assess?
The CAOA measures 9 aptitudes that are key to career performance: idea generation, numerical reasoning, spatial visualization, sequential reasoning, inductive reasoning, visual comparison speed, timeframe orientation, vocabulary, and work approach. The CAOA also includes five added optional brain games to let users assess their aptitudes for numerical computation, associative memory, hand-eye coordination, visual memory, and pattern memory, and amplify their career matches.