JOFI Personality Traits
The personality assessment measures 15 personality traits and summarizes scores for the Big Five personality dimensions.
Workforce & coaching
Help Individuals Discover Careers Where They Will Succeed
JOFI provides evidence-based career assessments that help job seekers understand their strengths, explore career options, and make informed decisions.
30-minute conversation • No obligation
Job Fit Profile
Discover your career interests and personality traits
Your Career Interests Profile
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Your Personality Traits Profile
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Top three career interests and top five personality traits
The challenge
Career decisions are too often guesswork
Workforce programs and career coaches support individuals in making life-changing decisions, but often lack the tools to provide clear, objective guidance. This leads to:
- Job seekers choosing careers that are not a good fit
- Low engagement in training programs
- Poor job placement and retention outcomes
- Limited insight into participant strengths
JOFI gives coaches objective insights for career decisions
JOFI helps each participant understand their Job Fit Profile and links those results to real career pathways. Coaches can use that shared evidence in exploration, training choices, coaching sessions, and job placement.
Coaches can replace guesswork with a shared, evidence-based view of each participant.
What we measure
What JOFI assessments cover
JOFI assessments evaluate:
JOFI Career Interests
The career interests assessment measures 15 areas of interest and summarizes scores for the interest dimensions from the John Holland RIASEC model.
JOFI Thinking Skills
The thinking skills assessment measures 3 mental ability traits and provides an overall score that is an indicator of critical thinking and problem solving.
Reports & tools
Reports and tools coaches can use
Job Fit Profile
Career interests and personality traits that show where someone is likely to perform well and enjoy their work
JOFIscore
A five-star job-fit rating that shows how well a participant matches occupations and career paths
Assessment Scorecard
A coach-facing summary of assessment results with strengths, development areas, and notes for conversation
Career Options Spotlight
Recommended careers aligned with a participant's Job Fit Profile, including occupations your organization chooses to highlight
Employability Certificate
A shareable summary participants can use with employers
How it works
How programs run JOFI
Invite participants
Send participants a link to complete the JOFI assessment.
Complete assessments
Participants finish the assessments on a phone or computer.
Review results
Staff and coaches review personalized career insights.
Guide coaching
Coaches use the results in career conversations and planning.
Use cases
Built for workforce and coaching programs
Career Exploration
Help participants identify career paths aligned with their strengths.
Training Program Alignment
Guide participants into programs that match their interests and traits.
Career Coaching Sessions
Give coaches a shared profile to structure career conversations.
Job Placement Support
Match participants to roles where they are more likely to succeed.
Outcomes
What programs gain with JOFI
Higher engagement
Participants better understand themselves and their options.
Stronger completion and placement
Better alignment leads to stronger completion and placement rates.
A shared coaching framework
Staff use the same evidence across sessions and cohorts.
Clearer employer connections
Align participant strengths with employer needs.
Organization-configured report
Career Options Spotlight
The Career Options Spotlight shows careers that fit a participant's Job Fit Profile. Your organization can configure the report to highlight careers or occupations that matter for your program, including local in-demand roles, training pathways you offer, and employer partners you work with.
- Choose occupations that matter for your region, employers, or training programs
- Connect each participant's Job Fit Profile to that curated set of options
- Use one shared report in exploration, training decisions, and coaching
CareerNavigation.org
What participants do after their assessments
Each participant receives a personal link to CareerNavigation.org and works through the JOFI Career Planning Exercise. Coaches stay focused on conversations while participants complete structured steps between sessions. Personalized job-fit scores appear when participants use their navigation link.
Visit CareerNavigation.org
Self-Awareness
Participants review their Job Fit Profile, Career Options Spotlight, and Job Fit Report, then complete a Strengths Exercise to put their career interests and personality traits into their own words.
Option Exploration
They explore high-fit job families and O*NET occupations with five-star job-fit ratings using Job Families, the Job-Fit Exercise, Compare Occupations, and Exploration Interviews or Job Shadows.
Decision Making
They build a three-move career pathway and confirm a target job with Plan Builder, labor market and education exercises, Challenges, Mentors, and Target Job tools.
Action Planning
They plan next steps toward the target job, such as training, applications, and interview prep, and can request an Employability Certificate for occupations that fit.
Built for programs
Ways programs put JOFI to work
- Quick start options for small and large cohorts
- Integration with case management systems (for example, CaseWorthy)
- Training and certification for staff
- Support for workshops, coaching frameworks, and program design
- Assessments grounded in validated research
Next steps
What we'll cover in a working session
In a working session, we'll:
- Learn about your program goals
- Show how JOFI works
- Share how other organizations are using JOFI
See how JOFI can support your career navigation programs
In a working session, we'll learn about your program goals, show how JOFI works, and share how other organizations are using JOFI.
30-minute conversation • No obligation