Which are the best character and skills assessment tools that we can use to help our clients get a job? Clifton StrengthsFinder: 1. Focus: Identifies individual talents and strengths. 2. Methodology: Uses a timed online assessment with 177 paired statements. 3. Output: Provides a list of your top 5 (or 34) talent themes out of 34 possible themes. 4. Career application: Helps you understand your natural abilities and how to leverage them in your corporate career. Encourages focusing on developing your strengths rather than fixing weaknesses. Can guide you towards roles that align with your innate talents. Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences: 1. Focus: Identifies different types of intelligence, cognitive abilities and innate skills. 2. Methodology: Various assessments based on Gardner's theory, often involving self-reflection or observation. 3. Output: Typically provides a profile showing your relative strengths across 8-15 intelligence types (e.g., linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinaesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalistic, and sometimes existential). 4. Career application: Helps you understand the diverse ways you process information and solve problems. Can suggest broad career fields that match your stronger intelligences. Encourages a more holistic view of intelligence and potential. Comparison: 1. Scope: Clifton: More focused on workplace performance and specific talents. Gardner: Broader in scope, covering various aspects of cognitive abilities and life skills. 2. Specificity: Clifton: Provides more specific, work-related insights. Gardner: Offers a more general understanding of your strengths. 3. Career guidance: Clifton: More directly applicable to specific job roles and work environments. Gardner: Better for suggesting broader career fields or educational paths. 4. Personal development: Clifton: Emphasizes developing and using your existing strengths. Gardner: Encourages recognizing and potentially developing multiple skills. 5. Flexibility: Clifton: More fixed view of talents, focusing on innate strengths. Gardner: More flexible view, suggesting that intelligences can be developed over time.