What types of assessments are best to determine if someone is right for self-employment?
Self-directed employment advocate don’t believe in assessments as a form of predicting someone’s suitability for business ownership. There is no data existing that justifies such expensive time-wasting activities. Assistance not assessment! Formal paper and pencil tests, vocational evaluations, and assessments that measure interests, vocational skills and traits, or that suggest predictive validity in certain careers through psychometrics are not particularly useful or advised in self employment. Person-centered evaluative approaches to identifying unique gifts, talents,learning styles, hopes and dreams, financial opportunities through Social Security benefits, family support, and other individualized inventories work best.
