Lesson 5 - Survey 4 Summary

The Career Key is one of the first services to provide an online career test. Lawrence K. Jones, professor emeritus of North Carolina University, developed the website in 1996 when the university's website couldn't handle all the traffic that the school-sponsored test was receiving. The Career Key's test is affordable to students who are deciding on a major or who are just beginning their careers. The test appears to be scientifically grounded, as it has a technical manual available to the public and does not feature advertisements on its web interface. Although it only has five questions, a representative of The Career Key insists that the test soundly determines your personality code. Nonetheless, we question the test's accuracy because it is only a self-analysis. A self-analysis is limited to what you know about yourself.