Accessing WOIS (From school or home)

Washington Occupational Information System

Take Interest Inventories!
Take the Work Values Inventory!
Find WA colleges that match your career goals!
Check out occupations and career paths!

Go to www.wois.org

  1. You must first get the site key (access code) from Ms. Garrett in the Career Center
  2. In the box on the left it will ask for your “Site Key”
  3. Next, in order to save your test results and career information, you need to create a portfolio, or personal file, so click “create a new portfolio” in the upper right corner and follow the directions to create your file on WOIS.
  4. When finished, click “Assessments” in the left-hand menu. Select one of the following assessments:
    • Career Interest Areas
    • Interest Profiler
    • Work Importance Locator
    • Skills Assessment
  5. At the end of the interest assessment type your name in the box, then click on “Find my interest areas.”
  6. Next page click “Save results to my portfolio” in the top right corner.
  7. On the bar graph find you highest areas of interest (longest red bars).
  8. To see a few careers in your strongest areas of interest click on the career path name next to your highest scores. You may click on any occupations that interest you, read about them, and then save them to your portfolio.
  9. You may check out specific jobs by clicking on “Occupations” in the upper right menu. You can also explore school programs and schools (any of particular interest may also be saved to your portfolio)

Assessments and Exploration Tools

Explore Occupations

Career Interest Areas and worksheet [PDF]
A 66 question assessment that focuses on interests and identifies career paths to explore.

Interest Profiler and worksheet [PDF]
Sort occupations based on whether or not you would like to do the work activities presented.

Work Importance Locator
Can help you learn more about your work values and decide what is important to you in a job.

Skills Assessment and worksheet [PDF]
Skills helps you identify occupations that match your skills. It also shows you which skills are used by each occupation.

Other (non-WOIS) assessments

Explore Schools

School Search
Find schools that match your criteria, such as tuition, location, school services, and educational programs offered.

School Comparison
Get a chart comparing schools that interest you.