Strong Interest Inventory® certification enables you to provide your clients, students or employees with dynamic career direction and insight into options that align with their interests and abilities. For a career counselor, certification provides tools to help students choose a major, explore career options – even select enriching extracurricular activities. For a career coach or human resources professional, certification delivers an additional tool for helping individuals with professional development, engagement, transition, and retention. It can also be a powerful tool for adults transitioning to retirement – a way to explore possibilities related to leisure pursuits or volunteer opportunities.
Why become Strong certified?
The Strong Certification Program will enable you to:
Empower individuals to identify careers, jobs, and activities that closely align with their interests.
Offer different perspectives on career direction, from general areas of interest to specific occupations.
Provide robust and reliable data about a person’s interests and work preferences.
Help organizations engage and retain employees by uncovering work areas in which their people are more likely to thrive.
Who should attend Strong certification training?
Career counselors
Academic advisors
Career coaches
HR managers and consultants
Executive coaches
What will you learn?
Holland’s theory of personalities and work environments (RIASEC)
Unique components of the Strong Interest Inventory assessment (Basic Interest Scales, Occupational Scales, and Personal Style Scales)
Techniques for interpreting the Strong assessment’s scales, and applying its insights in education, business, and personal settings
Considerations when working with challenging Strong assessment profiles
How to deliver feedback to individuals, using the results for career exploration, employee reengagement, personal and professional development, and more
Technical aspects of the assessment, including information on reliability and validity
Instructions for ethically administering the assessment and using Strong reports and support materials for career exploration and development
We have been using the Strong assessment in our career development classes for employees for a number of years. We want to help our employees identify their key areas of interest so they can better leverage their skills. Our goal is to improve employee engagement, ultimately leading to higher rates of employee retention.
— Bob Klein Schmidt, Senior Organization Development Consultant, The Johns Hopkins University
For us, the Strong Interest Inventory ® really helps as part of our program, to support students or clients verify and discover their calling.
— Dave Broza, Director, Career Development and Calling, Bethel University
A good instrument to invest in with a good return on the investment for your students.
— Kathleen I Powell, Administrator, The College of William & Mary
Strong Interest Inventory is the best assessment tool on the market for the cost as well as the information that it provides for students.
— Kelly Bell, Director of Career Services, Anderson University
If there are 10 or more people at your organization wanting to become Strong certified, we can deliver virtual or in-house certification training for your group.
Note: Your registration is not complete until you've been contacted by a Customer Support representative to confirm details and process payment.
Thank you! We will contact you within the next two business days to complete your registration.
Program Transfer and Cancellation Policy
Up to 14 calendar days before a program start date, program registrants have a one-time option to either transfer to another program of like kind or cancel their registration.
To cancel a registration call The Myers-Briggs Company Customer Relations at 800.624.1765.
Requests to transfer from one program to another program of like kind must be made in writing by emailing contactps@themyersbriggs.com. Certification training must be completed within one (1) calendar year of the request for transfer.
Multiple transfer requests or transfer requests made fewer than 14 calendar days before a program start date will each result in a transaction charge equal to 10% of the standard registration fee for the program the participant is registered to attend.
Registration fees will not be refunded for cancellations made fewer than 14 calendar days before a program start date.
Registration fees will not be refunded where participant fails to attend a program they are registered to attend.
In the event The Myers-Briggs Company must cancel a program The Myers-Briggs Company will provide registrant as much advance notice as possible. Notification of cancellation will be sent to the participant email address provided at the time of registration. The Myers-Briggs Company is not responsible for any travel expenses that may accrue as a consequence of the cancellation of a scheduled program.