Strong Interest Inventory® Certification

Provide career direction

 

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.

Receive CE hours

One of the many benefits of becoming Strong certified is receiving Continuing Education (CE) hours for the work you put in. Learn more.

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

Three ways to become Strong certified

IN-HOUSE CERTIFICATION

MBTI In house certification

For organizations looking to certify a large group of employees with a dedicated in-person or virtual program.

  • For groups of ten or more
  • Two days of instructor-led training
  • In-person or virtual
  • Flexibility to customize program dates and logistics
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PUBLIC CERTIFICATION

MBTI Public certification

For individuals seeking certification. This program provides an instructor-led learning experience and interaction with participants from outside their organization.

  • Two days of instructor-led training
  • In-person or virtual options available
  • A wide selection of program dates
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SELF-PACED CERTIFICATION

MBTI self directed

For individuals who prefer a self-paced, online learning experience with flexibility to follow their own schedule.

  • Self-guided, online, and on demand
  • Interactive learning modules and assignments to explore at your own pace
  • Instructor feedback provided via email
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Not based in the U.S.? Find out how to get Strong certified in your region.

Find answers to your Strong certification questions in our FAQs.

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Note: Your registration is not complete until you've been contacted by a Customer Support representative to confirm details and process payment.

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

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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

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