TEENS & STUDENTS

Assessing the natural ability of a young person can help them make positive decisions about their careers.

TEENS

Most of us want to support our teenage children in the best way possible, enabling them to make the best decisions they can with regard to subject choices and future courses or careers. The Highlands Ability Battery will give your child the support and information they need at this crucial time in their lives. You can also be part of the feedback session. We offer an additional slot in the feedback for parents to join in, either on the phone on in person.

The Highlands test identifies our abilities. Our abilities are our permanent set of talents and natural strength. They stabilise in us at about age 15 and are virtually the same throughout our working lives and beyond. They include ways we learn, communicate, make decisions, work with objects, and use our creative and mental talents. The Highlands assessment is one test that yields objective information. It is the basic knowledge a person needs before making any further education or career decision. It is comparable to a body scan.

STUDENTS

There are over 30,000 occupations and 1,000 colleges to choose from - a daunting prospect.

The Highlands Ability Battery Test can help you:

Clarify your innate abilities, personal preferences, interests and values
This will make it easier to come to decisions about courses, training or careers. A recent Highlands participant used the information in the report to complete her university application form. Her tutor said that it was the best personal statement she had ever read.

Increase your chances of being successful
Research has also show that if a person works in a situation that matches his or her individual ability pattern the chances of being successful will definitely increase. Knowing and understanding your natural aptitudes will help you work more effectively.

Gain greater self-knowledge
In the 'real world' people who get ahead fastest are more successful and are happiest when they know clearly how to state what their highest and best contribution can be. The key ingredient here is self-knowledge.

Help with the transition from school to college/work or university
This is the first important turning point in your adult life, and a leap from the security of your family to becoming an adult and taking care of yourself. To effectively make this transition your college or university has to be more than just a place away from the family. It has to be a place where you can mature and grow. It is much more important that you take the course that you feel interested in and passionate about and not necessarily the one that you are doing to follow some formula that someone else has approved.

One of the ways of ensuring that college or university is an effective transition is to look beyond it. Through the feedback and follow-up support that we offer you can form a plan about where you are going. Then, with our support you will be able to get there.

Cut down on stress
More stress is created in any situation when we go against our natural aptitudes.

What it involves

The Highlands Ability Battery is an online test taking between 3 and 3½ hours to complete. It is a set of 19 validated, objective work samples that show you where your natural aptitudes lie. By yielding objective information, it is the basic knowledge you will need before making any further education/training or career decisions. The assessment is not like other kinds of tests. You cannot prepare for it. It is not learned material. All scores, high and low, illustrate individual ability patterns.

From the assessment, you find out how you naturally work best, and what are good career fits for you. You are the only person who really knows you. Advice is fine, but it is much more helpful when you have done the basic work of finding out about yourself.

Take the Highlands test and find out what your natural talents and abilities are. You will be much happier, successful and attractive as a human being. Now that's worth aspiring to!