Strong Interest Inventory:
Coaching for Career Direction
Data-Backed Insights for Confident Career Decisions
I help tech professionals cut through career confusion by leveraging the Strong Interest Inventory®, a gold-standard career aptitude tool, to provide the data-backed insights you need to validate your next professional move
Why Tech Professionals Struggle
with Career Direction
In IT, you’re expected to make long-term career decisions while roles, technologies, and expectations keep shifting, all while being told to stay relevant in a rapidly evolving skills landscape. The challenge isn’t capability, it’s clarity.
You may find yourself thinking:
➡️ Am I still on the right career path?
➡️ How can I be sure my next job move is the right decision?
➡️ How do I stay relevant with AI changing everyone's jobs?
In tech, that usually means chasing a management title, jumping to the hottest AI certification, or switching companies hoping the problem doesn't follow you.
The issue isn’t a lack of opportunity. Most decisions are made without a consistent way to evaluate fit, so choices end up based on job titles, compensation, timing, or what feels most practical at the time.
Over time, that leads to hesitation, second-guessing, and stalled progress, with investments in directions that don’t fully hold up long-term.
The real issue is the absence of a structured way to evaluate direction with clarity and confidence.
If you answered YES to any of these questions, you are in the right place. The Strong Interest Inventory® is the gold standard aptitude tool to take the guesswork out of your strategy and validate your next career move.
Is The Strong Career Assessment for You?
You May Want to Take the Strong Interest Inventory If...
➡️ You’re exploring your next job move and want insights from a career aptitude tool to support your decision-making
➡️ You’ve taken the Strong Interest Inventory before and want help translating your results into real career decisions
➡️ You’d like to fix what isn’t working in your current role so you can move into a next role that fits you better
You May Want to Take the Strong Interest Inventory If...
❌ You’re looking for a quick 5-minute quiz rather than a professional assessment with interpretation
❌ You would like one-on-one coaching to help identify your next job move → RISE Career Coaching
❌ You know your career target and need a job search strategy → Job Search Coaching
❌ You need resume or LinkedIn support or updates → Tech Resume Writing
What if you could get data-backed help with your career decisions?
Strong Career Assessment Overview
What is the Strong Interest Inventory?
The Strong Interest Inventory® is a globally recognized, research-validated career assessment that identifies your work interests, preferences, and behavior patterns to show which career paths tend to fit you best. It helps with career decision-making by translating how you naturally think, work, and collaborate into clear occupational direction.
Results, Interpretations, and Guidance
Rather than receiving a hard-to-interpret PDF, my process delivers a comprehensive profile, mapping your overarching occupational themes with how they align with different types of work, roles, environments, and operational styles. Our interpretation sessions connect these metrics to the reality of the current job market. You'll walk away understanding what your data means for your next career move.
How It Supports Career Decision Making
The Strong Interest Inventory removes the emotional weight from your career choices by providing an objective, data-backed blueprint of the environments where you are most likely to thrive. It gives you a reliable mechanism to evaluate new roles, management tracks, or career pivots against your profile. The result? You can choose your next step based on verified fit, free from the pressure of second-guessing.
My Credentials
Lisa Dupras is a graduate-level Certified Career Coach, Certified Strong Interest Inventory Administrator, and National Certified Online Profile Expert through the National Resume Writers Association (NRWA). Unlike traditional career coaches, Lisa spent 20+ years of Fortune 500 pharmaceutical IT and healthcare HR initiatives, including execution of 10+ mergers and acquisitions. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Ocean County College Business Program, and has been featured in Yahoo Finance
Benefits of Career Assessments
A career assessment helps you make decisions based on how you work, think, and engage — rather than relying on job titles, timing, or pressure from external factors. It reduces guesswork by helping you narrow direction, validate choices, and see which roles and environments are most likely to fit long-term.
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Uncertainty is reduced
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Confidence is gained
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Misalignment is prevented
Helps You To:
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Make clearer career decisions based on fit rather than guesswork
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Narrow direction when multiple paths feel possible
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Validate or rethink a direction before committing
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Identify roles that better match how you work long-term
Helps You Avoid:
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Choosing based only on job titles, salary, or timing
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Staying stuck between multiple career paths
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Second-guessing decisions after making themInvesting time in roles that don’t fit long-term
Getting Started with the Strong Inventory® Inventory
The Strong Interest Inventory process is designed to be simple for you and structured for strategic clarity. You complete the assessment independently, and I handle the heavy heavy-lifting of the interpretation so you can focus on understanding what your results mean for your next career move.
You walk away with a validated report and summary of your ideal direction to fuel your job search or integrate into a career goal.
Step 1: Onboarding & Secure Portal Access - After securing your session, you will receive an automated onboarding email with instructions and a secure, unique link to your personal assessment portal.
Step 2: Complete the Strong 244 Assessment - Log in and complete the assessment at your own pace within our agreed-upon timeline. It takes 30 to 35 minutes to complete.
Step 3: Expert Interpretation - I deep-dive into your raw data, translating your responses into a personalized, career-direction matrix mapped specifically against current market realities.
Step 4: The 60-Minute Direct Strategy Session - We meet 1-on-1 for 60-minute interpretation session. We break down your dominant occupational themes, target ideal working environments, and isolate exactly what isn’t working in your current track.
Sample Strong Interest Inventory Results
How Your Career Profile Is Presented
The Strong Interest Inventory® does not look at your skills or technical capabilities; instead, it measures your underlying patterns of interest and workplace preferences. The final profile packet organizes your data into scales that build upon one another, allowing us to move from broad, high-level occupational themes down to your specific daily operational preferences.
Your Occupational Theme
What it is: A color-coded bar chart that measures your interest levels across six broad areas of work (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional) to find your dominant three-letter theme code.
How we use it: We use this chart to establish your baseline work personality. It acts as our anchor for the rest of the session, showing us your general preferences and values before we drill down into specific details.
Personal Styles Scale
What it is: A detailed chart that measures your interest levels across 30 specific work subjects and fields, ranking them from "Very Little" to "Very High.
How we use it: We use this to pinpoint the exact topics and daily tasks that keep you mentally energized. It helps us narrow down your specific areas of focus so you can avoid a role that bores you.
Basic Interest Scale
What it is: A summary of personal preferences across five practical areas: how you like to work, your learning environment, your leadership style, your comfort with risk, and how you approach teamwork.
How we use it: We use this information to evaluate company cultures and team structures. It shows into what types of working environments you might work best in.
These data-backed insights about you, along with the rest of your comprehensive report results serve as the objective foundation we use during our session to build a practical, real-world career action plan.
Client Success Story
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The Client: Courtney was working in sales and felt uncertain about her next career move. While she had strong experience in sales, she wasn't sure this was the right long-term path, or what type of work and environments would better fit her interests and strengths.
The Objective: Clarify her career direction and identify a path that better aligned with her strengths while still leveraging her sales background.
The Solution: We used the Strong Interest Inventory to map her real interests. She had a strong preference for data analysis rather than outward-facing sales roles. We built a target strategy to focus on sales related, strategic, analytical roles.
The Result: Courtney successfully transitioned out of sales and into a strategic sales strategy position focused on analysis and decision support. The Strong data in her personal profile provided the data-backed support to make her career move with confidence.
Pricing & Packages
Individual Strong Interest Inventory® assessments and private interpretation sessions start at $175. This framework is also fully integrated into the RISE Career Coaching program. Click below to view all available pricing options and packages.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Answers to Your Strong Career Assessment Questions
