Entrepreneurship Quizzes (PDF)

"Have you ever wanted to be your own boss? Do you get tired of working and making money for other people? Do you get tired of someone else putting a cap on how much money you can make? If you answered yes to these questions, this book might just be what you are looking for,” says author and assessment entrepreneur John Liptak. “Entrepreneurship Quizzes is unlike most other books that are designed to help you start your own business, largely because it does not pretend to provide you with a magic formula for success.”

Building on the proven format of Career Quizzes and College Major Quizzes, the 12 quizzes in Entrepreneurship Quizzes are self-assessments designed to help readers explore their interests, preferences, values, and other personal characteristics and then apply those characteristics to their choice of a business. The appendix includes an extensive list of self-employment resources for readers to explore that are tied to their responses. The book takes readers through a four-step self-reflection process—assessing readiness, determining a business type, overcoming barriers, and maintaining momentum—designed to help readers find their own path to self-employment success.

Key Features

• Includes 12 original assessments developed by one of the leading minds in the career assessment industry.
• Coaches readers through the process of determining their readiness to be entrepreneurs and choosing a business type that fits with their skills, interests, and personality.
• Assessments are easy to take and score and are designed to be interpreted by readers without any experience in counseling.
• Chapters also include worksheets, activities, and checklists to help readers understand their results and make business plans.
• Appendix offers sources of additional information for specific types of businesses organized by the Department of Education’s 16 career clusters, which are tied to the assessment results earlier in the book.

About the Author

John Liptak is one of the leading developers of quantitative and qualitative career assessments in the country. He is Director of Career Assessment and Counseling at Radford University in Virginia. Dr. Liptak is the president of the Center for Career Assessment, Inc., a leading research and development corporation that specializes in the development of quality career and life assessments. He consults on the development of assessments for schools and agencies and has developed specialized assessment instruments for use with clients. Dr. Liptak is a regular speaker at national and international conventions on the topic of assessment and assessment development. Dr. Liptak is the author of Career Quizzes, in addition to several best-selling career assessments, including the Career Exploration Inventory (CEI), Barriers to Employment Success Inventory (BESI), Job Search Knowledge Scale (JSKS), Job Survival and Success Scale (JSSS), Job Search Attitude Inventory (JSAI), College Survival and Success Scale (CSSS), Transferable Skills Scale (TSS), and Transition-to-Work Inventory (TWI)—all available from JIST Publishing. He is also the author of The Life Skills IQ Test: 10 Self-Quizzes to Measure Your Practical Intelligence.