• Easily available: schools, private organizations, social work organizations.

• Wide cost variation: from tuition inclusion, to optional extra, to $1,000's.

• Assumed to be accurate and scientific: use of tests, computerized ratings and cross-referencing, counsellors with university degrees, personalized clinic atmosphere, institutional support, status quo acceptability.

• Sacrifice of time, energy, and capital by the participant provides persuasive agreement, support of and commitment by cognitive dissonance; tests may take 1 to 3 days to complete.

• "Qualified" wording of Report Summary results may be dependent upon other services offered by the provider or linked by association, preference or business referral to other agencies and providers.

• "Rationalized" conclusions may confuse, self-distance, make over-confident, or encourage abandonment of one's Life Goal, self-fulfillment or balanced career progress. Investigation and feedback of suggested career positions and their employees may clarify or confuse future potential for security and employment by revealing recent market stable or changing requirements, fictional projections of same, and, personal attitudes and concerns of staff.

Without a much deeper, wide-ranging and costly investigation, all of this information may prove irrelevant and simply serve to discredit or promote a possibility erroneously. Long-term decisions made on the basis of short-term trends tend to be disappointing.

Cautions:

A narrow focus on how much money can be earned and/or how prestigious and socially acceptable the career is within the status quo ... can serve to self deny one's own moral foundation, emotional needs, and Basic Personality factors. In the long-term, materialistic wealth at the denial of these basic identity factors often results in depression, anxiety, shame, guilt, spiritual weakness, and a host of co-dependencies.

Failures in stability, earnings, and standard-of-living by following such expectations often encourage dependency (slave) attitudes and expectations including lack of involvement, lack of trust, lack of faith, lack of self-esteem, manipulation and deception of others, resentment, frustration, anxiety, aggressiveness, intolerance. These increasingly serve to distance oneself from one's Higher Self and from activities which would bring long-term contentment and fulfillment.

Specific skill upgrading options can be identified as beneficial from the testing results. These are all dependent on the eventual one or more career choices made by the participant for relevancy. These are also made more difficult to be subjectively relevant to the participant rather than to the business profit or success of the consulting office or agency.