Discover where YOUR excellence, success, and happiness will be!

The Highlands Ability Battery^TM (THAB) is the gold standard among tools assessing human abilities or aptitudes. It is only one of 8 tests you will go through in the Oxford Program that we use to assess the whole you. 

Important: If you don't love your work, it is highly likely that there are natural abilities that you have that you are not utilizing in your work. These abilities have a powerful influence on your level of enthusiasm, fulfillment, and success in your work. Starting to use one or more of these abilities can instantly bring a new level of satisfaction with your life. 

The Oxford Career Aptitudes Program^TM...

• Defines Individual Abilities

• Optimizes Career Options

• Promotes Complete Self-Understanding

• Builds Self-Confidence

• Leads to Success and Self-Fulfillment

When we did our review of career tests, The Highlands Ability Battery came out on top.

More than any other test, it helps you understand the type(s) of work you should pursue and the types you should definitely not pursue.

How accurate is it?

This is not like the aptitude testing from years ago, or the tests available in certain books out there. The information and suggestions that it makes are HIGHLY ACCURATE. Many medical, technology, business, and science students use this aptitude testing to choose an area of specialization. Businesses use it to choose the top candidates for important positions. Entrepreneurs use it to determine the type of business they're most likely to be successful in. The testing is psychometrically valid and reliable. The minimum reliability standard for the 19 tests that make up The Highlands Ability Battery™ is r = . 80. 

Some have described the Highlands Ability Battery as the Myers-Briggs "on steroids." It is like getting an MRI for a painful injury instead of a traditional X-Ray.

What can you expect from taking it?

• Understand where you are naturally talented and which work roles would make you most happy and successful.

• Know the careers and roles you are best "built for."

• Understand in black-and-white why you would be happy in some fields and not happy in others.

• Be able to accurately choose the best option from a group of career/job/business choices.

• Make the most accurate career decision possible.

• Understand what specialization is best in your field or organization.

• Know what other jobs within your organization you would be better at (and more fulfilled with).

• Learn of new career ideas.

• Information whose results last a lifetime.

Why is measuring abilities/aptitudes so important?

At the core of discovering your "natural vocation" is understanding your natural, driving abilities. Research over 40-50 years shows that most sources of job unhappiness stem from natural abilities not being used, or being forced to perform tasks for which you do not have the natural abilities.

If you choose a new career without a knowledge of your innate abilities, you have a relatively high probability of winding up back in a career that you find boring, frustrating, or unfulfilling.

What happens when there is a mismatch between your aptitudes and your job? For anyone other than humans, the answer to this question is: extinction. But because we humans are so adaptable, we survive, but at a terrible cost. 

What gets extinguished is the pure joy of life spent doing something that comes absolutely naturally. We spend our days in our job feeling either bored, frustrated, and/or sense that "something is missing". Sometimes having only one thing out of whack can ruin your chance for career satisfaction. They key is to find out what needs to be changed for you.

• Very few people know their natural abilities -- that is, what they are good at without having developed a skill for something.

• Just because you're "good at" your job doesn't mean it fits your natural abilities.

About Abilities

Each of us is born with the talent to excel at something. The secret is to identify those talents, then to use them. Your innate aptitudes remain with you, unchanging, for your entire life. They are the hand you have been dealt by mother nature. You can't alter them. You can, however, learn to play the hand you have been dealt wonderfully and to your best advantage. 

One combination of aptitudes makes the consummate salesperson. Another combination describes a person that enjoys computer network administration. Another combination explains why a person enjoys one part of management, but not the rest.

About the Highlands Ability Battery^TM

The Highlands Ability Battery™ is a set of 19 validated, objective tests that reveal what a person's natural abilities and talents are. It is not like any aptitude testing you may have done in school. The HAB isolates natural abilities and analyzes combinations of aptitudes in addition to individual aptitudes.

You get...

• Your Highlands Ability Battery Report. You will receive a personalized 30+ page report explaining the results.
• Your Oxford CareerFitNow personality report.
• Your "Natural Vocation" report: A diagnostic report will be written up which interprets your scores and recommends everything from tasks, to careers, to perfect work environment. The HAB results interpretation and feedback will be given by master career coach, Steve Bohler, the Highlands Affiliate of the Year - 2004 & 2005.
• 1-Hour Coaching Interpretation call to discuss your results and options.
• A recording of the interpretation session for you to listen to again in the future if you wish.