The Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI) is a tool for counsellors to measure five career interests in only 15 to 20 minutes. The CWPI has been normed on over 2,000 Anglophones and francophone from across Canada.

The CWPI assessment is especially helpful with young adults selecting a career, with employed people interested in alternative careers that most closely match their interests and skills, and with unemployed people seeking to identify new types of jobs that they would find interesting and rewarding. The CWPI assessment can also be used in more general counselling to determine whether an individual’s actual job closely matches his or her interests, or whether a mismatch between jobs and interests may be a source of more general problems.

The CWPI self-report is easy to use and score. Using the self-contained QuikScore™ Forms, there is no need for separate administration booklets, scoring keys, or conversion tables. Scoring just takes a few minutes and is very easy. After the scores are calculated, the Job Dictionary and a simple Feedback Form can be used to relate the profile of work interests to the jobs that are most relevant. The CWPI Job Dictionary links to the National Occupational Classification (NOC).