Do What Fits · Discover Your Strengths
Discover Your Strengths
Whether you're heading to college or straight into the workforce — the Highlands Ability Battery (HAB) uncovers the natural strengths you were born with, so you can make decisions that truly fit who you are.
The Highlands Ability Battery
A Career Assessment Like No Other
The Highlands Ability Battery (HAB) is the gold standard among career aptitude tests. Unlike personality tests or interest inventories, the HAB measures your natural abilities — the things you do effortlessly and well — through 19 timed exercises. The results give you a solid, objective foundation for lifelong career pursuits and decisions.
Based on over a century of research first conducted by American psychologist and researcher Johnson O'Connor, the HAB has helped tens of thousands of individuals transform their lives. And because the HAB is directly linked to O*NET — the U.S. Department of Labor's occupational database — your results connect to thousands of real career paths, trade programs, and opportunities that match how you're naturally wired.
What the HAB Uncovers
Your Natural Abilities Not Your Résumé
The HAB measures abilities that you were born with — not the skills you've acquired. Identifying these natural strengths can help provide the foundation for a successful and rewarding career. Here's what the assessment reveals:
How You Solve Problems
Discover whether you naturally think in concrete, hands-on ways or in abstract, conceptual patterns — and which environments will let you thrive.
How You Learn and Process
Understand your natural learning style, memory strengths, and how you best absorb and retain new information — critical for choosing the right educational path.
How You Work with People and Ideas
Uncover your natural orientation toward working with people, data, or things — and what kinds of roles will energize rather than drain you.
Real Career Connections via O*NET
Your results link directly to O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's career database — giving you a concrete list of occupations, trades, and programs that match your natural abilities.
What People Say
"The Highlands Ability Battery gave me a better sense of which career fields I should explore, and it helped me to highlight my strengths when writing my essays for college applications.
"On a scale of 1 to 10, the experience was definitely a 10! I understand more about my natural talents, and I want to look for jobs that I will be good at and enjoy!
"The objectivity of the work samples led me to understand and embrace some of my hidden talents. The HAB is powerful tool that helped me move from searching for "any position" to seeking out "the BEST position" for me.
Are you ready to Do What Fits?
Your natural abilities are already inside you. The Highlands Ability Battery helps you to see them more clearly — and I'll help you discover ways to act on them. Let's figure out your next steps together!