Career Assessment
There is great power in knowing the reasons why you became who you are now.
Career assessment through Core Themes provides the foundation that leads you to a deeper knowledge about yourself. This new knowledge is the gateway to aligning your personal and professional strengths with your career path, which is the key to your success and happiness!
Many people think of assessment as the Myers-Briggs Test (MBTI) or the Strong Vocational Preference Inventory. These tests are both reliable and proven but they are also limited to examining very specific areas of your self. By themselves they do not offer a whole picture of you as a person. The Core Themes assessment process is an intense and comprehensive experience that examines all aspects of your self . There are a total 12-14 tests, questionnaires, and surveys that you will complete. It requires a commitment of six to eight hours to complete all of the tests.
Our career assessment and tests are designed to examine seven key areas:
Typically, the process begins with a thorough investigation of your personal and professional history . This involves delving into your background from the beginning and chronicling your personal life experiences up to the present time. Each individual has a unique life history that has been shaped by thousands of experiences. These life-shaping experiences include significant events and situations in your life as well as your significant and influential relationships.
People often take for granted who they are, why they believe what they do and how they think about certain things. At Core Themes we emphasize the fact that none of your values, beliefs or needs are accidental. Instead, they can be traced to your unique life history and the people and events that have helped shape what you believe today and who you are as an individual. There is great power in knowing the reasons why you became who you are now!
Making Sense of the Results
A thorough assessment, as described above, provides you with a wealth of information and knowledge about yourself . This data will then be analyzed to assist you in making appropriate decisions regarding your career and life issues. Of course, a skilled and competent consultant is a critical component of the assessment process. The consultant's role is to help you understand the findings from the assessment and the insights gained from your personal history as they relate to your life now and the issues facing you in the future.
Make no mistake about it, this process is a rigorous exercise. However, armed with this information and deeper insights into who you are, you will be in a stronger position to decide what is best for you.
Example of Test Analysis:
Let's assume for the moment that as a result of the abilities testing you scored:
- Analytical thinking ability - 96th percentile
- Conceptual ability - 86th percentile
Relative to a senior management group these scores suggest that you are a fairly intelligent individual. Given your 96th percentile score on the analytical aptitude, you are the type of individual who has a "quick mind" and can assess complex information rapidly.
Your scores on this test tell us that it is imperative to your personal satisfaction that someone of your ability be involved in work activities that tap into your intellectual properties. Being involved in an operational or hands-on type of work activity will not satisfy your need for intellectual stimulation. Ultimately you will get bored and disinterested in the activity.
Your high analytical aptitude also suggests that you will come to conclusions about certain matters much more quickly than the average person. Therefore, it is important to choose a work environment that not only allows you to think at an analytical level but to have colleagues who have comparable abilities.
The strong showing on conceptual ability suggests that, in addition to your quick thinking analytical ability, you have the ability to think at an abstract and "big picture" level. Generally speaking, this suggests that you are the type of person who likes to be involved in larger projects where you can exercise your long-range, strategic way of thinking.
Imagine yourself in an operations environment where your activities are repetitive and offer little opportunity for you to think strategically. The result is boredom and an underutilization of your true talents. Because Core Themes offers you proof and explanation of your abilities you can now anticipate your happiness in potential situations. You are better equipped to find sustainable happiness and success!
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How the Tests Can Help Your Career
Two of the standardized tests routinely administered include the Guilford Zimmerman Temperament Survey and the 16PF Personality Factor questionnaire. Both examine many facets of your personality such as introversion and extroversion, energy level, and objectivity (meaning how well you tolerate rejection and pressure on the job). These are just a few of the many areas examined on these tests.
Here is a practical example of how you can use this new information: In the technology world people are oftentimes promoted because of their intelligence, expertise in the technology arena and their drive and motivation. As an individual is advanced they take on less technical responsibilities and more management responsibilities.
The criteria for success as a manager of people are different than those required to be a successful individual contributor. It is easy to see how the individual contributor who has spent her entire professional life in a technical role now struggles when she has to supervise ten or fifteen staff people. She no longer is drawing from her strengths and experience in technology, but rather she has to draw from her personal attributes, desire to develop and manage others and an understanding of basic supervisory practices.
In conclusion, a thorough assessment can provide the foundation that leads to deeper knowledge about yourself. This knowledge is the gateway to aligning your personal and professional strengths with the most appropriate career path.
Contact us to set up an interview, discover your Core Themes and make a plan to take back control of your Career and Happiness.
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