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Career Services Alana Hefner, MEd., LPC Assistant Director Slide 2 Personality Assessment Where do you get your emotional energy? Introvert- self Extrovert- others Slide 3 How do you gather information? Sensor- gather facts Intuitive- gut feeling Slide 4 How do you make decisions? Thinker Feeler Slide 5 How do you deal with the outside world? Judgers- organized, controlled, scheduled Perceivers- freedom, tolerance, impulsive, shoot from the hip Slide 6 Interest Inventory Realistic- practical, hands on work, do not like paperwork (prefer animals, tools, machinery) Investigative- search for facts and answers, prefer to mentally solve a problem Artistic- prefer to design patterns, no clear cut rules Slide 7 Social- prefer work that promotes learning & personal development, communicating with others is a plus, dislike working with data and machines Enterprising- starting and completing projects, persuasive, taking risks for profit, prefer action over thought Conventional- follow procedure & routines, prefer data and detail over ideas, need clear lines of authority Slide 8 Work Clusters- Work Values What motivates you at work? Underlying motivators that predict job satisfaction Slide 9 Support- company stands begins workers; comfortable with management style Relationships- need friendly co-workers, sense of helping others, do not compromise morals Recognition- advancement, prestige, leadership position Slide 10 Achievement- see results immediately, need to feel strong feeling of accomplishment\ Independence- freedom to work within boundaries Working Conditions- pay, job security, work style (alone or with others, many different things to do) Slide 11 Skills Profiler Report Self adjusting skills Slide 12 Composite Culmination of each answer to each question Based on your answers, jobs that would provide the most satisfaction Now what? Now what? Slide 13 Slide 14 Slide 15 Slide 16 Slide 17 Slide 18 Want to know more? Call and make an appointment for one on one career counseling TSC, 218, Career Services 254-968-9078