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Benefits
• Choose a career that best fits your natural strengths
• Understand how to best apply your innate talents in your current career
• Know how to take advantage of your natural learning style
• Promote your unique strengths and talents to prospective employers or in your current organization
• Increase career and life satisfaction through inner-directed decision making based on proven self knowledge
• Learn a critical decision making tool that can be used at other life transition points to gain focus and direction
• Apply your abilities in a successful career plan
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Research has consistently shown that nothing is more predictive of success and satisfaction than having a personal vision for your life and career.
Self-knowledge and a strong belief in one's power to influence life's direction are keys to personal success and fulfillment. My goal is to help you through a journey of discovering your natural talents while developing a blueprint to direct your life and career to true fulfillment and success. The career assessment I use helps you to identify your natural talents and personal style and how to best apply this in the work setting. The assessment results help you to begin forming a clear personal vision for your life based on your innate talents, abilities and personality characteristics.
I start with an objective assessment of your innate abilities using The Highlands Ability Battery. This unique assessment process uses worksample testing to identify your natural talents, those abilities and gifts that are considered inborn or innate. This is an indispensable first step in constructing real self-knowledge. Then I help you use that information to develop a personal vision for a meaningful and satisfying career and life.
Once you know what your true strengths and innate abilities are, you can apply what you've learned about yourself both at work or in any ongoing educational process. Research has shown that working from your natural strengths results in a high degree of personal satisfaction, increased effectiveness and productivity.
Personal Vision & Career Success
Abilities are not the only important factor in coming to a complete career vision. Research has shown that skills, interests, personality, family, values, goals and life experiences all play a critical role in successful career development. These are the critical factors that should be assessed in creating an effective, balanced and realistic personal vision for your life and career. I use questionnaires and exercises to help you identify and explore these important career factors and then help you integrate and apply this knowledge to your present job, school, or in planning a new career path.
The Career Assessment Process
You take the Highlands Ability Battery online at home using your own computer. It takes approximately three and a half hours to complete at one sitting, although it can be divided up into different segments if this is more convenient. When you have completed the battery, you are then able to print out a 30+ page written report of your results.
I also have you complete the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) a questionnaire that measures personality types that have been found in various career fields and college majors. The MBTI takes about 45 minutes to complete.
When you have finished the testing, we follow this with a two-hour individual interpretive consultation to help you understand your results and how to begin to apply them to your current job or in your career transition.
While the feedback conference often concludes the process that most individuals come to me for, others have opted to continue to work with me in individual counseling to explore other critical career factors or to work further on implementing their personal plan and vision for their career and life.
The Wall Street Journal Article
If you would like to read what The Wall Street Journal had to say about the assessment process I provide here is a link to recent article:
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