Placing information in context is benefit when making a decision. It is helpful to review the historical events and available information to create a picture of where to go next. The purpose of this paper is to review the personal information from the career assessments taken in HS 585 Career Counseling at Bellevue University. The review will focus on this author’s personal results. This paper will combine the assessments with the author’s personal history to provide a context for future career goals.
Assessment Summary
The primary assessment performed and examined within the HS 585 course was the Strong Interest Inventory (SII). This assessment provided a profile of this author’s interests and values. Throughout the class, several assignments required informal online assessments and career theory application. Having personally taken the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and StrengthFinder (SF) assessment allowed this author to incorporate those assessment results into the self-analysis exercises. The next two sections review how these assessments and exercises reflect this author’s career choices.
Strong Interest Inventory
The results of this author’s SII suggested a wide range of occupational themes and career matches. The themes of highest personal interest were Artistic, Social, and Conventional (Prince, 2010). Through the analysis of the SII results, this author made two interesting conclusions. One, the wide variety of interests is a reflection of personal philosophy of keeping career opportunities open. Two, the Personal Style Scales outcomes suggest a preference for balance when working with others, leading others, and risk taking (Prince, 2010). Based on these conclusions, this author plans to thoroughly research multiple business models prior to starting a counseling and coaching business. This process reflects this writer’s need to minimize risk and to seek out multiple career options. Additionally, this author plans to find ways to work collaboratively with others and carve out opportunities for individual work to maintain a balanced working style. The next section discusses the MBTI and the StrengthFinder assessments.
MBTI and SF Assessments
The MBTI reported this author’s type is ENTP (Briggs & Briggs-Meyers, 2010). The author’s “Top Five Themes” from the SF assessment are Adaptability, Context, Includer, Positivity, and Arranger (Buckingham and Clifton, 2001). At a high level, these results suggest both a personality and innate abilities to remain flexible, seek out new processes, and keep a sense of humor about things. The SF and MBTI assessments used in a book review assignment and in-class discussions lead to a discovery about this author’s educational and work history. The theme of this author’s career and educational history is using these personal qualities to overcome obstacles and produce personal change. The need to change majors in college reflected a personal need to gain a broad knowledge of subjects rather...
