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Discover Yourself
In order to find a career path that you will find both challenging and satisfying,
you must first learn about yourself.
* What do you like to do?
* What skills do you have?
* Which skills do you like to use?
* What kind of work setting fits best with your personality type?
* What is your personality type??
There are many ways you can assess yourself. However, if you would like a
more in-depth self-understanding, it is recommended that you meet with a career
counselor who can provide you with 'standardized career assessments.' These
are tests that will help you to know yourself better, especially related to working.
With the guidance of the counselor, you can develop a profile of yourself,
including career options.
"Sounds good" But where do I find a "career counselor?"
The most common places to find career counselors are:
•College and University Career Centers
•CA State Department of Rehabilitation
•Community Agencies
•Private Career Counselors
If you can not get to a career counselor, the following pages contain some brief
assessments that may help you to identify some of your skills, interests, and
personality traits. This is not intended to be a complete assessment, but many
find it to be helpful.
The next pages may seem like a lot of work, but the results are well worth your
effort. Taking time to get to know yourself now will help to make sure there is a
good fit with your career choices later!
A. Personality Traits
Personality traits can be interpreted as both positive and negative. For instance,
being critical is one of your traits. This could be a plus if you are an editor of a
publishing company, or a meat inspector. It would be a negative if you are a
supervisor trying to gain rapport with an employee.
Personality Inventory
This assessment will help you better understand your personality traits and their
strength. A trait is a characteristic which tells you how you will react to new
situations or new experiences.
Below is a list of personality traits and their meanings. Read each trait and its
meaning, then indicate its strength on the line using the scale below:
0 = if you do not have this trait
1 = if you have this trait to some degree
2 = if you clearly have this trait
3 = if you strongly have this trait
_____ Honesty: Having integrity; and keeping one's promise.
_____ Courtesy: Being thoughtful of others.
_____ Responsibility: Being accountable for duties; and actually following
through with your duties.
_____ Compatibility: Being in harmony with others, and having the ability to work
well with others.
_____ Loyalty: Showing allegiance to people and/or things; showing devotion to
your company, people or things.
_____ Enthusiasm: Having a strong affinity towards people and/or things; to
show eagerness and a willingness to work with others or things.
_____ Open-mindedness: Being receptive and interested in the opinions and
ideas of others.
_____ Self-Control: Controlling your own actions and feelings.
_____ Influence: Motivating or encouraging others.
_____ Initiative: Starting thoughts and/or actions.
_____ Adaptability: Making changes when necessary.
_____ Industriousness: Being consistently active; getting your work done.
_____ Carefulness: Giving watchful attention to people and/or things; making
sure that you do things properly.
_____ Self-Reliance: Having trust in one's self; doing things yourself and feeling
confident about them.
_____ Compassion: Having sympathy and feelings for people with problems.
_____ Dedication: Being seriously devoted to causes and/or goals.
_____ Competitiveness: Striving to win.
_____ Patience: Being able to wait; taking your time to do things.
_____ Perfectionism: Trying to achieve the highest possible degree of
excellence.
_____ Courage: Meeting danger or difficulties in spite of fear.
_____ Decisiveness: Making decisions promptly and definitely.
_____ Drive: Having the energy to get things done.
_____ Perseverance: Being persistent in pursuit of tasks.
_____ Calmness: Being serene.
_____ Stability: Being constant in responses.
Now circle the traits that you marked a "3" that "Strongly Exist."
B. Interests
Just because we are interested in something does not mean that we
automatically are good at it. It's a known fact that we are most likely to excel at
what we like to do. Think of things you have done in the past where you
succeeded:
•Volunteered at the local high school
•Wrote a poem that was published
•Designed a computer program
The following activity will help you focus on your interests. However, this is a
simple survey and any other interests you are aware of should be included as
well. For example, if your hobby is collecting coins, you should include it.
Select only those which truly interest you the most!
Interest Survey
I am interested or like these activities, functions, and career fields
*Accounting*Freedom*Physical work
*Acting*Gardening*Planning
*Administering*Golf*Politics
*Advising*Government*Precision work
*Agriculture*Graphic arts*Production
*Analyzing*Guiding*Public service
*Animals*Handling detail*Public speaking
*Appraising*Health services*Raising Funds
*Architecture*Helping People*Reading
*Art*History*Recruiting
*Assembling*Identifying needs*Religion
*Assisting*Implementing*Repairing
*Biology*Improving*Researching
*Brainstorming*Influencing*Resolving conflict
*Building morale*Initiating*Risk
*Building things*Integrating*Running Meetings
*Business *Inventing*Selling
*Challenge*Initiating*Service
*Chess playing*Integrating*Singing
*Civic activities *Inventing*Social sciences
*Clerical work*Languages*Solving problems
*Coaching*Law*Strategy
*Communication*Law Enforcement*Supervising
*Conceiving ideas*Libraries*Swimming
*Consulting*Listening*Teaching
*Cooking*Machine operation*Teamwork
*Counseling*Making decisions*Thinking
*Creating*Making policy*Translating
*Data*Managing people*Transportation
*Delegating*Mechanical Design*Traveling
*Demonstrating*Medical Science*Unifying
*Designing*Military*Volunteering
*Developing*Ministry*Winning
*Editing*Moderating*Woodworking
*Engineering*Money*Working outdoors
*Entertaining*Motivating*Working w/kids
*Entrepreneur*Mountain climbing*Writing Instructions
*Evaluating*Music*_______________
*Exchanging Inf.*Negotiating
*Film Watching*Office management
*Finance*Organizing
*Designing*Participating
*Fine manual work*Performing
*Forestry*Philosophy
*Fine manual work *Photography
*Forestry*Physical sciences
Finally, review what you chose then carefully select and circle the top eight
interests from those you identified. On a separate sheet of paper, write what you
like and what you dislike about all the skills you listed.
C. Values
Identifying your values is one of the most important factors in considering your
career choices. Vital questions that need to be explored include:
•Do my values match my interest?
•Do my values match the work involved in a particular career?
Often times people are disappointed when they find their chosen career does not
match with their values. For instance, the career may involve long hours (no
family time) or does not pay a large salary (no out of town vacations).
There two kinds of values explored here: Work Values and Personal Values.
Work values deals with factors that you consider important to you on the job.
Work Related Values
The following list describes a wide variety of satisfactions that people obtain from
their jobs. Look at the definitions of these various satisfactions and rate the
degree of importance that you would assign to each, using the scale below:
1 = Not important at all
2 = Not very important
3 = Reasonably important
4 = Very important in my choice of career
_____ Help Society: Do something to contribute to the betterment of the world I
live in.
_____ Help Others: Be involved in helping other people in a direct way, either
individually or in small groups.
_____ Public Contact: Have a lot of day-to-day contact with people.
_____ Work with Others: Have close working relationships with a group; work as
a team toward common goals.
_____ Affiliation: Be recognized as a member of a particular organization.
_____ Friendships: Develop close personal relationships with people as a result
of my work activities.
_____ Competition: Engage in activities which pit my abilities against others
where there are clear win-and-lose outcomes.
_____ Make Decisions: Have the power to decide courses of action, policies, etc.
_____ Work under Pressure: Work in situations where time pressure is prevalent
and/or the quality of my work is judged critically by supervisors, customers or
others.
_____ Power and Authority: Control the work activities or (partially) the destinies
of other people.
_____ Influence People: Be in a position to change attitudes or opinions of other
people.
_____ Work Alone: Do projects by myself, without any significant amount of
contact with others.
_____ Knowledge: Engage myself in the pursuit of knowledge, truth and
understanding.
_____ Intellectual Status: Be regarded as a person of high intellectual prowess or
as one who is an acknowledged "expert" in a given field.
_____ Artistic Creativity: Engage in creative work in any of several art forms.
_____ Creativity (general): Created new ideas, programs, organizational
structures or anything else not following a format previously developed by others.
_____ Aesthetics: Be involved in studying or appreciating the beauty of things,
ideas, etc.
_____ Supervision: Have a job in which I am directly responsible for the work
done by others.
_____ Change and Variety: Have work responsibilities which frequently change
in their content and settings.
_____ Precision Work: Work in situations where there is very little tolerance for
error.
_____ Stability: Have a work routine and job duties that are largely predictable
and not likely to change over a long period of time.
_____ Security: Be assured of keeping my job and a reasonable financial reward.
_____ Fast Pace: Work in circumstances where there is a high pace of activity,
work must be done rapidly.
_____ Recognition: Be recognized for the quality of my work in some visible or
public way.
_____ Excitement: Experience a high degree of (or frequent) excitement in the
course of my work.
_____ Adventure: Have work duties which involve frequent risk-taking.
_____ Profit, Gain: Have a strong likelihood of accumulating large amounts of
money or other material gain.
_____ Independence: Be able to determine the nature of my work without
significant direction from others; not have to do what others tell me.
_____ Moral Fulfillment: Feel that my work is contributing significantly to a set of
moral standards which I feel are very important.
_____ Location: Find a place to live (town, geographical area) which is conducive
to my life style and affords me the opportunity to do the things I enjoy most.
_____ Community: Live in a town or city where I can get involved in community
affairs.
_____ Physical Challenge: Have a job that makes physical demands which I
would find rewarding.
_____ Time Freedom: Have work responsibilities which I can work at according
to my own time schedule; no specific working hours required.
Now choose ten of these Work Values which are the most important to you and
circle them. Each of these values will be relevant to the career exploration that
you will do in later exercises. If you can think of any other work values (desired
satisfactions) that are not included in the list above and which are especially
important to you, add them to the ten values you circled by writing them below or
on a separate sheet of paper
Personal values are what you consider important to you as a person. Ask
yourself what's important to you in your personal life. For example, recognition in
yourself or in others may be important to you. As you are filling out the Personal
Value Survey remember that these things should reflect only your heart-of-heart
desires.
Personal Values Survey
I think these things are important to me
*Ability to influence*Material possessions
*Achievement*Mental challenge
*Adventure*Music
*Art*Neatness and orderliness
*Availability to my children*Patriotism
*Beautiful surroundings*Personal appearance
*Church participation*Peace of mind
*Community participation*Pets
*Companionship*Physical challenge
*Competitiveness*Pioneering
*Creativity*Power
*Dance*Recognition
*Education*Reputation
*Ethics*Respect
*Excitement*Satisfying love relationship
*Exercise*Security
*Fame*Self-esteem
*Family time*Self-improvement
*Financial comfort*Self-knowledge
*Flexibility*Sense of accomplishment
*Generosity*Sense of control
*Good family relationships*Social status
*Happiness*Spiritual development
*Health*Sports
*Helping others*Theater
*Hobby*Time to yourself
*Honesty*Tolerant attitudes
*Humility*Travel
*Independence*Truth
*Integrity*Volunteering
*Intellectual stimulation*Wealth
*Justice*World in which human and nature are in balance
*Leisure time*World without discrimination
*Loving and understanding friends*________________________
*Loyalty*_________________________
*Making the ³team²*_________________________
Were you able to come up with some personal values not one the list?? Now,
narrow down your personal values to the top 10 values that are important to you
and circle them.
D. Skills
Think of anything that you do better than average. These are the skills you want
to present to the employer.
Some examples might be:
- organizing and developing projects
- good writing skills
- ability to remember details accurately
Skills for Success:
Skills can be separated into two different groups: transferable skills and
nontransferable skills. Transferable skills are those skills that can be used in one
job or another. Nontransferable skills are generally specific to a certain job or
type of work.
Transferable Skills:
Transferable skills are broken up into two categories worker skills and functional
skills. These skills can be transferred from one job to another.
Look at everything you do in your life. Even skills developed in the home
(budgeting, child care) or hobbies (attention to details, organizing) can be
"transferred" into a work setting.
1) Good worker skills allows you to be flexible to different jobs.
Example: Accepting responsibilities, Organized, Meeting deadlines
2) Functional skills are general skills useful in a variety of jobs.
Example: Analyzing data, Managing people, Operating machinery
The Functional Skills survey is divided into three broad groups.
•Data - research, compare, and analyze
•People - patient, tolerant, and listen
•Things - repair, equipment, and machines
All jobs utilize data, people and things, but most jobs emphasize one category
over others. For example, computer system analysts work with data, counselors
work with people and auto mechanics work with cars.
As you are checking your skills on the survey. Be aware if you checked more
items in one column than the other two. If so you may have a new direction in
mapping out your future.
Nontransferable Skills:
Technical skills are nontransferable skills that may or may not be used in other
settings.
1) Technical skills apply to a specific job or occupation.
Example: Drawing - cartoonist
Teeth cleaning - dental hygienist
Sewing - tailor
Take a look at the Technical Skills survey list. Don't be discouraged if you can
not check any of the sample items.
Take time now to fill out the Good Workers Skills Survey, the Functional Skills
Survey, and the Technical Skills Survey.
Good Worker Skills Survey
I posses these skills
*Absorb stress*Honest*Relay accurate info
*Accept supervision*Identify alternative action*Reliable
*Alert*Identify needs*Remember facts
*Ambitious*Identify problems*Resourceful
*Ask questions*Imaginative*Responsible
*Assertive*Independent*Responsive
*Capable*Industrious*Results oriented
*Cheerful*Intelligent*Self-confident
*Complete assignment*Know how to learn*Self-esteem
*Concerned for others*Leadership*Self-motivated
*Considerate*Learn quickly*Sense of humor
*Cooperative*Logical*Sensitive
*Coordinate*Loyal*Serious
*Creative thinker*Manage time well*Set goals
*Deal with ambiguity*Mature*Set priorities
*Delegate*Meet deadlines*Sincere
*Dependable*Methodical*Spontaneous
*Eager*Modest*Steady
*Expressive*Motivated*Strong
*Flexible*Open minded*Take responsibility
*Follow instructions*Optimistic*Teamwork
*Follow through*Organized*Thrifty
*Friendly*Original*Trustworthy
*Get along with others*Patient*Unpretentious
*Get things done*Physical strength*Use of common sense
*Good attendance*Practical*Versatile
*Good listener*Pride in doing a good job*Well-informed
*Good nature*Problem solver*Well-organized
*Good sense of directions*Productive*Willing to learn new
*Hard worker*Punctualthings
*Helpful*Realistic*______________
Functional Skills Survey
I possess these skills
DataPeopleThings
*Analyzing*Advising*Adjusting
*Calculating*Caring for*Assembling
*Classifying*Confronting others*Building
*Collating*Consulting*Calibrating
*Comparing*Coordinating*Carrying
*Compiling*Counseling*Crafting
*Composing*Directing*Cutting
*Computing*Empathizing*Demonstrating
*Coordinating*Entertaining*Designing
*Copying*Guiding*Disassembling
*Creating*Helping*Driving/Operating
*Developing ideas*Influencing others*Emptying
*Evaluating*Informing*Feeding/Offbearing
*Examining*Instructing*Finishing/Refining
*Filing*Interpreting procedures*Guiding
*Gathering*Leading*Handling
*Interpreting*Listening*Loading
*Investigating*Managing*Manipulating
*Managing money*Mentoring*Monitoring
*Observing*Motivating*Moving
*Organizing*Negotiating*Operating/Controlling
*Presenting*Persuading*Precision working
*Reading*Serving*Preparing
*Recording*Speaking*Pushing
*Reporting*Supervising*Regulating
*Researching*Supporting*Remodeling
*Sorting*Taking instructions*Repairing
*Synthesizing*Teaching*Setting up
*Transcribing*Training*Stacking
*Writing*Treating*Tending
Technical Skill Survey
I possess these skills
*Acupuncture*Framing*Real estate appraising
*Acting*Glazing*Reference
*Auto body repair*Hairstyling*Roofing
*Auto engine tune-up*Harvesting*Runaway modeling
*Basketball*Horse breeding*Sailing
*Blueprint reading*Housekeeping*Sculpting
*Bookbinding*Hunting*Set design
*Bricklaying*Intelligence gathering*Sewing
*Bridge designing*Jewelry making*Sharpshooting
*Building inspection*Landscaping*Sheet-metal skills
*Cabinet making*Legal research*Shipfitting
*Cake decorating*Line installation*Shoe repair
*Carpet installing*Manicuring*Solar heater installation
*Chimney cleaning*Meat inspection*Spacecraft designing
. Discover Yourself
In order to find a career path that you will find both challenging and satisfying,
you must first learn about yourself.
*. will help you to know yourself better, especially related to working.
With the guidance of the counselor, you can develop a profile of yourself,
including
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