I can still remember the time my mother looked at me and asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I was about 6 years old, and answered with enthusiasm, “A fireman or a policeman.”
I was particularly excited about being a fireman. The hat was fantastic!
How do we determine the career path we should follow? Is there a process available? Ideally, we should all have an opportunity to understand ourselves enough to make intelligent, well based decisions about the careers we choose. A great deal of time, energy and money will be spent pursuing a career path. Why not employ a process that yields marvelous results?
An excellent way to begin is with self assessment in key areas. The information gathered can be powerfully insightful, enabling accurate and enjoyable career-path decision making. These areas are:
• Personality preferences
• Work and career interests
• Life and work values
• Needs
• Lifestyle
• Skills, knowledge and abilities
With information in these key areas, an exciting journey begins. A well chosen college major, selected with a career in mind, becomes a joy to pursue. Happiness and satisfaction are acquired from doing the work chosen and growing within the field.
Many formal assessments and tests are available to learn more about yourself and you're your possible career path. Two are outstanding: The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator? (MBTI?) and the Strong Interest Inventory?(SII?).
Combining these assessments yields rich and deep information about personality preferences, career interests, values, needs and lifestyle. Both are statistically proven to be reliable and valid after more than 50 years of research and continual improvement.
These instruments do not measure skills, knowledge and abilities (SKA). Specialized tests can be administered to gather this information. One should never feel limited, though, by SKA scores. A human being is capable of rising to great heights, even if SKA scores are low.
There really is a robust career choice and career transition process to follow. First, discover more about who you are by taking the MBTI? and the SII?. Both assessments can be taken by anyone 14 years of age and up. Then, research and study the career options that are available, inclusive of academic and/or training that may be required. Lastly, continue by deciding what next steps to take, and take them!
Many people, unfortunately, are miserable in their chosen fields of work. Following this process will give you the information you need to choose or change a career path that will provide happiness, satisfaction and success.
Steve Santore can be reached at (760) 845-6880 or [email protected].
I was particularly excited about being a fireman. The hat was fantastic!
How do we determine the career path we should follow? Is there a process available? Ideally, we should all have an opportunity to understand ourselves enough to make intelligent, well based decisions about the careers we choose. A great deal of time, energy and money will be spent pursuing a career path. Why not employ a process that yields marvelous results?
An excellent way to begin is with self assessment in key areas. The information gathered can be powerfully insightful, enabling accurate and enjoyable career-path decision making. These areas are:
• Personality preferences
• Work and career interests
• Life and work values
• Needs
• Lifestyle
• Skills, knowledge and abilities
With information in these key areas, an exciting journey begins. A well chosen college major, selected with a career in mind, becomes a joy to pursue. Happiness and satisfaction are acquired from doing the work chosen and growing within the field.
Many formal assessments and tests are available to learn more about yourself and you're your possible career path. Two are outstanding: The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator? (MBTI?) and the Strong Interest Inventory?(SII?).
Combining these assessments yields rich and deep information about personality preferences, career interests, values, needs and lifestyle. Both are statistically proven to be reliable and valid after more than 50 years of research and continual improvement.
These instruments do not measure skills, knowledge and abilities (SKA). Specialized tests can be administered to gather this information. One should never feel limited, though, by SKA scores. A human being is capable of rising to great heights, even if SKA scores are low.
There really is a robust career choice and career transition process to follow. First, discover more about who you are by taking the MBTI? and the SII?. Both assessments can be taken by anyone 14 years of age and up. Then, research and study the career options that are available, inclusive of academic and/or training that may be required. Lastly, continue by deciding what next steps to take, and take them!
Many people, unfortunately, are miserable in their chosen fields of work. Following this process will give you the information you need to choose or change a career path that will provide happiness, satisfaction and success.
Steve Santore can be reached at (760) 845-6880 or [email protected].