The Career Assessment Process – Discovering Who You Are
1. Work Style 2. Work Values 3. Personality Type 4. Central Motivations 5. Multiple Intelligences After you have gone through these five career assessments, you’ll be better able to put together a clearer picture of your preferences and get going on your own Career Plan. 1. Your Work Style Preferences – the way you approach and handle the work itself. According to Dr. John Holland, retired psychologist from Johns Hopkins University, there are 6 of these preferences: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional. Dr. Holland’s theory has been used for the past 50 years. He says that one of these areas will be dominant in the way we live our lives, and function in the workplace. Here you will learn more about each of these 6 Work–Life Preferences. What are Work Styles? Work styles describe work patterns that we develop in our early life, that tend to stay with us throughout our lives. It’s important to identify the one...