To prepare for this paper, I took personality and academic tests. I listened to lectures, and researched papers. The purpose of this paper is to get to know myself and familiarize myself with the jobs that suit me. “There are no good or bad personalities. There are positive and negative traits of each personality. Positive traits carried to the extreme become negative traits.” (McConnell) My ACT PLAN test composite score was an 18. I scored at or above (67%) of the United States and (38%) at or above my school. I scored the highest in English with a 21, which is above the benchmark. For Math, Science, and Reading I tied with a 17, all below the benchmark. The highest score that could be made was a 32 for the ACT PLAN Test. The highest score to be made on the ACT is a 36, and my predicted range of ACT score results were 19-22. We also got results back from the world of work map. These results will help me better myself with knowing what career I want to choose. My results included the following: engineering and technologies; natural science and technologies; medical technologies; medical diagnosis and treatment; social science; applied arts; and creative and performing arts. (ACT, Incorporated). My next topic is the KRB Personality Test. When taking the test, I was tested as a sanguine. Some positive traits for a sanguine include: story-telling, ability to converse, and group socializing. A sanguine may also be referred to as “the life of the party”. I can relate because I love to talk and make friends. Sometimes a sanguine talks too much about one’s self, and it may come off as too loud, which may be seen as a negative trait. While some may become quick friends with a sanguine, some may think they are too happy or phony. A sangui... ... middle of paper ... ...art of the body” (Zondervan NIV Study Bible) Works Cited ACT Inc. “ACT PLAN.” Iowa City: ACT Incorporated, 2013. Print. Zondervan. NIV Study Bible. Grand Rapids: Zondervan. 2008. Print. Jung, Carl. “Jung Typology Test.” Human-Metrics, 2013. Web. 11. November. 2013. KRB Consulting Company, “KRB Personality Test.” 1993. Print. Lowry, Don. “True Colors.” 1978. Print. Magee, Gwen. “The Colors of Careers.” Presbyterian Christian School. Room 101. Hattiesburg. 6 Nov. 2013. Lecture. McConnell, Gloria. “PTR Lecture.” Presbyterian Christian School. Room 101. Hattiesburg. 5. November. 2013. Lecture. Miscisin, Mary. Showing our true Colors. Sacramento: True Colors International. Publishing. 2010. Print. Tieger, Paul and Barbara Barron. Do What You Are. New York. Liooie, Brain and Company. 2007. Print. Zichy, Shoya with Ann Bidvo. Career Match. New York: Amacom, 2007. Print.
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The bases of this paper will be based on the results that I had obtained when I took the Myers-Briggs personality test. The results that I had obtained was that I was determined to be an ENFJ. I will go into depth about letter and how each represents that a specific aspect of my personality. The results that I had received were not what I had expected, but the more I read about the trait the more I realized how it suited me. I will also talk about the information that I had found useful from the book, Type Talk at Work: How the 16 Personalities Types Determine Your Success on the Job by Otto Kroeger, which gave me insight on how to interact with other personality types especially in the work environment. The information that I absorbed from the personality test and from the book will go into use in my personal and work life so that both environments will be cohesive and peaceful.
Cervone, D., Pervin, L. A. (2008). Personality: Theory and research (10th Ed.). New York: Wiley.
In Richard N. Bolles’ What Color is Your Parachute, the author seeks to guide and advise the reader in how to choose and pursue a career. He goes beyond tips for the traditional job hunt, and attempts to reveal to the reader the importance and possibility of choosing a career that actually goes beyond paying the bills, but contributes to the happiness of the reader. Bolles encourages the reader to go beyond inspiration and pursue some practical self-reflection in order to realize the job that satisfies. Bolles begins by preparing the reader to know that the job market has changed, and that some new approaches and perspectives need to be utilized to be a successful job hunter. The author moves on to discuss how most employers are learning more about, and finding applicants on the internet.
Kroeger, O., Thuesen, J. M., & Rutledge, H. (2002). Type talk at work: How the 16 personality types determine your success on the job. New York, NY: Dell Publishing.
Application of career theories to my own life allows for analyzing past and future career decisions. Holland’s Theory of Careers states that one’s vocation is an expression of self, personality, and way of life. There is an indisputable and fundamental difference in the quality of life one experiences if they choose a career one truly enjoys, versus choosing a career one detests. A true testament to the validity of Holland’s theory, my job/career choices reflect my interests, as well as the evolution of my personality (internal self). My first job as a fine jewelry specialist and second job as a make-up artist echo my love of the fashion world. As I matured and became less fascinated by presumed “glamour” careers, I became captivated by physical fitness, nutrition, and medicine; I received my national fitness trainer certificate so that I may become a personal trainer. Nevertheless, my career decisions do not fit uniformly into merely one career theory.
In the words of Soren Kierkegaard: “Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.” There are many different people in the world. Everyone has a different personality that makes him/her unique. The tenth grade class at Presbyterian Christian School took an academic test and three personality test to discover potential future careers. ACT Incorporated developed the PLAN to show our estimated ACT score, and the possible careers we would do the best in. We also took three personality tests to discover our true personality. KRB Consulting Company made a test where we rate ourselves according the adjectives that best describe us. The second test we took was “The Colors of Careers”, given to us by the assistant to the president of Jones County Junior College, Gwen Magee. The final test we took was the “Jung Typology Test”. The purpose of this paper is to discover the differences in our personalities and the careers that follow our certain personality.
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Managers seem to inherit a strong trust in the authority of personality traits to forecast behavior at the work area. If managers thought that situations resolute behavior, they would hire individuals almost at random and assemble the situation correctly. But the employee selection procedure in most establishments places a great deal of importance on how applicants achieve in interviews and on examine through which the personality of a person can be achieved and the task distribution can be much easy varying upon the type of personality (Robbins, Odendaal and Roodt, 2001)
Discussed below are different researchers’ arguments and explanations on how personality predicts employee performance. This essay will explore both negative and positive ways in which personality can predict the performance, as well as explaining what personality is. Past research has “demonstrated that personality constructs are associated with work performance, with some traits like conscientiousness predicting success around jobs. Other linked with specific occupations e.g. extraversion correlates with success in sales and management as well as training performance supporting”, (Barrick et al., 2002, 87: p.43).
It is remarkable that by answering a few basic questions, a person can learn key characteristics of his or her personality. After taking the personality test, I learned my general personality type is “The Consul” (ESFJ-A). Individual traits of my personality type are more extroverted than introverted, more observant than intuitive, more feeling than thinking, more judging than prospecting, and more assertive than turbulent. My role is Sentinel and my strategy is People Mastery (“Consul Personality,” 2017). The results of the personality test offered insight into my overall personality type and its social and workplace implications.
Career counseling over the lifespan has more than an occupational focus, it deals with the person’s entire being with a vision that includes one’s lifespan. Career counseling takes into consideration character development, character skills, life roles, individual life and work history, goals, and obstacles. A career counselor not only assists a client with a career plan, but also with a life plan. This paper focuses on two categories of career counseling. The first focus is the history of career counseling as a field of study with the emphasis on when and why career counseling began (1800s as a study of how the shape of one’s head relates to vocational choice), who and what influenced it (Sizer, Parsons, and Davis), and how it has changed (from an individual/community vocational view to an individual/world lifespan view). The second focus is on the application of career counseling by researching two leaders, John Holland’s and Donald Super’s, contributions to career counseling, their theories and assessments and on the biblical aspects of career counseling and how each theory relates to the Bible.
Whitmarsh, L., Brown, D., Cooper, J., Hawkins-Rodgers, Y., & Keyser Wentworth, D. (2007). Choices and Challenges: A Qualitative Exploration of Professional Women's Career Patterns. Career Development Quarterly, 55(3), 225-236.
Characteristics a feature or quality belonging to a person, place or thing and serving to identify it. There are many personal characteristics that can define a person as an individual; some characteristics determined if a person is nice, disrespectful, intelligent, or not intelligent but it determines how a person interprets you. I believe that every individual has integrity as one of their characteristics, but my top three characteristics are Integrity, Compassion, and hard-working and for the person who carried me throughout my whole life “my brother” his characteristics would be his responsibility.