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Career Services
Alana Hefner, MEd., LPC
Assistant Director
Personality Assessment
 Where do you get your emotional
energy?
 Introvert- self
 Extrovert- others
 How do you gather information?
 Sensor- gather facts
 Intuitive- “gut feeling”
 How do you make decisions?
 Thinker
 Feeler
 How do you deal with the outside world?
 Judgers- organized, controlled, scheduled
 Perceivers- freedom, tolerance, impulsive, “shoot
from the hip”
Interest Inventory
 Realistic- practical, hands on work, do not
like paperwork (prefer animals, tools,
machinery)
 Investigative- search for facts and answers,
prefer to mentally solve a problem
 Artistic- prefer to design patterns, no clear
cut rules
 Social- prefer work that promotes learning &
personal development, communicating with
others is a plus, dislike working with data and
machines
 Enterprising- starting and completing
projects, persuasive, taking risks for profit,
prefer action over thought
 Conventional- follow procedure & routines,
prefer data and detail over ideas, need clear
lines of authority
Work Clusters- Work Values
 What motivates you at work?
 Underlying motivators that predict job
satisfaction
 Support- company stands begins workers;
comfortable with management style
 Relationships- need friendly co-workers,
sense of helping others, do not compromise
morals
 Recognition- advancement, prestige,
leadership position
 Achievement- see results immediately, need
to feel strong feeling of accomplishment\
 Independence- freedom to work within
boundaries
 Working Conditions- pay, job security, work
style (alone or with others, many different
things to do)
Skills Profiler Report
 Self adjusting skills
Composite
 Culmination of each answer to each question
 Based on your answers, jobs that would
provide the most satisfaction
 Now what?
Want to know more?
 Call and make an appointment for one on one
career counseling
 TSC, 218, Career Services
 254-968-9078