Different Career Paths And How My Personality And Values Align With My Future Goals

In my Strong Interest Inventory, my highest themes results were conventional, enterprising and artistic. For my MBTI results I was described to be introverted, rely on my intuition, feel rather than think, and perceive rather than judge. My results for the Five Factor Inventory were high neuroticism and agreeableness, low extraversion, very high openness, and moderate conscientiousness. Lastly, my Strength Finder results were: restorative, input, context, harmony and developer. These personality traits have helped me learn and succeed in different types of environments in high school. I believe my results are pretty accurate.

As an educator and advisor, I am very interested in student interest inventories. Working in the classroom, it can be very difficult to assess interest of students when choosing thematic units or classroom project. As a college advisor, I am constantly searching for resources to help my students choose a future career path. I completed research and found three popular interest inventories- the Strong Interest Inventory, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Clifton Strengths Finder. Each of the three assessments analyze the same general theme of interest, personality and career choice. I have analyzed each to determine the best interest inventory to use with my students.

After doing the personality tests on Indiana Career Explorer, the tests gave me a couple of examples of fields I would be successful in, it told me what values may be important to me in a workplace environment. I feel these assessments were spot on and I have more confidence in my ability to be successful in my career choice.

From the MBTI test, I got the INFJ personality. The energy comes from me, so I can drive, lead my future employees to achieve on the strategic plan of the organization and know how to develop employees’ skills. Also, I understand, care other’ feeling and have an empathy to others. This will help to learn and help people to have a work life balance. People should have work life balance because they may less stress on their jobs and life. They will well perform on their responsibilities.

A person’s personality is his or her essence. It is what guides decisions, emotions, and even thoughts. Some may wonder if it is possible to explore every nuance of such a complex part of a being, but there are ways to determine what type of personality a person has, and then branch off into a more detailed examination of that person specifically. Combined with other factors, such as personality disorders and the environment that someone has grown up in, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, or MBTI, test (Enrichment 1) and analysis can determine an accurate portrayal of a personality. Created in 1943 by Katherine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers, it is a system made up of four basic functions and sub functions that combine to make a personality type. The mother and daughter team constructed it off of Jung’s theories (History 2). Based on this system, one of the most common personality types in the US population is called an ESTJ, and one of the least common personality types is called an INFJ. There are many differences and similarities between these two types. An ESTJ personality, overall, is practical, fact-based, and outgoing, whereas an INFJ personality is more private and makes decisions based on feelings; however, both are organized people who make good leaders and are capable of great success in roles that involve helping others.

The Strong Interest Inventory measures interests and the results can exhort an individual toward appropriate careers, work activities, education programs, and leisure activities (Donnay et al. 2004). The Strong Interest Inventory also provides an individual with a three letter code which describes their work personality. My code is ISC. ISC stands for investigative, social, and conventional. Investigative means that I am interested in science, medicine, mathematics, and research.

As a person goes throughout one's life, he or she faces many challenges. Whether that be deciding what to eat in the morning or deciding what college to attend, all people must make decision. I have come to the point in my life where I must determine the fate of my future; therefore, I have taken four interest inventory test to further help me with this decision. Fortunately, all of my test results were similar; they all stated that I work well with others and fit best in the human services industry. I believe these results are accurate; I have always had the desire to be a psychologist, and this ideally fits in this category. My aptitude tests also showed that I must be orderly in order to reach success. This is also quite evident in my actions,

The purpose of selection of the Strong Interest Inventory is to determine the interest of the students. On the other hand, the purpose of Myers-Briggs is to ensure determination of the personality type as well as the career they would most likely decide to undertake. The instruments that I have selected may offer proper results when I carry out my analysis. For instance, Myer-Briggs ensures the provision of an in-depth personalized account of personality preferences. The Strong Interest Inventory, on the other hand, ensures that there is the generation of an in-depth evaluation of interests among an extensive range of occupations, job leisure activities, and educational subjects. This is always the case to facilitate helping of individuals in matching their interests. They can be educational interests, occupational interests as well as leisure pursuits that are entirely compatible with those particular

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) “is an introspective self-report questionnaire designed to indicate psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions” (13). It is one of several personality assessments that is popular among modern mental health experts throughout the world. Currently, it is estimated that the MBTI is “taken by more than two million people per year and is translated into 16 languages (10). “The purpose of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality inventory is to make the theory of psychological types described by C. G. Jung understandable and useful in people 's lives” (4).

My strong interest inventory showed me my top three highest-scoring letters in my general occupational theme, which are IAS. The “I” stands for Investigation, which means someone who prefers to take a scientific approach to things and likes researching, and experimenting. Then letter “A” stands for artistic, which is someone who takes a creative approach to things, and likes art, designing, music, or writing. Then the letter “S” stand for social, which is someone who enjoys the companionship of others, and like teaching, or caring for others, or just talking to people. Then in my basic interest scales two of my interest areas were science, and counseling and helping. The interest area science means someone who likes to deal with facts and find the truth in things, and do conduct research and experiments to find these facts. This came up as one of my interest because I was recently going to get biology major because I do enjoy science, and I remember as a child I was always interested in animals and their scientific explain behaviors. Then the interest counseling and helping mean someone who likes more things involving psychology, and likes to aid and give guidance in resolving personal, social, and psychological problems for people. I think this came up in my interest area because it was another job choice that interested me for a moment, and I do enjoy helping people, and my friends and family come to me a lot about their problems, and I like helping them through

The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) enables an individual to gain a deeper insight into their inherent personality traits. For some people, they have had prior knowledge or underlying assumptions about their personality, but this test provides clearer information about each of their identifiable traits. According to the MBTI in Human-metric personality test, my scores were 22% (E) extroverted thinking more than introverted, 9% (N) intuitive as oppose to sensing, 16% (T) thinking more than feeling, and 12% (J) judging as compared to perceiving. Thus, my personality type is ENFJ. The ENFJ personality group is described as a minority group that consists of natural-born leaders, and people filled with passion, and charisma for example, Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey; they are notable members of this group, also known as the protagonists (16personalities, 2016). The protagonists apprehend pride in providing guidance for others to improve individually and to improve the community at large (16personalities, 2016). The protagonists find it naturally easy to communicate with others and excel at communicating with other people in person (16personalities, 2016).

Based on the work of Carl Jung, Isabel Myers and Katherine Briggs developed the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator, a self-inventory geared toward helping individuals determine their personality types and individual areas of strength. “By helping people understand themselves, Myers and Briggs believed that they could help people select occupations that were best suited to their personality types and lead healthier, happier lives” (Cherry, 2015). This test, through helping me explore my own personality, likes and dislikes, strengths and weaknesses, and various preferences and compatibilities, has been instrumental in affirming my

Career prospects vary for me, as I am interested in numerous departments in film, such as acting, cinematography, screenwriting or directing. Film directing is what I currently feel most strongly about. A film director is the person who is solely responsible for visualizing the script from casting, to shot direction, camera angles, etc. The screenwriter is the person who develops and textualize characters and concept through a script to be sold off to a producer, with the end goal in it becoming a moving picture. Through this collaborative process, disagreements are subject to arise between the writer and director. It is only natural, and disagreements normally stem from the different visions that each hold. As an aspired director, I may one day in the future find myself in a situation where I would vision a female lead versus a male lead as visioned by the writer for a particular story or script. There is a strong chance that, as a feminist, I may choose to discard the writer’s vision and cast a female as the lead for the film. If a philosopher were to evaluate my actions, what would he or she say?

I have given a great deal of thought to the next leg of my academic and career journey. As I reflect on the road I've taken to get this far, I realize that I have not only learned a lot there were many late night papers, team projects and plenty of reading I have also grown a great deal on a personal level. I think that the best part of reaching this juncture is the realization that I set a goal and achieved it. It is a good feeling of personal triumph. I know that once my degree is officially completed and conferred it will be an accomplishment that can never be taken away.

It has been 10 years passed since last time I entered in college as a freshman, and now, at the end of 2017, I decide to go back to college for pursuing a new major and reaching a new objective of career path. All of these will start from Fullerton College.