Interest Profiler

I meaning Introvert, S meaning Sensing, F meaning Feeling, J meaning Judging. I have a slight preference of Introversion over Extraversion (6%), slight preference for Sensing over Intuition (9%), moderate preference of Feeling over Thinking (53%), marginal or no preference of Judging over Perceiving (3%). An Entertainment Lawyer have to feel the situation and know what to do, also needing to judge people in court. An Pediatric Endocrinologist needs to judge problems that their patients have. My personality results fit more of an Entertainment Lawyer than a Pediatric Endocrinologist I would

The results of the four personality tests all agree that I value relationships and ideas that can be seen, touched, and felt. I identify strongly with these core characteristics. However, because of the high emotional scores, the tests tend to lean towards a humanitarian personality. While I care about others and do hold convictions on certain matters, the activist theme is not accurate. In my early career, because of my emotional intelligence, I was encouraged to engage in studies involving social work, counseling, and teaching. My first two years of college were focused on education until I realized my brand of emotional intelligence would fit better in a business organization, specifically human resources. The relational and emotional characteristics come from my Type A personality. The need to be accepted by my peers will be an ongoing challenge in my career. I do think relationships are extremely important to achieving goals. I have experienced that it takes time and effort to develop and maintain relationships with my staff, but it has enabled my team to buy-in to our recruitment initiatives.

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.

Something interesting about me is that for 4 years in the marching band I played the saxophone. It is during those years I learned how to properly communicate with other students working in a large group to accomplish our shared musical goals. Eventually I would end up in a leadership role during my senior year of high school it’s during this time I learned the importance of dividing personal relationships and from leadership role. Often during my leadership role, I found myself at conflict due my personal friendships with other band students in the organization. Additionally, I listen to classical music, using photo editing software, and using different programming languages. The results from my TypeFocus were the following: ‘I’ introversion, ‘S’ sensing, ‘T’ thinking, and ‘J’ judgement. I will honestly say I did not learn not anything new from the taking the assessment about myself and the careers I will likely enter. Even more the assessment just confirmed everything that I’ve known about myself like how tend to be more introvert often takes me a while to open up personally to most individuals.

I knew I was an introvert before I saw my TypeFocus assessment personality results. I am mostly reserved however, I do have a humorous side that only a few people know me for. For the third preference in personality, the results were considerably in favor of “Thinking” over “Feeling” which I was surprised since I believe myself to be quite a sensitive person. For the Summary of Careers types, I had a preference for Investigative careers. The types of jobs that aligned with my interests, values and personality were technical or engineering fields which I have considered in the past but I will continue with accounting because it is practical and

With the results of the Profile Scores, I do agree that it identified me accurately. My top three scores were conventional, investigative, and social. When someone is conventional, that person likes to follow set guidelines and routines. Also, they prefer working with information and paying attention to details instead of coming up with ideas. Investigative people like to search for facts or figure out problems. They like to think rather than doing physical work and typically work well with a leader. Lastly, people with social interest like to work with people more than working with objects or by themselves. They typically like to give advice, teach, or even be of service to people. Although I feel I do not completely identify with each score, I can attest that all three of these scores does identify me

Some of them I felt were truly accurate, and some of the others showed me characteristics of myself I’ve never realized that I am, like a very defiant individual because on two out of the three we took it seemed I couldn’t really be put into a certain category. The Myers-Briggs test was the only one exception because it had you definitely put into one, single group. My result was that I had the Advocate personality, in the Diplomatic arena. It said I was, “a very rare category, making up less than one percent of the population, but that they nonetheless leave their mark on the world. As members of the Diplomat Role group, Advocates have an inborn sense of idealism and morality, but what sets them apart is that they are not idle dreamers, but people capable of taking concrete steps to realize their goals and make a lasting, positive impact. And though soft-spoken, they have very strong opinions and will fight tirelessly for an idea they believe in.” Which I believe is pretty spot on for me, though I would have never been able to come up with that description of

They suggest that measuring one’s characteristics such as sociability, drive, self-determination and demeanor can aid one to better interpret and discern them introspectively. By taking the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI) I am able to compare my personality traits to careers in which I may enjoy, will fit my individual personality and enable me to be successful say Drummond, Jones & Sheperis (2016). The results of my self-administered inventory are as follows; Introvert (I) 55%, Intuitive (N) 76%, Feeling (F) 86% and Perceiving (P) 67%. The four dimensions of the inventory seem to be very accurate for the manner in which I view myself. The result of INFP suggests that my personality shows a predominant association with being in a career in which I am able to care for others, such as a healer. This is a correlate with my first career as a firefighter and

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 My Plan (2016) assessments is a program that examines your career interest. This is determined by taking several assessments on your personality, interests, skills, and values. Based on my personality report, it indicated my personality type is ESTJ ( extroverted, sensor, thinker and judger). Some words used to describe me based on my personality report are social, patient, thoughtful and in control. On the My Plan (2016) my personal interest top two were investigative and social. My Plan (2016) concluded that I would work well with others and like communicating with others. Ultimately, I would agree that these results are correct and correlate well with the career I am going to pursue as a dental hygienist. Prior to taking the My Plan (2016) assessments I was undecided about wether I wanted to pursue my career as a dental hygienist or a registered nurse. Now I am confident about what I choose to do, because it is something that I have always been interested about and it is something I would actually enjoy doing.

When you were younger, what did you want to be when you grew up? Did you want to be the typical dreamer: a firefighter, a police officer, or an astronaut? Taking the interest survey Using O*Net assessment has helped me understand the occupations that I can be when I become an adult. The O*Net Interest Profiler can help you find out what your interests are and how they relate to the world of work. You can find out what you like to do. The process of doing the O*Net Interest Profiler helped me learn about my interest, learn about my possible career paths, and assisted me in preparing a business capstone project.

Everyone has their own interests and values that they would like to pursue and continue to follow throughout their life. Although many people share common characteristics in interests, we are all our own different individuals which can be demonstrated in our personality and choices. The Strong Interest Inventory, SII, depicts these difference by assigning individuals a code based on the decisions made on the test. The code assigned to me was AIS, which means that my top three themes were artistic, investigative and social, in that order. In all honesty, I was not surprised by my results because they were almost identical to the code I received when I took the Kuder assessment back in UNI 150. Back then I got a tie between my social and art, but still had investigative so I had a code of S/AI. I think the code of AIS describes me well due to my love of the arts really taking a big part of me personally, along with my strong level of knowledge in math and science. Although I am not the most social individual, I do enjoy working with people, even with my introvertness. Overall, this code encompasses me perfectly and for me to get it twice in a row says that my interests and values are consistent.

While doing the Holland Inventory Assignment I found myself confronted with questions which varied in difficulty for me to answer. Some required me to look deeper at myself and what I truly enjoy doing and helped me explore more about my interests than I have done already. After finishing the set of questions I chose to take the optional 20 picture/painting survey as well. The optional survey was used to get a more accurate read of my personality, and also contributed to my final results. I received the code ISA at the end of the activity which is created from three groups; Investigative, Social, and Artistic. When I looked over my results I found it to be quite accurate of how I already perceived myself, and was nice to be given extra reassurance of myself from the test result. The Investigative part I found related to me because I view myself as a person who asks a lot of questions and is very interested in how things work or come to be. I enjoy going into depth with research about things that I find appealing or interesting, and gain knowledge about that subject. The social reading from the test fits me as well because I love being around people. doing so gives me more energy and makes me feel more comfortable a lot of the time. I have a passion about helping people and find it easy for people to come to me about problems or for just good company. Creating things and expressing oneself is something I find important personally and throughout society as a whole. I have

I can say that I agree with the result from the O*NET Interest Profiler in all areas. My scores were high in the areas of conventional interest, social interest, and artistic interest. I would have thought that my highest score would have been in the category of artistic interests being that I am a song writer and music producer, violinist, and artist. It was fun exercise to work through which help to give me a little bit more understanding about things that interest me most career wise. I currently work as a manager in retail but I’m unitizing the money from my job to work on my true passion in life which is music. The results of the Interest Profiler does match the characteristics that I employ in my career field which is management. Key

I believe that intrinsic factors play an equal role in the outcome of both the interest profiler and work value assessment results. Albert Bandura’s social cognitive theory influenced my idea of this possibility. I learned from him that intrinsic and external factors play an important role in shaping an individual. Bandura identifies that our environment alone does not produce causation, but instead personal factors we experience is what has a significant affect on it (Bandura, 1999). Personal factors are unique to us and are correlated to age, gender, race, and even religious beliefs. The way we act, think, and respond is created by a combination of both intrinsic and external forces. It is these forces that guide our decision-making process that helps create our personality and interest. Bandura refers to the combination of environment, intrinsic, and external factors as multicausality (Bandura, 1999). As I looked more closely at how each individual intrinsic factor affects our personality, I found a study conducted by researchers with Michigan State University that further identified how age specifically influences our personality traits. The researchers found that there is a slight change of personality from emerging adulthood to adulthood. (Hopwood, et al. 2011). Which added to a past study conducted by Erick Erickson. Erickson identified a shift of values through his research on the generativity-versus-stagnation stage. He stated that our career interest will shift