My Experience At The Holland Inventory Assignment

I have chosen to write about myself. I am consistently trying to improve myself both personally and professionally. According to the test that we took previously for class on the Keirsey website, I am an INFJ. This stands for introverted, intuitive, feeling, and judging. Keirsey identifies INFJ’s as counselors. We care deeply about others and their feelings. Sometimes we often notice the feeling of others before they themselves were aware. We prefer independent work or very small groups as opposed to team work. This specific combination of amounts is only three percent overall and those around us may consider our personality to be unique. I have always felt unique but would have guessed

My top three preferred traits from the Holland Career Inventory were Artistic, Social, and Enterprising. I believe the results are right on the mark since my B.A. was in Studio Art and I am a Special Education Teacher. I employ my art background in my class and our CTE program. In my class, my students learn in all modalities often creating amazing study guides and this year I am going to incorporate visual notetaking. I adore the freedom I have as a teacher. In our CTE programs, I create posters, brochures, and other items using Adobe and other products. Becoming a teacher has brought out my social and enterprising side and the development of these areas helped me become a part of our CTE pathways. Every opportunity I go out into the

From the first survey, Jung Typology Test, I figured out that my personality type is ENTJ. ENTJ stands for Extravert, iNtuitive, Thinking, and Judging. It means that I am outgoing, rational, and perceptive. Prior to this test, I only have a slight idea that I might be confidence, logical, and have a talent in management. After taking the test, I got confirmed that I am indeed the type of person I think I would be. In addition, the extra links under the result gave me information about what potential occupations I could take in the future by giving me a thorough interpretation of what ENTJ really means. Honestly, I am going through a time of struggling: I am not sure about my major and what I could be at the career fair. Although I vaguely think that I may want to be a manager working in the technology-related areas. The result tells me that I am suitable for managing resources in companies as well as one of

Following the completion of Holland’s Vocational Code survey, my survey score displayed “Enterprising” as my strongest interest type with a score of 34. The second highest interest type was “Social” scored at 27. My final (third) highest score was artistic at 21 points. Hosting interest I enterprising as my top score was no shocker. I am the type of person who loves to be resourceful and starting initiatives. In addition, based on my aspirations to become an attorney and later politician, all three-interest types match my personality perfectly. I think Holland’s Vocational Code was accurate based on the results.

Just for fun I not only completed the Student Interest Inventory I also filled out the Who I AM PDF. While these two survey had many like questions in particular about favorite food, favorite color and favorite sport, the Who I AM PDF was more in-depth as it ask about pets, accomplishments, and also the qualities of a good teacher. The first survey (Student Interest Inventory) was fun and light hearted. However I confess that I stalled on my favorite color choice. Although I selected red I was really thinking about purple and royal blue, so maybe a change is taking place within me or maybe I have favorite colors for different seasons. Interesting! The Who Am I PDF felt more personal and emotional as opposed to rote. During this I listed my

My Holland Code is AIS (Artistic, Investigative, Social) and my top three work values are advancement, help society and security. These align with the career of a psychologist which is the career I want to go in. According to the ONET website the ideal Holland Code is ISA, this code is almost identical. When being a psychologist you have to be social to interact with patients and investigative to solve the patient's problems. I could also use my artistic side to come up with creative ways to communicate and help my patients. Also, two of my workplace preferences was helping society and security. This career choice will provide these preferences.

My first time taking the Leisure assessment, I ranked highest in Inquiring, Correct, and Aesthetic. Although those results have been surprisingly stable, I have taken a closer look at Eager, Sharing, and Reality. I have gotten more complacent and less honest with the Focus2, and it shows; I have went from a zero in Eager to a thirty-three point three-three-three. That change alone was enough for the Focus2 to think I am interested in Botany, and at this point, I am so broken down, why not? I range for botany to lobbying to casting for plays.

For the card sort activity, I was asked to sort different professions into three categories. Those categories were would choose, would not choose, and might choose. Some of the careers that I chose to do were a web editor, teacher, career counselor, college professor, and newscaster. I might choose a career as an ultrasound tech, lawyer, and budget analyst. I will not choose a career as a accountant, actuary, and mechanical engineer. When I was done, I was given an overview of my answers. The next was to move my might pile into either would or would not piles. For the Holland Type, I would be considered realistic, artistic, and social. This was determined because I enjoyed working outside, expressing ideas, and helping people. The card sort also determined my educational level and can even identify if there are gender issues. Another interesting factor about this assessment is the family

During our class this week, one of our homework assignments was to complete the “Identifying Your Social Style” assessment. This was a very thought-provoking assessment to take and my results were interesting to say the least. My results were as follows, I received a 26 in assertiveness and a 37 in responsiveness which placed me in the amiable quadrant. According to the information learned, several words used to describe me are conforming, pliable, supportive, dependable, and willing. My reaction to my scores were fascinating because I did not agree with my results in the beginning. However, after I went on further to read the explanation attached to my score I had a better understanding of my marks.

My findings in this assignment were a mixture of things I knew and things I did not realize about myself. My health inventory was surprising more balanced than I expected it to be. I found that in most areas of wellness I am fairly balanced. One of those balanced areas of wellness was social wellness and I found that to be quite surprising. I generally think of myself as someone who needs to work on her social skills. I am not very outgoing and consider myself to be an introvert. But after serious consideration, I found that I can be very outgoing once I am comfortable with the people around me. I am the type to go out of my way to help people because I believe that that is the true legacy that we leave behind, the lives that we touch. Unlike

After completing the assessments, I realized how accurate my results were. Since I am an organized person, it was no shock that my results state that I like to keep things neat and in order; as well as, the results stating I prefer to work in a stable environments. My results also pointed towards me being a helper and thinker. There is nothing that I like more than being able to help some in need, however, I also enjoy situations or problems that challenge me. The assessment results also used terms like “persuader” or “do-er” to describe me. In situations where there needs to be leadership or better management, I am always willing to step up to help accomplish a better outcome plus I have always preferred hands-on learning or tasks. I am pleased that all of my results point to the nursing career I have been working towards. All of my results can be very essential in the medical field. A simple miscommunicated written or spoken work could become life threatening. You need to be able to think and react to unexpected situations, and organization is very important.

After completing this I am still not completely sure that I have learned much about myself except for maybe one attribute. I am always skeptical about these kinds of surveys as I am very analytical and tend to overanalyze the questions. I have also found that I generally put lower scores than a lot of people I know on these types of tests. I tend to be a little too judgmental of myself so that may or may not have skewed the results. However I will give my input on the results anyway and hopefully have come away having learned something. Another note is that I have not rounded off my scores as to leave the results more accurate than they would otherwise be.

I learned plenty of things from my results. My values-which I didn't see clearly-are now clear, and I found out the little unique things that make up my personality. From my personality survey, I am mostly artistic,

To begin, the project allowed me to understand the methodologies it took to complete each test. By filling in the tests myself, I was able to recognize the thought processes that occur while taking them, thus allowing me to understand how an individual might take the test. In addition to this, I was also able to understand my thought processes and perception of myself. As I utilized my time to carefully examine each question or category within the tests, I was made aware of the way in which I thought of myself and others, bringing normally subconscious thought processes into my consciousness. In addition to this deeper understanding of myself, the project was also successful in presenting a series of confirmations of my strongest, most defining traits. For example, I rated highly on agreeableness in the Big Five personality assessment, and the characteristics that fall under this trait persisted in many of the other tests as well. For example, within the Q-sort test, I rated my real self as having warmth and the capacity for close

so basically the point i am trying to get at with all the introductory crap i just spewed is that i’m a big fan of questionnaires that can compartmentalize and label the various facets of my personality. i vastly prefer being told what i am rather than wasting countless hours on earnest self-reflection and independently constructing a sense of self on purpose because ain’t nobody got time or the bugspray for that walden shit.