...Assessment for Career Counselor Name: Lecturer: Course Name: Date Assessment for Career Counselor Introduction Career assessment is a process of assessing a person’s interests, skills, personality traits, and values. A person can discover what career suits them best by taking an assessment. If a person’s scores are high in all the areas of assessment, they are assured the job suits them. A career evaluation process involves completing career assessments. These assessments are usually administered by a career counselor. The assessments are not tests since there are no right or wrong answers. The assessment allows a person to see their scores in various careers based on how they answer questions regarding their interests, skills, values and personality traits. Most people use this as a means to make solid career choices (Deborah, 2013). Process of Assessment Standardization is a way to establish uniform procedures to be used in an assessment. Assessment results should be as objective as possible in order to be considered valid and meaningful. Standardized assessment can be ensured by procedures before, during and after testing. (American Speech- Language-Hearing Association, 2015) Before Testing Test developers should provide evidence of what the test measures and the strengths and limitations of the test including the level of precision of test scores. The content and skills that are to be tested are selected and the tests are developed. The students should well prepared...
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...Vocational/Career Self Assessment It is essential for individuals to discover what careers fit their personal desires and personality traits. Through the use of assessments, individuals are able to establish what vocational areas they are remarkable in and which areas they should steer clear from. Assessments are one of the major components of career counseling and it is essential all counselors are competent in implementing and interpreting assessment scores (Amir, Gati, & Kleiman, 2008). As a future counselor, it is essential I am able to complete career assessments and gain my own personal insight of the results. In this paper, I will discuss the results and insights from the Self Directed Search Assessment and the SWOT assessment. Self-Assessment Results The first assessment I completed was the Self Directed Search, influenced by John Holland. The assessment was formed to investigate whether individual’s personality traits could fit into a specific type of working environment (Holland, Powell, & Fritzsche, 1994). The assessment is devised of six characteristics, however only three types will be generated based on the test takers answers (Holland, Powell, & Fritzsche, 1994). My findings from the Self Directed Search...
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...Rodriguez, Rizal Career Planning What is a Career? Career is an occupation or a profession, that one undertakes for a long period of his life time & derives monetary benefit from it. What is Career Planning? * Career planning consists of activities and actions that you take to achieve your individual career goals. * It is way by which one can achieve goals & ambitions successfully * It is a difference between success & failure which always leads to satisfactory results * It is a Vision Career Planning Process Career planning process is simple process of self analyzing, self upgrading & self improvement which leads you toward success. There are five steps to active career planning: * Self Assessment Self assessment revolves around the thoughtful consideration, reflection, and evaluation of your interests, personality characteristics, values, and skills through a variety of methods, such as the use of a whole host of career-related tools and instruments. * Exploration and Research The career planning component consisting of exploration and research is all about being in information gathering mode. This is the time to explore, collect, and organize all available resources to eventually begin analyzing them to see what top options arise. Pointers for Exploring Careers * Know more about the career of your choice * Nature of work * Work roles * Emerging trends * Career path / Study route ...
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...Work Culture Preferences XXxxxxxxxxx XXXXXXX BCOM 275 December 8, 2013 Professor XXXXX xxxxxx Work Culture Preferences Having an appropriate understanding of your ideal work culture is indispensable in developing both strategic plans to plans to achieve organizational goals. When conducting a Work Culture Results analysis there are certain competencies that are necessary, each of the competencies involved is important in developing a Career Building Plan, but the level of significance varies between individuals. Based on the outcomes of my Career Plan Building Activity, in the Work Culture Preferences survey of my ideal work culture three competencies are most prevalent, Supportive, Ethical, and well resourced. As the results of my assessment illustrate, strengths are a significant element in my achieving organizational goals. Specific examples are a secure and stable environment combined with factors such as recognition and celebration of success; and the ability to be at a safe place to work. Equally important in developing strategic and operational plans to achieving organizational goals are available opportunities with emphasis on fairness. Specific examples are the opportunity for varied and ground breaking work, innovative and creative atmosphere and the opportunity to control my own work schedule and organization. The manners in which my specific competencies relate to the required competencies for conducting a Work culture analysis are that my competencies...
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...After taking my Career Assessment through Traitify, I discovered that I am a Planner/Mentor. I learned that I am not only invested in my future, but that I am also invested in the people around me. After receiving my results, I analyzed/reviewed them and learned that I tend to become the planner of the group and the one who likes to look out for everyone. I am known to be the one who remains organized and plans ahead in case of any uncertainties that may occur or pop up at any time. I am known to always be on schedule and I play a huge role and am looked at as a leader/role model, or mentor to my peers around me. I am found to be happiest when I am around a good group of people, who I enjoy and love working with. I learned that I am more of a visionary or visual learner, and that I like to analyze things in different ways. I can also be seen as an inventor and one who takes action in a group....
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...Career Interest and Assessment The career Interest and Assessment told me that I’m an auditory-tactile learner, and that my top three jobs were professional athlete, flooring installer, and black smith. I don’t really agree with two of those, only the athlete one. Career Cluster My job falls under the education & training career cluster. This career cluster works on teaching people and helping them train. It includes, planning, managing, and providing education and training services, along with related learning support services. Giving others the support they need. You’ll have to plan a lot of stuff along with managing lots of different things. You always have to have a positive outlook on things with this job. It would go along with...
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...they are dealing with, they also face a deficit in the world around them; a lack of equal opportunity for many when seeking employment. Career counseling for those who have a disability is an essential task that should include the community as well as the client. Zunker (2012) states, “The overarching counseling goal for persons with disabilities is to maximize each individual’s potential for life and work in the 21st century” (p. 268). This is a task that the counselor should undertake with their clients who have added challenges, as well as advocating to the community to assist with acceptance; “Ideally, a cooperative effort between teachers and counselors promotes an effective school program that is supported and recognized by the community” (p. 269), this further supports all continued efforts and opportunities for our clients. Mental Health and Disabilities: “There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender, or disability” Sharron Angle; American Politician. All individuals with the capabilities and will to work should be offered equal opportunities to do so. Unfortunately, those with disabilities – physical or mental – face not just the condition they are dealing with, they also face a deficit in the world around them; a lack of equal opportunity for many when seeking employment. Career counseling for those who have a...
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...TE AM FL Y FEARLESS INTERVIEWING How to Win the Job by Communicating with Confidence Marky Stein McGraw-Hill New York Chicago San Francisco Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan New Delhi San Juan Seoul Singapore Sydney Toronto Copyright © 2003 by Marky Stein. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. 0-07-141572-6 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: 0-07-140884-3. All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use names in an editorial fashion only, and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Where such designations appear in this book, they have been printed with initial caps. McGraw-Hill eBooks are available at special quantity discounts to use as premiums and sales promotions, or for use in corporate training programs. For more information, please contact George Hoare, Special Sales, at george_hoare@mcgraw-hill.com or (212) 904-4069. TERMS OF USE This is a copyrighted work and The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (“McGraw-Hill”) and its licensors reserve all rights in and to the work. Use of this...
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...Career Pathway Assessment Amy Dolan Old Dominion University School of Nursing I have always been a “nurse”. I “nursed” my sister when she was little, I picked “flowers” (weeds) for my mother when she was sick, and I rushed to a friend’s aid in high school when she fainted due to anorexia. My nickname my senior year in high school was none other than “Florence”. It’s just me-the instinct to assist, to nurture - to help make a difference. However, it took many years and a few careers to finally figure out what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was drawn into the medical field when I met my first husband, the father of my daughter. He was a podiatrist and I ended up working in his office as a secretary and bookkeeper. Over the years, I worked for different physicians in varying capacities but lastly a group of cardiac surgeons here in Richmond. I always felt I could do more, be more than “just” a clerk/secretary/surgery scheduler. In 2004, my daughter’s father died suddenly in a car crash. We were no longer married but it was still devastating. So I began to think about what I could do to make myself more available for my daughter and find a job with a more flexible schedule. I knew many nurses and thought, “I can do that.” It was in the back of my mind and I didn’t know how important that decision would be. In June of the same year, my mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. At stage 4 and no surgical options available, she was given months to live. My world...
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...My chosen career is to become a Social Worker dealing with kids and their families. I have so much love for kids that I just want to see smiles on their faces. I want to start as a Social Worker and work my way up to become a Child Protective Specialist. Becoming a CPS would mean a lot to me because it will make me help kids get out of harm that is caused by parents or guardians. It also will make me feel better knowing that some kids are going to sleep safe at night and trying to live a normal life. The strengths that I bring to this career are a strong and open mind, work efficient, and can work under pressure. Having these strengths makes me more valuable because my supervisor would be able to see the kind of person that I am and will value my work. They would see that I can be able to handle cases on my own and hopefully get promoted to a higher position. The opportunities that I would make for myself improvement to allow me to be more valuable in the workplace would be to sometimes think outside the box and understand my clients with a better and clearer understanding. The opportunities that I look forward to is getting to help kids and hopefully landing a supervisor position with New York City ACS Agency. The result of my Ethical Lens Inventory was that my personal preferred Lens was None – periscope and Paralysis. This means that I see the gifts and weaknesses of each lens and I am able to move smoothly among them to adopt the right tools to each situation to get the best...
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...Unit 4 and 5 Evaluate the purpose of different types of career guidance interviews Evaluate methodologies to explore the career guidance and development needs of clients Corney and Watts (1998) define information and advice as; ‘providing an immediate response to the needs of clients who present an enquiry or reveal a need that requires more than a straightforward information response. Advice is usually limited to helping with the interpretation of information and with meeting needs already clearly understood by the client…’ Advice and information is therefore concerned with meeting client’s presenting issues relating to information. The OECD (2004:10) definition of guidance is; ‘Career guidance refers to services and activities intended to assist individuals of any age, and at any point of their lives, to make educational, training and occupational choices and to manage their careers’. This reflects the variety of activities that may take place in supporting clients to move forward. Guidance is about helping clients to understand their own needs, set and review career goals, understand any barriers and to produce action plans. Hambly (2008; 16) refers to the iceberg analogy to explain the process of guidance. The top of the iceberg represents the clarifying and meeting of presented needs which is advice and information and the bottom of the iceberg is about exploring additional needs which is guidance. The guidance element may be about exploring high leverage...
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...Career Pathway Assessment For as long as I can remember, I have always wanted to become a nurse. When I think back I am not sure why. I do remembered my auntie always caring for elderly people and for children. She had brought two houses in Philadelphia that was located next to each other. The first house was where she and some of the children that she cared for had lived and the house next door was where the elderly people had lived. Every summer I would stay with my auntie and I remembered I was excited to help her feed and care for them. I can also remember always wanting to become a candy striper in the hospital in which I did and I also remembered enjoying the experience. When I graduated from high school in 1986 I was accepted to the nursing program at SUNY Morrisville College in New York. I felt so overwhelmed in the program because it seemed that everyone there except for me had some type of nursing experience. I was only 17 years old when I left for college and it was my first time away from home that I was not focused which caused me to have to drop the nursing program. I was so disappointed in myself. I had changed my major to Business Administration. After doing a year and half at the college I ran out of money to continue school so I left and I joined the Navy. My desire was to enter into a medical field but at the time it was not available so I became an Air Traffic Controller but my focus was only to stay four years to get the educational benefits...
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...HR Plan-06s Career Planning I. Meaning & Elements of Career II. Career Planning: Meaning and Nature III. Career Planning Benefits IV. HR Department Assistance for Career Planning V. Different Stages of Career Development Process Or, Cycles of Career Development Process VI. Career Development I. Career: Meaning & Elements Definition of Career Career is a sequence of attitudes and behaviors associated with the series of job and work-related activities over a person's lifetime. Yet in another way, it may be defined as a succession of related jobs, arranged in hierarchical order, through which a person moves in an organization. As the literal definition of career focuses on an individually perceived sequence, to be more accurate, career may be either individual centered or organization-centered. Therefore, career is often defined separately as external career and internal career. External career refers to the objective categories used by society and organizations to describe the progression of steps through a given occupation, while internal career refers to the set of steps or stages which make up the individual's own concept of career progression within an occupation. For such two different approaches, in organizational context, career can be identified as an integrated pace of vertical and lateral movement in an occupation of an individual over his employment span. Important Elements of Career Analyzing the definitional context, it...
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...Abstract The purpose of this paper is to explain the career development process and outline an approach of how to progress through it. I will choose a specific Career Theory from the textbook that fits into my personal beliefs of human behavior and career development. I will provide the main points of this theory and use examples from my life to demonstrate how this theory will be beneficial. I will also identify any potential weaknesses or aspects that I may disagree with. What Is a Career? A career can be defined as the "time extended working out of a purposeful life pattern through work undertaken by the person" (Zunker, 2012). This also includes "activities and positions involved in vocations, occupations, and jobs as well as to related activities with an individual's lifetime of work" (Zunker, 2012). A career should be a job that one benefits from not only monetarily but also in some personal way. People should be careful in choosing a career because most people spend over half of their lives working. If one chooses the right career than they can lead a happier life. So many people have what can be considered job instead of a career. A job where one works only to receive money can lead one to be unhappy and cause quite a bit of stress. Overtime this can have an effect on an individual’s overall health. This is why the idea of career development can be so important. What is Career Development? Career development can be defined as a process in which...
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...Five-Year Career Development Plan Five-Year Career Development Plan There is no rule that states that a career development plan has to be set out before you start with your career; in fact, it can occur at any point of your career. A very realistic plan is a five-year development plan. This period is appropriate to foresee any goal hindrances or complications and then develop yourself accordingly. Five years seems to be a reasonable time to accomplish any certain set of goals. While constructing the five-year plan for yourself make sure, you incorporate the essentials of self-assessment. Search yourself for what you wish and yearn for and them put them in your development strategy; justify it with the compensation you are offered Once you are done assessing yourself, you will also find out what you are best at – skill assessment. While determining your skills, you need to carve out your positives and negatives. Having a few too many negatives is not a drawback; what you need to analyze is how relevant is either to the job you do or the career you intend to pursue. You should bear in mind a couple of things; if you’ve risked pursuing a career that isn’t your choice then you will need to set out two options of careers that best fit your personality. This shall encourage you to bring out the best career development plan for complete five years. This five-year...
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