P R E S E N T E D B Y:M E L I N DA J O N E S

C A R E E R C O U N S E L O R

How to Read your Career Direct Results

The Career Direct

Congratulations! You have taken a proactive approach to choosing a career path and major by completing

the Career Direct assessment….

The Need for Career Planning

• Choosing a career Choosing a major

• The majority of students who drop out of

college do NOT have a declared major or

vocational interest

• The average student will change majors 3

to 5 times

Results Booklet

There are two reports that you will want to look at as you review your Career Direct results:

Coaching Report – 12 pagesThis report contains summary charts for the personality, interests, skills, and values sections and includes an activities, occupations, and subject scores chart.

Detailed Report – 24-27 pagesThis report contains a more detailed explanation of the personality, interests, skills, and values sections.

The Career Direct Results

Personality How am I naturally motivated to act?

Coaching Report (page 3 of 12)Detailed Report (pages 8-10 of 26)

Factor Those outside the mid-range are yourstronger traits, and will show yournatural tendency to act. These factors translate into the things you should consider in your career choice.

Subfactor The more specific traits that make up a factor Those that fall in the mid-range typically exhibit a mix of

behaviors

Compliant Dominant Pliable Conforming Tactful

Assertive Independent Blunt

Personality Traits

•Measures an individual’s motivation to be in control of situations and people in their environment. • This is important when considering work or careers.

Consider: Do you want to be the boss?

Introverted Extroverted Distant Reserved Quiet

Enthusiastic Social Verbal

Personality Traits

•Measures a person’s motivation to interact with others

Consider: Do you want to work with people? Do you want to work in a cubicle or closed door office environment?

Detached Compassionate Neutral Objective Questioning

Sympathetic Supportive Tolerant

Personality Traits

•Measures the tendency of an individual to be caring, understanding, and accepting.

Consider: Do you need harmony, warmth, and regular routines in your work or are you more practical and logical?

Unstructured Conscientious Improvising Spontaneous Indifferent

Precise Organized Achieving

Personality Traits

•Measures the motivation of a person to be accurate, structured, and thorough

Consider: Do you want an organized, dependable work environment? Do you prefer to work with facts and data as key tools for the job?

Cautious Adventurous Conservative Content

Daring Ambitious

Personality Traits

•Measures the tendency of an individual to be pioneering and competitive.

Consider: Are you willing to take risks to achieve your goals? Do you want security and reliability in your work or change jobs when you get bored?

Conventional Innovative Predictable Traditional

Imaginative Clever

Personality Traits

•Measures or reflects the tendency of a person to quickly envision new ideas.

Consider: Will you want to do the same thing daily or different things regularly? Do you want a skill driven job or one that requires continual learning?

Strengths & Weaknesses

Coaching report (page 6 of 12)

Detailed report (page 11 of 26)

Use the strengths to identify the qualities that you have to offer a career.

Use the weaknesses to identify areas of change that may be needed for career success.

Career Implications

Your personality traits are listed in order of strength, meaning the one that will impact your career the most is first.

•Look at the career suggestions listed under each trait and circle what is most important to you.

•Use the website MyPlan.com to research careers under their career database

Critical Life Issues

Coaching Report (page 7 of 12)Detailed Report (page 13 of 26)

Stress – If you have a score in the mid to high range please identify your stress as personal or school/career related and incorporate a relaxing activity into your schedule.

Consider: How is stress likely to affect my career or career path? Am I likely to burn out in a career that requires daily interaction with people or is deadline driven?

Critical Life Issues

Financial Management – This assesses a person’s money management practices – how you budget your money.

Consider: Do I know how to budget money or am I likely to choose a job based on salary and not whether it is the right job for me?

Indebtedness - This assesses a person’s likelihood of having debt management problems

Consider: Will I lose out on a job if a potential employer does a credit check on me?

•DOING

•HELPING

•A NA LYZING

•INFLUENCING

•EXPRESSING

General InterestsDetailed Report (pages 14-15 of 26)

Use the chart on page 15 to identify your first five interests. Look at the categories below on page 14 and underline these five interests in their respective categories…for example this person should look at an influencing, expressing, and helping career.

DOING HELPING ANALYZING INFLUENCING EXPRESSING

* Mechanical* Outdoors / Agriculture* Security /

Enforcement* Athletics

* Adventure

* Service* Transportation

Services* Animal Care* Consumer

Science

* Science / Health* Computational

Financial* Technological

Sciences

* Management / Sales

* Law / Politics* Education* Counseling

* International* Religious

* Performing /Communication

* Writing* Artistic

Activities, Occupations, and SubjectsCoaching Report (page 11 of 12 )

The occupations list is where you identify the right career for yourself.

The activity and subject list are where you identify hobbies for yourself.

Skills & AbilitiesDetailed Report ( page 19 of 26 )

It is important to match your work to your best skills so that you may have the personal joy of doing something that comes naturally.

Working in your natural strengths help you learn faster and achieve more from the same amount of effort.

Is there a common theme to your skills? Do your skills relate more to your hobby than your

occupation? Is there a way these activity skills could transfer to your work?

Valueswork environment, work outcome, life

The values are your priorities as they relate to your work. Expect these to change over time as you age, gain experience in the work place, and your family situation changes (married, engaged, have children). Ask yourself these two questions often:

•Does my work match my needs?

•Does my walk (life actions) match my talk (what I say, I believe)?

* W o r k e n v i r o n m e n t v a l u e s – Y o u c a n b e i n a c a r e e r f i e l d t h a t i s a g o o d m a t c h f o r y o u r i n t e r e s t s , s k i l l s , a n d p e r s o n a l i t y a n d s t i l l e x p e r i e n c e j o b d i s s a t i s f a c t i o n .C o n s i d e r : I f I v a l u e w o r k i n g o u t s i d e w i l l I b e h a p p y i n t h e c o n f i n e s o f a n o f f i c e ?

* W o r k o u t c o m e v a l u e s – I t i s i m p o r t a n t t o d e c i d e w h a t r e w a r d s y o u e x p e c t f r o m y o u r w o r k .C o n s i d e r : W h a t i s r e a l l y i m p o r t a n t t o m e i n m y c a r e e r ? I s m o n e y o r l e a d e r s h i p i m p o r t a n t e n o u g h t o p u r s u e a t t h e p r i c e o f m a k i n g s a c r i f i c e s p e r s o n a l l y ?

* L i f e v a l u e s – I t i s i m p o r t a n t t o a l i g n t h e w a y y o u l i v e w i t h y o u r l i f e v a l u e s .C o n s i d e r : W h a t i s m y l i f e p u r p o s e a n d h o w d o e s t h a t f i t i n w i t h m y c a r e e r c h o i c e ? H o w d o I a t t a i n p e a c e a n d f u l f i l l m e n t i n m y w o r k ?

ValuesDetailed Report (pages 21-23 of 26)

Thank you for taking the Career Direct assessment. Ideally the assessment will help you focus on career fields for which you are ideally suited. This is not a job placement tool so you need to take responsibility for selecting the job or career field that is just right for you.If you would like to talk to a counselor about your career and how to choose a college major please contact the LU Career Center.

Liberty University Career CenterHours: M-F 8:30-4:30Phone: 434-592-4109

Email: careers@liberty.edu