Career Leader OnLine

1
Career Leader On-Line

• Overview
• Business Career Interests
• Rewards / Values
• Abilities
• Career Path Information
• Work Culture
• Achilles Heels
• Next Steps

2
Career Leader Overview

• CareerLeader.com is an on-line career assessment
  tool focused on business careers
• Developed by James Waldroop and Tim Butler
• Harvard Business School Career Services
• Peregrine Partners consulting firm
• Based on book Discovering Your Career In Business
• 2-3 hours of assessment followed by reports and
  on-line information
• Equivalent to 300 pages of content
• Confidential Usage / Password Protected

3
Career Leader Features

• Assesses relevant interests, abilities, values
• Recommends career paths
• Rates entrepreneurial attributes
• Provides in-depth descriptions of 15 business
  career paths
• Provides feedback regarding corporate culture
• Describes potential career breakdowns called
  Achilles Heels

4
Business Career Interest Profile

• The Business Career Interest Inventory
  assesses eight essential activities performed in
  business settings
• Application of Technology
• Quantitative Analysis
• Theory Development and Conceptual Thinking
• Creative Production (new product design,
  advertising, innovative service delivery)
• Counseling and Mentoring
• Managing People and Relationships
• Enterprise Control (authority and control of
  resources to implement ideas)
• Influence Through Language and Ideas
• These business interests are then mapped to
  15 business career paths at Hypertherm in terms
  of degree of match high-medium-low

5
Sample Questions for Assessing Interests
6
Sample Results from Business Interest Survey
7
Work Reward Values

• Autonomy
• Intellectual Challenge
• Financial Gain
• Power and Influence
• Variety
• Positioning (for career movement)
• Prestige
• Lifestyle
• Altruism (helping others)
• Affiliation
• Managing People
• Recognition
• Security

These work values are ranked through
forced-choice exercises and are then mapped to
business career paths
8
Forced-Choice Questions to Prioritize Values
9
Value Results
10
Business Abilities / Groups

• Career Leader provides feedback about the
  relative strengths of the following business
  abilities
• PROBLEM-SOLVING Quantitative Analysis
• Creativity
• Critical Thinking
• Quick Thinking
• TAKING INITIATIVE Power Orientation
• Action Orientation
• Multi-focus
• Leveraging
• INTERPERSONAL Teamwork
• EFFECTIVENESS Confidence
• Communication
• Leading / Managing

11
Sample Questions for Ability Profile
12
Sample Abilities Profile
13
Business Career Path Profiles

• Accounting
• Entrepreneurship
• Finance in Corporate Settings
• General Management
• Human Resources Management
• Information Systems Management
• Management of New Product Development
• Managers in Science / Engineering
• Marketing and Marketing Management
• Production and Operations Management
• Public Relations and Communications
• Research and Development Management
• Sales and Sales Management
• Strategic Planning / Business Development
• Training / Organizational Development

14
Career Path Match Sample
15
Detailed Match to a Specific Career Path
16
Comparison of Interest Patterns
17
Sample Career Path Description - Part 1
18
Sample Career Path Description - part 2
19
Culture Match Assessment

• CareerLeader provides feedback regarding four
  critical elements of corporate culture
• Social Assertiveness
• Structure and Attention to Detail
• Openness and Imagination
• Cooperation and Harmony

20
Culture Match Report - Sample
21
Cultural Dimensions

• CareerLeader also provides additional
  descriptive information about these dimensions of
  organizational culture
• Level of Communication
• Lifestyle
• Pace of Change
• Valuing the Team vs. the Star

22
Sample from Summary Professional Report
23
Achilles Heels

• CareerLeader describes personal tendencies
  that can derail careers. These are captured by
  the following types
• Acrophobic (Never feeling good enough)
• The Bulldozer (run roughshod over people to solve
  a problem or get something)
• The Coulda Been (large appetite for achievement
  but low tolerance for delayed gratification)
• The Hero (get things done at great cost to self
  and others, not seeing alternatives)
• The Home Run Hitter (overly competitive and go
  for it before ready)
• Loose Lips (dont honor social and professional
  boundaries)
• Lost Along The Way (loss of professional
  direction)
• The Meritocrat (focus on hard work, right
  answers, but not acquiring power to implement)
• The Peacekeeper (conflict avoidance resulting in
  ineffectiveness)
• The Pessimist - Worrier (persistently negative,
  seeing downside of situations)
• The Rebel (resist adapting to organizational
  culture)
• Mr. Spock (rational business decisions that dont
  consider impact on people)

24
Next Steps

• Submit user name to _________
• Customized Hypertherm version available on June
  1, 2005
• Wait 24 hours for registration to clear
• Access the site establish password
• Follow-up debriefing session scheduled for ______
• Site access for one year