Career Assessment

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Career Assessment

• Joliet Junior College
• Mature Workforce Center
• Serving Boomers_at_JJC

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Career Assessment Areas

• Interests
• Values
• Skills

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Interests Skills - Values

• What do you enjoy doing?
• What do you do well?
• What motivates you?

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Interest Areas (work)At work I enjoy these
aspects of my job

• Artistic
• Scientific
• Plants and Animals
• Protective
• Mechanical
• Industrial
• Business Detail
• Selling
• Accommodating
• Humanitarian
• Leading and influencing
• Physical

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Interest Areas (home)When Im home I enjoy

• Wood carving
• Coaching
• Writing
• Hair Styling
• Film developing
• Public speaking
• Entertaining
• Ceramics
• Modeling
• Nursing pets

• Acting
• Advising/counseling
• Announcing
• First aide
• Building models
• Building or repairing Campaigning
• Cooking
• Plumbing
• Teaching

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Work ValuesI prefer employment which enables me
to

• Supervise others
• Work with details
• Be creative
• Gain recognition
• Acquire security
• Make a lot of money
• Help others
• Solve problems
• Take risks
• Work at my own pace

• Contribute
• Have people contact
• Work alone
• Work with a team
• Compete with others
• Make decisions
• Work under pressure
• Use power or authority
• Acquire new knowledge
• Be recognized as an expert

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Abilities Skills

• Personal Skills
• Social Skills
• Movement Skills
• Perceptual Skills
• Situational Skills
• Process Skills
• Technical Skills
• Math and Science Skills
• Communication Skills
• Problem Solving Skills
• Management Skills

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Functional/Transferable Skills

• Personality/Work-Style Traits
• Examples
• Tactful
• Diligent
• Sincere
• Firm

• Organizational/
• Interpersonal
• Examples
• Communicating
• Innovative
• Leading
• Organizing

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Organizational Interpersonal Skills

• communicating
• analyzing
• planning
• decision-making
• innovating
• evaluating
• identifying problems
• forecasting
• motivating
• leading
• selling
• performing
• reviewing
• team building
• updating
• coaching
• supervising
• estimating
• interpreting

• trouble shooting
• implementing
• setting goals
• time management
• creating
• judging
• controlling
• organizing
• persuading
• encouraging
• improving
• designing
• consulting
• teaching
• cultivating
• advising
• training
• achieving

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Personality and Work Style Traits

• risk taker
• Assertive
• adaptable
• honest
• competent
• sophisticated
• objective
• orderly
• tolerant
• efficient
• astute
• punctual
• tenacious

• diligent
• patient
• innovative
• persistent
• tactful
• self-confident
• discrete
• tidy
• open
• cooperative
• self-started
• precise
• diplomatic

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Temperaments

• 1. Optimistsare impulsive, enjoy the immediate,
  enjoy action for actions sake, like working with
  things.
• 2. Realistslike to belong to groups, feel
  obligations strongly, have a strong work ethic,
  need order

• 3. Futuristslike to control things, want to be
  highly competent, care the most self-critical,
  strive for excellence,
• 4. Idealistsare in search of their self, want
  to know the meaning of things, have difficulty
  placing limits on work, appreciate people.

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Self-Identified Skills

• Computer skills
• Selling skills
• Negotiating skills
• Networking skills
• Public Speaking skills
• Business Writing skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Language skills

• Cross-Cultural skills
• Artistic skills
• Technical skills
• Mathematical skills
• Scientific skills
• Research skills
• Other skills.

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Assessment Options

• Complete on-line assessment.
• Schedule an appointment with a Career Specialist
  to take a paper and pencil Career Assessment.
• Take home a self-administered career interest
  inventory.

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Next Steps

• Meet one-on-one with an Career Specialist to
  review assessment results.
• Explore career options using Mature Workforce
  Center resources.
• Determine direction and set goals for training
  and/or new career.
• Request referral to volunteer opportunities.