Friday, December 5, 2008

Interesting!

I filled out a job application and here is the assessment it gave me:

CareerView Summary:

Your Career Beliefs
(When you believe you should be doing)

Your Career Motivations
(Patterns that would best fit your motivations)

Primary Theme:
Expert

long term specialization in a particular type of work, with emphasis on expertise, and stability Learning

periodic movement into new types of work, with emphasis on broadening of skills and knowledge, and creativity

Secondary
Theme Competitive

rapid upward advancement, with emphasis on achievement and gaining influence Entrepreneurial

many different kinds of work, with emphasis on variety and independence

Analysis:
The key themes in your Career Beliefs profile are very different from the key themes in your Career Motivations profile.
We place much more importance on Career Motivations than on Career Beliefs in career decision-making. Career Beliefs are too easily influenced by other people in our lives. A person's Career Motivations are more likely to reflect that person's own true preferences. Consequently, in your case, we recommend that you take care to place most importance on Learning themes and Entrepreneurial themes when searching for and evaluating career opportunities. Be sure not to give too much weight to Expert and Competitive themes. They could lead you in the wrong direction in your career.


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StyleView
The StyleView Assessment provides a profile of the image you want to project versus your natural operating style - and examines how people's first and second impressions of you may differ.

StyleView Summary
Comparing your leadership style profile and your thinking style profile

Your leadership and thinking styles influence how people see you when they first meet you, or when they only see you in relatively formal circumstances, (leadership style) vs. how people see you when they get to know you well (thinking style).

As you know, first impressions may not be accurate impressions. That is, people often seem quite different after you get to know them from how you viewed them when you first met them.

Based on our analysis of your profile, we expect that other people's first impression of you will be somewhat different from their impression of you after they come to know you well.

Our reasoning is as follows:

Your Primary Leadership Style is
Task Focused

Your Primary Thinking Style is
Complex

First Impression of You When people first meet you they likely see you as action-oriented, firm and practical - steady, reliable and committed to getting things done efficiently.

After People Get to Know You People who really get to know you well will come to see that actually you are very analytic, thorough, and logical in your thinking, and as quite inclined to stick with a particular course of action once you make up your mind.

Main Difference The main difference that people likely notice as they become increasingly familiar with you is that you are more analytic and inclined to think things through thoroughly before deciding than you first appeared.

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