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Application: Vocational/Career Self-Assessment

As you begin this course in vocational psychology and counseling, as with any endeavor where you will be working closely with clients and colleagues, e.g., during practicum and internship experiences, it is a good idea to enhance your own self-awareness in the area as well as expose yourself to some of the tools of the trade. Thus, you will take a personality self-assessment (Self-Directed Search) and receive a report that interprets the results. You will also be introduced to the Walden University Career Services Center, and conduct your own self-assessment of your strengths. You will reflect on insights you gained as a result of taking these self-assessments and learning about the Career Center.

To prepare for this assignment:

· Think about what you might learn about yourself as a result of taking a self-assessment inventory in the area of vocational/career counseling/development at this stage of your life.

· There is a free version of the Self Directed Search online at: http://personality-testing.info/tests/RIASEC.php

· Take the survey.

· Review the report you get back. Do you think the interpretation is mostly accurate? In what ways? If not, why not? What insights did you have?

View the 15-minute Walden Career Services Video entitled “Self Knowledge Tools to Enhance Your Competitive Edge,” found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glLe8qqoKBE&feature=youtu.be

Then complete at least one of the self-assessments of strengths mentioned in the video (SWOT is free; SkillScan and StrengthFinder have nominal fees associated with them).

Summarize your results, and consider what was most valuable about the self-assessment of strengths exercise.

Think about a client taking such inventories. What role do you think a counselor might play in terms of helping a client interpret and deal with the results of the inventories?

The assignment: (2–3 pages)

· Write a synthesis of the findings from the self-assessments that you took (both the SDS and the strengths self-assessments recommended by the Walden Career Center)

· Describe your reactions to each. If you were in a counseling setting, what kind of support or response might you want from your counselor given your reaction?

· Report on what you found to be most valuable about completing the self-assessments and being introduced to the Walden Career Center.

· Discuss how you might apply these tools with clients who are interested in launching a career search.

Support your Application assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. You are asked to provide a reference list only for those resources not included in the Learning Resources for this course.

Required Resources

· Capuzzi, D., & Stauffer, M. D. (2012). Career counseling: Foundations, perspectives, and applications. (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson Education.

o Chapter 1, "Historical Influences on the Evolution of Vocational Counseling "

Media

· Video: Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2007). Vocational psychology and counseling: Introduction. Baltimore: Author.

· with Dr. Darrell Luzzo

· Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 5 minutes.

· Accessible player --Downloads-- Download Video w/CC Download Audio

· Video: Walden University Career Services. (2015). Self Knowledge Tools to Enhance Your Competitive Edge. Retrieved from:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glLe8qqoKBE&feature=youtu.be

Website

· National Career Development Association. (2015). Internet sites for career planning. Retrieved from www.ncda.org/aws/NCDA/pt/sp/resources

These are the results from the IIP RIASEC Markers. Your scores for each of the 6 basic interest areas are below.

Realistic

13

Investigative

10

Artistic

8

Social

22

Enterprising

16

Conventional

24

Scores range from 0 to 32. This distribution of scores are below. This graph shows what percent of people received a specific score, for each of the six scales.

https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/RIASEC/distribution.png

You can see that the people who have taken this test are somewhat biased towards S, and away from R and C.

Type

Your highest score was for the Conventional occupational interest.

See the descriptions for all of the types here .

Suitable careers

A persons top three interests areas are sometimes called their "Holland Code". This would make your code CSE. The United States Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration maintains a database of occupations sorted by Holland Code. The list of occupations for the CSE can be found at http://www.onetonline.org/explore/interests/Conventional/Social/Enterprising/

Conventional

· CONVENTIONAL occupational personality types are oriented to completing tasks initiated by others. They pay attention to detail, and prefer to work with data, particularly in the numerical, statistical, and record-keeping realm. They have a high sense of responsibility, follow the rules, and want to know precisely what is expected of them.

· Characteristics: Conscientious, efficient, concern for rules and regulation, orderly

· Problem Solving: Prefers clearly defined, practical problems. Prefers to solve problems by applying rules.

Social

· The SOCIAL occupational personality type is concerned with people and their welfare. Social types make friends easily and tend to have well developed communication skills. They enjoy working with groups or individuals, using empathy and an ability to identify and solve problems, and tend to be high achievers and good leaders.

· Characteristics: Humanistic, verbal, interpersonal, responsible

· Problem Solving: Deals with problems through feelings. Flexible approach to problems.

Enterprising

· ENTERPRISING occupational personality types are goal-oriented and want to see results. They work with and through people, providing leadership and delegating responsibilities for organizational and/or financial gain. These people tend to function with a high degree of energy. They prefer business settings, and often want social events to have a purpose beyond socializing.

· Characteristics: Persuasive, confident, demonstrate leadership, interest in power/status

· Problem Solving: Attacks problems with leadership skills. Decision Maker.