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components of career personality

Career Personality and Tests: part 2

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What is Career Personality? Part 2: Components

A career personality is made up of interest styles, operational styles, behavioral response styles, and interpersonal styles on the grand scope. Different kinds of personality tests measure these different components.

Career personality also consists of more specific characteristics. These include decision-making, problem-solving, leading, energy orientation, perceiving, relational needs, relational response, communication, and team styles. This list of specific traits encompasses the most common personal characteristics assessed by career tests. Each career personality test measures multiples characteristics based on its theory and measurement type.

What is your career personality? It is important to know so that you can select projects, jobs, and activities that use your strengths, talents, style. These are your career assets. When you choose work that matches your career personality – that engages your career assets – you will most likely become more successful and happy! This is because you find your work interesting, engaging, easy (to a degree), and fulfilling.

Career secret:  When you utilize your career assets in work,  you are set up to experience career success.  When you don’t, you set yourself up to struggle and even fail. Know your career personality – find career success.

Balance your work and personal time

Success Story: Work-Life Balance

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Career Success Story #5

Work-life balance! It seems to be one of the most popular questions in the career world. How do those with families, hobbies, outside interests, other jobs, and numerous responsibilities succeed in their careers? The Career Profiler can help you answer these questions and get the work-life balance you deserve. Happiness AND success are possible!
“I wanted to maximize my career potential by obtaining successive career advancements. But I have a daughter! Could I achieve a work-life balance? I knew it would be extremely difficult within the present corporate culture, and my personal economic situation. Yet I knew I wanted career advancement with work life balance. That is how I defined career success for myself.

I worked in a department that was being phased out, though I personally expected to be spared the cuts. This proved to be the perfect incentive to begin my career advancement quest. I started working with The Career Profiler immediately. Through a process of discovery and exploration using some of the best career tests, I gained a solid understanding of my gifts, talents, and strengths.

When an ideal executive job opened up, I again called The Career Profiler in hopes of gaining this career advancement. I received the executive job, even after initially being told the company was looking for someone with different qualities. I believe I earned the job because I held firm to and effectively communicated my career life balance boundaries.

Thank you, Career Profiler, for giving key insights and strategies enabling me to secure an executive position and still maintain the integrity of my personal life.  You taught me this career secret: Leaders know their strengths and boundaries, and communicate them effectively.” –Janelle W.

Career mentor leads to success

Success Story: Career mentors

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Career Success Story #4

This story highlights the importance of finding a career mentor. A relationship like this falls under the category of a strategic alliance. It can also boost your understanding of yourself and your goals while helping you achieve them. The Career Profiler can help you identify people who can become a career mentor for you.

“I worked with The Career Profiler for several years to position myself for the executive track. When we first met, I had few qualities or qualifications for moving up the career ladder. I held a production-like computer job and didn’t have a college degree. Moreover, I didn’t have any critical connections or mentoring relationships. With career coaching from The Career Profiler, I progressed rapidly in my career. I advanced three times, established a couple mentoring relationship, and neared completion of my bachelor’s degree all within only two years.

The Career Profiler stressed the importance of finding and developing relationships with key mentors.  These mentors not only advanced my managerial skill sets, they became “corporate angels,” providing many more opportunities for advancement than I could have obtained on my own. In all honesty, I am now sought after by several departments within my Fortune 500 company.

I call The Career Profiler my “lifeline to success.” She taught me how to mine the secrets that make leaders succeed. The career secret I learned? Leaders are connected to key, influential leaders.” Lisa S.

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Success Story: Dream Career Starts in Career Reality

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Career Success Story #3

Here’s another story from a former client who came to me for help. If you are already on your way to your dream career but feel stuck, this is the lesson to learn. To achieve your future dream, focus on the present reality! The Career Profiler can help you stay motivated, focused, and working towards your career goals.

“I couldn’t seem to get my career jump-started. I was stuck had a job that bored me and was desperate to escape. Then I finally decided to work with The Career Profiler. We began by identifying my talents through some career tests to find my dream career – the job I’d  love doing most. Then we formulated a career strategy to move towards my dream career.

However, I continued to be frustrated by indecision – re-analyzing and perfecting the career choice. The Career Profiler applied her career coaching expertise to help me understand that dream careers begin in the present – in reality. Once I stopped struggling with and resisting my present circumstances, I was able to focus on my career search. And that’s when career opportunities showed up.

I am so thrilled to finally be working in a fulfilling and challenging career. It uses my talents and captivates my interests. I love what I do now and I can finally see the beginnings of my dream career becoming a reality for me in the future. I learned this career secret: Act and move forward in the present career situation – don’t be immobilized by the grandeur of the dream.”  Keith M.

Success Story: Strategic Career Alliances

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Career Success Story #1

This is a story from a former client who came to me for help. She was “just working” without thinking about her potential future in the company. Making career alliances can sound intimidating and cutthroat, but it doesn’t have to be. It’s just one example of many ways I can help you improve your performance, find the perfect job, change to a new career, or excel in your company!

“I expected to be laid off as a result of restructuring in my department. Even though I had over 20 years at this Fortune 100 company, I had lost some political advantages. I didn’t think through creating career alliances with executives or other employers. I called TheCareerProfiler for resume help. But she said a resume wasn’t the most important thing to be thinking about. In order to achieve career success and security again, I needed to learn new career skills.

As the layoffs started, I worked on making my career future secure and successful within this new culture. I aligned myself with politically powerful and savvy executives who protected my job and positioned me to gain an ideal position within the company. I learned two critical career secrets: Make strategic career alliances and go for what your truly want in your career… go for your ideal career.” –Joanne C.

Are you done with waiting for the “inevitable?” Then start working towards smart career decisions, securing your job, improving your skills, and making strategic alliances! Don’t know where to start? Get in touch with The Career Profiler today.