Career Personality and Tests: part 2

Posted on December 15, 2011May 9, 2017 by Marjorie Wall Hofer, M.Ed., PCC, PCM

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.

Success Story: Work-Life Balance

Posted on December 1, 2011May 9, 2017 by Marjorie Wall Hofer, M.Ed., PCC, PCM

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.

Success Story: Career mentors

Posted on December 1, 2011May 9, 2017 by Marjorie Wall Hofer, M.Ed., PCC, PCM

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.

Success Story: Career Purpose and Mission

Posted on November 29, 2011May 11, 2017 by Marjorie Wall Hofer, M.Ed., PCC, PCM

Career Success Story #2

This is a story from a former client who came to me for help. He is a smart, capable businessman who just made one mistake. But with a little bit of help, a few career tests and exercises, we got to the bottom of his career purpose and mission. This is a huge step! Knowing the end helps you act in the now. Send me an email if you want this kind of career success and self-knowledge!

“I finally gave in to trying out TheCareerProfiler. I had always thought that career coaching services were “airy fairy” and certainly not for me. In a moment of desperation, though, I had taken a position well below my career potential and previous experiences. Now I needed help to turn around my career in a large Fortune 100 bureaucratic company.

Knowing your career purpose and mission are stepping stones to your success

I completed a series of career tests that pointed out my talents and strengths. Then I began to realize what I was really meant to do. Together, The Careeer Profiler and I developed a resume based on my talents, strengths, and mission. The Career Profiler had a phenomenal way to quickly and accurately determine my career purpose and mission. It only took an exercise and a couple of career coaching sessions to nail these down. Only two months after our first meeting, I became the vice-president of a venture capital company – such a perfect fit for me! I learned this career secret: know your career purpose and mission.” –Bob V.

Success Story: Strategic Career Alliances

Posted on November 29, 2011May 9, 2017 by Marjorie Wall Hofer, M.Ed., PCC, PCM

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.

15 In-Demand Careers

Posted on August 4, 2011June 1, 2017 by Marjorie Wall Hofer, M.Ed., PCC, PCM

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]To be in demand means that a job’s wages and the growth rate are both increasing. A career that needs more people and is willing to pay them more is a good field to get into! Each of these in-demand careers pays at least $40,000 a year. A full description of each career can be found at the Bureau of Labor Statistic or affiliated website. If one of these sounds interesting but you’re not sure if you’d be happy and successful in it, visit TestEts.com. This is a career test website that will help you find out which of these jobs is best for you. These tests help you decide what careers are compatible with your abilities, personality, and interests.

Each job listed below shows the median pay (MP). This tells you the yearly wage of the average job. You can also find the growth rate (GR) that is, how much the job is growing year to year. The average (not much change) growth rate of all industries is 6%, so you will see that all of these jobs have a growth rate of 10% and higher. Further information about each of these jobs can be found at the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook site. Simply search for the job title you are interested in. All of this information is valid through 2024.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]

Most In-Demand Careers through 2024:

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Wind turbine service technicians:

Install, maintain, and repair wind turbines. MP: $52,000 GR: 108%[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]

Web Developer:

Design and create websites. Handles both technical and aesthetic properties of a website. MP: $63,000 GR: 27%[/vc_column_text][vc_text_separator title=””][vc_column_text]

Speech Language Pathologist:
Assess, diagnose, treat, and help to prevent communication and swallowing issues in patients. MP: $74,600 GR: 21%[/vc_column_text][vc_text_separator title=””][vc_column_text]

HVAC Technician:

Install and repair heating, ventilation, cooling, and
refrigeration systems that control temperature and
air quality. MP: $45,900 GR: 14%[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]

Meeting Planner:

Great job for people with organizational abilities: coordinate all aspects of events and meetings, arrange locations, transportation, etc. MP: $47,000 GR: 10%[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]

Statistician:

Collect and analyze data to help solve problems in business, engineering, healthcare, or other fields. MP: $85,000 GR: 34%[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]

Occupational Therapist:
Treat injured, ill, or disabled patients through the therapeutic use of everyday activities. MP: $81,900 GR: 27%[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]

Actuary:

Analyze financial risks and help businesses minimize risk consequences. MP: $100,600 GR: 18%[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]

Financial Analyst or Personal Financial Advisor:

Help people or companies make investment decisions. MP: $81,760 GR: 12%[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]

Commercial Diver:
Work below surface of water, using scuba gear to inspect, repair, remove, or install equipment and structures. MP: $53,900 GR: 10%[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]

Physician Assistant:
Practice medicine on teams with physicians, surgeons, and other healthcare workers – examine, diagnose, and treat patients. MP: $100,00 GR: 30%[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]

Biomedical Engineer:

Design and create equipment, devices, computer systems,
and software used in healthcare. MP: $85,600 GR: 23%[/vc_column_text][vc_text_separator title=””][vc_column_text]

Lab Technician:

Collect samples and perform tests to analyze body fluids, tissue, and other substances.
MP: $59,000 GR: 16%[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]

Technical Writer:
Write instruction manuals, how-to guides, journal articles, etc..
MP: $69,800 GR: 10%[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]

Network Architect:
Design and build data communication and/or computer networks. MP: $100,000 GR: 9%[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]These in-demand careers are just a starting point to find the perfect job for you. If you’re not sure how to take the next step, fill out the form below. You can ask The Career Profiler what kind of career test you should take. In-demand careers tell you what’s out there. A career test tells you what’s inside. Therefore, you can make a smart decision about a job that will make you most happy!

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