Prompt #1: Interest Based Assessment

What particular career interests stuck out to you? With respect to the interest profiler,
how did your interests score in the Holland Occupations Code system or RIASEC
(realistic/investigative/artistic/social/enterprising/conventional categories)? How could
you use interests-based assessments to help move your career and your life forward? If
you have taken any other interests-based assessments in the past, please comment on
those, and any relevant connections to the Kuder Assessments.
My interest based assessment gave me the CR/I Holland Code, with the following results,
#1 being the highest scoring and #6 being the lowest score: #1 Conventional, (Tie) #2
Investigative, (Tie) #2 Realistic, #3 Enterprising, #4 Social, #5 Artistic. The career interest that
stuck out to me was the Social category which ranked #5. It stuck out because the social aspect
of my career is essential and must be a priority. I can use these scores to help my life by putting
more effort into my social activities in my career and outside my career. Valuing the
relationships I have and the people I interact with can only help me with my goals. My job is
based on long-term relationships with our clients and it is those people that allow us to earn a
living. The Social part must come before the Conventional part of my job since there is no
procedural work to be done without a client giving us a reason to do so. The realistic and
investigate sections were a tie for #2. I was not surprised by this because I enjoy those aspects of
my job and the process of solving problems; But Conventional was the highest ranking category,
because I enjoy the rare times I am doing conventional activities that are more structured and
procedural. I have taken a Learning Style Inventory Assessment which gave me a style of
“Active Experimentation”. This seems to be aligned with my high ranking in the Investigative
category, where I enjoy activities which involve a lot of thinking and analysis.

Prompt #2: Skills/Work Values Assessments

What are your top skills? Are these the skills that you highlighted in your e-portfolio
(from OGL 481 Pro-Seminar I)? Comment on any differences there, and how you
might improve, or add to the skills section of your e-portfolio based on this new
perspective. Also, be sure to comment on your Holland Occupations Codes (RIASEC),
and how your skills and interests are compared in that regard. How could you use
skills-based assessments to help move your career and your life forward? If you have
taken any other skills-based assessments in the past, please comment on those, and any
relevant connections to the Kuder Assessments.
The Skills and Work Values Assessments gave me the Holland Code of CR/E, with the
following results: #1 Conventional, (Tie) #2 Enterprising, (Tie) #2 Realistic, #3 Artistic, #4
Investigative, #5 Social. This was more aligned with my current career since Enterprising was
included. While working through these assessments, there were a few results that stuck out to
me. The first one that stuck out was my results on the Skills Confidence Assessment. The
Artistic category ranked higher than both the Investigative and Social categories. My job is in the
Enterprising category for occupation codes, which heavily relies on social skills and political
activities to be successful. Social skills were the lowest scoring category in this assessment as
well. Since Social skills are essential to my career, I think I have become less confident in my
Social skills so that I do not become overly comfortable and can continue to develop those skills.
My top skill was Conventional, with Enterprising and Realistic being tied for second place. This
was not surprising to me because I am the most confident in my Conventional skills involving
computational, clerical, and business systems. My Work Values Assessment resulted in Prestige,
Workplace, and Independence as my highest ranked values. I can use these results from the
Skills/Work Values assessment to help move my career forward by becoming more confident in
my Social skills so that I can more confidently use my Enterprising skills to achieve my goals.

Prompt #3: Career Anchor Assessment

Discuss your primary and secondary career anchors. Any surprises? Make some
connections between your current work/life and your scores on the career anchors
assessment. What was your lowest scoring career anchor?

My primary career anchor was Entrepreneurial Creativity and my secondary career

anchor was Autonomy/Independence. This connects with my current career because I have a
great deal of independence and can use my Entrepreneurial Creativity to come up with new ideas
to implement. Independence means not being micromanaged and being able to prioritize your
tasks based on your own judgement. I enjoy my current career path because it is very
autonomous and you are paid by performance. My lowest scoring career anchor was Managerial
Competence. This was my lowest scoring anchor likely because of the position I hold in my job
today. It is just my boss and I working on a team so there is not a need for the Managerial
Competence that would be required for a larger team or office. I can use these results to help my
current job by continuing to work hard so that I can turn it into a career. I have put a lot of time
into getting a job that involves something that interests me and includes the career anchors I
value most. Although there is minimal job security, I am confident that my determination and
persevering work ethic will be more than enough to live comfortably.

Prompt #4: Additional Assessments

With respect to additional self-assessment instruments that you included (at least 3 from either past
courses or taken from the Assessment Links list below), write briefly about what you learned about
yourself. (Cite the new assessments you took, and briefly describe your findings and how those
findings relate to how you see yourself in the world).

Jung Typology Test:

I took the Jung Typology Test for my first additional assessment. My results were as
follows: ENFJ: Extravert (9%), Intuitive (50%), Feeling (6%), Judging (9%). The ENFJ type
“Have a tremendous amount of Charisma by which many are drawn to their nurturant” (Human
Metric.com). This is a useful skill/trait for my career which I try to capitalize from. I found it
extremely surprising that I swayed so far to the Intuitive side rather than the Sensing side of the
perceiving information section. I feel like I rely on information I receive directly from the
external world, but these results have caused me to begin paying attention to what information I
rely on, external or internal. I thought this low percentage Extrovert score was also interesting
since it gave the same result as the TypeFinder Personality Test which I took as my second
additional assessment.

The TypeFinder Personality Test:

For my second additional assessment I took the TypeFinder Personality Test. I was an
ENTP: Extraversion, Intuition, Thinking, Perceiving. These results were perplexing in that I am
almost 50% Introverted and 50% Extroverted. This was the same as the Jung Typology Test
results. This was different in that I swayed further to the Perceiving side rather than the Judging
side of the processing information section. I found it interesting that I am split down the middle
fairly evenly on this because I do feel a certain amount of judgement is necessary to fully
understand the information you are perceiving; Judging not in a biased manner, but in a rational,
objective one. This assessment made me reconsider how I perceive people and things in my
everyday life. I do not want to become too judgmental to the point where I become close minded,
but I want to have some amount of judgement so that I am not too naive.

Big Five Personality Test:

I took the Big Five Personality test for my third additional assessment. This one was very
interesting as my highest scoring category was Conscientiousness. This means that I dislike
precise details and prefer to have flexible schedules. This surprised me because of how accurate I
feel it described me. When I am confident in accomplishing a task, I prefer to have the autonomy
to decide how I think it should be done. I do not like feeling locked in by a strict schedule and
prefer there is room for changes. This assessment changed the way I perceive myself because I
can be very hypocritical. I like imposing strict schedules on people in my life so that I have some
idea of the plan, while I do not want a strict schedule for myself and prefer to not let anyone
know my plan. I need to do a better job at practicing what I preach. I think these results connect
with my secondary career anchor or Autonomy and Independence. Being able to choose my own
hours and how I complete my job makes me feel more flexible and prepared for the unexpected.

Throughout your personal or professional life, what have been the most useful self-
assessments tools for you, and why?

The most useful self-assessment tools that I have utilized over the years include
meditation, writing, and list making. These are much different than the formal assessments we
have conducted throughout this assignment, but they can work equally as effectively. I find that
once the truth is down on paper it is impossible for you to ignore or postpone any longer. This
has helped me come to terms with poor habits I have fallen into, areas of my life I need to pay
more attention to, and even big decisions like where I wanted to get a new job. Meditation allows
you to really reflect on your decisions and your day. It is a great tool for thinking deeply about a
single topic regardless of what it involves and seeing it differently.

Prompt #5: E-Portfolio Link

https://sppatton.weebly.com/
References:

1. Kuder Assessments: https://asu.kuder.com/home/dashboard

2. Jung Typology Test: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp

3. The TypeFinder Personality Test: https://www.truity.com/test/type-finder-personality-

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4. Big Five Personality Test: https://www.123test.com/