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Unit 1 Self-Assessments

OGL 482: Pro-Seminar II

Nicholas Barbarossa

1/15/2022
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Section 1:

When working through the Kuder assessments, my results in the career interests

assessment resulted in “ESC” (enterprising, social, continental) realizing that it aligned

with my career interests. Enterprising displays interest in economic, personal, or

organizational goals with confidence in persuasion, leadership, sales, and

entrepreneurial skills while solving problems by social influence, control, and traditional

beliefs. Social interests surround informing, developing, healing and teaching other

people with confidence in developing and growing relationships while solving problems

through empathy and mutuality. Conventional interests surround data, records and

guidelines with confidence in business system skills while solving problems with

established rules, practices, and procedures. In the occupations to explore tab, the

occupations to explore were within human resource management, training and

development, and public relations. These career interests stuck out to me because I

took interest in these occupations before the assessment and seeing that my Kuder

assessments aligned my career interests with my personality type. My interests in a

career prior to the assessment included helping people within an organization and being

a resource that enhances one's ability to perform better within the organization.

Receiving my results from the Kuder Career Interests Assessment suggested careers

to explore within my current interests aligned with my interests and gave me more

confidence to explore those options. In a previous class, OGL 481: Pro-seminar I, I

studied the importance of the human resource framework, learning why it is important to

invest in employees and develop learning and competencies within their role. Upon
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completing the assessment, I understood more about how my interests align with my

skills, and how I can apply my skills to my career search going forward.

Section 2:

Continuing onto the skills and work values Kuder assessments, my top skills are aligned

with my career interest results as well. With the result of “SCE” (similar to my interest

result of ESC), I found my careers to explore page included some similar careers in

human resources, and heavily involved in education. My work values ranking included

supervision, lifestyle, income and independence in my top scores. Supervision was my

top value, meaning that “I have a boss who respects me, recognizes my value, is easy

to talk to, and is concerned about me as a person.” (Kuder Journey) Having a leader

that understands the value I provide to the organization and recognizes my

contributions, while also being concerned for my welfare is a person that I tend to

respond well to. Jumping down to independence, I tend to be an independent worker

among a team and feel that I can be trusted to make decisions and my supervisor takes

a more hands-off approach to management, allowing me to seek their guidance instead

of constant supervision. The last two work values, lifestyle and income, are high on my

results because I seek to have a work-life balance that allows me to have a higher

standard of living and spend time with those I care about. The lifestyle value is able to

be applied to my work because I form personal relationships along the way with my

colleagues and enjoy spending time with them as well, making it more meaningful to get

involved in the workplace. These competencies are not explicitly listed in my e-portfolio,

but would be valuable to incorporate to add perspective into my skills and values. The
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skill-based assessments provide a peek under the curtain into a deeper meaning in my

career and skills. Being able to understand my skills and how they align with my career

interests will strengthen my confidence in seeking a career. Keeping in mind the lower

end of my work values ranking, I know that variety, achievement and prestige are still

important to me in my career, but are lower on the list because they aren’t the decision

making values in my career search. Going forward, incorporating the skills and values

assessments in my e-portfolio and my job search will ensure that I am seeking careers

that align and will transform into long term careers that I find fulfillment in doing.

Section 3:

In the motivation and career anchors assessment, the results measured which of my

needs are top priority and secondary. The primary anchor was autonomy and

independence, the secondary anchor was managerial competence, with my lowest

score in sense of service and dedication to a cause. Autonomy and independence

describes the need to do things my way and “pursue organizational career paths that

are out of the ordinary.” Although I have a strong need to help others and my secondary

anchor involves advancement up the corporate ladder, I would not jeopardize my

autonomy and independence to move my way up. Drawing upon my work value

rankings, independence and lifestyle choice were among my top scores, aligning with

the anchors assessment. My current role allows me to have independence and a

supervisor that trusts me to make decisions, while giving me the flexibility to make my

work-life balance healthy. My primary and secondary anchors do not surprise me

although they can appear to contradict one another, I interpret them as needing the
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constant growth within an organization, but not at the cost of my independence. My

lowest score did not come as a surprise to me either, while I love helping others and

dedicating myself to a cause, I do not have a strong desire to root my career in that

area and find more fulfillment in providing a service to an organization and building skills

of workers through training and activities.

Section 4:

With respect to the self-assessment instruments through Truity, The Big 5, and a

traditional personality test , I have learned a lot from the previous assumptions I have

made about myself. The Truity personality test showed that my career interest areas

were heavy in persuasion, creating, and organizing. Leading, motivating, managing and

self-expression were among the interest areas and aligned with the Kuder assessment

as well. The Big 5 personality test resulted in a high score in conscientiousness,

extraversion, and agreeableness. My work ethic as it pertains to conscientiousness

involves discipline, efficiency, and organization with an interest in precise detail.

Extraversion is involved with leadership roles and working with others, while being

assertive and outgoing. Agreeableness involves compassion and good naturedness,

along with an eager to please mentality. Lastly, my traditional personality test described

my type as “ENFJ” which stands for extraverted, intuitive, feeling, and judging. ENFJ

personality types are charismatic by nature and possess strong interpersonal skills. As

global learners we “see the big picture” and are sensitive to the feelings of others. In my

life, the personality tests have been able to give me a better understanding of how I

handle situations and the outlook I have on the world. I have always led my life by
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putting people first, and in my leadership growth, I have found that I am a democratic

leader to ensure that everyone’s voice is heard. With the charisma of my personality, I

have been able to easily persuade others to draw inspiration from my ideas and ask

thought provoking questions to best judge a situation. In the beginning of my college

journey I had taken a personality test with the same results, showing that although I

have expanded my knowledge on leadership and management, my philosophy has

remained the same in the way I view the world and work within it. Although I recently

took the Kuder assessments, it aligns with the personality test and career personality

profiler.

Conclusion:

Considering the Kuder assessment surrounding career interests and skills, the

motivation and career anchors, and the multiple different personality assessments, I

identified with the results presented. I learned that I have a strong preference for leading

people through training and development, freedom and independence to make

decisions, and a competent leader that can understand my needs as a worker. The

additional assessments about my personality helped me confirm that I do best in social

situations where I can use my best judgment and intuition to make decisions. While I

have a career now where I am able to display these assessed skills and traits, I plan to

explore options in human resources as well as training and development to feel the

most fulfilled in my career going forward. Overall, the assessments helped confirm

things I knew and wanted to uncover more of, and left some areas of opportunity for me

in my career.
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Resources

Career Assessment, Pathways Planning System Login: Kuder journey. Kuder

Journey®. (n.d.). Retrieved January 15, 2023, from

https://journey.kuder.com/home/dashboard