FIND YOUR FIT: First Career Exploration Session
August 1st, 2009 | Published in Workshops & Seminars
Recently, I had the pleasure of helping a young teenage client to explore career options so that she could plan her post-secondary education and choose the pre-requisites she would need in her final 2 years of high school. This client presented a challenge – she was equally right and left-brain gifted, meaning her options were limitless. This young lady won 5 awards for top marks in her grade last year, ranging from excellence in Art to Social Studies, and Community Service.
After a brief discussion about her passions, interests, and grades at school, I requested that Samantha complete an on-line version of the MBTI. “Knowing your personality type, as measured through the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® instrument, can help you with career planning at every stage: from your choices of subjects and majors in school to choosing your first career, to advancing in your organization or changing careers later in life. (Click here for more information on MBTI). Apart from this, knowing her personality type in advance helped me to structure our career planning discussions according to her preferred style of taking in information and making decisions.
After a 90-minute MBTI interpretation session, we became clear on Samantha’s best-fit type. Knowing this is important, and cannot be determined alone by completing the Indicator, as all instruments have limitations. During our session, I helped Samantha to understand her results, and how to use her Career Report. The MBTI® Career Report is organized under the following sections:
- Summary of your MBTI Results
- How Your Type Affects Your Career Choice
- How Your Type Affects Your Career Exploration
- How Your Type Affects Your Career Development, Job Families and Occupations for Your Type (Ranking of Job Families, Most Popular Occupations, Least Popular Occupations).
Her report was consistent with what I knew about Samantha – citing “Most Attractive Job Families” as science/technical, plus her strengths in writing and art were reflected in the “Moderately Attractive Job Families”.
