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Career
Development
Tools

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 The Career Coaches’
Tool Kit
Personality Tests Interest
Inventories

Your
Client!

Card Sorting
Values Surveys Instruments
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 Plus...
Skills & Behaviors
Knowledge

Jobs

Qualifications Experience
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 Personality Tests
• What is Personality?
– Stable set of traits that can help
us to predict how you will
behave in most situations

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 Personality Testing
Summarised
There are different types of tests:
• Typologies - MBTI,
• Descriptive - Inner View, DISC
Test criteria
• Relevance to your client
• Reliable, valid, correctly
interpreted: outsource it?
Application to career choice 5
 Other Interesting
things...
• Super defined four types of Interests:
1. Expressed interests - verbal statements or claims of
interest
2. Manifest interests - actions speaking louder than
words
3. Inventories - estimates based on a questionnaire
4. Tested interests - controlled test
Expressed & inventoried interests predict
occupational choice, job satisfaction &
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 Other examples...
• Campbell Interest & Skill Survey
• Strong Interest Inventory
• Kuder Occupational Interest
Survey
• Self-Directed Search (Holland)
• Harrison Inner View
• Card Sorts…
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 Card Sorts
•A wonderful process
» practical
» fun
» instructional
» immediate
» Rank: Occupational Preferences, Skills
(Motivated Card sort), Career Values,
Retirement Activities, Life Values
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 Values at Work
• Are learnt from family, school,
socialisation, society
• Reflect the guiding rules your
Client will apply to their
behavior at work

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 May be positive or
negative
• More basic than interests,
longer term behavior influences
• Relate to job satisfaction (does
job match/reflect my values)
• Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic values...

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 Value Assessment
• Inventories:
» Super’s Values Scale (VS)
» Minnesota Importance
Questionnaire (MIQ)
» Life Values Inventory (LVI)

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 Values add value this
way:
• Equates with job satisfaction
• As you seek to satisfy your
intrinsic and extrinsic values
• Learn thyself but ‘Caveat
Emptor’ - be aware of your
tools and their limits
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 Task requirements

Work Environment Interests

Inner View
Decision-making skills Attitudes

Interpersonal skills Personality balance

Motivations 13
 Inner View Tool

Personality/Motivation
Assessment
Task Preferences
Work Environment
Preferences
Interest Inventory
Values Inventory
Personal Honesty
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 A Bigger Picture

• Choose Your Assessments

according to Your Client’s needs
• Get help from a Career Coach
• Don’t be afraid to Explore the
Library as well as Network with
People You know
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 When to Use These Tools?

1. ASSESSMENT - when you want to know

What Career Next! for you...
• Personality Tools
• Suitability Tools
• Competency/Skill Certification
• Interest Inventories
• Other Typology Instruments
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 Stage Two
2. EXPLORATION - Choices
• Occupational Interests
• Motivated skills
• Burn-out Skills
• Other Tools: networking,
information interviews, internet,
relatives, friends

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 Stage Three
3. CAREER GOALS
• Tools: Prioritising - importance -
values, needs, interests, positive vs.
negative consequences of your
choice, short to long term
outcomes,
• Create options - card sort,
internet, counselling
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 Career Decisions
• Ranking desired Outcomes:

– Money
3 - Very Likely
– Achievement
2 - Somewhat Likely
– Satisfaction 1 - Likely
– Lifestyle

• Pros & Cons Exercise

- rank for different stakeholders
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 Why, what and how
much?
• Clients ask most often about their
personality
• Career Coaches most often use
Interest Inventories
• Personality and values are why,
interests are what, motivation is
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 Stage
StageFour
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4. CAREER ACTION PLAN
• Tools: Career Diary, career review,
training and development needs analysis
• Friends, partner, supporters,
professionals

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 How?
• Use these tools to learn more
about yourself
• Use them to You make better
career choices
• Fit your choices to your needs,
wants and dreams for better
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 More Tools For You!

Salary Data Networking

Internet

Their Resume Library

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