CareerLeader Overview MBA Alumni Career Management Fall 2018
CareerLeader OverviewMBA Alumni Career Management
Fall 2018
CareerLeader: Best-in-class Career Assessment
• Designed for MBAs and business professionals
- Used by 94 of top 100 MBA programs
• Highly reliable and valid
• Based on sample of ~500,000 global business
professionals
• Incorporates quantitative results for discussion with
Career Advisor
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What is CareerLeader? – 5 Core Results
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Interests 8Enterprise Control, Managing People and
Teams
Motivators 13 Power and Influence, Intellectual Challenge
Skills 41Teamwork, Influence, Comfort with Risk,
Delegating
Career Match 33Investing Banking, Entrepreneurship, Retail
Management
Culture Match 4If results are all “Mid” the culture match
should not have any problems. High/Low
require greater exploration
# Results Examples
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Interests
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• Define: Interests refer to 8 broad
domains of work
• Changeable: Highly stable in adults
• Use:
- Most important factor in determining
the right choice for your career
- Alignment to career is best predictor
of success and satisfaction
• Range: Results are percentiles
High: ~ 80-100
Mid: ~ 40-79
Low: ~ 0-39
Application of Technology
Coaching & Mentoring
Creative Production
Enterprise Control
Influencing Others
Managing Teams & People
Quantitative Analysis
Theory Development & Research
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Motivators
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• Define: Motivators are personal
values related to work
• Changeable: Your most important
motivators will tend to be fairly
consistent over time.
• Use: High motivators are a “need to
have” low motivators do NOT need to
be avoided. Since you can't have
everything, your motivations help you
to prioritize and make trade-off’s.
• Scoring: ranked by importance:
High: >9
Mid: ~ 4-8
Low: ~ <4
Altruism
Affiliation
Autonomy
Financial Gain
Intellectual Challenge
Lifestyle
Managing People
Positioning
Power & Influence
Prestige
Recognition
Security
Variety
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Skills
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• Define: Skills are acquired through
education, training and experience
• Changeable: Yes, they change with use
and additional development
• Use: Identify which skills you possess
and which skills you need to develop for a
target job. Don’t pursue a career just
because you have the skills for the role.
• Note: There are both personal and
cultural differences in how people self-rate
their skills. If you think you tend to
"undervalue" your own skill level, take that
into account when considering your
results.
• Scoring: Results are percentiles
High: ~ 80-100
Mid: ~ 40-79
Low: ~ 0-39
Interpersonal Effectiveness (11)
Analysis & Strategic Decision Making (11)
Bringing Management Structure (9)
Power & Influence (10)
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Career MatchesAccounting Investment Banking Project Management
Advertising Account Mgmt. Investment Management Real Estate Development
Biz Dev & Sales Law Real Estate Finance
Commercial Banking Management Consulting Research & Development Management
Entrepreneurship Management in Science Development Retail Management
Finance in Corporation Settings Marketing Sales Management
Financial Planning & Stock Brokerage Mgmt. of New Product Development Securities Trading
General Management Non-Profit Management Strategic Planning
Human Resources Management PE Investment Supply Chain Management
Information Systems Management PR & Communications Training & Organizational Development
Institutional Securities Sales Production & Operations Management Venture Capital
High match to your ideal job = you are likely a good fit
Low match to your ideal job = spend time digging deeper
• Don’t be discouraged or give up your dream
• Don’t dismiss the results or immediately re-take the assessment
• Identify how are you different from most people in that role
• Assess if the differences will affect your satisfaction & success
• Determine if you are truly a good fit
• Results:
High: ~ 80-100
Mid: ~ 40-79
Low: ~ 0-39
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Culture Match
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• Define: Four common personality traits
• Changeable: Highly stable in adults.
• Use: Consider the culture match traits
when choosing a company. “Middle”
scoring candidates, can likely adapt to
most work environments. The Higher and
Lower scoring candidates may have
difficulty adapting to corporate cultures too
different from their own personalities.
• Note: Similar to personality, it is not
necessarily “good” or “bad” to be high or
low on a Culture Match trait.
• Scoring: Results are non-numerical.
Very High
High
Middle
Low
Very Low
Collaboration & Consideration
Extraversion & Decisiveness
Innovation & Change
Precision & Planning
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Summary of 5 Core Results
CORE RESULT #SCORE
High Mid Low
Interests 8 ~80-100 ~40-79 ~0-39
Motivators* 13 9-12 4-8 0-3
Skills 41 ~80-100 ~40-79 ~0-39
Career Match 33 ~80-100 ~40-79 ~0-39
Culture Match 4 Very High Middle Very Low
*Motivators are the only section of CareerLeader
that is rank ordered rather than a percentile.
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Your Online Profile
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You can click on any of the boxes
(Interests, Motivators, Skills) to do a
deeper dive into your individual results.
If you would like to dig deeper, the
CareerLeader website has much more
information about the assessment and
what factors formed your results.
Take the Assessment Online*
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