How To Read Your Career Direct Results

How to Read your Career Direct Results

The Career Direct

The Purpose of this Instrument is Self-Discovery. It is designed to help people

identify their natural personality strengths, potential vocational interests, skills, and

values.

Personality How am I naturally motivated to act?

Coaching Report (page 3 of 12)Detailed Report (pages 8-10 of 26)

Factor Those outside the mid-range are your stronger traits, and will show your natural tendency to act. These factors translate into the things you should consider in your career choice.

Subfactor The more specific traits that make up a factorThose that fall in the mid-range typically exhibit a mix of

behaviors

Compliant DominantPliableConformingTactful

AssertiveIndependentBlunt

Personality Traits

•Measures an individual’s motivation to be in control of situations and people in their environment. • This is important when considering work or careers.

Consider: Do you want to be the boss?

Introverted ExtrovertedDistantReservedQuiet

EnthusiasticSocialVerbal

Personality Traits

•Measures a person’s motivation to interact with others

Consider: Do you want to work with people? Do you want to work in a cubicle or closed door office environment?

DetachedCompassionateNeutral

ObjectiveQuestioning

SympatheticSupportiveTolerant

Personality Traits

•Measures the tendency of an individual to be caring, understanding, and accepting.

Consider: Do you need harmony, warmth, and regular routines in your work or are you more practical and logical?

Unstructured ConscientiousImprovisingSpontaneousIndifferent

PreciseOrganizedAchieving

Personality Traits

•Measures the motivation of a person to be accurate, structured, and thorough

Consider: Do you want an organized, dependable work environment? Do you prefer to work with facts and data as key tools for the job?

CautiousAdventurousConservative

Content

DaringAmbitious

Personality Traits

•Measures the tendency of an individual to be pioneering and competitive.

Consider: Are you willing to take risks to achieve your goals? Do you want security and reliability in your work or change jobs when you get bored?

Conventional InnovativePredictableTraditional

ImaginativeClever

Personality Traits

•Measures or reflects the tendency of a person to quickly envision new ideas. Consider: Will you want to do the same thing daily or different things regularly? Do you want a skill driven job or one that requires continual learning?

Strengths and Non-Strengths

Coaching report (page 6 of 12)

Detailed report (page 11 of 26)

Use the Strengths to identify the qualities that you have to offer a career.

Use the Non- Strengths to identify areas of change that may be needed for career success.

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Career ImplicationsYour personality traits are listed in order of strength, the one that will impact your career is listed first.

Check out your Action Plan, then go to your Job Sampler and visit www.onetonline.org to research your career opportunities.

Critical Life Issues

Coaching Report (page 7 of 12)Detailed Report (page 13 of 26)

Stress – If you have a score in the mid to high range please identify your stress as personal or school/career related. Be aware of how you can relieve your stress.

Consider: How is stress likely to affect my career? Am I likely to burn out in a career that requires daily interaction with people or is deadline driven?

Critical Life Issues

Financial Management – This assesses a person’s money management practices – how you budget your money.

Consider: Do I know how to budget money or am I likely to choose a job based on salary and not whether it is the right job for me?

Indebtedness - This assesses a person’s likelihood of having debt management problems

Consider: Will I lose out on a job if a potential employer does a credit check on me?

•DOING

•HELPING

•ANALYZING

•INFLUENCING

•EXPRESSING

General InterestsDetailed Report (pages 14-15 of 26)

Use the chart on page 15 to identify your first five interests. Look at the categories below on page 14 and underline these five interests in their respective categories.

DOING HELPING ANALYZING INFLUENCING EXPRESSING

* Mechanical* Outdoors / Agriculture* Security /

Enforcement* Athletics

* Adventure

* Service* Transportation

Services* Animal Care* Consumer

Science

* Science / Health

* ComputationalFinancial

* TechnologicalSciences

* Management / Sales

* Law / Politics*Education

* Counseling* International

* Religious

* Performing /Communicatio

n* Writing* Artistic

Activities, Occupations, and SubjectsCoaching Report (page 11 of 12 )

The occupations list is where you identify a possible career for yourself.

The activity and subject list are where you identify hobbies for yourself.

Skills & AbilitiesDetailed Report ( page 19 of 26 )

It is important to match your work to your best skills so that you might have the personal joy of doing something that comes naturally.

Working within your natural strengths helps you learn faster and achieve more with the same effort.

Is there a common theme to your skills?Do your skills relate more to your hobby or

your occupation? Is there a way these activity skills could transfer to your work?

Valueswork environment, work outcome, life

Values are your priorities as they relate to your work. Expect these to change over time as you age, gain experience in the work place, and your family situation changes (engaged, married, have children). Ask yourself these two questions:

•Does my work match my needs?

•Does my walk (life actions) match my talk (what I say I believe)?

*You can be in a career fi e ld that i s a good match for your in teres ts , sk i l l s , and personal i ty and s t i l l exper ience job d i ssat i s fact ion…*Work env i ronment va lues – R e fl e c t o n t h e i m p o r t a n c e o f y o u r s u r r o u n d i n g s .C o n s i d e r : I f I v a l u e w o r k i n g o u t s i d e w i l l I b e h a p p y i n t h e c o n fi n e s o f a n o ff i c e ?

*Work outcome va lues – D e c i d e w h a t r e w a r d s y o u e x p e c t f r o m y o u r w o r k .C o n s i d e r : W h a t i s r e a l l y i m p o r t a n t t o m e i n m y c a r e e r ? I s m o n e y o r l e a d e r s h i p i m p o r t a n t e n o u g h t o p u r s u e a t t h e p r i c e o f m a k i n g s a c r i fi c e s p e r s o n a l l y ?

*L i fe va lues – A l i g n t h e w a y y o u l i v e w i t h y o u r l i f e v a l u e s .C o n s i d e r : W h a t i s m y l i f e p u r p o s e a n d h o w d o e s t h a t fi t i n w i t h m y c a r e e r c h o i c e ? H o w d o I a t t a i n p e a c e a n d f u l fi l l m e n t i n m y w o r k ?

ValuesDetailed Report (pages 21-23 of 26)

Research & Development of the Career Direct

Design and Samples

Both a rational approach and a principal component factor analytic approach were used for development of design.

Samples were taken from a diverse population of both adults and youth.

Youngest Age: 15 for subject choices (high school), with the ideal age of 17-years-old.

A sample (N=1,048) of adults took the Personality, Interests, Skills, and Values Sections, along with the Strong Interest Inventory for construct validity.

Scoring

Raw scores for each factor are the sum of the numerical responses marked for each item of the factor.

Standardized T-Scores were derived from the raw scores of the standardization sample for adults and youth.

Standardized T-scores put all scores on a scale where the mean or midpoint is 50 and almost all scores fall between 20 and 80.

Scales

Using a T-score scale, low scores of below 20 were rounded up to 20 and high scores above 80 were rounded down to 80, making 20 the lowest possible score and 80 the highest. Fifty is the mean and the standard deviation is 10.

Validity

Client Responses: (for Accuracy)Personality – up to 96%Interests – 90%, Skills – 87%, Values – Work

Environment – 91%, Outcomes – 89% & Life – 99%

Overall Helpfulness – 96%

Reliability

Internal Consistency Cronbach Alpha ranged from .86 to .94 for personality

Internal Consistency Cronbach Alpha ranged from .78 to .93 for activity clusters

Internal Consistency Cronbach Alpha ranged from .76 to .90 for occupational clusters

TEST/RETEST:6 weeks (n=166) .85 to .906 months (n=75) .81 to .861 year (n=50) .80 to .86

Thank you for taking the Career Direct assessment. Ideally the assessment will help you focus on career fields for which you are suited. This is not a job placement tool so you need to take responsibility for selecting the career field that is right for you.

If you would like to talk to a counselor about your career and how to choose a college major, please contact the LU Career Center.

Liberty University Career CenterHours: M-F 8pm – 5pm

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www.liberty.edu/careers