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Use of Personality & Career Assessments for MBA Students
Slide2About Us
PsychAbility
offers
the world’s most popular and widely used personality, career, leadership and other psychometric tests. We administer the authentic Strong Interest Inventory®, MBTI®, TKI, FIRO-B®, CPI 260® and other products from CPP, the exclusive publisher of these best-selling assessments.
Slide3About CPP, Inc.
Since its founding in 1956, CPP, Inc., has been a leading publisher and provider of innovative products and services for individual and organizational
development
- including the Fortune 500, for more than 50 years.The company’s hundreds of unique offerings have been used by millions of individuals in more than 100 countries, in more than 20 languages.
Slide4The Role of Work in People’s Lives
Need for survivalNeed for relatedness
Need for self-determination
Working as a source of dreams and disappointments
Study of urban Chicago by Wilson (1996)Recent advances in positive psychologyPE-fit theory
Slide5Strong Interest Inventory®
For nearly 80 years, the Strong Interest Inventory® assessment has provided time-tested,
research validated insights
to help individuals in
their search for a rich, fulfilling career. As one of the most respected and widely used career planning instruments in the world, it has
been used extensively in educational institutions and organizations of all sizes.
Slide6Strong Interest Inventory®
Slide7How You Will Benefit
The Strong can be a valuable tool in helping you identify
your interests
, enabling you
to achieve satisfaction in your workIdentify career options consistent with your interestsChoose appropriate education and training relevant to your interestsMaintain
balance between your work and leisure activitiesUnderstand aspects of your personality most closely associated with your interests
Slide8Determine your preferred learning environments
Learn about your preferences for leadership, risk taking, and teamworkUse interests in shaping your career directionDecide on a focus for the future
Direct your own career exploration at various stages in your life
Slide9About the Assessment
291-item Strong reveals
interest
patterns through
a range of complementary scales:6 General Occupational Themes (GOTs)30 Basic Interest Scales (BISs)260 Occupational Scales (OSs)—updated in
2012— 5 Personal Style Scales (PSSs)
Slide10GOTs
Slide11Applications of the Strong
®• Choosing a college
major
• Career exploration
• Career development• Career alignmentTest Report
Connect with O*Net
Slide12Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®
MBTI is the world’s most powerful and well known Personality Test. Over 100 million
people have taken it. Last year alone
two million
people used their MBTI ® results to gain understanding about themselves and the people around them. This test is designed to help you understand your unique personality and the way you relate to others around you. It is backed by thousands of research studies and has been found to be both reliable and valid in assessing personality.
Slide13Fortune 500
Slide14What issues Can it Help Address
Self understanding and developmentTeam developmentLeadership
development
Interpersonal skills
developmentConflict managementExecutive and line manager coachingStress managementCareer transition and planning
Slide15Slide16About the Assessment
Makes Carl Jung’s theory of psychological type understandable
and useful in people’s everyday lives.
The essence of the
theoryThe MBTI assessment helps people identify their preferences on four dichotomies: • Extraversion or Introversion
• Sensing or INtuition
•
T
hinking or
F
eeling
•
J
udging or
P
erceiving
Slide17Four Dichotomies
Slide1816 Personality Types
People’s four-letter MBTI type code is a simple way of signifying the interaction of their preferences.
Slide19What are Preferences?
Sign your name!Preferred vs. non-preferred
Slide20Slide21Sensing vs. Intuition
Slide22T/F Exercise
“There was a 36-year-old man, and he had six children between the ages of 1 and 6. Unfortunately, the man’s wife had died about
six months
prior to this incident. One day, out
of desperation, he went into a grocery store, filled up a grocery cart with items, and proceeded to walk past the cashier…out the front door…and into the parking lot with the full grocery cart.
The cashier ran after him and asked him whether he had paid for the items in his cart. The man told the cashier no.”
Slide23To Prosecute or Not?
You are the manager of this grocery store. You have complete autonomy to decide whether you would prosecute this man or not
.
Would you prosecute the man or not?
If yes, why? If not, why not? “Did I tell you that there were groceries in the cart?”
Slide24MBTI Assessment Report
Slide25Prayers based on Type
ISTJ: Lord help me to relax about insignificant details beginning tomorrow at 11:41.23 am e.s.t.
ISTP:
God help me to consider people's feelings, even if most of them ARE hypersensitive.
ESTJ: God, help me to not try to RUN everything. But, if You need some help, just ask.ISFP: Lord, help me to stand up for my rights (if you don't mind my asking).
ESFJ: God give me patience, and I mean right NOW.INFJ: Lord help me not be a perfectionist. (did I spell that correctly?)
INFP:
God, help me to finish everything I
sta
Slide26Technical Brief
Data from European English, French, German, Latin American Spanish, European SpanishChinese, Asian, Hispanic, Native & Caucasian
Slide27MBTI & Strong Combined Reports
Slide28Slide29Connect to O*Net
Slide30Slide31Resources for Students
Research the career fields and occupations suggested in this report at http://
www.onetonline.org
Occupational Outlook Handbook at
http://www.bls.gov/ooh/ http://PsychAbility.Org
/PsychAbilityPK
Slide32Questions