Ask the Expert: Match My Profile To A Job?
Friday, June 25th, 2010Art Schoeck was recently asked the following question via our Ask the Expert form:
** Is there a resource or tool that highlights jobs that match my disc profile? How can I learn at which jobs I would excel? **
Art’s answer:
The Career Planning Insights instrument is a wonderful user-friendly tool for identifying those jobs most compatible with one’s behavioral preferences (DISC). It consists of three online questionnaires – the first questionnaire is about you, the second is about your current (or most recent) job, and the third focuses on the job you’d like to have. The purpose is to match the behaviors you naturally exhibit with a job that utilizes those behaviors to optimize top performance.
A sample report can be viewed at: http://www.datadome.com/pdf/profiles/careerplanning.pdf
Also useful for career direction is the Workplace Motivators profile, describing your current motivational preferences (this is not a DISC tool). The purpose is to address your current real needs (passions and priorities) with the rewards (compensaion/benefits, work environment, ‘other’ benefits) offered by a job. For example, a person with a high score for “Utilitarian” (the need for money for its own sake, high priority of return on investment) should not consider most teaching positions as the low salaries all too common in that profession would make it unlikely for the Utilitarian needs to be met. On the other hand, someone with a high score in the area of “Social / Altruistic” might find that teaching satisfies the need to influence others.
View a sample report available at: http://www.datadome.com/pdf/profiles/WorkplaceMotivators.pdf
For more information and links to purchase these reports visit: http://www.datadome.com/productscart_careerinsights.php
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Data Dome’s resident expert is our founder, Art Schoeck. A member of TTI’s prestigious International Faculty, Art often receives questions through our Ask the Expert form. We try to answer questions here on this blog that are representative of common questions regarding DISC and other assessment tools.
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