Career Management Self-Assessment Report

This report provides insights on career management self-assessment and analysis. It covers personality tests, assessment procedures, themes elicitation, and recommendations for self-improvement. The report suggests that teamwork, personal and professional growth, hard work, goal orientation, and job security are important values for career success.

CAREER MANAGEMENT SELF-ASSESSMENT REPORT
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Executive Summary
Personality tests provide an integral tool for self-assessment and analysis. In the current scope of
self-evaluation analysis, some personality tests have been taken, which reflected various
attributes. Such attribute evaluation had been conducted according to selected themes and then
recommendations for self-improvement had been arrived at.
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Table of Contents
Executive Summary.........................................................................................................................2
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
A. Demographics.............................................................................................................................4
B. Assessment procedures...............................................................................................................5
C. Themes elicitation.......................................................................................................................5
D. Themes analysis and integration.................................................................................................7
Recommendations............................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9
Appendix #.....................................................................................................................................11
I. Holland’s Vocational Choice (HVC)..................................................................................11
II. Self-Evaluation Scales (SES).............................................................................................11
III. Work Values Inventory (WVI).......................................................................................12
IV. HEXACO........................................................................................................................12
V. Goal Orientation (GO)........................................................................................................12
VI. Career Anchors (CA)......................................................................................................12
VII. Time Perspective Inventory (TPI)...................................................................................12
VIII. Ambivalent Sexism Scale (ASI).....................................................................................12
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Introduction
Reflecting on self is a critical task and can be best undertaken through personality evaluation
procedures (Walker & Tracey, 2012). In the current scope of analysis includes evaluating and
analysing personality test scores in order to plan a path for improvising any skills needed. The
current evaluation procedure will allow reflect upon the areas needed in career improvisation and
also in planning a course for progress.
A. Demographics
Prior to undertaking my self-analysis, I would like to introduce myself. I, am Nick Thomas, male
and single. I do not plan to get married any time soon. I want to establish myself in a highly
professional career role and establish myself personally as well. I am extremely hard working
and I am working at a part time job role currently. I have been working since the time I passed
high school and have been committed in my previous job roles immensely. In the past which
ever job role I had taken up, my employer was always immensely happy with me and praised me
for various achievements. I always aimed at overachieving my targets or given work roles. My
parents were both employed; my father was in an automobile company whereas my mother
worked as a clinician at the local health center. I do not have any siblings and I am the only child
of my parents. I have deep relation with my parents; especially with my mother I share deep
emotional attachment. My mother guides me mentally for taking any decision and my father has
been an excellent source of inspiration. He guided me on my career and studies so that I could
over achieve in them. I have some attachment to my last workplace as my employer was highly
impressed by me and I was an over achiever in work role. I was handling cash and I did it very
efficiency and there was seldom error found in my work. The past career experience have highly
influenced my thoughts my providing me the inspiration to over achieve and strive hard. My
school history had been wonderful with lots of fond memories. I was an average student and
scored good grades in my school years. My hard work was always regarded highly by my
teachers. It provided me inspiration to strive hard in every aspect of my life. My hobbies and
leisure time activities include various kinds of sports activities. I enjoying playing football and
watching basketball.
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B. Assessment procedures
1. Structured Autobiography (SA)
 Date completed : 12/10/2018
2. Interviews with Significant Others (ISO)
 Date completed : 08/01/2018
3. Holland’s Vocational Choice (HVC)
 Date completed : 08/03/2018
4. Self-Evaluation Scales (SES)
 Date completed : 08/01/2018
5. Work Values Inventory (WVI)
 Date completed : 01/08/2018
6. Time Perspective (TP)
 Date completed : 15/08/2018
7. Career Anchors (CA)
 Date completed : 08/04/2018
8. HEXACO
 Date completed : 08/06/2018
9. Goal Orientation (GO)
 Date completed : 08/08/2018
10. Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (ASI)
 Date completed : 12/10/2018
C. Themes elicitation
Theme 1: I am good at team work
I have seen that since graduation more than 60% of the tasks are linked to group work, which is
the case also at the university. While I work in business, I think I will always work in groups and
teams. So I developed my social for becoming a future businessman (Patton & McMahon, 2014).
Supported by a high score of 2.6 on HEXACO agreeableness, I am ready to co-operate,
compromise and very useful while operating at team roles. I feel that I possess all qualities to be
a team player. Then I attained 10 at the age of the highest social scores in the team roles,
showing that I enjoy working with people. Even in my structural autobiography, I have said that
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I enjoy the participating in my club activity which is important for surviving. We always work
together to distribute each other and distribute information about camping and routes. I also
scored high in social skill in HVC of 9, which reflects my capability to interact with others and
take part in team roles and activities. The most important role which I can perform within the
team is that of a leader.
Theme 2: I strive to attain new heights personally as well as professionally
I am a follower of Christian Ronaldo and like him, I'm the same protagonist. For me it is always
important that I personally and professional am in the comfort zone always (Dweck, 2013). The
highest score in the WVI in achievement is 11; hence I really think I need to undertake
improvement. In addition, critical awareness of self-rating scales has shown that I welcome
comments on my work because I undertake points of improvement. I emphasize on learning that
I would like to develop by gathering new skills and taking up short term courses. Such short term
courses will allow me to develop professional and personal skills which will allow me to
improvise on my career. I can easily strive outside my comfort zone and try to attain highest
levels of achievement through hard work. In order to achieve heights personally as well as
professionally hard working skills will not suffice, there will be needed learning skills as well.
From the test scores it can be seen that I have scored high in learning skills as well. This will
allow to achieve success in professional role and excel in the same.
Theme 3: I am hard working and set priority
Every individual need to be goal directed and then work hard to achieve those goals. Achieving
goal is very important to me, because it is one of my characteristics. I just want to achieve the
goal of excelling in my professional and personal life. In an interview with other important
personalities, my father, who feels that I am very focused on trying to achieve a set goal. I scored
4.375 in perfectionism in self-evaluation scales (SES) which shows that my drive is strong,
because I have many options to solve the errors that might arise to achieve a goal. For example,
in my life I have always set goals for a certain level. For example, when I was a student, I did a
really bad job on a particular topic. I generally tend to set short term and long term goals and
then maintain a self- tracking journal to maintain the same.
Theme 4: I value security in job role
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Adventure is good, but in some areas of life, especially in my career, I no longer feel burnt out. I
have a reliable job, especially in difficult situations. Moreover, I found a lot of security in the list
of labor costs and occupational safety, which confirmed that I have followed my ideology to
ensure that safe working, is very important. Moreover, the positive timing of Time Perspective
also shows that I need more safety than feeling and adventure in my work (Duffy & Dik, 2009). I
also showed my philosophy a few years ago. When I was looking for part-time work while
studying at the University, I was working at a restaurant. As the cashier has more regular
working hours than a team that is heavily dependent on defense, I decided to work at a fast food
store because of my safety. I am undertaking this course and will further aim at skill
enhancement to ensure that I am able to secure a job that can provide me with mental security. I
highly value job security and the employer who will provide me the same, will have commitment
from me.
Theme 5: I like to make friends
It is important to create new friends from kindergarten and till University or office. I thankfully
had many opportunity to get new friends, even from different cultures and varied ethnic
background. This is shown in my results in inventory scales; I saw a relatively high level of
friendship at work. My scores reflects a low evaluation of sexism. I am an honest person (score:
2.3) with high emotional (score: 3.3) capability and conscientiousness. I feel I can easily move to
a new place and make new friends (Cerdin & Pargneux, 2010). While working in offices, I
always made friends with colleagues fast and got along well with them. I face little amounts of
conflicts when I worked in team. I am highly collaborative in nature and can easily interact
across diversified environment. At the University also, I made a few friends with whom I am
regularly in touch through WhatsApp and Facebook. I have helping attitude and help any person
in need, hence I make friends and they easily develop their reliance on me.
D. Themes analysis and integration
Reflecting on personal skill assessment provided various insights into my self-roles and
attributes. It could be understood that while certain skills and knowledge areas were present, in
some case it was absent. This led to tremendous amounts of areas in which improvisation could
be undertaken. What I learned from the material I learned was that I had good social skills and
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that the rules of work ethics were not present within me (Rottinghaus, Buelow, Matyja &
Schneider, 2012). Due to my self-esteem, I realized that I had some strength in terms of social
skills. The HEXACO suggests that I have a relatively high level of social skills. But I think I can
improve my communicative skills. Those who are in danger of good social and academic
abilities will admit that I have some commanding skills. I tried to improve these skills because
they were reluctant to have commitments. For example, when I was elected as a representative of
the study committee, I refused the secretary's position, as I would not had to do work much. In
addition, I think I'm more focused on the audience than I thought. The goalkeeper will do
everything possible to achieve these goals. It completely defines who I am, but it is too concise.
To improve my performance, I can consider the risk of poor performance by working in an
organization whose goals and principles are unclear. At school level we had indulged in football
activity (Nauta, 2010). Due to lack of communication and cooperation at this time, we have not
set clear goals in our speech that could lead me to a statement due to which the game was lost. I
need to work very hard to be directed towards my goals and objectives. I am a person who likes
to travel a lot as well and likes adventure, which has often deterred attaining of goals. I think I'm
in the middle because I'm sure I choose job security or travel adventure. I have travelled to many
places and would like to travel more. I like taking on adventure but I am concerned that my goals
might get deterred. As I am a goal directed person, am aim at enhancing professional as well as
personal development (Chen, Fiske & Lee, 2009). From the thematic integration along with
assimilating of personality tests, it could be understood that I have several qualities and several
areas in which I need to improvise upon. The most positive aspect of mine which was
highlighted through the personality tests is my learning orientation. I have capability to learn
regarding any area or topic in an easy manner for achieving my goals. Therefore, any hurdles I
will face in the future will be overcome by way of learning and my hard working nature.
Recommendations
It is important to understand our individual personal and professional values. My values have
changed through my experiences in life, education, the environment, culture, gender, education,
socio-economic status and other variables (Ashton & Lee, 2009). Our values are the criteria for
our ratings, our preferences and choices. Finding career opportunities and professions that meet
our core values are essential for happiness and satisfaction. That is why there is an analysis of the
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issues I have in mind about some of the consequences that I have learned. I have come to the
conclusion that, regardless of the location of the work sector, I need to be engaged in work that
requires more of teamwork. This strongly supports two topics I have good friends and I am a
team player. I have a good opportunity to work with others. I do not want to reduce my abilities.
Teamwork provides opportunities for professional development and teamwork from engineers
and ideas. Several team members on board can work faster with shared responsibility. Teamwork
implies that we know and also understand the strengths and weaknesses of the team members.
High-level team-work skills enable managers and team members to more effectively use their
tasks to share. When the team works well, employees can feel more comfortable with making
suggestions; team members are familiar with managing brainwashing information and using
effective teams. Undoubtedly, you should not destroy social skills and teamwork and look for
jobs that require more teamwork. Moreover, I understand that I really need to consider the
positions that present most of the challenges. Based on two topics, improve everything for me
and I value security, I decided that offering better opportunities is what I need to achieve a high
level of satisfaction. The ideology of my life is a purposeful person who does hard work that will
guide me to complete them. When the problem arises, I have a direct way to achieve this. I will
intensify my strategy to promote the goals.
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Appendix #
I. Holland’s Vocational Choice (HVC)
II. Self-Evaluation Scales (SES)
III. Work Values Inventory (WVI)
IV. HEXACO
V. Goal Orientation (GO)
VI. Career Anchors (CA)
VII. Time Perspective Inventory (TPI)
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VIII. Ambivalent Sexism Scale (ASI)
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