Improve Your Career Prospects and Enhance Your Employability

 

Many modern organisations now view a person's 'career' as being something for which the individual is responsible and seek evidence that the individual is prepared to honestly identify their own development needs and  take responsibility for doing something about them, rather than relying on their employer to do it for them.

Whether for development activity, or in preparation for job hunting a Professional Development assessment is designed as an affordable and easy way for both private individuals and organisations to obtain individually produced Career Development Reports.

That is also an excellent way of going through a detailed personality assessment  - very useful when being asked to identify your own strengths and weaknesses during interview.  

The Career Development Report, as used by our own Psychologists with our commercial clients, uses the results from an on line personality questionnaire to provide you with a detailed insight into your own strengths and weaknesses, as well as helping you identify practical activities which you can carry out to help you in your own development.

After completing a detailed on-line personality test you are presented with an in-depth personality profile report which you can then use to develop your own understanding of yourself, and as a springboard to embark on your own personal development using the report's accompanying Development Workbook.

It will assist you to take control of your own development and help you accurately and honestly appraise your own strengths and weaknesses in a systematic manner.

The Career Development Report provides you with a personalised assessment 12 of major personality/behavioural  traits which are of most interest to employers -

 

Emotionality

The extent to which you become emotionally involved in what is going on around you as opposed to retaining a calm objective outlook.

 

Assertiveness

The extent to which you will stand up for your own rights as oppsed to feeling intimidated by other people.

 

Enthusiasm

The extent to which you are spontaneous and enthusiastic asopposed to serious and cautious.

 

Rule Orientation

The extent to which you will adhere to rules and regulations as opposed to preferring less control and regulation.

 

Social confidence

The extent to which you are confident and comfortable in social  situations as opposed to feeling shy and threatened. 

 

Sensitivity

The extent to which you are sensitive to what other people say and do as opposed to being more 'thick skinned' and not overly aware fo others' feelings.

 

Wariness

The extent to which you are trusting and accepting of other people as opposed to being suspicious and wary of their motives and intentions.

 

Cognitive style

This factor refers to a person’s intellectual style, rather than their ability, and is to do with the way you perceives and take in information about the world around you in order to make decisions and solve problems. Thsi factor looks at whether you have a more flexible, strategic and abstract problem solving style as opposed to a more concrete, 'hands on' approach.

 

Openness

The extent to which you are open and honest with other people as opposed to being more private and  discrete.

 

Self-esteem

The extent to which you feel tension or anxiety in your everyday life as opposed to being generally happy with yourself and having a good level of self esteem.

 

Adaptability

The extent to which you have a flexible attitude towards change and uncertainty or whether you view change as a threat and something to be avoided.

 

Independence

The extent to which you feel the need to have the company of other people or are happy to 'do your own thing'  without the support of others.

 

Everybody has development areas - by definition a personality characteristic which may make a person suitable for one job can become a development need in other jobs. The best example of this is when a person takes on a management role. How many Sales Managers have failed because they couldn't stop selling and start managing others - the individual focus they once needed has now become a hindrance. Every career or job change entails learning new skills.

Consequently, once your personal characteristics have been explained, your Career Development Report then takes you through the stages of identifying potential development areas and helps you to custom build your own Career Development Plan to help you address them.

In a step by step series of stages you are guided through the process of -

• Understanding the concept and theory of personality
• Identifying your own strengths and weaknesses
• Setting your own development objectives
• Identifying your own learning style
• Identifying learning and development opportunities
• Identifying behaviours relevant to Work Success
• Managing your own development through Review and Feedback.

The full report is over 50 pages long, here are a few sample pages:

 

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Special Offer

Because many clients require both a Careers Interest Report (to help them identify what types of work they may be interested in) and a Career Development Report (to help them identify where their shortfalls may be) it is possible to order both at a discounted price. See our order page for more details.

How to Obtain Your Career Development Report

1. Go the order page.
2. Complete the order form indicating which report you want.
3. You will then be emailed a password and instructions to enable you to complete the Professional Development questionnaire on-line. If you have also ordered a Careers Interest Report you will be emailed with instructions for that as well.
4. The results are automatically sent to us and we then compile  your Career Development Report and email it to the address you have given on your order.

Price : £28.95