Who Am I
Background working on master’s degree, career oriented, divorced, mother, outgoing, both introvert and extrovert, strong-willed, independent, wear my heart on my sleeve, giver not much of a taker, emotionally, determined, like challenges, realistic not much of optimistic, leader, team player, honest, vocal, observant, bashful
Career Inventory Instructions
STEP I: Directions for taking the O*NET Interest Profiler
1. Click on the link: O*NET Interest Profiler. Follow the directions (click “Next”) and take the O*NET Interest Profiler.
2. Once you have completed the O*NET Interest Profiler, record your numeric results for each of the 6 Holland codes. Print the results.
3. Read the Explore the Job Zones information to determine your preferred job zone. You may print the information.
4. Select your preferred Job Zone and click “Next.”
5. Read the Interest Profiler Potential Careers. Explore any careers that may interest you. If there are no careers that interest you, click the “Find More Careers” option.
In this case I have realized I have an interest in becoming an owner of a business, becoming a schoolteacher teaching special education, a probation officer, or a counselor.
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6. Make sure that you can identify the following from Step I:
· Your primary interest area (highest score),
· Social 34
· Your secondary interest area,
· Investigation 33
· Your current job zone,
· Job Zone 4 which requires in height preperation
· Your future job zone, and
· Job Zone 5 one that requires a comparativly etensive preperation
· Identify at least 2 occupations and their O*NET-SOC Code matching your primary interest area.
· Becoming a counselor for mental health patients – Code 19-3031.0
· Becoming a mental health counselor- Code 21-1014.00
7. Save the information from this assignment to complete the Who Am I self-reflection paper.
STEP II: Take the Value Sort found below:
1. Value Sort Step 1: What I Value Most...
From the list of values (both work-related and personal) found on the next page, select the 10 that are most important to you as guides for how to behave or as components of a valued way of life. Feel free to add any values of your own to this list, but only identify 10 values when making your final selection. Write down or circle the 10 values.
List of Values:
1) Intimacy
2) Perspectiveness
3) Insight
4) Harmony
5) Patience
6) Radical Honesty
7) Cooperative
8) Organized
9) Privacy
10) Problem-solving
2. Value Sort Step 2: Elimination.
1. Now that you have identified 10 values, imagine that you are only permitted to have 5. Which 5 would you give up? Cross them off.
2. Now imagine that you are only permitted 4. Which would you give up? Cross it off.
3. Now cross off another value to bring your list down to 3.
4. Cross off another value, to bring your list down to 2.
5. Finally cross off 1 of your 2 values. What is the top value on your list?
After elimination of 9 out of the 10 values, I have ended up with one top value which is privacy
3. Click on the link: O*NET: My Next Move. Find the “I want to be a . . .” search box. Describe your dream career in a few words. Keeping your principle value in mind, find 2 occupations that are most consistent with your principle values.
My dream career is to work as a computer software engineer. Based on my top moost principle values, the two occupations that are most consistent with my principle vales are: Access and Privacy Analyst and Privacy Specialist.
4. You will need to identify the following information for the Who Am I Paper:
· Your primary personal/work value;
Privacy
· Your second, third, fourth, and fifth personal/work values;
Insight, privacy, and problelm sloving.
· Values 6–10, if important to you;
Insight, privacy, problem solving, radical honesty, and prospectiveness.
· Your feelings during the process of eliminating or prioritizing values; and
During the elimination and prioritization process, I felt that the process was somehow limiting since I could not choose a specific vlalue that described myself. The imposibility of this situation was contributed by the fact that I was not in a position to pick a few options out of the many available facetes. None theless, the process was insightful to me because I understood values that had more impact in my life. It was suprising to realize that privacy became my first value. This was so because I have always valued protecting information that I considered as personal
· Select 2 occupations (and their codes) that are consistent with your values.
Arbitrator and concilliator, code 23-1022.00
Protection Technician and Environmental Science, code 19-4091.00
STEP III: Directions for Combining the Results and Exploring a Career
1. Using the O*NET Interest Profiler and the Value Sort results found in Steps I and II, identify:
· Your primary and secondary interests,
Primary interest: investigative, code 33
Secondary interest: Social, code 34
· Your 3 highest work values
1st Value: Insight
2nd Value: Privacy
3rd Value: Problelm sloving
· Your current and future work zones.
Job Zone 4 &5
2. Based on both your interest and values results, identify 1 O*NET occupation you want to explore. Record the O*NET-SOC Code and Title.
I would want to work in the occupation of a counseling psychologist (Title) with a O*NET-SOC Code of 19-3031.03
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