Business & Finance CAREER SEARCH ASSIGNMENT

BUS 104 Assessment Fall 2019

Career Research Instruction

You start by assessing your personality. The couple of “trusted” web-site for career/job research use the RIASEC personality classification. Hence to begin this process, you will need to know your RIASEC personality. There is a 48 questions test that you may use to make a quick determination of your RIASEC personality.

Go to any search engine (www.duckduckgo.com used to demonstrated) and enter “RIASEC” into the search field like so:

BUS 104 Assessment Fall 2019

The first result “openpsychometrics.org/tests/RIASEC.php” would be the one that can give you a quick estimate. Click on the link and click on the “start” on the lower right page to begin your personality assessment.

BUS 104 Assessment Fall 2019

You will be faced with 48 questions that will appear one at a time (the sequence will vary but it will be the same 48 questions).

BUS 104 Assessment Fall 2019

After you finished answer all 48 questions what you enjoy and what you dislike, click on “Get result”. If you have a spare 10 minutes, you may choose to help out and answer a survey, but you will get the same result.

You should see something similar to the following:

What is good about this particular test is that the resulting page will point you to another “trusted” web-site: “O*Net OnLine.” In this example, the responses suggest the individual is an ISA and pointed to a web address from “O*Net OnLine”:

BUS 104 Assessment Fall 2019

If you click on the link, it will bring you to a page with careers suited for ISA type of personality. The partial list for this example is as follows (the list is long):

Alternatively, the student may visit this site directly and type a job title to begin their career assignment.

Suppose, of the ones listed here, Recreational Therapists interests you, if you click on the link, O*Net OnLine will provide you with various descriptions about this particular position. It is broken up into the following sub-sections: Tasks, Tools & Technology, Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Work Activities, Work Content, Job Zone, Education, Credentials, Interests, Work Values, Related Occupations, Wage & Employment Trends, Job Openings on the Web, and Sources of Additional Information. Many of these sections offers materials to complete the career assignment.

Job Zone is how much effort one needs to prepare to enter this particular job title. Job Zone of 1 needs just High School or less. Job Zone of 5 will require graduate school.