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Before you change or choose your career path, are you curious to know what your genius
is? Whether you are setting out on a career change, going to college or graduate school,
or fine tuning your current career path, it's wise to have a map of your natural
talents to help you navigate the career terrain. If you are ready to reach your full potential,
the first step is to determine your natural
ability through a professional career testing program that measures
your inborn talents and personality type. Our career testing program
is one of the most sophisticated and innovative career decision programs worldwide,
developed by Rockport Institute, LTD. In this career testing program, you
will discover and understand your strongest talents and learn
how to custom fit your best abilities and personality into the
career world.
Our career assessment testing is unlike traditional scholastic tests and interest
inventories that ask you to rate your skills and likes. Our program
measures innate ability - the raw materials already with you
at birth. Inborn ability is nearly impossible to accurately measure
on your own. Through professional performance testing you will
learn powerful new information about your "natural"
potential in a profile of 13 aptitudes, talents, and personality
type.
The Careerfinder Program is taken in the convenience of your own
home, and takes approximately 3 hours. Within 2 weeks time, you
will receive your test results. After reviewing the materials
sent to you (including a CD-based lecture on understanding natural talents), you will then meet in person (or by telephone if
long-distance) with your career coach to interpret your results
in a 1.5-hour consultation designed to help you utilize your talents to your fullest potential.
Natural abilities are different from your "learned"
skills and interests, which change throughout your life. You are
born with a set of innate abilities that you keep for life. People
who are genuinely fulfilled in their work use their strongest
talents and abilities all day long, while minimizing or totally
avoiding the use of their weakest talents. A career that doesn't tap your natural abilities is like the story
of the cat who thought she was a squirrel. The cat worked really
hard at leaping from tree to tree collecting acorns, but always
found herself struggling to get through the day. The squirrels
would laugh at the silly cat trying so hard, for they were born
with all the natural talents and abilities to live the trees
with grace and ease. Many of us are like the cat, unaware of
our own natural gifts, trying to excel in careers that just don't
fit what we do best. The testing will show where you can excel
using your strengths, just like the squirrel.
The result of the testing is a unique personal profile, like
your DNA, that gives you a very specific, objective look at your
inborn abilities. An indepth understanding of all your talents,
and how they combine, will help you narrow down the career world
to a small set of possibilities. This makes it easier to rule
out career fields that simply don't fit what you are strong in.
Your talent profile will serve you much like a compass; it's
a navigation tool to guide you in investigating career possibilities
that fit you well. For example, the testing can accurately guide
someone considering an artistic career to know if the arts are
a natural fit, and if so, whether their proclivities would best
fit graphic design, architecture, sculpture, creative writing,
or abstract painting.
What is an innate aptitude? Many of us know that certain tasks
come easy to us, but few people really know why they excel in
some subjects and struggle in others. Why did I breeze through
Spanish but go brain dead in geometry? Brain research has shown
that human beings have more than one "intelligence."
Everyone has a unique blend of talents and abilities,
the key is to understand what your recipe of aptitudes are best at. You
can narrow down your career choices to a few hot possibilities
once you learn which subject matter topics and job functions
engage your stronger talents. Although many people have taken
SAT tests in high school, they are still unclear about their
aptitudes. Why? Scholastic tests are not designed to measure
innate abilities. The tests you took to go to college largely
measure "learned" skills, not inborn or natural ability.
The educational system and its testing methods are based on
an outdated model of the human being. Most of us were taught
in school to work hard at every subject, and, like a ball of clay,
"mold" ourselves into whatever we wanted. If this were
so, everyone would be good at any subject they worked at long
enough. Real life and on-the-job experience teaches that this
is not so. People who excel at what they do are naturals at it.
Today, it's possible to measure up to 15 different human intelligences
and personality traits, that when combined into a profile, can
show what career fields, subject areas, and job functions best
suit you. For example, people who enjoy the job function of writing
as a primary task during their workday are usually strong in
several innate aptitudes that make writing fun. Think of aptitudes
as "ingredients" that comprise a job function (like
flour, salt, and water), where the function of writing
is like a baked loaf of bread. Specifically, the aptitudes that
combine to make great writers include a high rate
of idea flow to brainstorm their ideas, internal imagination
using introversion, high
analytical reasoning to organize
and categorize their thoughts, and strong intuition
perception to communicate complex ideas through metaphor. If
this same person also happened to have a non-spatial
orientation, they would likely enjoy writing about
social science topics such as history or psychology, versus the
3D or spatial
talent used by science
writers, who might prefer to discuss the mechanics of human anatomy
or the physics of rocket science. (see
detailed descriptions of natural talents: Sample 1
| Sample 2)
The above example illustrates that the function of writing
is not a talent in itself. Writing is a job "function"
made up of several innate talents, and can be performed in many
career fields. Rather than ponder career titles, it's a lot easier
to first choose the job functions you enjoy performing. Once
you understand how your various innate talents (the raw ingredients
you're born with) combine, you will be able to easily choose
your favorite primary job functions (e.g., writing, researching,
mentoring, performing, diagnosing spatial problems, etc). With
your inborn talents and functions under your belt, you'll have a few
major pieces of your career puzzle in place. I'm curious to know what my talents are, sign me up!
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