Yinshan Loh

02/12/2014

Congratulations - you are taking a very important and admirable step in planning your future.
Knowing now what you are well suited for career-wise is apt to save you time and money down the
road. You can gear your education to your interests and be focused on the future that is right for you.
This report is designed to help you understand your own personality strengths and weaknesses and
should provide you with valuable insight into the career paths best suited to your personality.

The two parts that will make up your report will focus on the following:

1. Your individual pattern of behavior & the qualities you should look for in a career.
2. The types of jobs that are compatible with your behavioral pattern.

Your current skills, class work, and past work experience are not a factor here, and it is impossible to
measure things such as commitment and desire. It is your responsibility to consider these points when
reviewing what is offered in the report.

Part 1: How self-knowledge can help you find or guide your career

This section of the report will provide you with insight into your vocational behaviors - why you do
things the way you do and what motivates you in the workplace. While no assessment can actually
foresee how successful you will be at work, you are most likely to remain motivated in jobs that
require behaviors that come naturally for you.

For example, if you like working with people and need constant variety in your day, you would
probably not be happy in a typical bookkeeping or computer programming role that is focused on hard
facts and data and rather routine in nature.

Your natural pattern of behavior

The word pattern indicates a series of individual parts that function together as a group. The next
four sections of your report will focus on the strongest parts, or traits, that have been identified in your
behavioral pattern.

These traits define:

1. Your willingness to act assertively, take risk.

2. The way you communicate and make decisions.
3. Your natural pace and level of patience.
4. The amount of structure and guidance you want on the job.

There will be a graph at the beginning of each section, representing two reciprocal traits. A darkened
bar inside the graph will show the level at which a particular trait is present in you, which will provide
a visual reference for the discussions of your strongest traits. You will also find conclusions that
directly relate to your career options.
1. THE WAY YOU SET AND APPROACH YOUR GOALS

CAUTIOUS RISK-
RISK-TAKING

The graph shows you to be somewhat more risk-taking than cautious. As we shall see,
you are also relatively:

1. Competitive
2. Advancement-oriented
3. Proactive
4. Confident
5. Assertive

Expanding upon these ideas, and how they relate to each other

1. You have a moderately strong competitive streak. Therefore:

You may look for ways to measure your individual performance against that of
other people doing the same task.
You are usually more inclined to pursue individual goals than team goals.
Though you are willing to compete, you do not find it extremely difficult to share
success with other people.
However, you like to see yourself as the best or the most successful.

2. This reflects your advancement-oriented nature.

You are likely to set and pursue challenging, rewarding goals.
You readily accept a fairly high level of risk when working to achieve your goals.
You are motivated when you are compensated or recognized for your individual
work efforts.
You have a stronger need to grow and get ahead than to remain focused on goals
you have proven you can meet.

3. Because of this, you can display proactive behavior.

You can show initiative even in situations that require you to take some risks.
You prefer making things happen than waiting for things to happen.
You are more inclined to lead than to follow the forward-moving efforts of other
people, but you do not necessarily have an intense need to be in command.
You are willing to seek out new opportunities and take charge of situations in
order to experience success.
 4. Setting and pursuing the goals you set requires some confidence. This means:
You are prepared to face a reasonable amount of conflict or pressure from outside
forces, including other people, that makes advancing or winning difficult.
You believe that you can overcome fairly difficult situations and odds that seem
to put you at a disadvantage.
You can deal with similarly confident and goal-oriented people.
Though you may not be confrontational yourself, unless you feel it is absolutely
necessary, you do not instinctively shy away from confrontation.

5. Your ability to face confrontation head-on tells us you can be relatively assertive.
You can tell other people what you want or need when you expect or encounter
some resistance.
You probably do not come across as being intimidating or aggressive, but you are
not likely to accept unfavorable situations.
You can comfortably ask that changes be made to situations that you find
unacceptable.
You can put a reasonable amount of pressure on other people to meet beneficial
goals, though you are usually not very demanding.

Career-relevant conclusions

You can accept some form of risk or challenge on the job, and you are inclined to show
initiative when working towards your goals. Based on your generally risk-taking nature,
you are likely to seek:

some opportunity to direct other people or control the projects you work on.
work-related challenges that may involve pressure or even moderate conflict.
a reasonable air of competitiveness in your work environment.
specific ways to clearly measure your productivity.
advancement based upon individual performance more than a teams results.
performance-based pay that could significantly boost your set salary or wage.
recognition for successfully handling high-profile or new responsibilities.
2. THE WAY YOU INTERACT WITH THE WORLD AROUND YOU

RESERVED OUTGOING

The graph shows you to be somewhat more outgoing than reserved, which means you are
also:

1. Sociable
2. Persuasive
3. Image-conscious
4. Instinctive
5. Optimistic

Expanding upon these ideas, and how they relate to each other

1. You have a fairly strong need for social interaction:

You like having the opportunity to approach new people and build relationships.
You are probably capable of keeping a conversation flowing, even when you are
talking with people who are less communicative than you.
You tend to be open and willing to express your feelings.
You may eventually find it difficult to stay motivated when working alone for
fairly long periods of time.

2. Having strong social skills enables you to be persuasive.

When you want to be persuasive, you are more likely to rely on enthusiasm and
people skills than on a straightforward presentation of facts.
By expressing yourself with enthusiasm, you can make the ideas, situations, or
items you discuss sound appealing or interesting.
This helps you get other people to see things your way.
You can probably influence other people without having direct authority or
control over them.

3. Being outgoing involves maintaining an image that other people can readily identify.
You may tend to keep in touch with ideas or situations that are socially current.
You probably have an ability to establish an image of who you are in a way that is
appealing or positive to other people.
You may like to draw attention to yourself at times, though you do not need to be
in the spotlight all the time.
You tend to be comfortable promoting yourself - doing or saying things that may
elevate your status amongst the people you contact.
4. Your social skills and persuasiveness are closely related to your generally optimistic
outlook.
You are inclined to see the positive side of many situations you encounter.
You will generally take the opportunity to discuss the positives you see.
Your optimism enables you to motivate, energize, or inspire other people.
At times, you may not be particularly thorough about evaluating the potentially
negative side of situations or ideas that seem exciting.

5. Your optimism and openness means you value your instincts.

You place significant value upon your feelings about situations or ideas.
You are able to form clear impressions based upon these feelings.
You may tend to act upon these impressions.
You tend to take a creative or intuitive approach to problem-solving.

Career-relevant conclusions

You are upbeat, and relate better to people than to tasks requiring you to work alone.
Here are some examples of the sorts of activities or aspects of a job that are likely to
appeal to you:

Having the opportunity to regularly contact other people.

Having to project and maintain a favorable image in order to reach job-relevant goals.
Being responsible for influencing co-workers or motivating staff.
Promoting products, goals, or ideas.
Being responsible for restoring good relationships with people or clients.
Having the opportunity to express your feelings openly.
Receiving visible or public recognition for success.
Not having to spend the majority of your work day focusing on highly solitary
technical or analytical tasks.
3. YOUR NATURAL PACE

IMPATIENT PATIENT

The graph shows you to be somewhat more impatient than patient. This means that you
are also:

1. Quick paced
2. Variety-seeking
3. Flexible
4. Multi-tasking

Expanding upon these ideas, and how they relate to each other

1. You like to maintain a quick pace. This means:

You have a good sense of urgency for completing tasks.
You can become impatient with people or processes that slow you down.
Work that provides you with a rapid sense of accomplishment is likely to appeal
to you.
You have moderate persistence for completing time-consuming tasks, but projects
that require a particularly long effort before you can see results are likely to
frustrate you.
You probably deal well with demanding deadlines.
You may find it challenging to function comfortably in a job where a great deal of
thoroughness is required in order to achieve desirable results.

2. Your quick pace is consistent with your need for change or variety.
By accomplishing things relatively quickly, you are opening yourself for new
tasks or situations.
Positions that merely reward an efficient pace but do not offer a fair amount of
variety in responsibilities are not likely to be fully satisfying for you.
While you are quick to build up your momentum when undertaking a new task,
you may find it difficult or boring to sustain your productivity if the work you are
doing becomes very routine or repetitive.

3. Related to the idea of variety is the idea of flexibility.

You can quickly adapt to new situations or projects.
You probably do not take long to get used to unfamiliar work environments.
You can quickly get back into the flow of your work after you have been
interrupted.
 You can adapt to new work methods without difficulty.

4. Your good flexibility suggests that you can handle multiple tasks at one time:
You strive to achieve efficiency by keeping a variety of projects ongoing at the
same time, in addition to working on each one quickly.
You can shift your focus from one task to another without difficulty.
Though you strive for efficiency, you generally are reasonable about determining
how many projects are too many to handle at once.
Since you can usually resist the temptation to undertake too many tasks during
one period of time, you can generally follow through with the work that you start.

Career-relevant conclusions

The ability to multi-task is an increasingly valued asset in today's job market, where
improved technology and communication frequently compress time and productivity.
Since you look for variety and you are comfortable working quickly, you are likely to
seek:

work in an emerging industry, where some growth and change is expected.

a position that provides some task variety in a relatively stable industry.
goals or projects that can be realized relatively quickly.
tasks that require some follow-up work.
a position where the ability to meet demanding but predictable deadlines and deal
with some interruptions is important.
periodic travel or movement away from your main work area.
a way to break down long projects into a series of shorter tasks.
4. WHAT YOU LOOK FOR WHEN YOU ARE GIVEN RESPONSIBILITY

STRUCTURE -
INDEPENDENT
ORIENTED

The graph shows you to be much more independent than structure-oriented. This does not
just mean that you need freedom in your job, but also means that you are:

1. Decisive
2. Resilient
3. Self-managing
4. Results-oriented
5. Informal in your approach to tasks

Expanding upon these ideas, and how they relate to each other

1. Being as independent as you are means that you have a strong need to make
decisions on your own.
Rather than having to closely follow established processes when completing a
task or project, you prefer to devise your own work methods.
You prefer to see structured policies and procedures as guidelines rather than as
unbendable rules.
You are willing to accept considerable responsibility for any failures that may
occur because you did not follow traditional work methods.

2. This means you are resilient.

You are not sensitive to criticism or rejection.
You can address tasks or situations that more sensitive (or less resilient) people
would try to avoid.
You recover easily from unsuccessful events or projects.
You are likely to be comfortable delegating tasks to other people when you would
have to assume responsibility for their work.
Your ability to deal with negative feedback is related to your lack of reliance upon
feedback, in general.

3. We can therefore see that you have a strong preference for self-management.
You do not look for guidance when you are given responsibility.
You may find it difficult to work for a manager who regularly provides
instructions or prefers to control the work methods of employees.
You have a strong need to be consulted before being told that you should adopt a
particular work method.
 In situations where you are responsible for managing others, you are inclined to
set clear goals but not closely monitor the way your group performs their tasks.

4. You are more likely to focus on results than on processes.

You are much more concerned about whether or not you completed a particular
task than about whether or not you carefully followed all instructions when you
were working.
You show good potential for envisioning new ways to overcome problems on the
job.
Since you are not structure-oriented or particularly concerned about avoiding
criticism, you do not have a tendency to be meticulous in your work.
Since being meticulous requires paying close attention to details, you may have to
make an extra effort to focus on details in order to remain organized and precise
on the job.

Career-relevant conclusions

A work environment in a bureaucratic organization, where structured policies and

procedures are designed to govern how employees handle all foreseeable situations, is
not likely to appeal to you. You are not necessarily unwilling to do things by the book,
but it may be difficult for you to remain motivated in a job where success is determined
by how well you adhere to prescribed formulas, and how closely you focus on details.
Therefore, you are likely to seek:

a considerable amount of freedom to adapt established guidelines for completing your

work.
a position where being innovative, creative, or thinking outside the box is very
important.
the opportunity to delegate responsibility and gain assistance for handling details.
a very loosely-structured or informal work environment.
a manager who provides very limited direction once you know the basics about your
job.
organizational tools.
Summary: Your behavioral pattern

1. You are assertive, proactive, and reasonably comfortable facing conflict on your own. You may have
a competitive streak that could serve you well in a sales or management role, for example.

2. You are also communicative, upbeat, and outwardly enthusiastic. You can probably handle some
solitary tasks, but may prefer work that provides you with a good amount of social interaction. Being
both proactive and persuasive is typically seen as beneficial for sales and management roles.

3. You are quick-paced and flexible. You may be comfortable in jobs that require you to adapt,
multi-task, think on your feet, and deal with deadlines. Though you prefer to avoid routine, you have
reasonable patience for lengthy projects when necessary.

4. You have a strong need to delegate details and do things your own way, and you are very
comfortable making decisions when no formal guidelines exist. You could fit well into a job that
provides a great deal of autonomy. Since you are also assertive, you could act decisively while dealing
with the unexpected pressures often encountered in sales or management positions.
Part2: Jobs that fit your natural pattern of behavior

Listed below are jobs compatible with some of the personality traits discussed in part 1. These jobs
have been grouped into categories, which will make it easier for you to focus on your areas of interest.

It is important to understand that the presence of a job in the list below does not guarantee that you will
be successful if you are hired for a job with that title. Similarly, the absence of a job from the list does
not imply that you would be unable to perform that job. This report has focused only on your
personality traits; there are other factors, such as effort, skills, and experience, which help determine
how successful you will be in your career. Additionally, various employers might have different needs
or expectations for the same type of job.

Look at the list as a starting point. Rule out the jobs that simply do not appeal to you. Next, exclude the
ones that require education or experience that would be unrealistic for you to seek. As you narrow
down your choices, consider other factors that may be important to you, such as the work environment
you would find in a particular job.

Making the right career decision can be a difficult task; many different concerns can come into play.
Throughout this process, always keep in mind that the job you choose should be one that allows you to
do what you love to do. If you are inspired by your work, you will be most likely to make a strong and
committed effort.

Job Categories Jobs

financial management external mutual fund wholesaler, financial consultant, loan originator,
stockbroker
sales advertising sales, automobile salesperson, call center salesperson,
consulting services salesperson, inside commissioned sales, insurance
producer - commercial lines, insurance producer - personal lines, new
market developer, outside commissioned sales, personal / commercial
risk manager, pharmaceutical sales representative, printing sales, realtor,
recruiter, travel consultant, web / internet business developer
management branch manager, business unit leader, commercial sales manager,
franchise/district manager, general/regional manager, head of school,
hotel/restaurant manager, marketing manager, product development
manager, sales manager, store manager
creative / media art director, design consultant, features writer, illustrator, interior
designer, media director, on-air talent
social services coach, community outreach manager, development director, director of
general services, program director, program promoter, volunteers
manager
marketing / public relations advertising campaign manager, advertising copy writer, creative director,
director of ambulatory services, fundraiser, marketing representative,
publicist, talent agent
health services chiropractor, clinic director, physical therapist, physician, speech
therapist
If you do not know enough about some of the jobs that interest you, learn as much as you can before
deciding whether or not to pursue positions in those fields. Do some basic background investigating to
uncover such information as average salary range, important skills, and the type of work environment
generally encountered. Many on-line resources can provide this type of material. Once you have a good
foundation, continue to find out about a particular type of job by using information interviews. These
are interviews you conduct to get more information about a company or industry; they should not be
used to ask for a job.

The idea is to seek out an experienced professional in the type of job that interests you. Perhaps you
already know someone in that field. If not, ask the people you know if they are familiar with anybody
who does. You may even have to get names from publications or other sources. Your best information
interviews will be with people who actually work for a company that interests you.