Personal Strengths Assessment and Career Planning Paper

Individual Essay Paper
Please write a brief, three paged, double-spaced essay describing some of your strengths along with career and personal goals (three to five-year plan).
In your paper, be sure to cover the following:
Your Name and Identification on Cover Page
The cover page of your essay should include:
Your name, type of work you do, and the geographical area where you live,
Statement: “Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of MAN 6245”,
Date (The cover page does not count as one of the three pages of the report.),
Personal photo (recommended)
Personal Principals and Values
It is said sometimes in life the following of one’s personal principles may cause one to deny one’s-self pleasure, but if not followed, one’s sense of integrity may be eroded. What personal principles do you hold that you must live by? In a brief paragraph, review key principles or values that are important to you, that drive you in life, and how you obtained them. What values do you want to demonstrate as you interact with others through your work and at home? To what extent is there congruence in the work that you do and the principles you hold to be important? You need not answer each of these questions specifically, but they may trigger a reflection of your core principles and values and how they may guide you as go forward in your career. Feel free to share spiritual principles or beliefs as long as the focus is on how they drive your personal principles and values.
Social Background
Describe your early role models, socialization experiences, cultural orientations, and the like that have had a significant impact on what you have chosen to become.
Strengths Assessment
Provide an overview of your personal strengths as revealed per the information from your taking of the Work Preference Indicator (WPI) and a minimum of two other assessments listed below. Demonstrate critical thinking in terms of how you compare and contrast the results from the assessments you have taken in response to this assignment.
WPI
Specifically, your paper should include a direct discussion based on the feedback from exceptional (high and low) scores among the 17 dimensions within the WPI. These 17 dimensions are on the second page of your WPI report. Do not address the three major dimensions that are shown directly following the 17 (ACH, REL, TEC). Also, do not use the Grand Type description that is provided in your report. It is more general than specific. You might review your scores on the 17 dimensions and compare them to the occupational fields you personally rated that are included at the end of the WPI report. Do your preferences FIT with the occupational fields you indicated you prefer on the last page of your WPI report? Why or why not? (Cite resources provided you that are relating to both academic and occupational fit).
Interpret your WPI scores. (The WPI analysis is required and should be the major basis for your analysis along with two other assessments).
Please follow the five-step process found on page 4 of the WPI Academic Guide (PDF) to find your career fit. Your findings will be referenced in the Personal Strengths Assessment and Career Planning Paper.
You are also encouraged to further Interpret your WPI Scores (LMS Page) in which you use Chapters 1-3 from the text, “Find Your Fit, Polish Your Skills, Win at Work” (PDF) and Matching Work Preferences with Occupational Choices (LMS Page). The more thorough your analysis using these resources the greater the grade you will receive. If there is no evidence of your review and use of the information provided above, you will receive a deduction in the grading of your paper.
In addition to the WPI, you are to include a discussion from a minimum of two other assessments listed below:
RIASEC
MBTI
Big Five
Please do not send the professor the verbatim results from each of your assessments. You should use the results to write your paper, citing exceptional and meaningful scores from them. Some information you receive from the three assessments may be contradictory. Discuss these contradictions and attempt to resolve them in your analysis while demonstrating critical thinking.
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Strengths Identified by the Assessments
What common themes seem to show up about you in terms of your work-related strengths that are identified in the assessments? Did you find any surprises or unexpected results? Are there inconsistencies? Explain.
Present the strengths these assessments reveal about you, as well as any differences you might have found in the feedback they have provided you. This is an opportunity to demonstrate critical thinking. You are encouraged to present your strengths visually by using a graphic organizer, infographic diagram, table, etc.
What is unique about you? Again, when referring to the WPI report, please focus on the key information about you per the 17 dimensions presented on the graph (page 2 of the report) and NOT the Grand Type descriptions. Matching your WPI report scores to career fields identified in the report, and “Matching Work Preferences with Occupational Choice” will help you gain insight into careers to which you are well-suited. Also, you are encouraged to review additional information provided in Chapter 3 of Professor Gilbert’s book that is a reference provided, as well. Please include a listing of your scores on each of the 17 WPI dimensions in the appendix of your paper so the professor can provide a more comprehensive analysis of your strengths if he deems it appropriate.
Capabilities and Deficiencies
What specific skills do you have that are clear assets to you in your chosen profession?
What specific skill areas, experience or lack of educational preparation do you believe may limit you or may need improvement?
Career Vision
Describe the vision you have for your career or occupation. You may want to discuss:
What seems to be a good career fit in terms of your interests and personality? Why? If you are not certain about your career path, then state this along with an explanation.
What specific job would you really love doing?
Finally, have you seen a person in a job that you would really love to do? This is a fundamental question to ask yourself and answer.
Self-Mentoring
If you were your own mentor, what would you suggest you do to further develop yourself and move forward in your career?
Grading Criteria
Your instructor will review your work based on the following criteria for a total of 16 points. Use the Personal Strengths Assessment and Career Planning Paper Rubric (LMS Page) to ensure you address each criterion.
Specifications – 3 points
Grammar and organization – 4 points (see Grammar and Organization Guide (LMS Page)
Application of assessment tools – 3 points
Personal reflections and career assessment – 6 points

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