Using Personality to Power Better Choices In Jobs, Careers, and - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Moderator: Bruce Stephen - Monster Government Solutions Panelists:

• Dr. Lynn Friedman

Dan Sines - Co-Founder, Traitify

Using Personality to Power Better Choices

In Jobs, Careers, and Education

Introduction

Dan Sines

Co-Founder / Director of Partner Relationships Traitify Dan is Co-Founder and Director of Partner Relationships at

• Traitify. Traitify is most known for their Personality API, and

Woofound, a visual personality assessment that gives people insight into their personality and the career direction that is best suited for them.

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Moderator

Bruce Stephen

Monster Government Solutions Bruce is the Director of Real-Time Labor Intelligence Market Research for Monster Government Solutions. Since 2014, he has spearheaded a partnership between Traitify and Monster Government Solutions to expand

• pportunities in postsecondary education and workforce

development for the Woofound visual personality assessment.

Agenda

• Introduction
• Dr. Lynn Friedman - Overview of Assessment Types
• Dan Sines - Woofound Demo
• Bruce Stephen - WIB Experiences with Woofound


Assessment

• Q & A

Presenter

• Dr. Lynn Friedman

Psychologist / Psychoanalyst / Master Career Counselor (MCC)

• Dr. Friedman is a Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalyst and Master

Career Counselor (MCC) in full-time, private practice in Chevy Chase, MD. She specializes in work-life (career) and relationship

• concerns. An experienced psychologist and psychoanalyst, Dr.

Lynn Friedman is on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University, where she teaches psychodynamic (psychoanalytic) theory and therapy, building a successful practice, career counseling and

• rganizational consultation. She is on the psychology advisory

board at Traitify.

Career Assessments for Workforce Investment Boards (WIBs)

• Leading Types of Career Assessments
• Benefits that WIBs obtain from using Career Assessments
• Young Adults
• Older Adults
• Benefits that Jobseekers derive from using Career Assessments
• The Role that Personality Assessments can play in Job Searches

Overview of Assessment Types

• Strong Interest Inventory
• SDS - Self-directed Search
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
• Career Ability Placement Survey
• Woofound
• Wishcraft by Barbara Sher
• What Color is Your Parachute?
• Psychoanalytically-informed,
• career assessment
• Clinical Interview

Leading Career Assessments

Strong Interest Inventory

• Helps you to identify your interests
• You answer questions about what you like and don’t like.
• Test results suggest possible occupations and interest areas
• It also gives you a list of 6 broad areas in which your interests lie:
• social (helping, instructing)
• investigative (researching, analyzing)
• conventional (accounting, processing data)
• artistic (creating or enjoying art)
• enterprising (selling, managing)
• realistic (building, repairing).

Overview of Assessment Types

Similar in scope to the Strong but shorter and quicker, the SDS is another popular tool that measures your interests and points you toward -- or away from -- the six areas in the Strong Interest Inventory.

Self-directed Search (SDS)

Overview of Assessment Types

• MBTI is an attempt to describe variations in healthy

personalities.

• Whether you are shy or extroverted
• Whether you sense or intuit things
• Whether you are dominated by your thoughts or your feelings
• Whether you tend to judge or perceive
• This information can be useful in helping you to figure out what

kinds of setting would be a good match for your personality

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

Overview of Assessment Types

• Timed Assessment
• There are right and wrong answers
• You answers questions in 8 areas (e.g. verbal reasoning, mechanical


reasoning, spatial relations, and language usage.)

• It purports to give you a good idea of where your natural abilities lie

Career Ability Placement Survey (CAPS)

Overview of Assessment Types

Woofound

Overview of Assessment Types

• Online Visual Personality Assessment
• “Blend” Created From Strongest Career 


and Personality Types

• 5 - 10 Minutes to Complete
• Interactive

• Contains exercises to help people clarify their


dream jobs

• Provides strategies for converting your


interests into careers possibilities

• Provides strategies for converting career


possibilities into job search steps

Wishcraft by Barbara Sher

Overview of Assessment Types

• One of the top-selling books of all-time
• This helps people to identify career goals and


job search strategies by completing a series of
 exercises and tasks

• Can be used with individuals and groups

What Color is Your Parachute by Richard Bolles

Overview of Assessment Types

• I developed this model of career assessment
• It’s designed to help people who are unable to follow through with

• ther kinds of assessment and coaching approaches
• This entails a complete psychological assessment with a focus on


career as a “presenting problem”

• Ideally completed by a psychoanalyst, but any counselor should think


about the role of the unconscious

Psychoanalytically-informed, career assessment

Overview of Assessment Types

• The most important assessment too - there is no


substitute!

• Without this clients feel that we really have no


basis for understanding or thinking about them

• A general caveat in psychology - you can never


make any assessment without:

• Multiple tests
• A Personal Career Interview will provide


context

Personal Career Interview

Overview of Assessment Types

• Assessment tools lend credibility to your recommendations – they provide a


context for the clinical interview

• They allow you to get started with clients who know very little about themselves
• Books & Interviews help people to take ownership and responsibility over their


career search

• They allow you to collect data in the aggregate about all of your clients – so, you


can learn more about who you serve and you can identify and refine the best
 ways to serve them

Benefits for WIBs

Overview of Assessment Types

• Assessments and interviews help job seekers to learn about who they are
• Their strengths and weaknesses
• Their talents and limitations
• They help them clarify their goals and to identify a plan for pursuing them
• Help employers understand know who they are and what kind of job they seek
• Identifying career goals that are compatible with their personalities
• Identifying jobs they will likely enjoy
• Identifying effective job seeking strategies

Benefits to Job Seekers

Overview of Assessment Types

• Helps the counselor to have a handle on the


individual’s strengths and limitations

• Helps the individual to develop a coherent


narrative about the kind of skills they offer
 and how they can serve the organization

Role of Career Assessments in Job Searches

Overview of Assessment Types

Woofound by Traitify

Visual Personality Assessment

Instant Personality Results

Personalized Career Recommendations

Relevant Career Information

View Local Available Jobs

WIB Experiences with Woofound Assessment

“Fun and easy! Great customer service


• moment. Fast, quick, easy, and positive


experience.” “People who take Woofound wont leave
 us…since the assessment was so easy.”

Improving the Intake Experience

WIBs Experience with Woofound

“Helps people of all ages. Youth to


• Adults. Specialized populations.


Low skills to high skills.” “Limited skills required.”

Visual approach fits a range of job seekers

WIBs Experience with Woofound

• In Workshops
• Posted on WIB website
• In one-on-one meetings with job


seekers

Growing Interest as Assessment for Youth

WIBs Experience with Woofound

• Consider as innovative, intake tool to use across all programs
• Particularly appropriate for greater focus on serving disconnected youth
• Enhances ability to engage business with expanded seeker profiles
• Creates opportunity to profile jobs for employers and create improved talent matching

WIBs Experience with Woofound

Woofound for WIOA

Talent Profile Job Profile

• New tool to most WIBS
• Engaging new experience to the intake process
• Focal point of workshops or one-on-one session with

seekers

• Visual approach works will with a range of job seekers:

youth, ESL, older

• Creates additional content for seeker self-marketing
• Helps WIBs enhance seeker profiles to employers
• Aggregate data to better understand base of job seekers

WIBs Experience with Woofound

Summary: Woofound in Workforce Development

Q & A

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Going Further

Recommended Reading

• 1. The Role of the Unconscious in Career Counseling
• 2. Psychoanalytically-informed, career assessment
• 3. How To Choose Your Career
• 4. What Do you Want to Do With Your Life?
• 5. Identify A Plan For Doing It
• 6. Overcoming Obstacles That Get In The Way

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Thank you for attending!

• Dr. Lynn Friedman

drlynnfriedman@verizon.net Dan Sines dan@traitify.com Bruce Stephen bruce.stephen@monster.com

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