career & work

Work and Career

If you want a:

Promotion

Achieve the perfect role suited to your skill sets

Returning to work

Suspect or have a learning disorder or disability,

A career assessment may be the right choice for you……….

 

Career assessments are individually tailored to meet your needs. The assessments can be used to guide intervention or form part of personal development plan to secure a particular role or position, improve your leadership, or how you work as part of a group. Potential testing used may include:

Possible test considerations for a new role or promotion may consist of the following……….

  • Work aptitude – Raven’s Matrices – logical problem solving
  • Critical Thinking and Decision making – Watson Glasor Critical Thinking – How you make decisions, and how your approach compares to others, which may include management, or a CEO.
  • Personality Assessment NEO – Leadership approach, teamwork approach, how you cope with change, flexibility, interpersonal skills……..
  • Executive Functioning – day to day functioning, wellbeing, memory, attention and concentration
  • 360 Feedback – how you and your work proficiency, is perceived by others (co-workers or management)

Testing indicates how you compare to others, and what changes may need to occur

 

Possible test considerations if you suspect a Learning Disorder or disability may consist of the following…….

  • WAIS V – cognitive ability including language, visual problem solving, memory, and processing speed (how fast you can work on routine information.
  • Memory Testing – visual memory and auditory memory to indicate how much information can be recalled, used to problem solve, and retain
  • Learning disorder assessment – indicates traits associated with learning disorders
  • Academics – to assess reading, reading comprehension, spelling, writing and math and how this may impact on administrative tasks

Personality

Personality

 

Personality assessments

 

Test administered: NEO Personality Inventory – 3

 

Age Group: 12 – Adult

 

Provides information regarding:

 

Personality Traits

 

 Introvert – Anxiety, Angry hostility, depression, self-consciousness, impulsiveness, vulnerability

 

Extrovert – warmth, gregariousness, assertiveness, activity, excitement-seeking, positive emotions

 

Openness – fantasy, aesthetics, feelings, actions, ideas, values

 

Agreeableness – trust, straightforwardness, altruism, compliance, modesty, tender-mindedness

 

Conscientiousness – competence, order, dutifulness, achievement striving, self-discipline, deliberation

 

Wellbeing – emotion, coping , anger, impulse control

 

Social interaction – interests, character

 

Academic – Style and approach to Learning

 

Business style – interaction style (leader, competitor, welcoming, unassuming), attitude, preferred working style and work environment (adults only)