Happy Holidays DiverseNote Community,
I hope that everyone who celebrated Christmas had a wonderful celebration. I want to begin with providing everyone with detail about my professional background and career experience to provide credibility to what I blog about. My name is Tekisha Lee. I am the founder and CEO of DiverseNote. I’ve worked in the areas of human capital (resource) development, recruitment, and economic development for twelve years. Most of my experience has been in non traditional methods of human capital and economic development. I have worked with Turner Broadcasting, The U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of the Interior, DTE Energy, Many Fortune 500 and 1000 corporations, and academic institutions. My goal for this blog is to share and assist members of the DiverseNote community in using out of the box ways to reach career goals and move up the career ladder.
In today’s CareerNotes blog post I want to focus on a topic that provides strategies for assessing your interests and goals for career development. I am blogging about this because in January 2012, I will begin a blog series on establishing solid career goals and reaching them. The series will be three weeks for a total of 6 blog posts on the topic. Assessing your interest and overall goals is a good start.
Career assessments take a look into your personal and professional interests to gauge what industry or specific job category may be a good fit for you in the workplace. Career assessments are offered when you first enter college (community or undergraduate studies) and they are provided by some employers as well. An example of career assessments in community college is the TABE test, the Myers Briggs test at four year colleges and universities; Firo B, Myers Briggs, 360 Degree Feedback assessments are available in most human resource departments in the workplace. If you do not have access to any of these, I am aware of a few free career assessment tools you can use for free. These assessments or tests do not offer as much detail or feedback as you would get from one of the assessments I mentioned above, but they will give some hands on experience of how a career assessment works. I make note that I am not certain how credible these assessments offered by the links below are. Here are some links; the Career Colleges website (http://www.careercolleges.com/career-assessment-test.jsp) offers a career assessment test that tells you which industry you are best suited for. The My Career Quiz site (http://www.mycareerquizzes.com/job-test) provides an assessment for those who are already on the job but it is not specific to an industry. The site also requires you to sign up for an account on the website.
With this information on what career assessment are, how they should be used, and examples of career assessments you can try, we move to the bog series next week. Next week, Monday, January 2, we will begin the three week blog series on establishing solid career goals and reaching them. I invite you to share your comments and experiences on each blog topic. I’d like to hear from you and will do blog posts on the topics you express interest in. Remember to join DiverseNote and invite your friends and colleagues to join the conversation and take the next step in career development.
