Career Interest Profiler Reflection
The differences between school, a job, and a career are the different levels the hit at in your life and the qualifications. School is primary, before you have a job, you go to school to learn so much information, which sets you up for a job. A job is different than school because even though you may be using some skills you learn from school, a job teaches you more personal and social skills that come from experience. A job also is part time and maybe not something that will continue throughout your whole life, being as though you’re not mastered in it, unlike a career. A career is something that you do for your life and that you’ve mastered. Careers normally come last when a person has gone through schooling and jobs, where they’ve obtained and mastered all the information needed to be successful on a business level and personal level. Personally, I feel like I’ve mastered the social and personal aspect in my life so far. I have also mastered a work ethic, but not a constant one, as it comes and goes. My mastering has and will come from experiences and repetition. I could stand to work on my work ethic and preparation, as I like to go with the flow and not have many plans. When I took the career test, I score the highest in “Investigative” (7), and the second highest in “Enterprising” and “Artistic, each tied at 6. To be in an investigative career, some traits that are associated with it are extensive thinking, problem solving, mentally working things out, and searching for facts. On the other hand, to be an artistic career, the traits include creativity with designs and patterns, self-expression, and following your own rules. To be in an enterprising career, traits that are involved include working on projects, working with people, leading people, and making decisions. I scored the lowest in the “Realistic” and “Conventional” areas, which are careers that work with data or machinery and have strict authority to follow. Personally, I didn’t think that my scores were that surprising because of my free flowing personality. From a young age, I was always following my own set of rules, making up different ideas, leading others, and trying to solve and fix problems. This year, my traits seemed to fall in line and become recognized when I received the “C” as the captain of my hockey team. I’ve led my team through wins and losses, fixed disputes among teammates, implemented new routines and ideas, and real thought about where I wanted to go with my team and myself in hockey. Five different job recommended for me consisted of a broadcast new analyst, poets, lyricists, and creative writer, clinical psychologist, counseling psychologist, and industrial-organizational psychologist. The first career path mentioned was one that I had thought about and been possibly interested in, but the only thing that could turn me away is the backlash I might receive as I share my own opinion, which is the not the same as everyone else’s. The second career was a hard no as I thought about it freshman year and had even taken a class on journalism, and still this year I am in creative writing. I can’t write on the spot and under pressure, and I want to write for myself when I do it for fun and not for other. Additionally, I haven’t heard great things about constant money flow in this path either. The last three careers mentioned, all pertaining to being some type of psychologist, I feel comply best with me as I had thought about those careers for a while. I am interested in the thought process and what makes people do what they do, and think what they think. Although I still am thinking about something with psychology, I am again worried about the salary and job opportunity. I have family members who have recently gone to school for psychology and now must go back to school to extend their degree and find a well paying job, and also those who had to go back to school for a completely different subject because they could not find a job, especially not a well paying one that would support them. I think although this career path finder did help tremendously, I still need to continues looking as I think there are still more options for me. I don’t believe this test can tell everything about me, as I still have some unexplored careers that interest me, which were not mentioned in m results. The schooling and wages for the careers I had already researched from before so they were not too much of a shock to me. I still plan to research other career paths, like I mentioned, and maybe then, some facts will come as a shock to me. As for now, the career interest profiler definitely did help get some grounding, and helped to set me up for my next career search.