Applying Talents in Career Discovery

Achiever

Applying Achiever Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Achiever strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Choose work environments that challenge you. Opt for situations where your success is measured each day.
Select a career that provides you with numerous opportunities to excel as an individual. Control your workflow, schedule, productivity, quality level, and action plan.
Gravitate to organizations and professions that offer incentives for quality, productivity, sales revenue, profit margins, or customer service.
Seek a position that lets you do what you do best every day. Inform people that you have a need to exceed, not just meet, minimum requirements.
Find a career in which you can work as hard as you want. Avoid work situations controlled by collective bargaining agreements that limit how much you can produce each day.
Realize that you cannot work in just anywhere. Affiliate yourself with organizations that a known for their serious, results-oriented workers.

Activator

Applying Activator Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Activator strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Define what kind of leader you are. A thought leader? A giver of orders? A leader who gives the go-ahead signal? Large group leader?
Small group leader? A leader with a mission? A profit leader? An athlete leader?
Identify informal leadership roles within professions, companies, or departments into which you can step. Persuade coworkers that they can increase productivity, solve problems, launch programs, overcome obstacles, and bounce back from defeat.
Find work that allows you to make your own decisions, and then act upon them.
Consider becoming your own boss. Make of list of possible businesses you could start, grow, and sell once they show a profit. Understand that you will probably lose interest once an enterprise is so fine-tuned that it runs on its own. Recall how maintaining an operation has led to boredom in the past.
Choose a career in which “actions speak louder than words” even though your words can propel people into action. Thoroughly research professions, organizations, and companies to identify the ones that are truly results-oriented.
Understand that some supervisors and managers may feel threatened by your insistence on making decisions and acting without delay.

Adaptabiliy

Applying Adaptability Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Adaptability strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Identify three to four occupations that reward those with an ability to live in the moment. Avoid professions that require rigid adherence to rules, operating procedures, and time controls.
Interview individuals who work in organizations where the work is experimental or discovery-oriented. Ask how each day assumes its own life. Take notes. Afterwards, look for recurring themes and behaviors these people share.
Gain part-time or seasonal employment in organizations where the demand for flexibility exists hour-by-hour and day-by-day. Record three to five ways your Adaptability talent benefits you in these settings.
Reflect upon “wrong fit” jobs you have had in the past. Determine whether your Adaptability talent was viewed as a plus or as a liability.
What did these experiences teach you? Start a “right fit” career file. Each week, add an insight about how you used your Adaptability talent. Draw upon this information when writing résumés and preparing for job interviews.
Shadow employees who continually respond to the varied requests of their customers, tourists, guests, and patients.

Analytical

Applying Analytical Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Analytical strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Choose a job that requires a lot of analysis. Obvious career fields such as accounting, finance, law, engineering, sciences, business management, computer technology, and journalism are worthy of consideration.
Opt for jobs that allow you to make decisions based on your evaluation of facts, data, tangible evidence, circumstantial evidence, and research findings.
Examine the use of logic in fields such as history, theater, painting, landscape design, anthropology, auto mechanics, and musical composition.
Refuse to sacrifice your passion for a field because others say it does not require linear, sequential thinking. Prove them wrong.
Select careers that permit you to sharpen your ability to determine the existence of cause-and-effect relationships on a daily basis.
Decline opportunities to do mindless work regardless of the compensation and benefits package offered to you.

Arranger

Applying Arranger Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Arranger strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Explore careers that demand constant readjustment. Determine

how much change and what kinds of changes you are most comfortable handling.
Weigh the importance of rules and guidelines in your job. Understand that abiding by these makes it easier for teammates to cooperate, make progress, and succeed.
For an interesting and challenging project, enlist friends and classmates to search the Internet for information about team-oriented occupations.
Look through the classified ads for positions that allow you to help others meet their financial obligations.
Identify jobs in which you will be expected to put together pieces of plans, processes, projects, and events.
Consider being an agent of change. Interview individuals who regularly turn around bad situations by redeploying resources, readjusting timelines, and realigning priorities. Ask them how they know it is time for them to move on to another role.

Belief

Applying Belief Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Belief strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Turn down high-paying jobs that force you to compromise your beliefs. Tell the hiring officer that your soul and psyche are not for sale to the highest bidder.
Seek employment in companies and organizations that exhibit a strong sense of mission — that is, a commitment to positively impacting the quality of people’s lives.
Compare an entity’s mission statement to what it produces or the services it provides. Verify that its guiding principles and its outcomes are in sync.
Research opportunities in helping professions such as medicine, law enforcement, social work, refugee relocation, teaching, and search-and-rescue. Talk with people who provide services to individuals in need. Interview those who supervise them.
Have a mentor, and be a mentor. Understand that this increases the chances for your behaviors, decisions, and beliefs to remain constant.
Consider an ethics-related career in medicine, law, military service, law enforcement, ministry, or science.

Command

Applying Command Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Command strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Leverage your persuasiveness when choosing a career. Consider fields such as law, entrepreneurship, sales, politics, education, medicine, and ministry.
Explore various opportunities in sales. Determine what kinds of products and services you would and would not enjoy selling.
Aim to be in a managerial or authoritarian role. Remember, you tend to be bossy. Avoid occupations where you are expected to blindly follow orders or be subservient.
Investigate careers that offer upward mobility. Understand that you are satisfied with a subordinate position for only a limited time.
Assume a role that permits you to create and control your own and others’ work.
Use your air of certainty and boldness to calm coworkers in the midst of situations that confound and overwhelm them.

Communication

Applying Communication Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Communication strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Consider becoming a stand-up comedian, actor, motivational speaker, or trainer.
Choose careers that will allow you to do a lot of the talking, such as teaching, broadcast journalism, consulting, politics, public relations, and ministry.
Explore opportunities to serve as the spokesperson for an organization, product, political candidate, company, school district, hospital, or elected official.
Become a librarian who reads stories to children.
Opt for a career as a professional storyteller.
Explore sales positions that require making presentations.

Competition

Applying Competition Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Competition strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Choose work environments that challenge you and in which your success can be quantified with scores, ratings, and rankings. Avoid situations lacking meaningful, objective measurement criteria.
Decide whether you prefer to compete as an individual or as a team member. Select employment that matches your preference either for total or shared control over final results.
Search for jobs that offer incentives for best performance. Financial bonuses, trophies, trips, promotions, rings, cars, or learning opportunities enhance your performance in ways that hard work and long hours cannot.
Find a career that is both competitive and personally satisfying.
Refuse to sacrifice one for the other.

Connectedness

Applying Connectedness Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Connectedness strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Dedicate at least two years of your life to serving your country or community after graduation. Join Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), AmeriCorps, or Teach for America.
Incorporate your need to serve all of humankind into whatever career you choose. Opt to work in fields and for organizations whose values mirror your own.
Enlist in the Peace Corps before starting your professional career.
Volunteer your medical services for a week or month at a rural clinic serving migrant workers or in a small town without a physician or nurse.
Consider joining Doctors Without Borders® or becoming a medical missionary.
Make a lifetime commitment to a specific ministry within your faith tradition.

Consistency

Applying Consistency Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Consistency strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Work in environments that have regulations, policies, procedures, and guidelines firmly established. Realize that you are more effective and efficient when everyone, regardless of status, must follow the same rules.
Gravitate to careers in fields such as accounting, tax law, manufacturing, and government service.
Research roles in quality assurance, risk management, safety compliance, law enforcement, and production standards.
Consider refereeing athletic events.
Choose workplaces where standard operating procedures are emphasize in orientation, training development, and manuals.
Explore positions where careful monitoring of the bidding process, contract specifications, and open meetings laws are critical to success.

Context

Applying Context Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Context strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Consider a career as a teacher, archivist, museum curator, documentary filmmaker, journalist, or fiction writer. Or, consider archeology, anthropology, reclamation of sunken ships, or reconstruction of historic sites. Concentrate on a particular period or figure in history.
Specialize in genealogy. Help people trace their family’s lineage for purposes of membership in an organization or to prove their relationship for historic or legal purposes.
Join the National Park Service and specialize in giving guided tours of historic sites. Oversee the ongoing maintenance of the property and its collection of artifacts and documents.
Examine opportunities as an appraiser of antique furniture, toys, clothing, jewelry, paintings, first edition books, or original manuscripts.
Study how individuals become partners in auction houses.

Deliberative

Applying Deliberative Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Deliberative strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Choose a career in which you and others can benefit from your careful thinking and deliberation.
You may want to work in roles that require research and analysis of information to plan wise actions or gain new understandings.
Work in organizations and roles in which you can be independent.
You will be a good questioner of actions, helping others to think through their decisions before moving ahead too quickly.

Developer

Applying Developer Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Developer strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

You will be most satisfied in a career that provides some type of service to people or in which organizational success is based on interpersonal relationships and your ability to help people be successful.
Choose a job in which you work in teams or partnerships so that you can help others grow and develop.
You will be an asset to any organization because you help facilitate the development of those around you. Never forget the
impact that you can have in an organization.
Consider a career in counseling, human resources, teaching, or management. You have a talent for noting people’s progress and for helping them become even better at what they do.

Discipline

Applying Discipline Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Discipline strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Take on a career in which you can maintain order for yourself and others.
Your organizing skills should be helpful in administrative positions.
Find jobs that require exactness.
You will be appreciated in most work settings because you follow through and you work systematically.
You can do a lot to help others become organized. This makes them become more effective and improves their follow through.
In many ways you are a perfectionist. While some may criticiz your perfectionism, just think of all the professions in which you wouldn’t want someone who wasn’t a perfectionist (e.g., airplane pilot, brain surgeon, accountant).

Empathy

Applying Empathy Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Empathy strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Try to work in a peer counseling center or in a job where you give advice or are called to understand others.
Look for a job in which you need to work as part of a team. You will understand team members, support them, and help them work together.
Great teachers have been found to be especially high in the Empathy theme.
Some outstanding writers are high in empathy.
Listening is one of your greatest skills. By listening to the feelings of others, you help them become clearer and less conflicted.

Focus

Applying Focus Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Focus strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

You will be most satisfied in a career that has identifiable goals, purposes, and objectives, and one that provides opportunities to meet your own longer-term goals.
You will be helpful in an organization that will use your abilities to set goals and priorities.
Because you are able to keep yourself on track, you will work best in an environment with minimal supervision.
Set measurable steps for reaching your goals. These will help you track your progress toward your desired career.

Futuristic

Applying Futuristic Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Futuristic strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Dream big. Write down your dreams, and continue to make progress toward your biggest dreams.
Find an organization where you can help create the future, painting vivid pictures for those who work there, helping them see the role they will take in making this vision become reality.
Choose a career in which you can help others envision their future and define their goals to reach it.
Choose jobs that will help you gain the connections you need for the job you want after graduation.

Harmony

Applying Harmony Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Harmony strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Look for a career where you will have opportunities to be a stabilizing factor in a group, team, or organization.
Avoid a career in which there is significant conflict.
Seek out environments that provide security, compatibility, and low risk.
You are practical, and all organizations need practical people to get the work done and keep the organization running. You can help others see the practical in the theoretical.
You work well and are helpful in team project environments. You help others work together even more productively. You help promote emotional stability and calmness in the group.

Ideation

Applying Ideation Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Ideation strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Build on your creativity to find a career that encourages you to think freely and express your ideas.
Find work in which others like your ideas and in which you are expected to keep learning.
You will be able to find new and better ways of doing things within the organization.
Select an organization where the leaders encourage and solicit your divergent thinking, stimulating them to consider some new approaches.

Includer

Applying Includer Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Includer strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Choose a career where you can supervise or lead a group of people, because you will build a sense of team and belongingness.
You will add benefit to a work environment, bringing them together for a common goal.
Working with a group that is not always included by others, such as physically or mentally challenged children, will allow you to use your talents to help them feel better about themselves.
A career in the United Nations or foreign service may appeal to you. You appreciate and include all people and their ideas.
The field of social work may interest you. Making sure that children are placed in a home where they are loved and become a real part of the family would give you great pleasure.

Individualization

Applying Individualization Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Individualization strengths. As you think them over, selectthose that apply to you best.

A career in education would directly use your talents because you would value and treat each student as an individual.
As a supervisor or manager, you would help individuals determine what they could do what they do best on a regular basis. Your evaluations would be based on who the person is and on what he or she had accomplished.
Counseling could be a fulfilling role for you. Your ability to see people as distinct individuals will empower them and help them grow.
Writing a novel would allow you to fully develop the uniqueness of each character.

Input

Applying Input Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Input strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

You will want to work in an environment that expects you to be continuously engaged in learning.
You will enjoy a career where you are always on the cutting edge of knowledge and where you are stimulated by ideas and creative approaches to problems and issues.
An ideal career would be one in which you have an opportunity to share what you have learned and are expected to be continuously learning and making new discoveries.
Choose jobs that will encourage you to conduct or delve into research.
Being a media specialist or someone with access to large amounts of information that you can locate for people would be rewarding for you.

Intellection

Applying Intellection Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Intellection strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Choose work that will challenge you intellectually.
Choose a work environment that matches your most productive thinking environment. If you think best when it’s quiet, choose a quiet work environment. If working with others stimulates your thinking, choose to work in a team environment.
Select work where you can share ideas and pose questions.
Look at careers in which you can interact with colleagues and have philosophical debates.

Learner

Applying Learner Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Learner strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Choose a work environment that encourages constant learning.
Find work where study is a way of life.
Consider work that allows you to move to the next subject that greatly interests you.
Select work where competency is valued and where you will have opportunities to keep developing your competencies.

Maximizer

Applying Maximizer Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Maximizer strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Choose a career that allows you to improve on the qualities you already have.
Don’t hide your weaknesses in your work; just make them irrelevant by fully developing and applying your strengths.
Find work where you can help others see their talents and how their talents make a difference.
Choose a work environment where your talents will be appreciated.

Postivity

Applying Positivity Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers thatcould best suit Positivity strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Select a fast-paced, stimulating work environment.
Choose work for which you have passion.
Choose a career where you can encourage others, like coaching, teaching, selling, or managing.
Make sure any work you choose is fun for you.

Relator

Applying Relator Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Relator strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Choose any career in which in-depth, meaningful relationships are valued.
Find a workplace in which friendships are encouraged, and you can continuously learn about your clients and associates.
You will enjoy a job in which you serve a stable group of customers who come back often.
Consider coaching, teaching, managing, supervising, and caregiving as possible outlets for your talent.

Responsibility

Applying Responsibility Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Responsibility strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Select work where you can be given more and more responsibility as you progressively achieve.
Ensure that future employers know how much they can count on you.
Choose a work environment that focuses on outcomes rather than processes.
Find a manager and coworkers who will trust you to follow through.

Restorative

Applying Restorative Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Restorative strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Choose a profession where deficits are remedied.
Consider a service position where you can help others solve their problems.
Look for work opportunities that allow you to fix whatever is wrong, from restoring art objects to cars to inadequate telephone service.
Think about owning or managing a company that restores and recycles products.

Self-Assurance

Applying Self-Assurance Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Self-Assurance strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Find a career that will constantly challenge you and keep you motivated.
Find a career in which you can practice all your talents and abilities and identify new ones.
Choose a career where you are in control.
Don’t be afraid to trust your instincts and take risks in your career.

Significance

Applying Significance Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Significance strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Choose a career in which you can be looked up to or admired.
Work with people who show that they appreciate your hard work.
Choose a career that you think is very significant.
Consider work that puts you in the public eye.
Identify the strengths that will help you make an extraordinary contribution and/or achievement. Make others aware that receiving recognition that you deserve will motivate you to even greater contributions.

Strategic

Applying Strategic Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best suit Strategic strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Consider psychology, as it requires understanding situations and being able to discover or provide effective problem solving.
A career in law may excite you, as it requires the use of logic to build cases and find creative and effective ways to present them.
Choose careers that will allow you to be a leader and voice your ideas.
List the various paths possible in your future so you can give careful thought to each one.
Consider consulting. The question is, who do you want to consult with, and what do you want them to consult you about?

Woo

Applying Woo Strengths in Careers

These observations and suggestions will help you consider careers that could best match Woo strengths. As you think them over, select those that apply to you best.

Choose a career in which you can constantly meet new people.
Choose a career in which you initiate conversations and perhaps persuade people.
Select a career that requires you to quickly form relationships and draw people to you.
Select a career where you can deliberately build a network of people.

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