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Discover Your Career Path: Do What You Are Assessment Overview

This assessment helps you identify strengths, interests, and potential careers matched to your personality type. Learn about colleges offering related majors. Gain insights into your character traits and career interests.

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Discover Your Career Path: Do What You Are Assessment Overview

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  1. Do What You Are Career Assessment Overview NAVIANCE Alliance Cindy and Bill Simon Technology Academy HS Spring 2013 11th Grade

  2. Why Should You Do It? • Successful completion of the assessment will generate a report that will provide you with important information about your personal characteristics. • You will learn about careers that are matched to you, your personal strengths and blind spots, how you negotiate in your daily life, and a host of other useful information.

  3. Learning Objectives • You will identify your strengths and blind spots while completing the Do What You Are assessment • Identify at least three careers that interest you based on your personality interest results • Identify at least three colleges that offer majors related to potential career choices based on your results

  4. Do What You Are • It will take you about 30-40 minutes to complete the assessment • There is a Self Discovery Assessment section and a Career Interest Survey section • There are four parts to the Self Discovery Assessment • The Career Interest Survey will ask your level of interest in a variety of career groupings

  5. What you need to know before you start • Consistent • Realistic • Practical/Impractical • Objectively • Logical • Conviction • Strive • Cooperatively • Persuade • Fair-minded • Empathetic • Master • Abstract • Far-Fetched • Unrealistic • Contraptions • Spontaneous • Productive • Punctual • Seldom • Impatient • Restless • Superficial • Enthusiasm • Monopolize • Down-to-earth • Observant • Imaginative • Curious • Caricaturist • Sensible

  6. Examples • I try to be punctual everyday. • It feels good when I have a productive day at work. • I like to master a skill before I learn a new one.

  7. Getting Started • Log into Naviance using your username and password • www.connection.naviance.com/simon • Use the step-by-step instructions to find DWYA (Steps 1&2 on your handout) • Use the vocabulary lists if you are unsure what a word means

  8. Day 2Learning Objective • You will identify your strengths and blind spots while completing the Do What You Are assessment • Interests and skills change during the course of a person's life, the one thing that does remain constant is an individual's Personality Type • If you understand the role Personality Type plays, you can gain important insights into educational, career, and relationship needs

  9. DWYA Learning Objectives Check-In Worksheet • It is important to remember that the science of personality type is not an exact science • However, an understanding of your type can guide you in making better decisions for your future

  10. Results will be broken down by • Understanding You • Your strengths and blind spots • Potential careers to consider

  11. Almost Done! • Learning Objectives two and three • Identify careers that interest you based on your personality interests • Identify colleges that offer majors related to potential career choices

  12. Questions

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