Use of Personality & Career Assessments for MBA Students

About Us

• PsychAbility offers the world’s most popular and widely used personality, career, leadership and other psychometric tests. We administer the authentic Strong Interest Inventory®, MBTI®, TKI, FIRO-B®, CPI 260® and other products from CPP, the exclusive publisher of these best-selling assessments.

About CPP, Inc.

• Since its founding in 1956, CPP, Inc., has been a leading publisher and provider of innovative products and services for individual and organizational development - including the Fortune 500, for more than 50 years.

• The company’s hundreds of unique offerings have been used by millions of individuals in more than 100 countries, in more than 20 languages.

The Role of Work in People’s Lives

• Need for survival• Need for relatedness• Need for self-determination• Working as a source of dreams and

disappointments • Study of urban Chicago by Wilson (1996)• Recent advances in positive psychology• PE-fit theory

Strong Interest Inventory®

• For nearly 80 years, the Strong Interest Inventory® assessment has provided time-tested, research validated insights to help individuals in their search for a rich, fulfilling career. As one of the most respected and widely used career planning instruments in the world, it has been used extensively in educational institutions and organizations of all sizes.

Strong Interest Inventory®

How You Will Benefit

• The Strong can be a valuable tool in helping you identify your interests, enabling you to achieve satisfaction in your work

• Identify career options consistent with your interests• Choose appropriate education and training relevant to

your interests• Maintain balance between your work and leisure

activities• Understand aspects of your personality most closely

associated with your interests

• Determine your preferred learning environments

• Learn about your preferences for leadership, risk taking, and teamwork

• Use interests in shaping your career direction• Decide on a focus for the future• Direct your own career exploration at various

stages in your life

About the Assessment

291-item Strong reveals interest patterns through a range of complementary scales:• 6 General Occupational Themes (GOTs)• 30 Basic Interest Scales (BISs)• 260 Occupational Scales (OSs)—updated in

2012— • 5 Personal Style Scales (PSSs)

GOTs

Applications of the Strong®

• Choosing a college major• Career exploration• Career development• Career alignment

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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®

• MBTI is the world’s most powerful and well known Personality Test. Over 100 million people have taken it. Last year alone two million people used their MBTI ® results to gain understanding about themselves and the people around them. This test is designed to help you understand your unique personality and the way you relate to others around you. It is backed by thousands of research studies and has been found to be both reliable and valid in assessing personality.

Fortune 500

What issues Can it Help Address

• Self understanding and development• Team development• Leadership development• Interpersonal skills development• Conflict management• Executive and line manager coaching• Stress management• Career transition and planning

About the Assessment

• Makes Carl Jung’s theory of psychological type understandable and useful in people’s everyday lives.

• The essence of the theory• The MBTI assessment helps people identify their

preferences on four dichotomies:• Extraversion or Introversion • Sensing or INtuition • Thinking or Feeling • Judging or Perceiving

Four Dichotomies

16 Personality Types

• People’s four-letter MBTI type code is a simple way of signifying the interaction of their preferences.

What are Preferences?

• Sign your name!• Preferred vs. non-preferred

Sensing vs. Intuition

T/F Exercise

• “There was a 36-year-old man, and he had six children between the ages of 1 and 6. Unfortunately, the man’s wife had died about six months prior to this incident. One day, out of desperation, he went into a grocery store, filled up a grocery cart with items, and proceeded to walk past the cashier…out the front door…and into the parking lot with the full grocery cart. The cashier ran after him and asked him whether he had paid for the items in his cart. The man told the cashier no.”

To Prosecute or Not?

• You are the manager of this grocery store. You have complete autonomy to decide whether you would prosecute this man or not.

• Would you prosecute the man or not? If yes, why? If not, why not?

• “Did I tell you that there were groceries in the cart?”

• MBTI Assessment Report

Prayers based on TypeISTJ: Lord help me to relax about insignificant details beginning tomorrow at 11:41.23 am e.s.t.ISTP: God help me to consider people's feelings, even if most of them ARE hypersensitive.ESTJ: God, help me to not try to RUN everything. But, if You need some help, just ask.ISFP: Lord, help me to stand up for my rights (if you don't mind my asking).ESFJ: God give me patience, and I mean right NOW.INFJ: Lord help me not be a perfectionist. (did I spell that correctly?)INFP: God, help me to finish everything I sta

Technical Brief

• Data from European English, French, German, Latin American Spanish, European Spanish

• Chinese, Asian, Hispanic, Native & Caucasian

MBTI & Strong Combined Reports

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Resources for Students

• Research the career fields and occupations suggested in this report at http://www.onetonline.org

• Occupational Outlook Handbook at http://www.bls.gov/ooh/

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