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Should You Take a Personality Assessment?

Posted by Adam Rico in Career Success, Knowing Your Strengths, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Personality | 5 comments

You’ve probably heard of or have taken the Myers-Briggs or DISC or some other personality instrument out there.

However, sometimes it can feel like personality assessments raise more questions than provide answers.

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Which is the best one to take? Is it going to say I have the worst personality you can have? How in the world will this help me get a better job? Don’t circumstances dictate how I behave sometimes?

When Successful People Have A Crisis, What Do They Do?

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Philip Anschutz was in his mid-twenties when his father became ill and handed the family oil drilling business over to him. However, the once lucrative business was falling on hard times.

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Then in 1967 Philip struck oil in Wyoming which allowed him to buy up the surrounding oil leases on credit. Things were really good.

However, one day a spark set all the oil fields on fire.

The Way to Get the Job You’ve Always Dreamed Of

Posted by Adam Rico in Career Success, Job Search, Personal Development | 10 comments

Gary was always good at fixing things. He could take a car engine apart and put it back together. If your washing machine had broken he could fix it.

In high school Gary was always in the auto shop classroom and never in the library. He was that guy.

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However, when the time came he thought he needed to go to college in order to get a good job.

He went through college hating every minute of it, wishing he could spend more time refurbishing the 1969 Chevy pickup waiting in the garage at home.

After graduating from college with a low GPA and a headache, Gary went looking for a job.

Have You Made This Mistake In Your Career?

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Have you ever thought about what you’re supposed to be doing with your career?

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I know that may sound like a really strange question.

You might be thinking, what do you mean by “supposed to be doing?”

Most discussions about what you want to do in your career don’t revolve around this question.

Here’s what I mean.

How to Choose the Work You Love When You Feel Stuck (Part 3)

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(This post is part of a series. Read Part 1 and Part 2)

Ultimately, choosing a career direction comes down to one thing.

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What do you want to do?

That’s it.

You can take all the personality assessments in the world, go through tons of exercises, and work with coaches.

However, when all is said and done you have to make a choice and move toward a goal.

You may say, “but I still don’t know what I want to do”.