Career Assessments

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After taking the Career Assessments, I have learned new things about myself when I took the Type Focus, Focus 2, and the O*Net assessments. The assessments were quite interesting because it reveals your personality, interests, and values. In result, in each test they show a list a list of careers that I would best match with.

When I took the personality portion of the Type Focus test, my results said that my personality is ENFJ (Extraversion, Intuition, Feelings, Judging), which means that I “glow with warm and sympathy,” and that is true because I am always concern and caring about my family, friends, and strangers. Another thing I learned about myself is that I understand people very well and want to learn more about the human behavior and as a psychology student therefore this is very beneficial. About the personality results from the Focus 2, it said that I like to focus on “new ideas that can lead to improvements that can benefit people.” It also reveals that I am attracted to new ideas, new people, and new activities.” As from the O*NET results it also reveals that I also love helping people too. After taking the personality portion, I took the Interests part of the assessment.

About my results from the Interest part of the TypeFocus assessment, my top three interests are social, conventional, and Artistic. Out of
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From the results from the Focus 2, my best matches are School Psychologist, Psychiatrist, and Industrial-Organizational Psychologist. Actually, the results showed a whole list of psychology-related careers. Lastly, the O*NET assessment also reveals that my top matched careers is teaching and counseling. For some time, I have been very interested in becoming a Industrial-Organizational Psychologist and due to the results, I feel more comfortable with my career

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