Should You Make A Career Decision Based Upon A Career Quiz?

Written by Brian Fong


Q. I'm about to graduate High School and I don't know what I want to be "when I grow up". Do you think that a career quiz might help me decide?

A. Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! But maybe not forrepparttar reasons that you think. You see, asrepparttar 106920 great Quizmaster, I've found one thing to be true: A career quiz, or any quiz for that matter, is always biased towardsrepparttar 106921 thoughts and belief's ofrepparttar 106922 person who wrote it.

Usually a career quiz is written for entertainment purposes only. Now, if you are calling it a career quiz, but you really mean some sort of standardized occupational guidance test like professional career counsellors andrepparttar 106923 military use, then those are typically valid assessments of your career capabilities.

However, since you are askingrepparttar 106924 question here, and I am definitely not a career counsellor, then I'm going to assume that you are talking about your run-of-the-mill career quiz likerepparttar 106925 type that you find in typical magazines and on a variety of general audience web sites.

So,repparttar 106926 reason that I said "Yes, yes, a thousand times yes" is because anything that gets someone thinking about career options is a good thing. A well-written career quiz hasrepparttar 106927 effect of causing you to brainstorm over your career options. What you want to be "when you grow up" may be a moving target for you. Most people evolve as they mature and their goals change. What sounds like a good idea now may be far away from what you will eventually become. However, as I said, a career quiz gets you thinking and that's a start!

Knowing and Guessing

Written by Nan S. Russell


The line between average and exceptional work performance is dotted with ordinary day-by-day behaviors. I was reminded of that line recently. My husband was explaining to a nurse how he'd inadvertently takenrepparttar last dose ofrepparttar 106919 live typhoid virus onrepparttar 106920 wrong day and wondered if he needed to retakerepparttar 106921 sequence prior to our Africa trip. "No," she commented, "I think you'll be fine." We both knew she was guessing.

While rolling down my sleeve fromrepparttar 106922 next set of immunizations, a different nurse poked her head intorepparttar 106923 room. "I overheard your conversation atrepparttar 106924 desk." she said to Dan. "We've never had that situation, so I thought it best to callrepparttar 106925 drug manufacturer for advice. Turns out you need to retakerepparttar 106926 entire dosage." We were grateful she tookrepparttar 106927 extra step.

It's not possible to know allrepparttar 106928 answers to allrepparttar 106929 questions you'll get tossed inrepparttar 106930 workplace. But, be willing to say when you don't. That's better than giving out misinformation or guessing at an answer without making it clear it's a guess. People who are winning at working add four words - "but I'll find out." And they do find out and get back torepparttar 106931 person. That extra step differentiates their performance inrepparttar 106932 workplace.

Jeff was already inrepparttar 106933 department when I was hired to manage it. "I don't know" was his typical response when queried beyondrepparttar 106934 surface status reports of his projects. At first, I expected Jeff to automatically find outrepparttar 106935 answers to my questions and inform me, his new boss. But he never did. Jeff managed to train me to follow up to his "I don't know," with "please find out and tell me."

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