My Personal Values Connection with My Career Choices
My MBTI was ENFP, the description of this is “warmly enthusiastic and imaginative. See life as full of possibilities. Make connections between events and information very quickly, and confidently proceed based on the patterns they see. Want a lot of affirmation from others, and readily give appreciation and support. Spontaneous and flexible, often rely on their ability to improvise and their verbal fluency.” I think this description describes me very well. I believe myself to be imaginative, I can take in information quickly, and I am good at improvising. I also think that this is a good description for my career choice as well. However, I’m not sure that I am very spontaneous and sometimes I’m not really confident when receiving information and working with it.
My highest themes on my Strong Interest Inventory were artistic, social, and investigative. The statistics stated that my top interest area was counseling and helping. I thought this was a good sign because I am going to college for psychology to become a psychologist.
One personal value I believe is a good value to have is fun or humor. When you do something fun I think you get more out of it because you actually enjoy doing it. Especially in the workforce. Having tasks that you enjoy doing will help you not only get the job done but to do it on time and in an efficient manner. Another personal value that is good to have is independence. I believe that it’s great to get work done with other people but sometimes things must be done on your own. If you can’t do things by yourself then you won’t get very far in life. You must be able to help yourself and to not be helpless.
Two career options I am interested in are a counselor or a psychologist. They both pretty much do the same thing, except counselors have a master’s level education. I am interested in these careers because I like to hear what people are thinking and how they are feeling. Also, I like to help people overcome things and I want to help people on a professional level.
Psychology and counselors both help people who have mental health issues. To prepare myself to step into the psychology world I am taking all the required classes I need to take. I am also taking recommended and required psychology course offered at Gannon. In the future, I plan to participate in some internships and maybe a few job shadows to help me to gain the experience of a counselor or psychologist. I think it is very important to have some kind of experience in your job field. You not only gain more knowledge in your work field, but you also seem more experienced to an employer.
My career interests fit exactly with my Strong Interest results. This test confirmed for me that I picked the right thing to go to school for. I know that if I were to get something different it would not be uncommon and it would also be okay for that to happen. I was just shocked that it actually matched me up with my major. I know some people got things really different from their major and that doesn’t mean that they are going to school for the wrong thing, it was simply the highest result for the questions they had answered.
I definitely believe that my MBTI results fit with my proposed careers. I think being able to be spontaneous and flexible is something I have to be able to do for these career options. Also, I think it would be important to be able to readily give support and appreciation to others as well. I do believe these things would be required for jobs that I would want in the future. I think my personality traits, as described in the MBTI, fit well for someone looking to head in a counseling direction. I think in general my career at first would be challenging for me to grasp onto. However, I believe that I would be able to catch on and do my job with a limited number of challenges. It would be easy for me to be supportive and flexible. I would probably work my daily life around my work schedule so that I would have time for work but also have time for myself and things that need to be done.
I think my personal values tie into career choices because you want to pick something fun so that you can get your work done faster and on time. This could also help get your work done efficiently. But you also have to be able to work independently sometimes. Some jobs you must work independently and if you are unable to do so they might not even consider hiring you. A work field is a rough place these days and it’s hard to get a job. However, sometimes jobs are not fun which can cause you to put things off. Maybe if you find a way to make it fun you can get your task done. I know it would be bad if you procrastinate in the workplace.
Sometimes in the workplace things are not going to be the way you want them to be. You have to learn to adapt and try new things so you can easily make it through a day of work and get your tasks done. Also, everything is not going to be the way you want it all the time. You will just have to learn new ways to get things done.
