One of the first steps in preparing for a career move is to get your Career Objective in focus by identifying your interests, your preferred work environment, and your career strengths. To identify your interests and preferences, you will be asked to perform a number of activities, including structured thinking and writing, structured dialogues, and completion of one or more online assessment instruments including: the Strong Interest Inventory and/or the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Please contact your Right Management Career Consultant for instructions and a start date before taking any one of the following career assessment programs. Your career consultant is specially trained and qualified to give you personalized feedback to apply the information to your career situation.

To start your personal career assessment, please click on the test name and follow the prompts and directions for each program.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, a standardized questionnaire, is designed to reveal how you reenergize, how you process information, how you make decisions, and how you deal with the world around you. It assumes that the methods you use in these activities are the methods you prefer. It's like right-handedness and left-handedness: although you use both hands to some extent, you tend to prefer one hand over the other for a given task. Your personal preferences should shape your career choices.The information revealed on the MBTI will help you determine whether a job, a potential employer, or even an organizational culture are a good "fit" for someone with your particular pattern of preferences. It will also help you appreciate differences among people.

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Strong Interest Inventory (SII)

The Strong Interest Inventory is another standardized questionnaire supported by considerable research and wide usage. Because it is designed to test your interests against real-world career choices, it will enhance your self-awareness.It may reveal, for example, that people with interests similar to yours have found success in a profession you have never considered, or that they have been unhappy in a profession that was high on your list. The SII will be particularly helpful if you are weighing the prospect of changing fields or industries, and will guide you in the exploration of these new fields.

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Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation –
Behavior (FIRO-B)

The FIRO-B is a powerful tool that assesses how personal needs affect your behavior toward other people. It provides scores that estimate the level of behavior which we – as unique individuals – feel comfortable (or "correct") with regards to our needs for inclusion, control and affection. It examines the way you interact with others and the way you wish others to interact with you. The FIRO-B offers insight into your compatibility with other people, as well as individual characteristics.

Darden Alumni are also able to complete the Career Leader assessment tool. This tool is recognized as an excellent assessment resource for MBA’s. Its results can be effectively combined with the other assessment tools listed above that are available to you through the Right-Darden relationship.

The Career Leader assessment tool is available to you on a preferential cost basis through the Darden Alumni Career Services Office Web Site (List address.) Should you choose to participate in the Career Leader instrument, make sure you share its feedback with your Right Consultant or E-Career Coach.”

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How will I get my assessment results?

Once your answers to the assessment instruments have been scored, you should contact your Right Consultant or E-Career Coach to review the reports. This will help you to integrate the findings into a powerful career research and self-marketing plan. For more information about assessment, contact the Darden Alumni Career Services Office (xxx-xxx-xxxx) or Peter Jones of Right Management Consultants at 1-800-222-5879. .