Interpreting Career Assessment

CareerLeader wasn’t my first career self-assessment. But it is a relatively formal one, and

I expected for a better and more accurate conclusion report. Nevertheless, the information

in it did stimulate my thinking about the future career. The results report contains six

section, and each of the section has a topic. Following are my thoughts on the results.

For My Interests section, the top-two activities on the list that have relatively high scores

are Quantitative Analysis (97) and Managing People and Teams (94). And the bottomtwo

activities are influencing others (25) and creative production (18). For me, I don’t feel

like very interested in quantitative analysis. So the result is a little unexpected. But deep

in my mind, I do think the mathematical analysis is one of the most valuable financial tools.

This idea probably somehow affected my thought. Of course, there is also a possibility

that I am really into numbers and models without knowing it. I enjoy to be a team leader,

so the second high score is unsurprisingly managing people and team. Pushing projects,

dealing with people, evaluating group members’ strengths and making everyone

contribute their best are what I am good at and love doing.

I am not surprised about the least two scores. I’m aware of my lack of creativity and

innovation. What’s more, I am also not fond of persuading others. However, I initially

expected to have a higher score in enterprise control (26). Setting business strategy and

making sure the plan carried out seem very challenging and exciting to me. Application

of technology (74) is indeed my interest. I have always been a pragmatist. If I could not

practically use the technology, I don’t even have much desire to learn.

For My Motivators section, I spent a lot of time doing this part during the assessment,

which indicates that I am not sure about what is more important to me. However, the result

turned out to be very reasonable. From the highest score, which is the most important to

me, to the lowest, the motivators listed as following. Financial gain is 11, following by

affiliation