Being back in the hunting grounds for a job has put me into contacts with some interesting information. As what other job hunters would do, I would browse for hours on anything pertaining to job openings, writing resume tips, salary reports, interview conducts and presentation. You name it, I mostly am doing it. Among all those, I have to admit that I'm drawn also towards taking career tests. Perhaps, in trying to make a switch in career fields, after five years of slogging away in caves filled with nothing else but electronic products (of course, I'm exaggerating), I want to blow away as much as possible the cloud of insecurities that tend to engulf me.
Taking part in career tests is like a way to rationalize my decision. Maybe in the most remote part of my brain, I hope that I've not made another blunder. After all, being totally ignorant in this field in terms of practical skills and only having so shallow of exposure, I cannot help but wonder the sanity of my decision. Most people around me morally support it, seeing how upbeat I am with the prospect of being an educator. They never said I would be good in it, though. Hence, I'm always looking out for signs or tools or indicators that could somehow help me re-affirm my correctness in taking this step. That's the reason why I cannot refused taking part in free career tests.
For the uninitiated, career tests mostly intend to help you match the best career or jobscope to suit your personality. Typically, they come in questionnaires, getting you to reveal your habits, behavioral patterns, likes and dislikes, indulgence and sins. Some will have the respondants rate their answers from the most preferred to the least likely. Others will be somewhat be like a multiple choice questions, where you pick the answer most identifiable to you, from a list of scenarios given.
In my browsing today, I accidentally came across a career test based on the individual's colour preference. This is yet one of the more creative and zany methods of testing which I had stumbled upon so far. The best career or jobscope for you is determined by, as the name implied, your preferred choice of colour. Or, choices, would be a more accurate word, as there were a few stages to select from.
The test lay down it groundwork by having you pick the colour you most and least prefer to look at, from a range of colours given. Now, this by all means, doesn't mean that it's your favourite colour or the shade best on you. Instead, it simply wants you to make your decision based on the colours presented to you, there and then. For example, they provide three colour and you pick out the colours you most like and least like. Isn't that different?
This goes on for a few times, the colours palette ranging from primary to secondary to others (I couldn't recall). I got 3 colours to rank most of the time, but at times, you will be ask to rank from probably 6-9 colours. The final part was slightly different. Rather than choosing only the most and least preferred colour from a palatte of 12 colours, if I'm not mistaken, you had to rank all of them in the order of your most preferred colour to the least preferred one.
Once you have completed that, fill up the customary personal details section, your results will be tabulated and analyzed. The career report will then appear. Like all free career reports, only the partial report will given to you. For the whole lot of it, you have to purchase it. I didn't, as usual. Insightful or not. Then again, nothing is truly free in this materialistic world.
I'm, by the way, an organizer, according to the outcome of the report. Today, at least. Maybe I should try it again, another time and day, to see if the result is reproducible. Testing accuracy won't hurt, rite? After all, this hunter needs to make sure she's in hunting for the correct species second time around.
Taking part in career tests is like a way to rationalize my decision. Maybe in the most remote part of my brain, I hope that I've not made another blunder. After all, being totally ignorant in this field in terms of practical skills and only having so shallow of exposure, I cannot help but wonder the sanity of my decision. Most people around me morally support it, seeing how upbeat I am with the prospect of being an educator. They never said I would be good in it, though. Hence, I'm always looking out for signs or tools or indicators that could somehow help me re-affirm my correctness in taking this step. That's the reason why I cannot refused taking part in free career tests.
For the uninitiated, career tests mostly intend to help you match the best career or jobscope to suit your personality. Typically, they come in questionnaires, getting you to reveal your habits, behavioral patterns, likes and dislikes, indulgence and sins. Some will have the respondants rate their answers from the most preferred to the least likely. Others will be somewhat be like a multiple choice questions, where you pick the answer most identifiable to you, from a list of scenarios given.
In my browsing today, I accidentally came across a career test based on the individual's colour preference. This is yet one of the more creative and zany methods of testing which I had stumbled upon so far. The best career or jobscope for you is determined by, as the name implied, your preferred choice of colour. Or, choices, would be a more accurate word, as there were a few stages to select from.
The test lay down it groundwork by having you pick the colour you most and least prefer to look at, from a range of colours given. Now, this by all means, doesn't mean that it's your favourite colour or the shade best on you. Instead, it simply wants you to make your decision based on the colours presented to you, there and then. For example, they provide three colour and you pick out the colours you most like and least like. Isn't that different?
This goes on for a few times, the colours palette ranging from primary to secondary to others (I couldn't recall). I got 3 colours to rank most of the time, but at times, you will be ask to rank from probably 6-9 colours. The final part was slightly different. Rather than choosing only the most and least preferred colour from a palatte of 12 colours, if I'm not mistaken, you had to rank all of them in the order of your most preferred colour to the least preferred one.
Once you have completed that, fill up the customary personal details section, your results will be tabulated and analyzed. The career report will then appear. Like all free career reports, only the partial report will given to you. For the whole lot of it, you have to purchase it. I didn't, as usual. Insightful or not. Then again, nothing is truly free in this materialistic world.
I'm, by the way, an organizer, according to the outcome of the report. Today, at least. Maybe I should try it again, another time and day, to see if the result is reproducible. Testing accuracy won't hurt, rite? After all, this hunter needs to make sure she's in hunting for the correct species second time around.
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