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The new employee career management portal has a vast suite of resources to help the user with every aspect of their career. This new version of the portal has been designed for use by employees within an organisation and can be a key enabler of personal development, career planning, internal mobility, employee communications and engagement.

This is the first in a series of 4 short articles covering each of the four primary sections of the portal.

The first section of the portal is about personal discovery and contains 5 core Assessments – enabling the user to UNDERSTAND MOTIVATIONS, PREFERENCES & VALUES.

On completing this section the user will be able to answer the following questions:

What do you really value in your current role or workplace?
Why is it you get on with certain colleagues better than others?
What characterises you in the office?

Whether you have many years of experience or are unsure of your career direction, understanding your motivations, preferences, values and working style is an important component in being able to achieve your career goals.

The assessments take 10-15 minutes each to complete. At the end of each assessment you can access your personalised report, with practical, tailored, recommendations to apply to the workplace.

Temperament

1.  Understand yourself and your interactions with others
2.  Gain a good idea of where you get your energy, how you take in information, make decisions, and deal with time
3.  Appreciate how other people are different from you and build on these differences rather than be frustrated by them
4.  Challenge you to look beyond your immediate environment or situation and to explore a greater number of opportunities
5.  Understand what jobs and careers are chosen by others who share your type

Personality Insight

The Big 5 are the five overriding personality traits we can see and measure in people and they constitute one of the current and dominant theories concerning personality and behaviour. They are the most basic breakdown of personality traits and account for some of the differences we see between people. There are no right or wrong personalities, just a fit or mismatch to a particular role.

This assessment will help you learn about your current style and what it means at work. It may help you to:

–  gain a good idea of what you want out of life and work
–  challenge yourself to look beyond your immediate environment or situation and to explore a greater number of opportunities and life chances
–  plan for changes in your life and in a changing world
–  become more self-sufficient at making job, life and career decisions
–  understand what types of roles would suit your personality

Workplace Culture

Organisational culture is about how quickly an organisation receives feedback, the way members are rewarded, the levels of risk taken, the type of leadership and the ‘glue’ that keeps people working together. It is ‘the way things get done’ in that particular organisation.

The culture assessment will help you to understand more about the type of environment and culture that suits you best, which will, in turn, help you to:

–  Decide where you want to work or focus your job search activities
–  Challenge yourself to look beyond your immediate environment or situation and to explore a greater number of opportunities and life chances
–  Plan for changes in your life and in a changing world
–  Become more self-sufficient at making job, life and career decisions

Motivation at Work

Motivation is about your drive to act in a particular way. At work, it’s about the amount of effort you’re prepared to make, with what tasks and for how long. This will help you to consider how your motivation affects your job and life choices, especially when you are in a career transition; you will find out more about what drives you and how that relates to work. Motivation Insights may help you:

–  Gain a good idea of what you want out of life and work
–  To consider how rewarding your current situation is and challenge yourself over what might be over- or under-represented
–  To plan for changes in your life and in a changing world
–  Become more self-sufficient at making job, life and career decisions
–  To understand more about what you need from a job to find it motivating and fulfilling

Personal Resilience

A person’s resilience is about their ability to bounce back from difficulties, to bend, but not break under extreme stress. This assessment will help you to understand more about your own resilience and the aspects which influence how you experience stress. You may also:

–  Gain awareness of the key areas of stress in your life
–  Appreciate how well you deal with challenging situations
–  Understand how to make yourself stronger and more resilient
–  And learn how you can manage a changing world more effectively

The personalised report which has been building as you completed the assessments can now become the foundation stone on which to develop your career plan and journey.