Is there restructuring or downsizing in your business and you or others need to look at what other career opportunities exist?
Are you struggling with a lack of motivation at work??Or are you studying and wondering which direction is most right for your personality and strengths?
We help candidates gain insight into their own strengths and motivation linked to career choices. We use recognized personality instruments to quickly gain insight into the candidate's preferences, what motivates them and what they find easy.
We help the candidate to become aware of his own preferences, strengths and areas of development, his motivation and dreams, and analyze this against the opportunities available in working life. It is important to set up a structured target plan early on and to work on from it.
"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers".M. Scott Peck
What should one think about in order to make a good choice for a long andhappy working life?
Many have gone a bit blind when they chose a career path at a young age, and few have thought through what everyday working life will be like. Mental pressure? Social vs alone? Routine vs a lot of change? Formal vs informal work environment. Working hours, a lot of evening and weekend work? Easy to combine with family life? Salary and career opportunities?
When you are young, you are often insecure, very vulnerable and impressionable. Many have felt an expectation to follow in their father's/mother's footsteps. If you were good at school, you might have heard something like "you who are so good at school will probably become a doctor/lawyer" etc. What did the media say the need and trend was in the market right when you were choosing a career? Friends' influence can have a lot to say - what is cool and has status in the group of friends, what should the others study?
But even if you were good friends with Pål and he decided to study economics, and you therefore chose the same, you now realize that you may not have had the same interest or the personal aptitude to enjoy working with it for a lifetime.
But what is best for me? Can I find a job that suits my education, experience, personality, capacity, interests and family situation? Or at least something that I can be motivated by and that I can master? How should I proceed?
In order for you to make the best possible choice for a long and happy working life, be aware of your interests, values, personality and analytical skills, but also practical things that may be important to you such as working hours, travel for work, co-determination and career opportunities in the organisation.
We help you map out the professions and working environment that will be most suitable for you
Perhaps you have listened to the "that's how you are" podcast with Harald Eia and Nils Brenna and are wondering how you yourself will come out on a Big 5 test? We are certified in a total of five different, DNV-approved Big 5 personality tests, including the one used in "That's how you are". In addition, we are certified in several preference and interest instruments and analytical tests.
Through a survey using good questions and the use of recognized personality tests and preference instruments, we help you to find out what will bring out the enthusiasm and commitment in you. Who are you? What suits you best? What is a breeze for you and what is difficult? What gives you energy and what drains you of energy? What does it take for you to look forward to going to work? What is most important to you and what will be absolutely wrong? We analyze this against the opportunities available in working life and go through different options with you.
We can support you in writing a good CV and applications so that you can show exactly what you are good at and why they should choose you. Before you go to an interview, we help you go through various questions and scenarios you will typically be faced with in the interview situation and make you aware of what you should answer in order to find out how you can best contribute.
What tests do we recommend to identify the best career path for you?
We recommend measuring your personality both from the inside (what drives you, your values, interests and preferences) and the outside (your behavior and how others perceive you). We measure this using an interest and preference test/instrument, and a Big-5 personality test.What do you like best? What is most important to you? What drives you? What brings out the glow and energy in you? Which behavior style do you choose most often? How do you behave? How do others perceive you?
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If you want to go deeper into your personality, we recommend a test that measures behavior under stress and pressure - then the darker sides of your personality often come to light. There may be certain traits of your personality that can spoil you a bit in working life, and some professions and organizational cultures will be more stressful on some people than others and then these negative traits come to the fore more often.