Career health check report

You recently completed a questionnaire on-line and this is your personal report. The text which follows is based entirely on your answers and has been compared with a relevant reference group for accuracy.
We do hope you find this report useful when thinking about education, jobs and career. If you disagree with some of the text it's worth thinking about whether you can think of occasions when you have behaved as suggested by the text. It may also be useful to show the report to somebody else whose opinion you respect in order to obtain somebody else's opinion about its accuracy. Remember, the report is based upon your answers. However, if you still disagree with the text, disregard the sentence concerned.

Customer Service Skills	The way you are alert to and skilled with customer service issues.
People Management Skills	The way you would deal with colleagues and clients and your potential for management with staff.
Business/ Quality Management Skills	The way that you can manage activity in relation to agreed objectives and work at a high standard.
Professional Skills	The way you keep up-to-date with your chosen field and try to keep on learning to improve your capability.

These 4 sections are summarised in the final paragraph relating to your skills
This section is summarised with an analysis of all your answers as well as an evaluation of the difference between how you indicated those who know you well would respond to the questions and your ideal answers. This provides a useful indication of how "lean and hungry" you appear to be.

You welcome contact with others, and will be available to people when they request your assistance.You will take care not to jeopardise your job achievement while doing this. You will initiate contact with others when this helps you to produce effective job-based results and moderate your involvement with them when this does not. While interested in people at work, you are also comfortable in your own company and will use this to pursue the key tasks which occupy your thoughts. You will be interested in others' ideas and open to their feedback, although you will not change what you do radically unless instructed clearly to do so by someone in a senior authority. You will respond effectively to the need for change and to resolve problems. Your customer service skills are medium.
You have portrayed your ideal as similar to how you are

You are likely to be supportive to your staff and encourage a culture of trust and openness. You will make decisions easily, seeking to reduce conflict and communicating effectively to others. Only rarely will you chose to work alone and without being involved with others, and you will recognise your need to be available to others who wish to seek your counsel much of the time. People management is likely to be an important part of your work responsibilities, although there may be times when you are critical of others who are unable to work at the pace which you do and you may become impatient with those who are clearly less able than you. However, this is a strength for your future career.
You portrayed your ideal level of people management skills as similar to how you see yourself. This suggests that you are relatively content with the way things are

Your responses indicate that this is a relative strength. You are likely to be characterised by hard work and careful time management, as well as an eye for future requirements. Except when under extreme pressure, you are likely to manage budgets, timescales and forward planning effectively and respond to problems quickly and decisively when they occur. Your time management, particularly with respect to short-term issues, is likely to be a particular strength. You appear to have a natural orientation towards project and task management, which may well mean that you enjoy having a number of activities "on the go" at one time and working steadily towards their conclusion. You may be more short and medium-term than long-term oriented and may be interested in tactics more than strategy. This is likely to be because you prefer to produce results rather than simply monitor progress against long-term targets. However, in general this is a strength.
You portrayed your ideal as similar to how you may be seen or see yourself. This suggests that you do not have a strong motive for change.

Your responses indicate that you have considerable interest in this area and probably are already developing some skill. You will be concerned to keep your expertise up-to-date and this is something you should work at maintaining as time passes. Avoid distractions which draw you into becoming complacent about your level of skill and expertise. In addition, you are likely to be aware of a similar need amongst your colleagues and this is something to be maintained. Take care to be willing to coach and support others who may be less proactive in this respect, than yourself. Do not be shy about demonstrating your expertise to help others to learn. Work hard to maintain your receptiveness to new ideas and to keep up-to-date. In addition, do not be shy about demonstrating your expertise in order to improve existing practices and introduce new methods of work. Your professional skills are probably a strength for your career.
You portrayed your ideal as similar to how you are seen. This means there's a strong element of contentment with how things are and little apparent motivation to increase your expertise or to consider diverse approaches to the work which you do. Do though take care to keep up to date with developments in your chosen field and to share this knowledge and understanding. Your responses suggest that you may not do this very actively.

Your responses indicate that you display a broad range of strong skills which indicate a wide range of options for your future career. Work hard to maintain these because they will provide the foundation for your successful career.

Overall you portrayed your ideal as similar to how you see yourself, if you accept that how others portray you, when described by you, is also an expression of how you see yourself. This means that there is a strong element of similarity between the two judgements which you have provided in your answers to the questionnaire. In general, your responses indicate that there may be large areas of your life and career with which you are highly content and satisfied.

This section of the report describes your decision-making and management style and indicates the way you would prefer to work. It's worth evaluating this piece of the report in relation to what you may currently be doing or what you are seeking to do in order to ensure that there is a match. The more your preferred style matches the work you do the more success you are likely to be.

Your style is characterised as being intellectual and inventive in your dealings with others. Your inventive capacity and strong analytical skills suit you for any pursuit requiring the architecture of ideas.

It is your preference to design not to implement, thus it adds to your strength to have others around you capable of following your ideas through to fruition. You value intelligence in yourself and others, to such an extent that you can become blinkered to the broader appreciation of people. You may experience a tendency to become impatient with others who are intellectually weak. While this can be a weakness, others may view it as arrogance; you do have the skill to tune in to other people, and understand a lot about what makes them tick. By paying more attention to people's emotional behaviour and responding accurately to it, you can develop effective working relationships with most people.

You prefer not to work in a busy noisy atmosphere, at least,if you find yourself in such an environment, you will want to pull the door or draw the screens in order to concentrate. You are quite content working alone which gives you plenty of time for thinking and concentration. You are inclined to think things through well, checking the various possibilities before embarking on a choice of action. At the same time you are quite happy to leave things undecided if it suits your purposes, it is not necessary for you to be orderly and disciplined about your work, changes can be accommodated.

You like work that provides the opportunity to solve new problems, preferring not to do the same thing over and over again. By the same token you are impatient with routine, preferring to look at the general scheme of things, not the routine detail.

You are relatively unemotional in your behaviour towards others, preferring to think of your dealings with others from the point of view of fairness rather than harmony. You don't regard it as a prerequisite that people should be able to get along well at work.

Change is a phenomenon that you feel quite comfortable with, in fact you don't expect things to remain the same. You are capable of both initiating change and adapting to it.

Two risks you run are being so flexible that you fail to make a decision quickly enough and taking on so much work that you have difficulty completing everything.

Your strongest characteristic is your facility for generating ideas which is the key to successful occupational choice.

Working style	Preferred Work Environment
Intellectual and inventive Strong analytical skills Values intelligence in self and others Quite happy to leave things undecided if it suits purposes Values fairness rather than harmony Does not expect things to remain the same	Involves design rather than implementation Requires the architecture of ideas Quiet and peaceful Allows some seclusion Has others around capable of following ideas through to completion Provides opportunity to solve new problems Avoids repetition Skills would suit managing an organisation through change, however complex

Strengths	Weaknesses
Strongest characteristic is facility for generating ideas Has the skill to tune in to other people, and understand them Inclined to think things through well Capable of initiating and adapting to change	Can become blinkered to the broader appreciation of people May experience a tendency to become impatient with others who are intellectually weak Others may view as arrogant Impatient with routine Relatively unemotional in behaviour towards others Takes on more work than can be completed May fail to make decisions quickly enough

Presented here are your 6 highest and 6 lowest scoring work competencies, based upon the 40 competencies within our directory. If studied carefully, these may provide an indication of the kind of work activity and career direction, which may blend with your natural competencies most effectively.

You enjoy the exploration of diverse approaches to a problem. You are interested in the opinions of others and find it hard to make decisions at times, because you enjoy exploring possibilities.

You are likely to persist in pursuing your chosen objectives and achieving your ambitions for a considerable time, although substantial frustrations and setbacks may cause you to relinquish an objective. Persistence is a relative strength.

Whilst keen to produce clear results and to work with well defined objectives, you are less concerned about the organisation's structure and will make sense of it for yourself, in order to produce results

You value high standards and may sometimes become critical of those who have a more "happy-go-lucky" approach. It is likely that you will seek close colleagues who share your view about resisting second-best much of the time.

You are decisive most of the time and believe that this is an important quality. You may sometimes make decisions without sufficient information, playing the odds and gambling that you will be right. Guard against haste when doing this.

Novelty will be of interest to you although you will take care not to wander too far from the well trodden path. You will value having the option to explore, although you may not always take advantage of this.

While you will generally plan and structure your work carefully, you are also able to sometimes "go with the flow", fitting in with other people. Which approach you take will depend upon your perception of the priority at the time and your mood.

Your self-confidence is not a particular strength and prolonged work pressure may cause you to doubt your judgement and turn to others for advice and support.

You do not seek out high levels of responsibility and visibility, preferring instead to quietly deliver your work objectives. If others seek strong commitments for you to take on you will consider them, but are capable of resisting.

Your communication style may be easy to understand for those who work closely with you and understand your work activity. However, some of those who are more distant may find it less straightforward. Work hard to prevent this being an issue.

While you value effective relationships at work, your priority is your own work objectives and you will give time to personal relations when work permits.

This section provides an indication of likely career development needs as your career develops and an indication of some specific areas of job activity which may be of interest to you, based upon your responses to the questionnaire.

Take care to be organised and try to avoid being impatient with people who have a lack of imagination. Try to avoid doing things differently because this is more interesting and take care to communicate clearly what your priorities are to your colleagues. Try to be patient with people who are a little bureaucratic.In general, take care to organise yourself carefully, avoid being critical of others and allow more time to talk with people.

A careful analysis of your responses enables the identification of a range of job activities which may be of interest. At least, they contain characteristics which may appeal to someone who answers the questionnaire as you did

The list is wide ranging and does not take your educational attainment into account. So you need to review it critically if you are to derive value from it. Perhaps discuss it with someone who knows you well and whose opinion you respect.

The list is not exhaustive, but gives an indication of the kind of activities you may prefer. People can expect to change career a few times these days, so do spend some time considering the suggestions.

Scientists
Researchers
Lawyers
Computer support staff
Photographers
Teachers: Mathematics, Sciences and Computing
Pharmacists
Business: General, self-employed
Secretaries: Legal
Physicians: Psychiatry
Electricians
Engineers: Electrical and electronic
Teachers: University
Technicians: Electrical and electronic engineering
Writers, artists, entertainers, and agents
Computer programmers
Food counter and fountain workers
Psychologists
Stock clerks, storekeepers and warehouse staff
Dentists
Factory and site supervisors, and warehouse staff
Laboratory technologists and technicians