Psychometric Assessments
Psychometrics, or Psychometric Assessments, can be extremely useful in careers coaching.
Working Career uses two of the world’s leading psychometric tools for career’s guidance, The Highlands Ability Battery (THAB) and the Myers Briggs Personality Indicator, to assess your innate strengths and behavioural preferences.
Discovering your Natural Talents and Strengths
Each one of us is born with unique talents and gifts. They become hard-wired into us: we do not learn them and we can’t forget them; they are just part of who we are. For some of us, talents are specialised, such as musical or design talents. For others, talents are more generalised, such as a talent for leading teams, or abilities that make teaching, selling or writing easy.
The first stage in using your talents is to figure out what they really are. Your talents are not something you automatically know about yourself. Simply being good at your job or a subject you studied at school or university does not mean that you are naturally talented at it. Your natural talents must be discovered through careful investigation.
People who use their natural abilities routinely at work tend to love their work. On the other hand, if you are not using your natural abilities, or have to use abilities which are not so innate, work is harder and less fulfilling — and it’s more difficult to be successful in your job and career. Starting to use one or more of your innate abilities can instantly bring a new level of satisfaction to your life.
The Highlands Ability Battery (THAB)
The Highlands Ability Battery (THAB) psychometric assessment is the gold standard among tools assessing human abilities or aptitudes. Unlike some other tests, it is objective, and consists of 19 different work samples for you to complete. As the work samples you tackle are timed, they reveal what your natural abilities and talents are. There are 14 abilities, three personal style dimensions and two skills that are measured. THAB is unlike any aptitude testing you may have done in school, and research has shown its results to be extremely accurate.
THAB takes approximately three hours to complete (you can break it up into segments if you like). You complete THAB at home: all you need is a computer with sound.
How much is the Highlands Ability Battery, reports and 2-hour feedback with Diana?
The Highlands Ability Battery can be taken as part of the career programmes or separately for :
£350 including VAT
Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
Your personality has a major influence on the type of work that is suitable for you and on the way you react to and work with others. The more you know about yourself, the more likely you are to achieve a good match between you and your career. Knowing yourself and your personality type can also help you to develop your performance, since you will be able to identify possible strengths and areas for development.
We all have preferred styles and ways of doing things.
Do you prefer to work with others or alone?
Do you prefer to work with concrete facts or abstract ideas?
Do you prefer to make decisions taking into account others’ feelings, or by applying a consistent set of rules?
Do you dislike working under time pressure?
By getting you to answer questions like these, The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will help you find out what personality type you are, and therefore what types of career are best suited to you. MBTI is the world's most popular personality measure. A vast amount of research confirms it to be reliable. MBTI describes an individual's preferences across four different dimensions; the various combinations of these preferences result in sixteen personality types, each associated with a unique set of behavioural characteristics.
The MBTI is used in some of Working Career’s Career Programmes or at extra cost.
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