Turning points chapter 2

Chapter 2 emphasizes on identifying your values and personality type. It helps to teach you how to describe yourself in ways to make good choices towrds a career. It puts in to consideration the personality identity data base which consist of four dimensions of ourselves:Values, Personality types, Interests, and Skills. Alll these play a major role in choosing a career. In some career making decisions you may have only 1 of the four dimensions, although you may have that 1 dimension of interests in that career you must take in also that the other three dimensions do not go hand in hand with your interest, leading to the question will you be happy working that career for the rest of your life?

This chapter did assisit me to choose my career goal much more wisely, and to really look at myself and my values and see what job is most compatable with who i am, even though sometimes i feel like i cant even give a solid answer to that question. If i could, i think i would know what kind of career i wanted to pursue already. The Holland and Myers test help to see what jopbs are best compatible with your personality, but in the end, it is all up to you whetehr that is the right career decision for you or not.

The activities that i chose to do where the work value survey and the see yourself from different perspectives. The work values i chose as the highest were self-improvement, achievment, physical activity adventure, risk excitement. This helps somewhat in deciding on a career because i know i dont want to be sitting at a desk all day, i'd rather being doing something physical or more sociable. The seeing yourself from different perspective helps to visualize yourself froma third person view, and see what otehrs think of you . It makes you think wheter looking at yourself in this view, do you see anything about yourself that an employer would see as a potential employee? Overall this chapter assisted in putting my values and what i have to offer for a job in place a little more, even though i still dont know what career i want to pursue.