TalentAware™ Career Assessment

A unique career management programme for students (and their parents!)

Dungarvan 26th September 2013

Key questions

• Why will an understanding of General Mental Ability (GMA)/Personality Traits help a student in their (choice of) career?

• What age should a student be before they do this testing?• What happens if there are results TalentAware™ Career

Assessment which might be perceived as negative by the child or parent?

• How does assessing the personality of the parent (as well as the child) help with the process?

• How long does it take and how much does it cost?

True or False?• Less than 40% of a person’s personality traits are

inherited?• Relevant personality traits and general mental ability

(aka IQ) are capable of predicting multiple facets of career success over a span of up to thirty (30) years?

• Personality measures collected in childhood are useful in predicting career success?

• General mental ability strongly predicts both ‘extrinsic’ success (e.g. money and status) and job satisfaction?

Employing students– Most students don’t have relevant work

experience (this being one of the most reliable ways of anticipating performance)

– Research studies show that, for hiring employees without previous experience in the job, the most valid predictor of future performance is GMA (i.e. intelligence or general cognitive ability)

– The addition of structured interviews and personality testing materially improves the ability of an employer to predict performance

The Big Five (not Enid Blyton!)

• The ‘Big 5’ Personality traits

• The leading-edge way to assess personality

• Intuitive and easy to understand and apply

• Appropriate for children from 11 years of age upwards

Feedback Output

• Assessments involve self-assessment by student, feedback by parents(s)….

• ….and then a review of the actual scores from the way in which the student responded to questionnaire

Case Studies

• Look at a number of real-life case studies from recent TalentAware™ assignments within organisations hiring staff:– The Project Manager– The Sales Director– The Strategic Marketer

Competency

• Competence is the ability of an individual to do a job well.

• A competency is a set of defined behaviours that provide a structured guide enabling the identification, evaluation and development of the behaviours in individual employees.

• Competency Assessment is primarily concerned with optimising the fit between an individual and the job roles that they perform.

The Project Manager

• Jobs are composed of competencies

• Link between personality traits and competency…..

• ….and expected performance in role

• Let’s look at an actual decision on placing somebody into a role

Two recent hiresSales Director Strategic Marketer

Job and Career Search

• So, which job (e.g., forester), or job family (e.g., Agriculture and Forestry) best fits the way you are put together as a person?

• Where is the optimum fit between your natural work energy and the demands of a particular job or career path?

• According to statistical formulas, which job families best fit your profile?

• The TalentAware™ Career Assessment process answers these questions

Job Groups

• This is an example of the link between personality traits and job families

• The TalentAware™ process identifies a number of potential job groups for the student

Homework!• The TalentAware™

process identifies the possibilities…..

• …but it is the student that decides on the career path and the next steps

• A structured workbook is provided as part of all assessments

Case Studies

• Let’s consider some TalentAware™ case studies…– The 18 year old Leaving Certificate student

– The 12 year old 1st year secondary school student

– The 11 year old 5th Class Primary School student

Typical Assessment

• Parents and child complete personality assessment

• Child also completes GMA test• Feedback offered on tests • Review fits with ‘job families’• Homework completed • Identify and implement career management

plan

Back to key questions

• Why will an understanding of General Mental Ability (GMA)/Personality Traits help a student in their (choice of) career?

• What age should a student be before they do this testing?• What happens if there are results TalentAware™ Career

Assessment which might be perceived as negative by the child or parent?

• How does assessing the personality of the parent (as well as the child) help with the process?

• How long does it take and how much does it cost?

TalentAware™ Career Assessment

A unique career management programme for students (and their parents!)

Dungarvan 26th September 2013