MBTI Homework

Take initiative to make UExplore work for you!

Consider completing the following readings and exercises prior to June 17th that were assigned by John Gates:

• Read the chapter devoted to your type in Do What You Are
• Complete the exercises in Chapter 24

In the chapter devoted to your type:

• 3 profiles of career professionals with that type
• why those careers work for that person
• common threads and themes in their chosen professions
• what career satisfaction means for them
• popular occupations for that type
• customizing your job search
• pathways to success by using your strengths
• possible pitfalls
• the final piece: changing or keeping your job...the key to success for your type

In chapter 24, the idea is to put it all together so that you match your personality to a career that you can looooove. That chapter breaks down that plan into 10 simple-and-easy steps. I've scanned those steps, and we've steadily been working through those steps via UExplore. Now, is your chance to review what you've accomplished through the program and put it all together.

• Step 1: Identify your unique personality strengths and weaknesses (Resource ideas: Do What Your Are chapter devoted to your personality type; handout from Your Listening Profile)
• Step 2: Identify and rank your work-related strengths and weaknesses (Resource ideas: Handout from Assessing Your Transferable Skills; Your Professional Portfolio)
• Step 3: Record and evaluate your criteria for career satisfaction (Resource ideas: Handouts from Career Planning)
• Step 4: Record your observations of specific situations where your current or past jobs met your career satisfacton criteria (Resource ideas: Your Professional Portfolio)
• Step 5: Think about your strongest interests, as in what activities do you enjoy so much that you would do them for free (Resource ideas: Handout from Goal Setting)
• Step 6: Identify your skills (Resource ideas: Checklist inside Do What You Are)
• Step 7: Generate a list of possible careers or jobs that are of interest to you at this point (Resource ideas: Career Field Overviews and Career Panels)
• Step 8: Analyze each career option asking: how well does it make use of your best skills and abilities; how well does it make use of my work-related strengths; and how well does it meet my top five criteria for career satisfaction? (Resource ideas: Career Field Overviews and Career Panels; Your Professional Portfolio;
• Step 9: Research your potential career options (Resource ideas: Career Field Overviews and Career Panels)
• Step 10: Celebrate your successes (Resource ideas: Your Professional Portfolio)

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Questions about MBTI?

We introduced you to the MBTI tool and type theory almost 9 months ago. By assessing your own personality type and knowledge of your preferences for taking in information, making decisions, and attitudes in interacting with your environment, you gained additional tools for understanding and identifying your natural interests and work values.

In June, we'll be revisiting MBTI and type theory. This is another chance for you to evaluate how your type connects to a best‐fit career.

To make this session work for you, what essential questions do you want to be addressed by our guest presenter, Grace Balch?

What is it that you'd like to learn more about in order to help you identify and meet your professional goals?

Email me and call me with what we can do to make this an effective session for you!
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The versatility of MBTI!

Courtesy of Carol Schrammel--our UExplore facilitator for our April 15, 2009 session--we bring to you a neat, little tidbit about how the MBTI is being used by Champlain College in Burlington, VT to help incoming freshman, resident assistants, and other officials to establish rules for a shared room and deal with potential conflicts.

http://www.insidehighered.com/layout/set/print/news/2008/12/12/myersbriggs

Champlain College began requiring all of its incoming students to complete the MBTI before arriving on campus as part of a newly launched “life skills” program.

While the students are not informed of their individual results when completing roommate agreements, they are asked to self-identity with their perceived personality when getting to know their roommates.

Then, later on in the semester, if conflict arises between roommates, this information can be used by resident assistants to mediate a resolution.

According to a representative of the publishing company for the MBTI, “The MBTI helps people understand their differences and appreciate them. It’s not about saying this person does this correctly or incorrectly. If you have this preference and I have another preference, how can we live together?”

What do you think about using the MBTI in this way?

Would you have wanted to know this information as a freshman?

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And then there were 5...

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Thank you for completing the Survey Monkey about the MBTI Debriefing led by John Gates.

There's just a handful of five folks who haven't yet responded, and I'd like to give you a friendly nudgeroo.

*nudgeroo* *nudgeroo*

Also, for your convenience, the link to the survey is: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=oz3H3hY1rMIxpQKhyl6d_2fg_3d_3d

We're ahead of the curve

Talk about UCSD being forerunners and on the cutting edge?

While you were in debriefing last week with John Gates for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the anchors of Good Morning America took their own personality inventories to find possible career matches...

From the ABC website:
"The 'GMA' anchors took the Self-Directed Search test, which matches personality with possible careers. The results so far have been surprising. Sam Champion a judge? Chris Cuomo a hair stylist? Robin Roberts a lyricist?..."

Go figure!

Monkey What?

We've adopted Survey Monkey!

Wait--not this monkey:

Yes! this monkey:

Why?

Because we care about designing a program that meets your needs and expectations!

So what?

Be on the lookout for a survey about our MBTI Debriefing early next week!

A Collaborative Effort

"MBTI is one of the frameworks every professional should be exposed to," John stated to the groups of participants, "It's powerful."

Knowing thyself was a key objective of the MBTI Debriefing led by Staff Education and Development Principal Consultant John Gates, as were:
* building on our understanding of MBTI
* gaining clarity of personal perferences
* putting initial thought into "type and career"

Over the course of the 3.5 hours to follow, our group of 25 UExplore participants learned about the foundations of MBTI and participated in small and large group exercises to digest the nuances of "type and the individual," "type in the group," taking "type to career," and "type and the hierarchy of function."
Kimberly Bondad, Christina Knerr, Kesha Miller, and Michelle Viernes had a few laughs in coming up with descriptions that would illustrate the lighter side of their personalities. In this case, a picture is probably worth a thousand words.
Meanwhile, (l-r) Cheryl Wills, Jane Peterson, Crystal Warning, Sheila Manalo, Rick Baran, and Taylor Haglund get down to business in brainstorming what types of careers would be appealing for their personality type. Analytical-type jobs seemed to be an immediate hit with this group of thinkers.

This group skipped over the first two questions and went on to attack the third: "What are some careers that you feel drawn to (or at least intrigued by)?" Scott Paulson (center) dived right in, along with his teammates Cindy Hsu, Josie Alaoen, and Tehseen Lazzouni. They came to a consensus that student services and event planning would take good advantage of their personality types.
(l-r) Maissha Stewart, Macy Huynh, Jill Hartmann, and Alexis O'Banion tackled the same set of questions, and the sky was the limit for jobs that could take advantage of the imagination, resourcefulness, open-mindedness, and adeptness at verbal planning and short-range projects.

It was a day of collaboration and of nuggets learned. For one participant, she vocalized that reading the evaluation of her personality type helped her gain clarity about her preferences. For another, she saw that even though she has clear preference for keeping deadlines open and flexible, she had an enviable and highly-admired skill for making deadlines and being prompt.

Go figure!

Another nugget: We are working together here as part of a collaborative effort. UExplore will supply the expertise, and you, as the participants, supply the essential information about yourself. Together, we'll be successful in finding the best possible career match for you.

Customized MBTI Debriefing for UExplore Participants

Thanks to everyone for registering!

Only a handful of UExplore Pariticipants haven't yet registered for next Wednesday's debriefing.

Please sign up for this customized class via this link:
https://enrollmentcentral.ucsd.edu/sed_course.cfm?e&cdcrs=TRNUXPLORE

Cheers,
Linda & Wes

October 15th MBTI "Mmmmmm"

Who doesn't love a snack, right?

For next Wednesday's MBTI Debriefings, Wes put in the order for our light breakfast and afternoon snacks! It sounds mighty "mmmmm".

He recommended the French Country Breakfast from UCSD catering for the morning, and he selected the Half Cheese and Fruit Tray for the afternoon. We ordered a little over the minimum, figuring that many of you would've already had breakfast in the AM and just needed a bit of a pick-me-up for the afternoon. Who doesn't love a snack right?

Remember that UExplore participants are meeting in the mornin' and the UExplore panelists and guest speakers are comin' in the the afternoon. The meetings are in the Geisel Library, Seuss Room.

Seuss Room Location

The Seuss Room is the go-to meeting place for most of our monthly sessions.

The red arrow is right where you can find us every third Wednesday of the month (except November and March)

See y'all here on October 15th for the MBTI Debriefing!
8:30-12:00 Participants
1:00-4:30 Panelists and Facilitators

Customized MBTI Debriefing for Panelists and Facilitators

Dear UExplore Guest Speakers,

A special class, MBTI Program for UExplore Panelists and Facilitators, has been created for UExplore’s volunteer guest speakers.

Please click on the link below to enroll in the class.
https://enrollmentcentral.ucsd.edu/sed_course.cfm?&cdcrs=XMBTIPFCL

At the class, you’ll also get a copy of Do What You Are. If you can’t wait you can pick it up anytime.

Enroll in the class if:
1) You took the MBTI on September 18th and would like your results
OR
2) You did not take the MBTI on September 18th, but you are curious to:
*Get an overview of how various personality types are drawn to, satisfied by, or excel in certain career fields;
* Learn about the composition of personalities of the UExplore participants;
* Use the language of MBTI principles and theory in your career panel discussions and career track overview presentations

The class will be held on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 from 1:00pm – 4:30pm, in the Geisel Library, Seuss Room.


If you are unable to enroll via Enrollment Central, please attend the class, add your information to the sign-in sheet, and complete an Application for Enrollment Form which will be available from the instructor.

Thank you,
Linda

These lovely books...

Hi Everyone! These books are moving like hotcakes! Come by and pick up your copy! If I'm not here, just sign the sheet and take one to go.

Yours,
Linda

Have you got yours yet?

I can't pull myself away from Do What You Are--the complimentary book that UExplore participants can pick up at 106 University Center.

I'm just guessing about my personality type, but when I thumb through all the chapter headings, I want to be all of them!

Afterall, don't these sound good to you?
The Public Relations Specialists (ENFJ)
Life's Entrepreneurs (ENTP)
Catalysts for Positive Change (INFJ)
Doing the Best I Can With What I've Got (ISTP)
It's the Thought That Counts (ISFP)

Ready for pick up!

The book, Do What You Are: Discover The Perfect Career For You Through The Secrets Of Your Personality Type, has arrived!

A complimentary copy for each UExplore participant is available at UExplore's office headquarters--otherwise known as 106 University Center.

A complimentray copy will also be distributed to UExplore facilitators and panelists during the October 15th MBTI debriefing.

You'll see either Linda or Wes to pick up your copy. You can come by:
Tuesday, 7:30am-11:30am; 1:30pm-2:00pm; 3:00pm-4:00pm
Wednesday: 7:30am-:10:30am; 11:45am-4:00pm
Thursday: 7:30am-4:00pm
Friday: 7:30am-4:00pm

The book is a fun read, and it includes the professional bios of folks who have personalities just like you. I liked how I could read profiles of real people and get information on why those careers work for them (and for me?). The information is detailed, but not overwhelming. The book gives lots of insight on what careers would be satisfying and enriching for all kinds of personality types.