Skills- How deep is your pool?

This exercise should give you a good start at finding your unique skills. Which body parts of Christ are you? What make you different? What makes you, you? 

We'll leverage another website to dive into this topic. If you have a hard time differentiating your unique qualities asking the people you know you best can be helpful.

SKILLS TO PAY THE BILLS

Your skills and interests will direct how you might apply utilize your personality in the real world. Take this quick 5 minute Interest Profiler and review the interest types. Rapid Fire Interest Test 

1. Realistic — involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.
2. Investigative — involve working with ideas that require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations search for facts and figuring out problems.
3. Artistic — involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and work can be done without following a clear set of rules.
4. Social — involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.
5. Enterprising — involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.
6. Conventional — involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas.

Based on the combination of scores from these Interest categories, the program will suggest potential careers.

(1) Select a Job Zone. You can change this later so keep clicking next. If you have a degree or plan on attending college, go ahead and select Zone 4.
(2) Scroll through the list of careers based on your interests and preparation level.
(3) Click on the links to clarify the job role and general fit but don't trim your list just yet.

1. List potential careers that interest you from the High Job Preparation Zone 4

2. List additional careers that interest you from different Job Zones (1-5)

Click on Find More Careers and list careers from different Interest areas that interest you. You can click on each Interest Area (click on the R,I,A,S,E,C) to find careers focused in those areas.

1. List Potential Careers- Realistic, Investigative

2. List Potential Careers- Artistic, Social

3. List Potential Careers- Enterprising, Conventional

The previous exercise explored how your skills may be applied in the future. Likely, you've already utilized some of your talents and this may trigger additional careers or outlets for God's universal mission. You were gifted with these abilities:

Physical (balance, eye-hand coordination, strength)
Interpersonal (emotional intelligence, awareness of others feelings, one-on-one connections)
Analytical (problem solving, pattern recognition, logics)
Extrapersonal (group interactions, organizational skills)
Musical/Artistic/Linguistic (creative expression with art, music, and written or spoken word)

1. List gifts

2. How have I used these for myself or my "neighbor"?

3. How could I use them for God's universal mission?

Skills- List of Potential Careers

Career or Calling? Where Satisfaction and Skills Collide

Now that you have determined your personality type and skill sets, you are dangerous!

Your personality directs how you orient yourself in the world and how you might apply these skills in the real world. You'll find that the more your personality and skills collide and merge into a unified idea the more you'll have trouble dissecting a career from your calling and that's a good thing!

Is God more concerned with your

comfy existence or doing His work?

Career or Calling? Where Satisfaction and Skills Collide

(1) What careers were listed in both the satisfaction and skills exercises? Add careers that were on both lists to your "A" list.
(2) Review your "A" list by typing the career in the search box on the linked website.
(3) Click on the individual career link (i.e. Automotive Engineer) and review the general profile.
(4) List all careers that have potential to be a good fit for you. Search for your career via this website (open in a new window) and watch a short video to get a better idea.

 

Career or Calling? Where Satisfaction and Skills Collide

What careers could be a combination of your personality type and skill set? For example, if your personality type exercise suggested business manager and your skills exercises revealed your expertise with animals, then what animal-oriented organizations would you like to work for?

Being a business manager might not seem exciting but when it's focused on something meaningful to you then it's likely something that you can stick with and do well. 

Add careers that merge your personality suggested careers and your revealed skills and passions. We're starting to make progress! Next, we'll throw in the Style filter and see what makes the cut.