How to use career assessment tools to better understand yourself?

Text/Zhu Xiuhua Career Planning is a process of knowing yourself and the outside world, then making scientific decisions and taking practical actions. In the theory and practice of career planning, no matter what theory is based on, we all emphasize our own understanding, our own abilities, interests, values and skills. Knowing yourself in career planning is the beginning of career planning and the basis of the whole career planning and decision-making. It is impossible for a person who does not know himself clearly to have a good career plan for himself. Even though he has made various plans, such plans are not really suitable for him. In our actual consultation and service process, it is often found that college students often encounter many problems of choice and decision-making in career planning and actual employment. Some students don't know what job really suits them, and some students blindly pursue popular jobs in society. The reason is that these puzzles are often caused by the lack of clear understanding of self and the inability to fully and correctly understand oneself. I set myself inappropriate goals. Xiaomei is a senior in science and engineering. Her academic performance has been good for four years, but she is introverted, doesn't want to deal with people, and has strong logical thinking. When looking for a job, Xiaomei always wanted to find a human resources job in a foreign company. However, after her resume was released, there was no news, and she finally got an interview, but after the interview, there was no more. Xiaomei feels that she can't understand it. Although she has good academic performance, she is always rejected. In the process of consulting Xiaomei, I found that Xiaomei didn't really know herself. She has been looking for a job that she thinks suits her. The consultant suggested that Xiaomei should be tested on occupational character, interests and values, and at the same time, informal evaluation methods such as self-portraits should be used to help her better understand herself. Finally, Xiaomei feels that her job-hunting goal is really not based on herself, and maybe it is more suitable for some R&D jobs than human resources and sales. In the process of knowing herself, she strongly feels more confident in her employment and career choice. From Xiaomei's story, we can see that knowing yourself is the beginning of career planning. In career planning, there are many ways to evaluate our understanding of ourselves, which can be roughly divided into formal evaluation and informal evaluation. Formal evaluation, also known as standardized testing, is a quantitative evaluation; Informal assessment refers to some qualitative and non-standardized assessments, such as projection tests. These assessment tools need to be used with caution and are more thought-provoking. Formal evaluation and informal evaluation are very useful in self-understanding. In practical consultation, the consultant will use these two evaluation methods flexibly to help visitors understand their own characteristics. In our actual study, we often come into contact with some assessment tools, and there are often some psychological tests online. Most of these psychological tests are non-standardized and cannot be used as the basis for our decision-making. The following is one of the popular psychological test questions on the Internet. Is the online psychological test accurate? Do you think this test can accurately measure your personality characteristics? Topic: I have to get up early tomorrow morning. I'm worried that I can't get up on time, so I have to set my alarm clock to remind myself. At this time, where will you put the alarm clock? A. where you can reach out and touch it. B. put it in your ear to wake yourself up. C. The farthest you can hear, a better explanation: Option A: Although you really want to have an independent and strong personality, and everything shows a chic look of "doing it yourself", you care about other people's opinions. Option B: You are always so popular! You are very dependent on others, of course, because of this feature, you have an approachable personality, you can easily integrate into the group and have the ability to coordinate. Option C: You can naturally give full play to your outstanding leadership skills in a group, but you should be absolutely careful not to be too ostentatious, which will easily make you a target of public criticism. You do things simply and have your own unique style. Some netizens reported: How can we infer people's psychological state only by this action? In a word, it shows the powerful advantages of standardized examinations. This is a non-standardized test, and the results of this test need our careful analysis. Standardized examination has a certain theoretical and research basis. The analysis of theory and related research can help test developers clearly define various related concepts, and help to ensure the scientificity, accuracy and effectiveness of test results. The compilation of standardized tests is based on sampling the typical behaviors of the target population, and it is carried out according to strict procedures in the process of compilation. One of the important tasks is to screen a large number of behavior samples and items, so as to extract the most representative behavior samples and the most differentiated items to form the test content, thus ensuring the accuracy, effectiveness and stability of the test. What benefits can standardized tests bring us? Standardized testing can help us know ourselves more accurately and is a good evaluation tool. The rigor and scientificity of standardized examination marking process can improve the accuracy of our self-cognition, provide us with more meaningful results and explanations of the results, and thus provide more scientific reference opinions for our career planning and career decision-making. For example, the Career Sky (College Students) Career Sky System developed by Beisen Company contains various self-developed localized career evaluation tools. These assessment tools are compiled by Beisen R&D personnel on the basis of investigating various theories and research materials and conducting norm sampling on tens of thousands of China college students, and all the parameters are good. It is particularly important to point out that even standardized tests can not completely and accurately measure the corresponding psychological characteristics of individuals. There are many factors that affect the accuracy of test results. The user of the test and the state of the subject during the test will affect the accuracy of the test results. You can often see some examples that affect the test results because of the poor test status. Cong Hui, a senior student, has been looking for a job nearby since graduation, but it seems that the result of looking for a job is not very good, so she is very depressed and asks the teacher for advice. The consulting teacher first suggested that he make a career evaluation. In the second consultation, he brought his own professional evaluation report. His interest test report shows that his scores of various interests are relatively low. In fact, Cong Hui is a student with a wide range of interests. She participated in various club activities during her college years. Only after the teacher's inquiry did I know that Cong Hui was in a rather tired state when doing the test. She just attended a nervous interview during the day, but she was not very sure. When he is physically and mentally exhausted, doing an interest test will naturally lead to deviations. Therefore, even if it is a standardized test, the poor state during the test will also affect the accuracy of the results. Therefore, the standardized examination will give various explanations in detail, which has certain requirements for the examination environment. When we interpret our own evaluation results, or apply these results to our own career planning and decision-making, we should also consider various factors that affect our own test results, so as to understand our inner world more truly and make a career plan that suits our actual situation.