Back in February 2012 I wrote about motivation….and am continuing with this psychological feature of life. Sometimes I look back and say to myself, gee Amy you must be a pretty darn motivated person huh? So is my husband for that matter. We’ve both accomplished quite a bit at this point in life. But boy, isn’t it nice to hang out at a pool (which we did recently at Embassy Suites) and do, well, nothing!
Ahhhhh, don’t I wish!
Anyway, back to the point of this blog. I’ve taken a motivational assessment and because I am pleased with it, I offer it to interested clients. It’s called the Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential ~ MAPP.
The MAPP is a self-discovery tool used in career exploration. After entering data, I was provided with a confidential document and I was pretty surprised by the results! I’ll point out just a few discoveries about me from the assessment, indicating you may receive results that are valuable to you as well.
The first section focuses on interest in job content (those vocational tasks you want to perform), temperament for the job (how you prefer to perform tasks), and aptitude for the job (expression of performing tasks). Other sections cover how you relate to people, things, data, reasoning, and applied usage of math and language.
The vocational analysis section ranked my highest potential is in Writing and Journalism; and Counseling, Guidance. Right on baby!
Right On Baby!
There’s a graphical summary that uses Worker Trait Code Charts to represent the breakdown of your personal scores into numbers and percentiles. This information determines the person’s level of motivation for specific traits. The higher [or lower] the number/percentile allows you to view your capacity to succeed or compete with the general population in the trait area of activity. Traits in Level 1 are compulsive; Level 2 is highly motivated; Level 3 is moderately motivated, and so on.
The MAPP results (along with helpful interpretation of it from a vocational counselor like me) aids you (the job seeker or career changer) to identify your motivations and learn how to use them to be successful in your career and life plan. It’s important to keep in mind that this assessment, like all assessments, is not a sole determinant for whatever you set out to measure. The MAPP does not determine whether you can or cannot perform in a job, it rather indicates if you will perform.
My results reveal I am compulsively (yikes, that can be a scary word…so let’s use the word driven as its synonym) interested in being concerned with people and for providing service dedicated to the interest of others. I am driven to literacy and/or communication tasks. I relate to others with a service communication style and voluntarily inform others.
I am not that particularly motivated by things, but I have a high level of motivation to compile (gather, classify, store information) and copy (duplicate, transcribe, record and send) data. My language capacity is highly systematic, with a logical explanation and education orientation. I am literary creative with a strong communicative ability. I am moderately motivated with reasoning concepts, and applying math. Again, right on baby!
There’s so much more to this assessment…. That’s just some of what arose to the surface for me. I’d be happy to discuss how assessments are useful when planning your next steps in life. Or to evaluate where you are and how you got there….which I’ve been doing while I blog about my past and how it’s brought me to the present.
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My professional rehabilitation counseling practice is focused on helping people participate in the world around them, particularly in their own world of work.
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