Career Assessment
Measure your core intrinsic abilities – the abilities you were born with1 Great Method
Need help figuring out your next career step?
Is your interest a hobby or a potential college major/career option?
I offer one career assessment designed to help you make informed decisions about career options and career direction.
Highlands Ability Battery
The Highlands Ability Battery is an objective assessment that is taken on your computer. What’s more, the Battery does not measure the level of your achievements in specific subjects. Instead, it measures your core innate abilities – the abilities you were born with. Research shows that natural strengths and abilities are developed by age 15 and remain constant throughout all of our lives. Some of us are intuitive, quickly grasping broad concepts while others thrive on details, memorizing and understanding facts and formulae. Each of us falls somewhere along the spectrum. How do we measure all these abilities? By having you perform 19 different worksamples on your computer screen and keyboard. Each work sample asks you to do something – organize a group of related facts; find a common thread among seemingly unrelated objects; create a flow of new ideas; manipulate blocks in your mind; mentally poke holes in a piece of folded paper, unfold the paper, and find the holes; identify objects which are added or removed from a picture of common objects.
The Highlands Whole Person Model identifies eight career decision factors that interact and should be considered when making major changes in your life and career. For years, Highlands Certified Consultants have worked with clients to understand the Model and how it relates to them to create a Personal Vision, or a mission statement that represents who you are and your ultimate goals.
Learning about our Whole Person Model ensures that you take your “whole self” into account when making decisions right here, right now. It also provides you with a tool to make decisions at any turning point in your life.
The worksamples are timed, and your results are measured in part by the speed with which you perform each task. The Battery takes three hours to finish. It doesn’t have to be done at one sitting – you can log in and out after you finish a worksample.
When you finish the Battery, you will get a 32-page Report of your core abilities, including a bar chart showing your scores. Each score is expressed as a percentile which relates your score to the scores of all persons who have completed the Battery. After you review the Report, you will participate in two 1 ½ hour feedback sessions. This will help you link your abilities to the other factors that will influence your career. These other factors are skills, interests, values, goals, family history, personal style, and level of schooling. In this way, I will be able to see a picture of the Whole Person, especially as the other factors help us to understand and develop our abilities. I will help you decide on the right direction and what career you will be most successful and find fulfillment. The Highlands Ability Battery helps you save valuable time, money, and heartache.
Molly Smith, M.A. is known as the “Millennial Coach”
I help young adults discover the right career path, empower confidence, and help break through barriers holding you back!