Tools for Life and Career Development
 Charting your life and career path is much like planning a journey; however, in order to choose your destination you must know where to begin. Inventories are effective tools that jumpstart the process of assessing personal characteristics, career interests and values. These tools are designed to increase your self-understanding and self-awareness, identify strengths, expand your career or personal goals, and determine specific occupations in line with your interests and values. Assessment tools offered at our Robson Square location include: Emotional Intelligence Inventory, Career Assessment Packages, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Retirement Success Profile.
Experienced counsellors are available to provide you with practical information to discover your hidden potential, build confidence and direct you to new and exciting opportunities for your life and career.
Which UBC Life & Career Centre Assessments are Right for You?
High School STUDENT Vocational Package
Designed to assist teens (ages 16-19) with career exploration and planning for the future, the High School Vocational Package offers insight into personal characteristics that can help teens find direction and uncover potential. Aptitude, personality, values and career interest inventories provide practical individualized information for identifying and evaluating career and post-secondary educational options. Ideas for summer employment, work-study and volunteer opportunities
can also be gained.
Group testing is followed approximately one week later by a confidential one-hour session with a career counsellor who interprets the results of the personalized results. Parents are welcome to join this private session.
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Post-Secondary Student Vocational Package
Young people often struggle to align practical educational goals with individual career dreams and ambitions. Designed to assist young adults (ages 19-25) in the early stages of career development, the Post-Secondary Testing Package supports a more detailed focus on aptitudes, personality, values and career potential. The useful information and perspective gained aids in selecting academic majors or graduate programs and helps identify part-time or transitional employment strategies.
Group testing is followed approximately one week later by a private, confidential one-hour session with an experienced career counsellor who interprets the results
of personalized reports.
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Career Testing Package
Studies show that people who work in a career that supports their intrinsic interests are happier, more successful and better fulfilled in life. For individuals feeling stuck in an unsatisfying job, considering a major career change, or re-entering the workforce after an extended absence, the Career Testing Package provides a positive first step towards a career path more aligned with intrinsic interests, personal style and individual strengths. The assessment package includes four inventories designed to increase understanding of your individual aptitudes, career interests, work-related personality and key values.
The package is administered in a three-hour group setting and is followed approximately one week later by a private, one-hour session with a professional career counsellor. The assessments in the package include the Wonderlic Personnel, Strong Interest Inventory, Work Personality Index and Career Values Scale.
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CAREER TESTING PLUS
Career Testing Plus is designed for motivated individuals
who want to go beyond the career testing experience.
Individuals complete the Career Testing Package and then return for a second follow up session.
Experienced career counsellors assist with setting specific
career goals and establishing concrete action plans.
The additional session is to be completed within six
months of testing.
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EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ASSESSMENT
What are the factors at work when people of high IQ flounder and those of modest IQ do surprisingly well? These factors, which include self-awareness, self-discipline and empathy, add up to a different way of being smart.
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is the capacity to create positive outcomes in your relationships with others and with yourself. While childhood is a critical time for its development, EQ is not fixed at birth. It can be nurtured and strengthened throughout adulthood with benefits to your health, your relationships and your work.
The assessment report provides you with information on your EQ – where you function effectively, where you have enhanced skills and where you need improvement. The BarOn EQ-i provides simple strategies for growth in areas that need improvement.
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The Myers-Briggs type indicator Assessment
The MBTI is the world’s most widely used measure of individual personality differences. Designed for individual, group and organizational development, the MBTI provides practical and powerful information in support of personal, career or business decision-making. Individuals gain valuable insight for directing and transforming their career by developing an enhanced understanding of:
- preference style and top career interests
- individual and team strengths and styles
- leadership and management styles and skills
- responses to stress, conflict and change
- interpersonal and group communications
- problem solving, motivation and learning styles
Clients take the MBTI online and then meet privately for a follow-up session, with a certified MBTI professional counsellor to discuss results.
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retirement success profile
People are living longer and healthier, and new ways of thinking about retirement are emerging which value life balance over time-filling activities; personal fulfillment over relaxation; and realizing long-held dreams.
The Retirement Success Profile (RSP) was developed and refined over the past 20 years by Richard P. Johnson, Ph.D. The RSP offers you the most comprehensive and personal retirement data possible. The RSP doesn’t look at your finances, but rather looks at you, and reflects back to you via 15 retirement success factors – solid, quantifiable information that you can use immediately to assess your retirement planning progress.
Clients will take the RSP online and receive immediate feedback. They then meet privately with a certified RSP counsellor to discuss their results and help formulate a plan for moving ahead with confidence.
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career transition strategies for individuals
Searching for the right opportunity to revision your career following a company restructuring, downsizing or job loss? Career Transition Strategies is a fully personalized program that combines practical career development tools with confidential one-on-one sessions with an experienced career counsellor.
Over a series of sessions, you:
- address the common stresses accompanying job insecurity or loss
- identify personal needs within a guided job search process
- clarify goals and skills through up-to-date assessment tools that evaluate strengths, personality, career interests, and values
- identify transferable skills and job search strategies
- create a personal action plan
Additional program information for both individuals and employers
is available at lifeandcareer.ubc.ca or call 604-822-8740. Call to book your session today
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Individual Life and Career Planning Sessions
Are you feeling uncertain about the next steps in your career or personal life? Become more aware of your career and personal options by booking an individual session with one of our experienced life and career counsellors. These sessions are ideal for follow up meetings with your counsellor to the testing assessments above.
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