Skills Assessment: Visualizing Your Strengths

The consultant asks me what has made me truly proud in my career. I search for an answer for several long seconds and nothing solid comes to mind. I leave this preliminary interview with more questions than certainties.

RIASEC test result: my dominant profile isn't the one I've expected for fifteen years. I almost challenge the result out loud before falling silent, because deep down I know it hits the mark.

One evening alone at home between two sessions, I wonder if I have been wrong about myself throughout my fifteen-year career. The idea that everything I have built rests on a misreading of who I am keeps me awake for a good part of the night.

Personal coat of arms exercise: I have to draw a moment when I overcame an obstacle alone. I choose, almost by default, a memory I had never told anyone, and while writing it down, I realize it says something about me that I had forgotten.

I am reading the summary document provided by my advisor. My position as a project manager suits me, but not for the reason I thought: not for the stability, but for the autonomy it gives me over my files. I leave without having resigned from anything, but finally knowing why I am staying.

I fill out the assessment registration form without knowing exactly what I am looking for. Just this vague feeling of going in circles for months, with no words to name it. I check the CPF funding box almost out of habit.

Schein's career anchors test reveals that what truly matters to me at work is not the security I thought I was seeking, but autonomy over my projects. Suddenly, several previously unrelated frustrations are explained in a single sentence.