Business Career Interest Profile

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Business Career Interest Profile

• The Business Career Interest Inventory
  assesses eight essential activities performed in
  business settings
• Application of Technology
• Quantitative Analysis
• Theory Development and Conceptual Thinking
• Creative Production (new product design,
  advertising, innovative service delivery)
• Counseling and Mentoring
• Managing People and Relationships
• Enterprise Control (authority and control of
  resources to implement ideas)
• Influence Through Language and Ideas
• These business interests are then mapped to
  15 business career paths at Hypertherm in terms
  of degree of match high-medium-low

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Work Reward Values

• Autonomy
• Intellectual Challenge
• Financial Gain
• Power and Influence
• Variety
• Positioning (for career movement)
• Prestige
• Lifestyle
• Altruism (helping others)
• Affiliation
• Managing People
• Recognition
• Security

These work values are ranked through
forced-choice exercises and are then mapped to
business career paths
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Business Abilities / Groups

• Career Leader provides feedback about the
  relative strengths of the following business
  abilities
• PROBLEM-SOLVING Quantitative Analysis
• Creativity
• Critical Thinking
• Quick Thinking
• TAKING INITIATIVE Power Orientation
• Action Orientation
• Multi-focus
• Leveraging
• INTERPERSONAL Teamwork
• EFFECTIVENESS Confidence
• Communication
• Leading / Managing

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Business Career Path Profiles

• Accounting
• Entrepreneurship
• Finance in Corporate Settings
• General Management
• Human Resources Management
• Information Systems Management
• Management of New Product Development
• Managers in Science / Engineering
• Marketing and Marketing Management
• Production and Operations Management
• Public Relations and Communications
• Research and Development Management
• Sales and Sales Management
• Strategic Planning / Business Development
• Training / Organizational Development

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Culture Match Assessment

• CareerLeader provides feedback regarding four
  critical elements of corporate culture
• Social Assertiveness
• Structure and Attention to Detail
• Openness and Imagination
• Cooperation and Harmony

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Cultural Dimensions

• CareerLeader also provides additional
  descriptive information about these dimensions of
  organizational culture
• Level of Communication
• Lifestyle
• Pace of Change
• Valuing the Team vs. the Star

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Achilles Heels

• CareerLeader describes personal tendencies
  that can derail careers. These are captured by
  the following types
• Acrophobic (Never feeling good enough)
• The Bulldozer (run roughshod over people to solve
  a problem or get something)
• The Coulda Been (large appetite for achievement
  but low tolerance for delayed gratification)
• The Hero (get things done at great cost to self
  and others, not seeing alternatives)
• The Home Run Hitter (overly competitive and go
  for it before ready)
• Loose Lips (dont honor social and professional
  boundaries)
• Lost Along The Way (loss of professional
  direction)
• The Meritocrat (focus on hard work, right
  answers, but not acquiring power to implement)
• The Peacekeeper (conflict avoidance resulting in
  ineffectiveness)
• The Pessimist - Worrier (persistently negative,
  seeing downside of situations)
• The Rebel (resist adapting to organizational
  culture)
• Mr. Spock (rational business decisions that dont
  consider impact on people)