Why I Want To Be A School Counselor

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The way that my results of each of the assessments relate to each other is that it shows that even though I love being able to help and work with people; I still want to be able to have some independence when it comes to using my own talents and abilities. Another way that my results relate to each other is that it also shows that I want the work that I do to be known and influential to many people. For instance, when I compare my highest two scores in the interest profiler instrument to the highest two scores in the work importance locator, it shows that I want to do work that is meaningful and impacting the lives of many individuals. My vocational personality type does put me in an environment where I can easily express my work values to the fact that I get to achieve all the things that I set out for …show more content…

The way that my results of the assessment relates to career patterns is that due to my primary interest in the social type, I now know why I wanted to become a school counselor is because I love being able to help people who are dealing with difficult life decisions. Since my primary work value is achievement, I've always notice that I wanted a career that I can enjoy doing because I've always been a motivated hard working person who can do anything I put my mind to. There are internal and external factors that tends to impact a person's career decision making. The internal factors that impacts career decision making includes personal interest, anxiety, lack of confidence, and confusion about which career path to go in. Not only do these internal factors impact adults going into the career world, it also tends to impact adolescents. The way that personal interests impacts career decision making is that if a person is talented and passionate about something they're

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