Assessing Your Interests, Skills, and Abilities
Preparing for a career is time consuming and costly. Before you embark on college or an expensive training program, you want to be sure your personal values and dreams are supported by the career you are training for. You’ll also want to know if you have the personality for the career you want. If you are already working in hospitality and want to advance, you need to consider how your current skills and experience have prepared you to advance or if you have gaps you need to fill.
Potential employers may require you to take both psychological and performance tests as condition of employment or advancement. Research shows that only one employee in every seven hired after a successful interview delivers well on the job. Assessing behavioral traits can improve hiring success rates to thirty-eight percent. When both thinking abilities and behavioral traits are assessed, the right people are hired fifty-four percent of the time. Adding occupational interests to the assessment increases the rate of successful hiring to sixty-six percent.
You can avoid the disappointment of being rejected for a position or failing to succeed in a position by making sure you are training for the right career and getting the right training for that career.
