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Tomorrow, we are leaving for San Diego and both of us are mentally at our destination already.

This past week I have been at a few interviews and have almost decided to begin a career in financial planning. There are a few firms I am interviewing for and I will hopefully make my decision over the vacation!

Any tips or ideas form you, the readers?

In one of my job interviews I got to do a psych. profile and I have posted the summary below.  If you can think about a posting or position that looks as I am suitable for, please mention my name or let me know!

Your Personal Strengths

In Terms of Enterprising vs. Support Role Possibilities
In specific situations you would be competitive, enterprising, assertive and goal oriented. Within an established work environment that has a structured work situation, you would tend to stand out as an exceptionally well organized person who could be depended upon to get the task done. With specific training in such areas as time management and planning, and with the opportunity to apply these newly developed skills, you would be able to adjust to opportunities that required flexibility and adaptability to change.

In Terms of Your Style and Strength of Various Motivators
People would describe you as being very calm, steady, unhurried, stable, dependable and cooperative. They would see you as motivated by a deep and essentially selfless concern for the well-being and the needs of others. In your career development, you would find that your greatest satisfactions and best personal productivity would come from being able to commit your effort, within a 'people-oriented' opportunity, to the achievement of longer term goals which are clearly related to improving the quality of life of the recipients of the product or service.

In Terms of Your Independence vs. Your Need to be in the 'Team'
You would be described as cooperative, obliging, efficient and conscientious. You can function effectively in a group which is well organized but allows you leeway for individual initiative. You will accept early supervision along with training but will expect less supervision after gaining the experience.

In Terms of Your Orientation Towards the 'People' Side of Business
You would be described as somewhat sociable, enthusiastic, cheerful, lively and entertaining. You tend to value social interactions and would be perceived as quite friendly in your initial contacts with new people. The achievement of goals would be through personal relationships developed over a relatively extended period of time.

In Terms of Your Orientation Towards Technical and Practical Concerns
You would be described as somewhat logical, reflective, analytical, factual and practical. Intellectual challenges that also offered an obvious practical utility, would appeal to you. Ideally, the creative application of knowledge would provide challenge and opportunity. Ideas and concepts which were of solid practical use would be of interest to you.

Career Planning

What Types of Opportunities Should You Look For?

+ Look for opportunities which have a history of growth and development in which they have kept or expanded their associates through retraining and through flexibility and adaptability of their operations.

+ It is important for you that you find opportunities which allows you to focus your talents and your energies on products or services which you are convinced have real merit in improving the lives of people who receive them.

+ You should look for an opportunity where there is a combination of being a team player as well as an opportunity to be independent as you would find it both interesting and profitable from time to time to exercise your own initiative.

+ You should look for a situation that calls for a good amount of people contact and a some contact with new people. It is essential that some of your satisfaction would be found in the interaction with people at work.

+ Look for a situation that requires a practical implementation of any new technical information. You tend to enjoy challenges associated with the practical aspects of learning and will always acquire additional knowledge and technical information if you feel it is important to your performance.


What Types of Opportunities Should You Avoid?

- Avoid work situations that are totally unstructured or poorly organized. The ideal opportunity will have a history of established people who are encouraged to grow and adapt at their own pace. It is likely that your talents and potential can be best developed in an established, well managed opportunity.

- Avoid positions which are simply money oriented and which have no demonstrable worthwhile impact on the lives of the people who receive the product or services.

- You should avoid a situation in which you will always be a minor or relatively unimportant member of an organization. Avoid positions in which the structure is totally and rigorous controlling and restricting.

- You should avoid a situation where you are expected to perform an exclusively public relations role.

- Avoid situations that are exclusively detail oriented. Opportunities that require you to quickly learn and apply new technologies or vast amounts of new information must have a practical application to be satisfying for you.

In a nutshell, according to this test, this is me! Interesting, right?

We will post tons of pictures from San Diego!!