Special September MBTI® & Strong Interest Inventory® Offer

• No idea what to do next?
• Need help identifying career options you might not have thought of?
• Want practical suggestions as to what careers might be right for you?

Assessments for Personal & Career Development

From now until the end of September we are offering special discounts for students and educators on our two assessments for personal and career development.

The Myers Briggs Type Indicator® & The Strong Interest Inventory®

Take internationally renowned assessments from the comfort of your own home, receive a personalised downloadable report and have an in depth follow up discussion with an experienced educational coach.

The MBTI® assessment is the best known and most trusted personality tool available today. It is designed to help you understand your unique personality and the way you relate to others around you. It has a long history with more studies done and more extensive revisions than almost any other personality assessment tool. It is utilized worldwide by organizations ranging from educational institutions to Fortune 500 companies.

Taking the inventory and receiving feedback will help you identify your unique gifts. The information enhances understanding of yourself, your motivations, your natural strengths and potential areas for growth. It will also help you to appreciate people who are different from you.

Read more about The Myers Briggs Type Indicator®

The Strong Interest Inventory® is the most widely researched, validated and used career planning instrument available. It is a powerful method for matching the interests of an individual with opportunities for jobs, education and leisure activities. If you are unsure about your next move or would like help narrowing down the many options out there, then this unique tool is for you.

Read more about The Strong Interest Inventory®

Special discounts until September 30th

If you would like more about how you take advantage of these very special discounts, contact me at seamus@useyouredge.com

Make it a great week, it's your choice.

My best
Séamus

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® - MBTI®

The MBTI is a personality inventory or questionnaire that sorts people into 16 types depending on how they fall on four different scales. The four scales are:

1. Extraversion/Introversion - How am I around people?
2. Sensing/Intuition – How Do I prefer to gather information?
3. Thinking/Feeling – How do I make decisions?
4. Judging/Perceiving – What sort of lifestyle is best for me?

The theory behind the MBTI® is that people have a tendency to feel more comfortable at either end of the spectrum across those four preferences. The various combinations of these preferences result in 16 personality types.

Types are typically denoted by four letters--for example, INTJ (Introversion, Intuition with Thinking and Judging)--to represent one’s tendencies on the four scales. Your assessment report will help you better understand how you approach the world, how you prefer to make decisions and what kind of environment you feel most comfortable in.The MBTI® instrument is designed to help you understand your unique personality and the way you relate to others around you. It is backed by thousands of research studies and has been found to be both reliable and valid in assessing personality. Last year alone two million people used their MBTI® results to gain understanding about themselves and the people around them.The MBTI® is also used in a wide variety of contexts such as

• Self-understanding and development
• Career development and exploration
• Organisation development
• Reducing workplace conflict
• Improving individual and team performance
• Team building
• Management and leadership training
• Talent development and retention
• Problem solving
• Relationship counselling
• Education and curriculum development
• Academic counselling
• Diversity and multicultural training

How does it work?

The MBTI® is taken online and takes about 20-30 minutes to complete. You receive an e-mail with a link to the assessment and full instructions, including user name and password.
Once you’ve completed your online session and your results have been interpreted, a personalised report will be prepared.
We will then schedule a 1-hour feedback session where we will discuss your results and provide you with an in-depth interpretation, as well as practical suggestions and advice that will help you get the most out of it and use it to address your individual needs.

Are there different reports?

There are a variety of different reports tailored to meet your specific needs.

MBTI® Interpretive report - Choose this if you want to understand more about MBTI type, without needing a particular work perspective.
MBTI® Interpretive report for organisations - For people who want to understand and enhance their performance at work.
MBTI® Career report - If your goal is help in identifying alternative careers then choose the career report.

Who should take the MBTI®?

• People interested in personal development who want to understand themselves more.
• Employees who want to be more effective when working with others.
• Those contemplating career change who want to get ideas for future career options.

For more information and to book your Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® contact us at seamus@useyouredge.com

Make it a great week, it's your choice.

My best

Séamus

August Rush - A Film For The Non-Conscious Mind

We have had a couple of songs for the non-conscious mind over recent months but here is a really good film for the non-conscious mind that I came across recently, August Rush.

The film, directed by Kristin Sheridan, tells the story of a charismatic young Irish guitarist (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and a sheltered young cellist (Keri Russell) who have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square. They are soon torn apart however, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York and cared for by a mysterious stranger (Robin Williams), August (Freddie Highmore) uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth.

The film has a very simple yet extremely powerful message. Whatever it is, play your music, your way. No matter what your music is, no matter what your purpose is, go out and do it. The right people will find you when they are ready to hear.

Have a look at the trailer here.

'The music is all around us, all you have to do is listen.'

Make it a great week, it's your choice.

My best

Séamus

The Strong Interest Inventory®

• No idea of what to do next?


• Need help identifying career options you might not have thought of?


• Want practical suggestions as to what careers might be right for you?

The Strong Interest Inventory® is a powerful method for matching the interests of an individual with opportunities for jobs, education and leisure activities. It is based on the premise that individuals are most satisfied and productive when they work in jobs or at tasks that they find interesting and when they work with people whose interests are similar to their own.

The results of your test, i.e. your interests and personal style, are compared to thousands of individuals who report being happy and successful in their jobs. The occupations undertaken by people whose scores are identical (or very similar) to yours are therefore suggested as career options for you to consider. Since you share their interests and style it is highly likely that you would therefore also feel happy and fulfilled in their jobs and occupations.

How does it work?

The Strong Interest Inventory® is taken online and takes about 25-40 minutes to complete. You receive an e-mail with a link to the assessment and full instructions, including user name and password.

Once you’ve completed the online session and your results will be interpreted have been a personalised report which measures your individual interest in a wide range of occupations, occupational activities and also identifies your learning, interpersonal and management styles will be prepared. Your report identifies your optimum career choices based on your interests and includes additional related occupations with concise job descriptions. Click here to see what a Strong® report looks like.

Usually within 2-12 hours your report will be sent to you as an Adobe PDF file, at weekends it may take a little longer. We will then organise a 1-hour feedback session where we will provide you with an in-depth interpretation of your results, as well as practical suggestions and advice that will help you get the most out of it and use it to address your individual issue(s).

Are there different reports?

There are a variety of different reports tailored to meet your specific needs. Each report is designed to meet the needs of adults considering a career change, seeking more satisfying work within an organization or planning their retirement. It introduces young people to the process of career choice and what to study at university, or which occupation best meets their interests.

Profile Report: This report is for you if you want to find out more about the types of jobs that match with your interests. It comprises 9 pages, but you get much more detail with the Interpretive report.
Interpretive Report: As well as the profile report, you also get the expanded interpretive report. It goes into much more detail, 19 pages in total.
High School Edition: This is the profile report with additional information specifically for young people as they make their initial educational choices.
College Edition: This is the profile report with additional information to help you make university choices.

You can also take the Strong alongside the MBTI® and get a combined report in addition to the 2 individual reports.

Who should take the Strong Interest Inventory®?

• People unsure about their future career goals
• People in the early stages of career planning
• People who would like some pointers as to what would be useful and interesting leisure activities

If you would like more about how you can take The Strong Interest Inventory®, contact me at seamus@useyouredge.com

Make it a great week, it's your choice.

My best

Séamus