Using Type in Career Counseling

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In today's challenging job market, counselors, coaches, and HR directors require skills that are at the forefront of assisting organizations with vocational counseling, job search strategies, and employee retention. In addition, counselors may find their clients in need of career development and assistance with career choices.

Learn how to use the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) instrument to assist clients in developing the skills necessary for optimal career strategies including best-fit careers, techniques for career development, empowerment, and decision making.

Isabel Myers' earliest goal for the Indicator was to help people choose careers that would call on their strengths and be interesting and exciting. This workshop, designed for career counselors already familiar with the MBTI instrument, explores the Indicator as a way to enhance the benefits of career counseling.

Topics covered in this workshop:

What the MBTI instrument can and cannot reveal about individual career choices
Skills to use with a variety of clients, from high school to those considering mid-life career changes
Values clarification, planning and goal setting, skills assessment, decision-making strategies, type and work environments, and lifestyle issues
Information gathering, job search, and career patterns of MBTI types
Using the MBTI instrument with career assessment tools that measure skills, values, and interests (e.g., the Strong Interest Inventory® assessment)
Lifelong type development skills
Challenges to career development

Tuition includes:

A notebook of program materials
Resource book, Looking at Type® and Careers
Document of completion

Prior Knowledge and Experience:

It is necessary for participants in this workshop to have a basic understanding of the MBTI® instrument and type dynamics. It is assumed that they will have a working knowledge of the dominant, auxiliary, tertiary, and inferior functions. Participants should be qualified to purchase restricted MBTI materials, and have had formalized MBTI training or the equivalent in experience. Participants should recognize the difference in type and trait instruments and know that the MBTI instrument sorts rather than measures.