CareerLeader™ Guided Tour
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CareerLeader™ moves you through several phases. First, using the Business Career Interest Inventory (BCII) we help you define your "career interest universe." Your unique pattern of interests defines a universe of possible careers in which you could find a way to express those interests. Then we use the Management and Professional Reward Profile (MPRP) to help you to focus that universe by assessing your values concerning the rewards you want to get back from your work. And finally, we use an abilities assessment inventory, the Management and Professional Abilities Profile (MPAP), to help you focus still further by thinking in a systematic way about your business skill strengths and weaknesses and the implications of these strengths and weaknesses for different career paths.
The Business Career Interest Inventory (BCII) is the most sophisticated business career interest assessment instrument available. The BCII, unlike other interest inventories, focuses on business careers, and so can provide more specific recommendations than other general interest tests.
We believe strongly that interests, not skills, should be the foundation for people's careers. We've seen people make poor career choices for lots of reasons -- bowing to family or societal pressure; trying to "harvest" one's careers too early, before gaining the needed experience and savvy; or being seduced by money or status. One of the most common, though, is people making career choices because they're good at something -- regardless of how interested they are in the work. A common conversation goes something like this:
"What are you doing now?"
"I went into engineering (for example) because I was good at science and math."
"Were you ever really interested in engineering?"
"Not really, but I was good at science and math, and people told me I should go into engineering, and it was easy for me, so I became an engineer -- and now I'm not very happy doing it."
Of course your skill level has to exceed some minimum level to be competent at anything, but it is really interests that are most important. Your "competitive advantage" is your interest in what you're doing. After you understand your interests and their career implications, then you can look at your values and abilities to help you figure out just how you're going to express those interests.
The BCII is a lengthy inventory. We'll show you an example of a few of the questions so you can get a feel for the questions and the format. Then we'll show you a hypothetical BCII Score Summary and briefly show how our hypothetical CareerLeader™ user would utilize the interpretive resources to understand those results.
 
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