CareerLeader™ provides a complete discussion of how to use the information you learn about your abilities (using the Management and Professional Abilities Profile), values (using the Management and Professional Reward Profile) and your deep structure career interests from the Business Career Interest Inventory to assess the best organizational culture for your personal profile. We're going to continue to use Jan as our example and talk about what the implications of her profile are for organizational culture.

The culture of the organization for which she works will be very important to Jan's success, as will be the culture of the industry as a whole. High technology, with its extraordinarily fast rate of change, for example, would not look like a good match for Jan -- regardless of the function in which she works. She wants to do analysis, but of a deeper sort than would be practical in a high-growth area. Jan might even consider a career as a business academic, getting a Ph.D. in some area related to business and joining the faculty of a business school. This would give her the opportunity to express her interest in Theory Development and Conceptual Thinking (the Enterprise Control desire to "own" something being the potential flaw in this scenario).

Equally important is that the organization have a culture that supports a balanced lifestyle for its employees. A good Lifestyle is one of Jan's most highly valued rewards (on the MPRP), and while she could "swim against the tide" of a very demanding work culture she would not be happy doing so.

All in all, Jan's interest, value and ability pattern seems to fit better with a career in strategic planning/business development/internal consulting than in the other parts of the "career interest universe" she originally defined with the BCII. Of course, some of her values may change, and she might develop certain of her abilities, but as of this moment this would be the ultimate "take away" of Jan's CareerLeader™ experience.

Next let's investigate Jan's entrepreneurial interests.