| Title | Values and preferences in career decision making |
| Category | Career Progression |
| Overview | An opportunity to explore your values and personal preferences using the MBTI model and understand how these can be used in career planning and decision making.
This session is about enabling you to articulate who you are and what is important to you in your working and personal life. It is designed as an opening to ongoing discovery around your ‘fit’ in different situations and environments, whilst encouraging acceptance and celebration of difference in the ways that we approach the world around us.
The session includes:
Guided discovery of your MBTI preferences.
Exploration how different preferences relate to each other.
How different preferences fit with different environments.
How your MBTI preference relates to your work and career choices and changes you may wish to make.
Guided discovery of your core values.
Understanding how your values currently relate to your work and life.
Developing a plan to better align what you do to what is important to you.
A note on MBTI
The MBTI assessment helps you identify your natural preferences in four areas of personality:
• How do you direct and receive energy—by focusing on the outside world, interacting with people and taking action, or by focusing on your inner world and reflecting on ideas, memories, and experiences?
• How do you take in information—by focusing on what you perceive using your five senses or by seeing the big picture and looking for relationships and patterns?
• How do you decide and come to conclusions—by logically analysing the situation or by considering what’s important to the people involved?
• How do you approach the outside world—in a planned, orderly way or a more flexible, spontaneous way?
Your natural preferences in these four areas sort you into one of 16 distinct MBTI personality types. Understanding these types gives you objective insight that you can use to enhance your professional and personal relationships, as well as your direction, focus, and choices. |
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| Location | EBS.2.41 |
| Campus | Colchester campus |
| Date and time | 09:30 to 16:30 Thursday 13 February 2025 |
| Duration | 07:00 |
| Available places | 20 |
| University of Essex employee | Use the link provided above to book your place via HR Organiser. |
| Partner institution | Please discuss with your point of contact at your Partner Institution in the first instance. |
| Student Union contractors; PhD students | Please contact the Organisational Development team. |