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Career Planning Using DISC

Now it's time to start building on your understanding and application of DISC in your class. Begin to explore how you can use DISC in your career planning to help you get the job you want.

Introduction to Career Planning using DISC

Watch the video below to learn more about how you can use the application of DISC to set yourself up for success in a career within your chosen industry.

BONUS ACTIVITY

USING YOUR DISC CAREER MANAGEMENT REPORT

If instructed to complete the DISC Career Management Report Module by your professor, click the button below to access this activity. 

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Career Preparation Insights from Industry Professionals

Access strategies and tips for using your DISC Profile to aid in career planning from various professionals.

Exploring Opportunities & DISC

In this video, we discuss how your DISC Profile connects in with your values (‘your why’) and what to consider in determining the roles you are best suited for.

PUTTING DISC INTO PRACTICE

VALUES REFLECTION

After watching the video above, use this worksheet to assist in your reflection and application of DISC. Download the worksheet below to get started.
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Employment Applications using DISC

Learn to apply your DISC Profile to further enhance the development of your cover letter and resume by considering the strengths you bring to a specific role. Also, review your own application for demonstrating behavior appropriate for any recruiter (and their DISC Profile).

PUTTING DISC INTO PRACTICE

Career Opportunities

After watching the video above, it’s time to put your learnings into practice. Download the worksheet below to get started.
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Interviewing & DISC

Learn how to use your DISC Profile to prepare yourself well for an interview and demonstrate your developed self-awareness to set you apart from other candidates. You can also use the DISC Model to help you identify what the interviewers’ likely DISC Profiles are to enhance your communication.

PUTTING DISC INTO PRACTICE

Interview Activity

Refer back to the earlier video on identifying behaviors of others. Use this as an advantage to identify an interviewer’s likely DISC Profile to help you tailor your answers and pitch your responses in a more effective way.
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PUTTING DISC INTO PRACTICE

Interview Panel Case Studies

After watching the video above, it’s time to put your learnings into practice. You’re being interviewed by a panel of four people, choose at least one of the interviewers below and complete the case study to identify what their DISC Profile is. 

Interviewer #1

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Interviewer #2

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Interviewer #3

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Interviewer #4

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Additional Interview Advice

Find out what Liz Masen says is her best advice for performing in an interview. This video covers some of the most common interview questions asked and how best to respond for a lasting impression.

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Using your DISC Career
Management Report

If your professor has chosen for you to complete this module as part of your class, you will have received your DISC Career Management Report from reports@athleteassessments1.com. Now, let’s go through how to best use it.

Introduction to the DISC Career Management Report

Finding your career direction begins in defining a critical element – your behavioral style. Research suggests that specific behavioral styles are attracted to specific jobs and careers. Understanding your career choices and applying this knowledge for job satisfaction consists of three basic steps:

  1. Knowing your natural behavioral tendencies,
  2. Determining the behavioral demands of the job,
  3. Understanding the results of adapting your natural style to ‘fit’ the job’s needs, OR selecting the career or jobs that require your natural style, or both.

We start with your DISC Profile Report to provide significant insight into your behavioral style and tendencies. Then, this DISC Career Management Report provides a list of occupations and the O*NET (Job) Codes that utilize the behaviors that are the closest match to your natural behavioral style.

DISC Career Management Report
DISC Career Report_Job Indicator Page

The Job Indicator Section (shown on the left) has been designed to give you a guide as to suitable jobs which theoretically meet your unique DISC behavioral style. Be aware that when looking at these jobs, a quality ‘job fit’ usually occurs when 75% of the job behaviors and tasks match your DISC behavioral style. The other 25% of the job behaviors or task requirements represent opportunities to adapt. This is important as there are few jobs that are a 100% perfect fit for people. Most learn that every job requires us to adapt our behaviors to deliver the best outcomes for the organization and fulfillment for the person doing the job.

This will help you understand the kinds of roles where your natural style aligns with the demands of them, or where you might need to adapt your behaviors to suit other roles you are most interested in pursuing. This report clarifies job expectations, discovers the reasons for challenges, and helps in understanding potential stressors.

This report is as much prescriptive (tips and tools for interpersonal career management) as it is descriptive (allowing you to understand and appreciate your own behavioral style from this report and your DISC Profile Report).

This report does not assign personal values, interests, aptitude, IQ, or work history. It’s not about confining you to certain roles, but instead it’s about exploring how behaviors relate to different jobs and industries, to further build your awareness. The DISC Career Management Report concentrates on your behavior and helps you to recognize the preferences and strengths you bring to a job. 

Use this tool to breakdown the requirements of different roles you are interested in, and form a plan to perform most effectively within them. Please ensure to also refer to your accompanying DISC Profile Report.

ACTIVITY

APPLYING YOUR DISC CAREER MANAGEMENT REPORT

After reviewing the above information, download the worksheet and complete the activity.
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If you require any support in locating your report, please reach out to temika.smith@athleteassessments.com