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Your ideal job will allow you to find discrepancies and inconsistencies in tangible systems. Look for opportunities to physically coordinate safety and quality standards.
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This personalized program will help you make the best possible career decisions by incorporating your instincts. Your instincts are perfect – for you – and equip you for success in many careers.
Your Career MO+ provides the vital piece of information that other approaches ignore and defines why a particular career that intrigues you may – or may not – work out.
Simplify
15%
Maintain
30%
Stabilize
15%
Demonstrate
40%
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Kolbe, you're most likely to succeed in a job that lets you lead with the Action Mode with the longest line.
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You're made up of more than one Action Mode. It's equally important for you to find a role that uses your ability to maintain.
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It's interesting, Kolbe, how easily you might overlook the contribution you make when you are able to simplify results.
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A significant part of your energy goes into preventing or reducing problems. Give yourself a high five when you recognize you've saved the day using your talent to stabilize solutions.
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YES, if...
NO, if...
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Position yourself as the creative problem solver you are. Don’t just focus your resume on past experiences.
Your cover letter can position your Kolbe Result as the proof of abilities you possess – as long as you truly see yourself using them in the role and the company that’s involved. Explain how your strengths help in a crisis, in the competitive marketplace, and over long-term assignments.
Select examples in your Kolbe Result that relate to those listed for the job description. Send a copy of those examples with your resume. Add your own clarification, such as: "I used my Fact Finder knack for acquiring information so that I became an effective contributor on project teams.”
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The following are examples of jobs that have brought satisfaction to people with an MO similar to yours.
PROFESSIONAL MILITARY
FURNITURE MOVER
STEVEDORE
POLICE/FIRE OFFICER
ANTHROPOLOGIST
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST
EQUIPMENT OPERATOR
PRODUCT DEMONSTRATOR
PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHER
TECHNICAL TRAINER
PERCUSSIONIST
QUALITY ENGINEER
ANIMAL BREEDER
MECHANIC
BAKER
INSTALLER
COMPUTER TECHNICIAN
MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN
BODY/SECURITY GUARD
DENTAL HYGIENIST
ELECTRICAL ENGINEER
GYMNAST/COACH
HORSE TRAINER
NATURE PHOTOGRAPHER
PRINTER
ROOFER
QUALITY CONTROLLER
WELDER
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Are you looking for a job or a career? Both require conative action, so why does it matter?
Jobs are specific, defined roles that require making an effort to produce a result. They employ conative or purposeful actions. You're usually compensated for that contribution.
Careers are a homebase for long-term commitments. They house a series of self-directed and purposeful or conative actions, and require much more passion, knowledge, and time. Careers are also based on affective convictions of the value of those efforts.
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How you naturally take action.
How you perceive the requirements of your job.
Stress in Follow Thru and Quick Start
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In a job interview, answer questions honestly – you aren't doing yourself or your potential employer any favors by claiming you’ll do something you won't. And the interviewer will be impressed by your authenticity.
You will be honest if you explain your strengths by saying:
Based on my Kolbe A results, I know I do my best work when taking a tactile approach.
Highlight your strengths by telling your potential employer:
I plan ahead for contingencies so I have sufficient time and materials to make sure projects are complete, secure, and useful. I'm dependable when it comes to maintaining equipment and assuring efficiency in operations.
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"I'm detail-oriented, organized, innovative and hands-on."
This is what many career advisors tell you to say but it's not true of any human being. The truth about your MO is the most powerful way of presenting yourself.
You may say you're detail-oriented, but would you actually want to sift through pages and pages of information every day of the work week and use that background to draw up an in-depth analysis of the subject?
Some people thrive on activities like these. You thrive differently.
Your Fact Finder ability, or the way you gather information, is to get right to the bottom line without getting bogged down in details.
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Your natural strengths covered in a letter.
Your cover letter can make or break you.
Many employers will narrow down their applicant pool by simply glancing at the cover letters. Do not, under any circumstances, let someone else write your cover letter.
Mention how your MO fits into the employer's mission.
To XYZ:
You can count on me to further your mission because:
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Don't go into an interview blind. Get the 4-1-1! You'll need at least the basics of what the place is all about.
For you, this means:
Doing a quick internet search on the organization before the interview to get an idea of what it's about.
Kolbe, review your Kolbe A Index audio result before your interview. Or purchase your Natural Advantage - Quality Controller audio. Both will provide you with a reminder of the unique strengths you bring to a company as well as a self-esteem boost before stepping into the intimidating interview room.
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Interviews are not just an opportunity for your potential employer to size you up – you also get to size up the fit.
Use these questions to help you assess whether your conative talents would be valued. A "Yes" from your interviewer to each of these questions implies that the job would be a great fit for your conative strengths.
Would there be plenty of time being out and about versus sitting behind a desk?
Does this role require reacting to established procedures?
Would my ability to clarify and summarize issues enhance my ability to do this job?
Have other people in this role been praised for raising questions about potential changes to the workplace?
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Be obstinate about being you. If in doubt, read Kathy Kolbe's book Powered By Instinct: 5 Rules for Trusting Your Guts.
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At Kolbe, we're not interested in helping you get a job if you aren't interested in doing it well. When you go in for an interview, find out enough about the organization and what it does to be able to probe for whether you would be willing to commit your conative abilities toward fulfilling its mission.
Our Kolbe Dynamynd® Decision Ladder™ helps you think about the amount of effort you truly are willing to give to a job, or to various opportunities you may be considering.
We'd love to share more about it with you. Visit www.kolbe.com for more information. Otherwise, come back to it when you wonder why something that fits your MO, skills, and desires just doesn't seem worth the trade-offs.