Behavioral and Personality Inventories then and NOW!

When I first read this assessment It took me back to one of Mrs. B's blog assignments. For our 5th blog in my senior year iQuest class, we took two behavioral and personality inventories. Mrs. B guided us to Myers-Briggs's 16 personalities (which you can take at https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test) and Holland's Codes (which you can take at https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/RIASEC/). Holland's codes "groups people on the basis of their suitability for six different categories of occupations. The six types yield the RIASEC acronym, by which the theory is also commonly known."
My results Back in 2014 were as followed: 
https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

Myers-Briggs 

E	N	F	P	Letter
78	38	25	67	Percentages

Description of ENFP
Warmly enthusiastic and imaginative. See life as full of possibilities. Make connections between events and information very quickly, and confidently proceed based on the patterns they see. Want a lot of affirmation from others, and readily give appreciation and support. Spontaneous and flexible, often rely on the ability to improvise and their verbal fluency.

Holland Codes

Realistic: 10

Investigative: 7

Artistic: 8

Social: 14 *highest

Enterprising: 12

Conventional: 4 *lowest
Your Holland Codes are as follows:  SER

Because of this data for myself 4 years ago I wanted to look if my results changed at all. At first glance, I thought I got different results for my Myers-Briggs, but I believe the sight just got more detailed and visual with results, for example, this was the first page of my results.

I ended up having the same outcome I did 4 years ago. All though I would say that the description
describes me better in the ways that I have grown as an individual since I was 17 years old.  This especially evident when you look at the Campaigners strengths which would be: curious, observant, energetic and enthusiastic, excellent communicator, know how to relax, very popular and friendly. With campaigners weaknesses being: poor practical skills, find it difficult to focus, overthink things, get stressed easily, highly emotional, and independent to a fault. I would agree with all of these except the gets stressed easily... or maybe I just don't get stressed about the normal things to freak out about. I say this because in a high-stress situation I respond relaxed and calm, but I do get stressed out when I have to read or wright. I would also say I'm not an excellent communicator I defiantly have to work on adapting to other peoples styles of culmination styles. But I do have a lot of success in breaking down ideas and actions into ways in which people can easily understand, which makes me a good teacher. 

In regards to Holland's codes, I did receive different results. Back in 2014, my holland code was SER and now I received the results for ISA. Now its kind of hard to explain the differences in this two codes because their purpose guide predicaments into a career choice that fit this code.  SER standards for Social, Enterprising, Realistic whereas ISA Investigative, Social, Artistic. reflecting back on this ISA definitely more suits who I am today and it makes sense that I changed in this regard as I have become more confident in who I am as an individual. 

With all of this said I do believe that between these two inventories and my results for Bolton people styles of being an amiable expressive. I would say that they give a very clear and accurate depiction of who I am off of paper.  Due to this observation, I would say that these inventories do allow organizations to put you into boxes in a just way that can represent you as an individual. To say one way is more valid the others isn't just but working with multiple seems to paint a relatively just pitcher of your self on papper.


Wook sighted ABA:
Free personality test. (n.d.). Retrieved January 25, 2018, from https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

(n.d.). Retrieved January 25, 2018, from https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/RIASEC/

Hello Out Their!

It seems I only blog or really wright when I'm told to for an assignment. Thanks, to Keith C Russell, Ph.D. and his class of RECR 278 human relations young Hurd is back with this new blog "Phase II and beyond..." With this I hope to continue writing and documenting my adventures and lessons I learn through my career in the exciting field of recreation management. But to start I want to give you a summary of how this journey started and the conditions it began under.

When I was a Jr. in High School I applied for a senior only class for the opportunity of time to go out and experience the field that we were interested in.  Mrs. B was the head and the mastermind of this program, witch intailed her group of seniors getting to leave school at 12:30 two times a week to go and pursue a goal, passion, or internship of shorts. We would meet once a week in class to discuss how our projects were going and work on personal and professional skills.

When I first applied for this class I wanted to be a Physical therapist. But the summer between Jr. and Sr. year I was working at my city's community aquatic center, and it was my first summer stepping out of the rooky position. About halfway through this summer my older brother Adam who was assistant pool manager at the time looked at me during a family dinner when I was telling a story about swim lesson in which I calm down a very angry parent and came up with a plan that compromised what my boss said and what the parent was asking for. At this, Adam looked at me and asked if I ever thought about pursuing recreation. And that was the first seed of my journey towards WWU and recreation management.
If your curious about the blog that Mrs. B had me start and see what we worked on that year here's a link:
https://younghurd.blogspot.com/

Until next time!