Disengaged in Your Career? You're Not Alone

Studies have shown that over 70% of working adults are disengaged in their job. This means their role is unfulfilling and it also means they are not operating at 100% of their potential.

At first blush it may seem that employers are the ones feeling the biggest impact from employee disengagement through lost productivity and sales, but that loss is not one-sided. The workers themselves are deeply affected as well.

What are the signs you are disengaged in your work?

Here are some common signs you are disengaged in your current job.

• It's harder to get out of bed the first day of your work week than any other day.
• You spend more time thinking about other jobs than the one you currently have.
• "Working hard or hardly working?" sounds more like a psychological question of fact than a jest.
• You do the bare minimum to keep from getting fired.

There are countless other examples, each as unique as the individual experiencing them, but they all share the same underlying cause:

There is a fundamental difference between the needs of your role and how you are emotionally hardwired.

What is the solution to worker disengagement?

If the problem of worker disengagement is a disconnect in emotional hardwiring, then the first step is determining what that hardwiring actually is (we call it your psychometric profile).

Once you understand your personality's DNA, how do you determine what career or job is most closely aligned with how you're emotionally hardwired?

There is an online personality assessment called the Core Values Index™ that can help. It not only tells you what comprises your innate emotional hardwiring, it also comes with a Career Guide that describes the most common occupations that are typically associated with your personality profile.

Is the CVI+Career Guide really that easy? Yes, it is.

The CVI takes about 8 minutes to complete. It has the highest repeat reliability of any psychometric assessment on the market today.

Accurate Personality Assessment

Repeat reliability is the most useful way to determine the accuracy of a psychological assessment. If it reveals the exact same results 10 years from now as it does today, then it accurately (100%) reflects your personality.

The Core Values Index scored a repeat reliability rating of 97.7% in longitudinal studies¹. No other psychometric assessment or personality test on the market even comes close. By comparison, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator™ — MBTI — struggles to get above 50%.

Once you've completed your CVI assessment, your report describes how you are emotionally hardwired. Your specific CVI profile is analyzed using a huge database of job data to produce a report specifically customized for your personality.

Your CVI results plus Career Guide provides invaluable information about the kind of jobs where you are most likely to shine.

The CVI doesn't measure aptitude, however — it describes the kind of activities where you will experience the greatest happiness.

Skills can be taught and learned, but innate happiness is where the truth of your occupational success really matters.

How valuable would it be read a report that describes in clear and easy to understand terms the occupations best suited to your personality?

If you could go back in time to the start of your career, and knew then what you can learn in 8 minutes right now about your particular occupation+personality alignment, what would you do differently?

Start by taking the Core Values Index and reading your personalized Career Guide.

It's entirely possible you are already in your ideal career track (there's approximately an 18% chance of it, in fact). You might be as happy as can be in your job. But do you know why? Don't you wish you understood why you are experiencing that level of engagement and positivity in your job and could apply that knowledge to the rest of your life?

Your CVI report and Career Guide explains why that connection between your personality's DNA and your occupation are so closely aligned. This information is invaluable in the rest of your life, too.

Core Values Index™ and CVI™ are trademarks of Taylor Protocols, Inc.

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1 Seattle Research Partners, 2014