Your primary career motivator is: Influence

motivated by opportunity to manage people and resources and to have accountability for results.

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People motivated by Influence...

Those with Influence as a motivator typically…

• Have the ability to influence, supervise, lead, handle and control people at all levels toward organisational goal achievement.
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• T recognise the importance of knowing several functional areas well (e.g. Marketing, Finance, HR etc).
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Your secondary career motivator is:

Challenge

Motivated to solve problems and to challenge themselves to push limits

If your career motivator is pure challenge, what you would not give up is the opportunity to work on solutions to seemingly unsolvable problems, to win over tough opponents, or to overcome difficult obstacles.

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• Feel able to tackle any challenge.
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• Feel the area of work, the employing organisation, the pay system, the promotion system, and the forms of recognition are all subordinate to the opportunities for self testing within the job.
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The key concern for those driven by challenge is extending their capabilities.

Your next steps

… the practical implications of your career motivators.

Becoming more analytical and proactive about our work and career is important because no-one else can have responsibility for our life and career but ourselves. Our managers, colleagues and families may not have a clear understanding of what really motivates us and is important to us. We all need to have an understanding of what really drives us so that we can make choices that are consistent with those motivators and increase our chances of finding work that is satisfying and fulfilling for us. Working in alignment with our key motivators significantly impacts our satisfaction and ability to fully utilize our talents and capabilities.

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The full report includes six steps help you translate your career motivators analysis into action.

Career motivators is only one part of the picture, but as you have probably already recognized, career decision-making is complex and we also need to gain insight into other facets to make the best possible decision.

For effective career decision-making we also need to gain insight and clearer self-concepts in terms of the following:

• Talents and abilities: where our natural talent and potential lie.
• Interests and preferences: we need to understand what most interests and stimulates us at work.
• Values: the kinds of companies, products, work environments, or services with which we want to be associated.
• Personal Style: we need to understand how we operate best and what kind of work best meets our own unique style and attributes.

Personalised Career Feedback

Further career support is available to help you understand how you can use the results to support your career goals and the next steps to achieve them through personalised phone feedback with our Career Coaches and Occupational Psychologists.  Contact us at info@careeranalysts.co.nz

What next?

Understanding our personal talents, style, skills and interests enables us to have greater insight into our career and choices. If you want to find out more about your interests, talents and competencies we will be launching further on-line tools to aid your own career management. If you would like to be notified when these tools become available,  please just tick the box and press the Submit button below, we will inform you when they become available.