The My Plan (2016) Assessments

With the purpose of determining whether my personality, interests, and values meet my premeditated career, I carried out the TypeFocus assessment accessible through Tyler Junior College’s Career Services. First, I created an account with TypeFocus. Secondly I was able to obtain a few tests that would assess my personality, interests, and values. Next, I went forward and completed each test. Each analysis prompted me to answer a series of questions pertaining to the subject of that particular assessment. These questions that I was asked during the assessments were very straight forward, and easy to answer. Then, after completing all of the assessments I continued on to view each of the results. As the assessment taker, I had a choice on how

Dental hygienists clean teeth and provide instruction to patients on how to maintain good oral care. The average income for dental hygienists is around $71,520; however, in Mississippi the average income

How to become a dental hygienist? By having a high school diploma or a GED, then accomplishing an association degree. The process usually takes two to three years and to complete, for sure all states require dental hygienist to be licensed. If one cannot afford to pay for a university

You can also get a master's or bachelor’s degree but it’s not very common. Students in high school who plan to become a Dental Hygienist should take biology, chemistry, and mathematics classes. In school Dental Hygienist will study nutrition, anatomy, physiology, and periodontology which mean the study of gum diseases. The median pay for a Dental Hygienist is $70,210 which means they earned about $33.75 an hour. Many employers offer benefits, vacations, sick leave, and a retirement fund to their employees.

After doing the personality tests on Indiana Career Explorer, the tests gave me a couple of examples of fields I would be successful in, it told me what values may be important to me in a workplace environment. I feel these assessments were spot on and I have more confidence in my ability to be successful in my career choice.

With furthering one’s education, they can advance from dental assistant to dental hygienist. The pay is much higher with a median salary of $72,330. They are much more involved with their patients. They clean their teeth and show patients how to properly clean and floss. The stats show that the occupation will grow 19% before 2024. If one is willing, this would be a great advancement.

Locally, it is followed from least to greatest from Baton Rouge to Lake Charles, proceeding to Shreveport, ending with New Orleans with the largest salary on file in Louisiana. The top ten percent of dental hygienist earn more than $96,280 per year with the botton ten percent earning $46,540 per year. The benefits follow the job using Social Security as 5.4%, Disability carrying 2.5%, Healthcare with 8.2%, Pension uses 4.4%, time off is averaged to 8.6% to make a total compensation with the base salary of 87.5%. The employment in the dental hygiene field is predicted to grow 33% from the years 2012-2022. (Salary.com) (Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2014-15 edition)

Something interesting about me is that for 4 years in the marching band I played the saxophone. It is during those years I learned how to properly communicate with other students working in a large group to accomplish our shared musical goals. Eventually I would end up in a leadership role during my senior year of high school it’s during this time I learned the importance of dividing personal relationships and from leadership role. Often during my leadership role, I found myself at conflict due my personal friendships with other band students in the organization. Additionally, I listen to classical music, using photo editing software, and using different programming languages. The results from my TypeFocus were the following: ‘I’ introversion, ‘S’ sensing, ‘T’ thinking, and ‘J’ judgement. I will honestly say I did not learn not anything new from the taking the assessment about myself and the careers I will likely enter. Even more the assessment just confirmed everything that I’ve known about myself like how tend to be more introvert often takes me a while to open up personally to most individuals.

They don’t just clean teeth they also look for signs of oral diseases and educate patients on how to take care of their teeth and keep them looking healthy. To become a dental hygienist you need an associate of science in dental hygiene, trade school or technical college trading. A dental hygiene annual salary and hourly wage is $70,700 a year and $33.75 an hour.

Dental hygienist focuses on oral health. They clean the patient’s teeth, tell them how they can improve their oral health, and tell the patient about any oral disease that they have or can possibly happen from poor oral hygiene. To become a Dental Hygienist you have to graduate from an accredited dental hygiene program and have a license in the state they have practiced. It takes 2-6 years to become a Dental Hygienist, they make an average salary of $55.307 annually. The dental hygienist work in many places such as: private dental practice, community health centers, hospitals, nursing homes, prisons, practice clinics, schools and state/federal government services.

As a person goes throughout one's life, he or she faces many challenges. Whether that be deciding what to eat in the morning or deciding what college to attend, all people must make decision. I have come to the point in my life where I must determine the fate of my future; therefore, I have taken four interest inventory test to further help me with this decision. Fortunately, all of my test results were similar; they all stated that I work well with others and fit best in the human services industry. I believe these results are accurate; I have always had the desire to be a psychologist, and this ideally fits in this category. My aptitude tests also showed that I must be orderly in order to reach success. This is also quite evident in my actions,

In order for me to complete this career assessment paper, I initially took an Interest Inventory survey. Upon completing this process, it revealed that my personality profile score was (I, C, A). These three letters represented my strengths and interests in determining which career field would best suit me.

The Smarter Balanced Assessments has similar attributes to Sternberg’s visions of assessment. Each one emphasizes and creating a safe learning environment and give students the opportunity to test their knowledge. Sternberg’s vision assessment focusses on creating wisdom and creativity. Sternberg’s vision allows students to be more resourceful rather than just having kids memorize a bunch of information and get tested on it. The Smarter Balanced Assessments focuses on students solving real world problems while testing their critical thinking skills. This would fit perfectly with the Common Core State Standards.

Practical, traditional, and organized the three characteristics of my personality. My personality assessment results gave my personality a profile of an ESTJ. As I glanced though the materials I noticed it would give insight on numerous of things, Personal Growth, as Parents, and In Relationships were areas that stood out to me. Getting my results and feeling like so far so good I was eager to find out more about myself.

Taking the personality test I was nervous to see what my results would be. I have taken many challenges like this before, ever since I was in middle school until now. My results came back pretty similar to the results and careers I’m interested in. The specific traits behind a career for an