What would you recommend to make employee development more effective?

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Steps:
1. For this discussion, you will take either the Myers Briggs Type Indicator assessment or the RIASEC assessment, review information related to your assessment results, and relate how the assessment results provided you any new or confirming information about your preferences or skills as they relate to a career.

You will also write about approaches to employee development that you have experienced or observed in a current or past company for which you have worked.

2. Select Assessment: Decide whether you would like to take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) or the RIASEC assessment. You are welcome to take both but will not receive additional credit.

3. Take Assessment: If you select the MBTI option, go to the MBTI Personality TestLinks to an external site. site and take the 70 question Jung Typology test.

Carefully review or print one copy of the results. Next, review or print, “Type description by D. Keirsey,” “Type description by J. Butt,” and “Career choices by Jung Career.”

If you select the RIASEC option, go to the RIASEC ssessmentLinks to an external site. at the California Career Zone site and select the “Assess Yourself” option. When done, you can explore the site and information provided. Additionally, go to O NET Interest Profiler for RIASEC Links to an external site.

site and use your three-letter code to review the occupations that most closely match your choices.

4. Write about Your Assessment Results: Write 2-3 well-developed paragraphs answering the following: Identify your preferences from the assessment results, and summarize your reading of your specific preferences.

To what degree are the results consistent with the way you see yourself? How could these results help you in your career or in a current or future job?

5. Write about Approaches to Employee Development: Write 2-3 well-developed paragraphs answering the following: What approaches to employee development have you seen or experienced in your current or most recent job?

(If you have not worked, you can summarize which approaches you think would best match your style of learning.) What worked well and what was less effective?

What would you recommend to make employee development more effective? Take into consideration the ability of the organization to fund the expense for your recommendation.

6. Thoroughly edit your work to ensure it is well-thought-out, well-organized, and edited for spelling, grammar, and punctuation. If you include other sources, carefully cite your work in MLA style at the end of your post.