CareerLeader

CareerLeader is our assessment tool to get you exploring your functional career options, providing insight into your highest-potential career and employer culture matches.  It measures your core interests, skills, and motivations and provides insight into your career and culture matches. Used by 96 out of the top 100 Business Schools, CareerLeader is a comprehensive online tool that was created at Harvard, based on 20 + years of research. It matches your answers to 600,000 professionals in a global database, helping you to see what professionals you align with. Current MBAs and SMPs received access to the CareerLeader assessment via email (check your email for the title “CareerLeader Access”, it may be your personal email address).

By analyzing your Interests, Skills and Motivators, it can help you to see the qualities that propel you. 

  • Interests – these are your key drivers of career satisfaction and success. 
    • Ex: Application of Technology, Coaching & Mentoring, Creative Production or Quantitative Analysis
    • Assess: Your interests being aligned with career are best predictor of success and satisfaction – what do my interests tell me about what type of career would make me happy?
  • Motivators – what is important to you at this point in time
    • Ex: financial gain, intellectual challenge, security
    • Assess: According to my motivators, what are my priorities and trade-offs in a career choice?
  • Skills – Skills are acquired through education, training and experience
    • Ex: Analysis and Strategic Decision Making, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Bringing Management Structure
    • Assess: What skills do I possess and what skills will I need to develop for my ideal role?

Next your report will provide a Career Match and a Culture Match

Career Match – according to your answers, these Career Matches aligned with happy, successful people in those careers (amongst the 600,000 global group of people in database).  *If you are surprised by your career match, remember that the results are generated primarily based on your INTERESTS.   The results are built based on assessing people who are happy and established in these careers, indicating that you and the professionals answered questions similarly on INTERESTS.  Learn more about these career matches by clicking the links, and pay attention to what the role entails and the associated interests of the role, and brainstorm how it might be useable in your career. For example, if you are a Finance Student, and your career match suggested Human Resources, notice under the description of Human Resources it says: “Wanting to help employees work to their full potential is the most important reason for pursuing human resource management”. This is a great transferable skill to bring to your team and your clients. Book an appointment with a career coach to discuss your results! 

Culture Match – Analysis based on four fundamental aspects of personality paralleled to organizational culture

  • (Collaboration and Consideration, Extraversion and Decisiveness, Innovation and Change, Precision and Planning)