How to use a Motivational Assessment to Improve your CV
62How to use a Motivational Assessment to Improve your CV
Using Free online Motivational Assessment tests.
These tests are a fantastic resource, not just useful for seeing if your in the right job!
They can also be used to make your CV / Resume a super-powered selling machine.
Best of all the information used will be professionally worded and TRUE!
The video below explains the Motivation Assessment Test (MAPP), showing how you sign up, and what the test looks like. It goes on to show the fantastic information the report gives, and show how this may be used in building a better CV.
The trick with using these tests is to take a few minutes to relax and read through your report a couple of times, and gain your bearings.
As well a the "Your Top Careers Area" the tests are broken down into an additional 9 sections, one for each of the motivational worker traits as shown below:
- Job Content - tasks you want to perform
- Temperament - how you prefer to perform tasks
- Aptitude - how you like to express your performance of tasks
- People - how you relate to people
- Things - how you relate to things, materials, processes etc
- Data - how you relate to data and information in your work
- Reasoning - how you relate to reasoning and decision making
- Math - how you relate and apply the use of math
- Language Capacity - How you use language
You should then be looking to analyse your most highly motivated worker traits or behaviour, against those demanded by the target role or career you are considering.
If you haven't already you should have listed the skills and behaviour the role your considering will require. Read the hub on how to interpret a job description for further advice.
Then highlight your motivational descriptive sentences and words that you feel passionate about, and are in context with the target role.
These are the descriptions of core behaviour and personality that most people struggle to articulate in their CV, and therefore don't include.
Yet this is the content that brings your CV to life, making it truly unique to you. Injecting your personality in this way will increase your likability factor for the reader, as most CV's are not much more than a list of dates and responsibilities.
You are also setting yourself up perfectly for interview, because the descriptions you will have selected will be true to you, meaning you will be far mare passionate and confident at interview.
