Career Coaching for Michelle Nahous

Click on the following link for your report: Vocational Style and Personality Assessment (VoSPA) Click on the following link for your report: Multi-Dimensional Emotional Intelligence Quotient Assessment (MEIQ)

Career Coaching Session #1: Monday April 23, 2012

- Michelle’s E-mail address is michnahous27@gmail.com - Michelle is currently 22 years old and is looking for direction in terms of her career. - She completed high school at a small American school and got her diploma. - She also completed courses in nail esthetics and took a few months of business admin at Roytech, both of which she did not like. - She is friendly and outgoing, and has compassion for people. - She did some work organizing events for companies which she really enjoyed because she got to interact with lots of people. - Ideally, she would like a job that is 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, where she works with people, and where she can still have her own family. - I discussed the results of the VoSPA assessment with Michelle, specifically her scores in the various categories of Interests, Intelligence Types, Values, and Work Styles. Her scores can be reviewed in the report itself. - Here are some of the careers that the VoSPA assessment recommended for Michelle, and how she rated these careers in terms of her interest level and passion, 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest (her ideal career):

Counseling Psychologists (6-7/10)
Industrial-Organizational Psychologists (5-7/10)
Clinical Psychologists, specializing in Child Psychology (8-9/10)
Mental Health Counselors (7/10)
Social Work Teachers, Post-secondary (5/10)
Social and Community Service Managers (9/10)
School Psychologists (9/10)
Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses (4/10)
Nurse Practitioners (5/10)
Education Administrators, Elementary and Secondary School (7/10)

- Michelle seems to lean more toward a career in the fields of Psychology and Social & Community Service, which is well supported by the Psychometric assessment. Takeaways from Session #1: - Michelle liked the process of doing the assessment and then discussing the possible careers it recommended in a one-on-one session. Action Plan from Session #1: - Michelle will review the VoSPA report in more detail and research on the Internt the recommended careers above which she scored 7 or more out of 10. - Michelle also agreed to do the MEIQ assessment. - Michelle agreed to another session on Monday April 30, 2012 at 2:00 PM.

Career Coaching Session #2: Monday April 30, 2012

Click on the following link for your report: Multi-Dimensional Emotional Intelligence Quotient Assessment (MEIQ) - Michelle confirmed that she still is aiming for a job that is 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, where she works with people, and where she can still have her own family. - We spoke about Psychology initially and Michelle said thatshe can take the equivalent of Form 6 at UWI, and then try to get into a Psychology major at UWI. This will involve a lot of study but Michelle said that once she is interested in something, she can study and retain information. This needs further investigation. - We then talk about a career in the social work field, and Michelle said that she will talk to her friend Elaina who works in the field. But Michelle said that when she did some volunteer work for hospice with Dr. Jackie Sabga, she found it depressing to work with the elderly. So she does not think that she can work in the field of social work. - Michelle mentioned how happy she was when she did events promotion, so I ask her to see if she can talk to someone who works in the field. She mainly organized parties and I suggested to Michelle that when she presents of resume to a potential employer in this field (such as Isa Nicholas), that she uses the term "social events" instead of party because it sounds more professional. She agreed with this. - The careers that the VoSPA assessment recommended for Michelle that she still thinks are potentials for her are:

Social and Community Service Manager, focusing on event planning (9/10)
Child Psychologist (8/10)
School Psychologist (9/10)
Education Administrator, Elementary and Secondary School (7/10)

- We also discussed the results of the MEIQ assessment which Michelle completed (see above for the actual report results). One of the main recommendations was for Michelle to be more in touch and aware of her feelings. She said that the reason she often suppress her feelings is because her mother is strong and often tells Michelle that she cries too easily. This is something that we need to be careful about because Michelle has been without a father her whole life, as her father Paul dies when her mother was 3 months old. - We also discussed how Michelle sees her relationship with God. She attends Mass every Sunday at St. Theresa Church and Confirmation was very special for her at age 16. She believes most of the time that God loves her, but she often feels abandoned by God in the area of her career. I told her that God is very much with her in her suffering and that He will work out her career path if she is patient. - Michelle also feels that her brother Paul junior always knew what he wanted to do (be a lawyer) and he is successfully pursuing that now. This makes her feel even less confident about herself, but I stressed to Michelle that she needs to rejoice and acknowledge the talents that God created her with. She agreed with this and she said that she will try not to compare herself with Paul. - We also spoke about how she feels about having lost her Dad when she was still in her mother's womb, and she said that it hurts the most when she sees her friends with their Dads, for example, going out for dinner or at a social event. I acknowledged to Michelle that she has every right to feel "short-changed" by life in this area, but again for her to be certain that God is her true Father and He has never and will never abandon her. Takeaways from Session #2: - Michelle is now more aware of the process of career path determination. - She says that she has a little more hope that she will eventually find the right career. Action Plan from Session #2 - Michelle agreed to speak with her friend Elaina about her experiences in the field of Social Work. - She will also try to speak with someone who works in the area of Event Planning. - She will also ask her mother Maurice to ask Isa Nicholas if he has any job openings now or in the near future in the area of Event Planning in the hotel business. - Michelle also agreed to read through both the VoSPA and MEIQ reports in detail before the next session. - Michelle agreed to another session on Monday May 17, 2012 at 11:00 AM.

Career Coaching Session #3: Thursday May 17, 2012

- Takeaways from Session #3: - Action Plan from Session #3 - - Michelle agreed to another session on

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