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Strengths and Careers

To help you determine how you can best apply your greatest talents toward an engaging career, we have compiled a list of strategies that each Strength can utilize in interviews, majors, and careers. LEAD has collaborated with Career Services and have created a section that connects the Level Up Career Competencies to each Strength.

Locate and examine the strategies that are customized to your Signature Themes. As you do this, you may want to consider the items that are already guiding you toward an engaged career.

These insights and ideas can help you apply talents to achieve in various aspects of developing an engaged career life.

Domain: Executing

People exceptionally talented in the Achiever theme work hard and possess a great deal of stamina. They take immense satisfaction in being busy and productive.

Level Up Career Competencies

  • Professionalism
  • Career and Self Development

Pitching Strengths in Interview

  • Highly productive
  • Goal Oriented
  • Motivated

Majors and Careers

  • Explore majors that will challenge you daily
  • Choose careers that offer incentives for good quality work, productivity, and customer service
  • Choose career that have room for growth and promotion within the company

Domain: Influencing

People exceptionally talented in the Activator theme can make things happen by turning thoughts into action. They want to do things now, rather than simply talk about them.

Level Up Career Competencies

  • Critical Thinking
  • Leadership

Pitching Strengths in Interview

  • Turns ideas into action
  • Action is the best way to grow and learn
  • Motivated

Majors and Careers

  • “Actions speak louder than words” type of career. Result-oriented companies and professions.
  • Seek work where you can make your own decisions and act upon these decisions.

Domain: Relationship Building

People exceptionally talented in the Adaptability theme prefer to go with the flow. They tend to be “now” people who take things as they come and discover the future one day at a time.

Level Up Career Competencies

  • Equity and Inclusion
  • Professionalism
  • Technology

Pitching Strengths in Interview

  • Adjust easily
  • Great focus and energy in times of conflict
  • Comfortable with change

Majors and Careers

  • Be open to exploring different careers and identify the ones that best suits your ideal work environment
  • Explore careers that have an aspect to them that is constantly changing and adapting.
  • Interview individuals who work in a certain company or have a certain position that you are interested in. Observe reoccurring themes of the workplace

Domain: Strategic Thinking

People exceptionally talented in the Analytical theme search for reasons and causes. They have the ability to think about all of the factors that might affect a situation

Level Up Career Competencies

  • Technology
  • Critical Thinking

Pitching Strengths in Interview

  • Always searching for reason and cause.
  • Data-driven
  • Observes patterns and connections

Majors and Careers

  • Choose a career with a lot of analysis, whether its analyzing numbers, situations, or people.
  • Go into a major that allows for you to make decisions based off evaluation of facts, research findings, or tangible evidence.
  • Find a major that allows you to sharpen your ability to see cause-and-effect relationships in daily life.

Domain: Executing

People strong in the Arranger theme can organize, but they also have a flexibility that complements this ability. They like to figure out how all of the pieces and resources can be arranged for maximum productivity.

Level Up Career Competencies

  • Professionalism
  • Teamwork
  • Technology
  • Equity and Inclusion

Pitching Strengths in Interview

  • Rearrange procedures to maximize efficiency.
  • Can find order among chaos
  • Flexibility, acceptance and initiation of necessary change

Majors and Careers

  • Find a profession that allows you to have various projects going on at once.
  • Explore jobs that will allow you to put pieces together while planning and preparing for events.

Domain: Executing

People exceptionally talented in the Belief theme have certain core values that are unchanging. Out of these values emerges a defined purpose for their lives.

Level Up Career Competencies

  • Professionalism
  • Career and Self Development
  • Teamwork
  • Equity and Inclusion

Pitching Strengths in Interview

  • Exhibit core values
  • Purposeful
  • Passionate

Majors and Careers

  • Choose a path that allows you to positively impact the quality of people’s lives.
  • Research careers in helping professions. Interview people who hold these positions and discuss their dedication to their beliefs.
  • Be a part of a company that shares the same values as you.

Domain: Influencing

People exceptionally talented in the Command theme have presence. They can take control of a situation and make decisions.

Level Up Career Competencies

  • Professionalism
  • Teamwork
  • Leadership

Pitching Strengths in Interview

  • Ability to take charge in a crisis
  • Observes what needs to be done and does it
  • Direct

Majors and Careers

  • Avoid careers where you may have to blindly follow someone of authority.
  • Choose a career that has room for promotion at a fast rate.
  • Explore majors that allow you independence in course selection or independent studies

Domain: Influencing

People exceptionally talented in the Communication theme generally find it easy to put their thoughts into words. They are good conversationalists and presenters.

Level Up Career Competencies

  • Professionalism
  • Teamwork
  • Communication
  • Equity and Inclusion
  • Leadership
  • Critical Thinking

Pitching Strengths in Interview

  • Able to explain and give directions clearly and concisely
  • Motivating and inspirational to those they interact with
  • Attention grabber

Majors and Careers

  • Enter a career that involves some sort of storytelling.
  • Explore a career that allows you to do a lot of talking.
  • Be sure to enter a work environment that encourages high energy, independence, and creativity.

Domain: Influencing

People exceptionally talented in the Competition theme measure their progress against the performance of others. They strive to win first place and revel in contests.

Level Up Career Competencies

  • Critical Thinking
  • Leadership
  • Career and Self Development

Pitching Strengths in Interview

  • Constantly trying to excel
  • Driven
  • Performance oriented

Majors and Careers

  • Choose a career where your success could be measured with scores, ratings, or rankings.
  • Find a job that gives rewards as incentives for best performance.
  • Explore a major that is both competitive and personally satisfying.

Domain: Relationship Building

People exceptionally talented in the Connectedness theme have faith in the links among all things. They believe there are few coincidences and that almost every event has meaning.

Level Up Career Competencies

  • Teamwork
  • Equity and Inclusion
  • Communication
  • Leadership

Pitching Strengths in Interview

  • Build bridges between commonalities
  • Big picture oriented
  • Strong at building connections with others

Majors and Careers

  • Explore jobs that allow you to see the bigger picture of the company.
  • Search for jobs where you work with others, and have personal conversations and experiences.

Domain: Executing

People exceptionally talented in the Consistency theme are keenly aware of the need to treat people the same. They crave stable routines and clear rules and procedures that everyone can follow.

Level Up Career Competencies

  • Professionalism
  • Teamwork
  • Critical Thinking

Pitching Strengths in Interview

  • Balanced
  • Fair and just in their treatment of others
  • Problem solver

Majors and Careers

  • Work for a company that has set regulations, policies, and procedures established.
  • Avoid careers of majors that allow for favoritism or individual special treatment.
  • Explore careers where there is an equal balance between all aspects of the job.

Domain: Strategic Thinking

People exceptionally talented in the Context theme enjoy thinking about the past. They understand the present by researching its history.

Level Up Career Competencies

  • Critical Thinking
  • Technology
  • Equity and Inclusion

Pitching Strengths in Interview

  • Skilled in seeing patterns
  • Must understand the history before making a decision
  • Understand the past in order to create a better future

Majors and Careers

  • Consider a career where you focus on a certain time in history and explore how it relates to life now.
  • Explore majors that emphasize the past while looking toward the future.
  • Explore careers that educate others on past events.

Domain: Executing

People exceptionally talented in the Deliberative theme are best described by the serious care they take in making decisions or choices. They anticipate obstacles.

Level Up Career Competencies

  • Professionalism 
  • Critical Thinking

Pitching Strengths in Interview

  • Thinks through pros and cons before making any decision
  • Plans for the unexpected
  • Good judgment

Majors and Careers

  • Choose a career that allows for you to research and analyze information in order to make the best decisions.
  • Apply for positions that allow you a sense of independence.
  • Explore majors that allow for you to question the decisions and actions of others.

Domain: Relationship Building

People exceptionally talented in the Developer theme recognize and cultivate the potential in others. They spot the signs of each small improvement and derive satisfaction from evidence of progress.

Level Up Career Competencies

  • Teamwork 
  • Leadership
  • Communication
  • Career and Self Development

Pitching Strengths in Interview

  • Invests in others
  • Enjoys watching individuals succeed
  • Help individuals see the progress they have made, even if the individual doesn’t see it.

Majors and Careers

  • Search for jobs that allow you to facilitate a development piece.
  • Focus on companies whose success is measured in interpersonal relationships and helping others succeed.
  • Choose a team-oriented job.

Domain: Executing

People exceptionally talented in the Discipline theme enjoy routine and structure. Their world is best described by the order they create.

Level Up Career Competencies

  • Professionalism
  • Teamwork 
  • Critical Thinking 

Pitching Strengths in Interview

  • Organization skills
  • Promotes efficiency
  • Ability to break down complex projects into manageable steps

Majors and Careers

  • Explore careers where you can maintain order for yourself and others.
  • Find jobs that require perfection and exactness.
  • Explore careers where order and structure are necessary.

Domain: Relationship Building

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People exceptionally talented in the Empathy theme can sense other people’s feelings by imagining themselves in others’ lives or situations.

Level Up Career Competencies

  • Equity and Inclusion
  • Communication
  • Leadership
  • Teamwork

Pitching Strengths in Interview

  • Active listener
  • Intuitive, knows what to say and what to do in tricky situations
  • Quickly build rapport with others

Majors and Careers

  • Pick a career where you work in a team. You will be able to best support and understand team members
  • Search for jobs where you are called to give advice and understand others

Domain: Executing

People exceptionally talented in the Focus theme can take a direction, follow through and make the corrections necessary to stay on track. They prioritize, then act.

Level Up Career Competencies

  • Professionalism 
  • Critical Thinking

Pitching Strengths in Interview

  • Goal-oriented when provided with a clear track
  • Good at prioritizing
  • Purposeful

Majors and Careers

  • Explore careers that have identifiable goals and objectives.
  • Look for careers that have clear room for improvement and promotion.
  • Be in a major that allows you to set measurable steps in obtaining your goals.

Domain: Strategic Thinking

People exceptionally talented in the Futuristic theme are inspired by the future and what could be. They energize others with their visions of the future.

Level Up Career Competencies

  • Teamwork
  • Leadership
  • Career and Self Development

Pitching Strengths in Interview

  • Visionary
  • Creative
  • Inspiring

Majors and Careers

  • Choose a career where you assist others in defining their goals and reaching it
  • Explore majors that allow for you to envision a future for an area that you are passionate about

Domain: Relationship Building

People exceptionally talented in the Harmony theme look for consensus. They don’t enjoy conflict; rather, they seek areas of agreement.

Level Up Career Competencies

  • Teamwork
  • Communication

Pitching Strengths in Interview

  • Good at helping others work together
  • Look for agreements in conflict
  • Able to see all sides of a situation

Majors and Careers

  • Avoid careers in which there is constant conflict.
  • Avoid roles that require you to confront people.
  • Take on the responsibility of being a good team member. Your ability to adjust and discuss differing opinions will allow you to assist your team in creating a better relationship.

Domain: Strategic Thinking

People exceptionally talented in the Ideation theme are fascinated by ideas. They are able to find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena.

Level Up Career Competencies

  • Critical Thinking
  • Technology

Pitching Strengths in Interview

  • Looking for new perspectives and connections
  • Always looks for possibilities
  • Good at reframing thing

Majors and Careers

  • Look at careers where you will be paid for your ideas and creations.
  • Explore majors that allow for you to share ideas with other classmates.
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