Why Was This Career Test Written For College Seniors Anyway?
Well, after mentoring upperclassmen at Berkeley, Harvard, Iowa State and San Diego State it became obvious that some need no help, but too many others were confused.
Some had no clue as to whether they should seek out big organizations or small ones. And that’s more important to satisfaction and success than the industry, title and maybe even the pay. Yet after trying out fourteen career tests, I discovered that not a single one tries to discover the answer to that basic question.
So we created the WAYA profiler. (That’s an acronym for WhoAreYouAnyway.) It’s different. First of all, it doesn’t take every characteristic, like, say, extroversion, and tell you that you’re a hermit if you score in the 49th percentile…and then label somebody who hits the 51st percentile as a Presidential candidate. (WAYA does measure your extroversion three ways, by the way, and even your energy, which no other career test attempts, plus eighteen other traits. But your profile will just may ignore many traits, since they’ll fall into the middle of that “bell shaped curve.” Your WAYA profile will focus on those rare places where you’re near the top or bottom. Those traits matter.)
That’s the other thing that’s unique about the WAYA profiler. It ignores those characteristics where you’re mainstream, and, focuses on what makes you unique.
Hey, that’s what the world cares about. No other career assessment does this.