Career Priorities Profile 3rd Ed.

The Career Priorities Profile 3rd Ed. is a structured method for career exploration that empowers individuals to identify priorities and evaluate their career or job choices based on them.

The Career Priorities Profile 3rd Ed. assessment empowers individuals to identify priorities and evaluate their career or job choices based on those priorities.

The CPP provides a structured method for career exploration that leads individuals to identify whether their chosen careers are compatible with their personal and work priorities. The CPP contains steps in which individuals gather information about their preferences in regard to work, prioritize them, and relate those priorities to their careers of interest. The final step of the CPP involves an analysis of the information gathered and goal planning. The Career Priorities Profile 3rd Ed. is intended to stimulate discussion between career decision makers and the professionals working with them on specific career choices and the relative advantages and disadvantages of each.

What It’s Best Used For

This profile is an ideal diagnostic and conversational tool for career counselors, vocational rehabilitation specialists, and workforce development agencies to guide clients through major professional transitions or immediate job placement decisions.

• Spotting Hidden Career Conflicts: It systematically checks whether a candidate’s preferred job track clashes with their personal boundaries, helping them make highly informed career choices before investing in new training.
• Supporting Sudden Career Changes: It is uniquely optimized for individuals forced to change paths due to a change in life circumstances, making it a vital resource for injured workers, veterans, transitioning youth, and parents re-entering the workforce.
• Powering Counseling Discussions: The structured layout is explicitly engineered to stimulate productive, data-backed discussions between career decision-makers and the advisors working with them.
• Frictionless Program Delivery: The consumable paper format requires no specialized computer software, is highly budget-friendly, and is entirely legal for use in Canada.

The CPP aids in identifying potential conflicts, enables active planning, and facilitates an informed career choice.

The CPP is designed for all career decision makers but is particularly helpful for people who have to change jobs or careers due to the onset of a disability or a change in life circumstances. The CPP has proven to be helpful to a variety of individuals who are in the process of making life decisions about their long-term career paths or more-immediate job placement decisions. It has been used by:

• Individuals with disabilities
• Injured workers
• Social Service recipients
• Displaced workers
• Individuals served by outplacement agencies
• Veterans
• Parents in career re-entry after raising a family
• Ex-offenders
• Individuals in Job Corp or Workforce Development Programs
• Transitioning Youth
• Students in Career Research & Development Classes
• High school and college students who are undecided about career paths or majors