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Career Assessment
A thorough assessment is the foundation for career planning. Generally speaking, professional athletes have spent limited time thinking of their future beyond their athletic career. Therefore, a thorough career assessment will provide us and the athlete with pertinent information that will be analyzed and factored into career planning, directly resulting in realistic and exciting career pursuits.
Athlete Ventures recommends a three-pronged approach to assessing the athlete and answering these questions:
What do I do well? What do others tell me?
What do I enjoy doing? What energizes me?
How does this relate to specific vocations?
1) Self Assessment - We have developed exercises that give the athlete the opportunity to communicate with us their thoughts on skills, interests, goals, strengths and weaknesses.
2) Psychological Assessment - Our Counselling Psychologist will issue industry-recognized assessment tests that will assist the athlete in identifying future career direction by understanding how their interests, motivators, behaviours and natural attributes relate to specific occupational groups and various work environments.
3) '360 assessment'- This exercise is set up to evaluate you on a set of criteria presented to people from 'all around you'. It can fill the gaps that invariably exist between how one see her/himself and how others see her/him. We will speak with former teammates, coaches, agents and business partners to solicit ideas and constructive feedback about future career direction.