Support available under Career Assistance Package

                              

 

Oryx People is offering our expertise to support those who have lost their jobs during this crisis.

Outlined below are the features offered in these Packages. In addition to the Basic Package we can provide additional “Self-Awareness Packages” which use proprietary assessment software to deliver insights into where an individual work preference may lie, based on personality and motivational values.

Option 1 – Basic Package (Provided at no cost) 

Completion and return of Career Planning Questionnaire / Reflection Exercise provided by Oryx People to the candidate. 

30 – 45 minute video or phone discussion to review – 

  • the insights from the Career Planning Questionnaire / Reflection Exercise 
  • provide advice on resume content and layout, particularly the importance of detailing career highlights 
  • provide advice on interview technique, especially focusing on an effective presentation using a video format 
  • discussion of online presence including LinkedIn  

Option 2 – Basic Package with Spotlight Personality Assessment  

(Nominal cost for online assessment however the debrief will be provided pro bono) 

In addition to the Basic Package, this requires the job seeker to complete a 30-minute online questionnaire designed by psychologists to analyse how an individual behaves, their work strengths and where individuals' work preferences may lie. Note there are no right or wrong answers to the online questions, but the results provide valuable insights especially when assessing one’s career. 

This assessment will also involve additional time to debrief, approx. 60 minutes, in which the Spotlight Personality Assessment will be reviewed (For more details see below). 

Option 3 – Basic Package with Personal Values Inventory  

(Nominal cost for online assessment however the debrief will be provided pro bono) 

In addition to the Basic Package this requires the job seeker to complete a 30-minute online questionnaire designed to understand the values that are individually important and drive motivation. Note there are no right or wrong answers to the online questions, but the results provide valuable insights especially when assessing one’s career. 

This assessment will also involve additional time to debrief, approx. 60 minutes to discuss the Personal Values Inventory (For more details see below). 

Please note with the easing of constraints on business operations likely to be phased in, we can only provide this offer until  30 June 2020.

To submit an expression of interest in any of these packages, please Register and complete the form, typing either Basic, Spotlight or Values into the comments field. 

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An overview of what each of these assessments provided is below.

Spotlight Personality Assessment

Spotlight provides an understanding and if required, a way to articulate to others, an individual's natural preferences across the following five key competencies below.

  • Your approach to decision making and goal setting
  • The extent to which you engage and consult with others
  • Are you more people-focused or somewhere in between
  • Your approach to work commitments and accountability
  • Your natural response to stress and general outlook on life

Useful applications:

  • Job interviews
  • Approaching a new organisation
  • On-going personal and leadership development

The development-focused report generated, provides individuals with a comprehensive summary of their strengths and weaknesses of their personality profile as well as the frustrations and suggested actions associated with their individual style. Spotlight improves individual learning and development outcomes through heightened self-awareness and action planning.

The four elements of the Spotlight Development Framework are:

  • Strengths: are the positive and productive behaviours that an individual does well that require little effort on their part.
  • Weaknesses: are the less appealing aspects of an individual's style that appear when things are not going well. Note any strength can become a weakness if it is taken to extremes.
  • Frustrations: refer to the adverse reaction an individual may have to another person's behaviour. Frustrations arise because the approach of another person is so different from the individuals own that prolonged exposure to them can trigger the weakness behaviours.
  • Suggested actions: provide the development suggestions that support the individual to understand what they offer and how to change their behaviour to capitalise on the strengths of others and to manage their own on-going personal and leadership development.

Personal Values Inventory

An online questionnaire to discover what your top 10 core values are. Through a series of questions that continually rank statements in order of importance, one can arrive at your top 10 values/motivators, out of a possible 137 different values.

An awareness of your values is important for the following reasons:-

  • Enables an understanding of what motivates and is important to you as an individual.
  • Useful in understanding why certain people, situations or environments may cause internal conflicts or may be demotivating.
  • Can help guide your future career/employer choices.