Your Quick Job Analysis Guide

1. Why Do a Quick Job Analysis?
2. Pastry Chef Job Analysis
3. Results of Pastry Chef Job Analysis
4. Ready to Try a Job Analysis
5. How to Do a Job Analysis

This section will show you how to do a Job Analysis of the multiple intelligences used in any job.

• Doing a Job Analysis actually forces you to think about the kinds of intelligences being used on the job.
• It allows you to avoid jobs that require intelligences that you don't commonly use.
• A Job Analysis saves you the time and trouble of training or applying for jobs that don't suit you.
• It will give you an appreciation of what is actually done on the job during the course of the workday.
• It's a quick tool for testing any job you're not sure of.

• Must make the same high quality pastry every time
• Will need to be systematic, measure ingredients precisely, control the temperature, know exactly what's in the product, order the correct amount of ingredients.
• Will need to be able to use kitchen equipment properly.
• Will need to be able to move around quickly and efficiently.
• Will need to have an eye for decorating the pastry attractively for the customer.
• Will also need to be able to follow orders, and work on a team with co-workers in a co-operative way.

• Measuring, ordering supplies, producing quality products according to specifications uses a Logical/Mathematical Intelligence
• Moving around the kitchen quickly and efficiently uses Kinesthetic Intelligence.
• Decorating the pastry attractively involves a Visual-Spatial Intelligence.
• Getting along with others in a team environment requires Interpersonal Intelligence.

Knowing what you now know about the job, in terms of Intelligences, you can decide if you want to check out other aspects of this job.

This Quick Job Analysis is really more helpful than it might appear. Of course, if you don't have the answers to the questions at hand, you may have to do a little digging. But it's better than applying for a job without really knowing what's involved in it. Or getting into a training program, thinking you know what's involved in the job, and finding out later it's nothing like you thought it was.

Don't overlook this little tool. Try and do at least two or three to get a feel for it, so you have it at your fingertips when you need it.

Choose a couple of occupations that appeal to you, but that you don't really know a lot about, and analyze them following these guidelines.

• Sit back and imagine yourself doing the job. Be sure you know what people actually do in the job.
  Hint: Review the Basic Questions Checklist.
• If you are lucky, you can Job Shadow, that is, observe someone doing the job.
• You could do an Informational Interview with someone who is working in the job.
• You can also do Online Research and find out what is entailed in the job.
• List exactly what is done in this type of work during the course of a day.
• Match the duties you've listed according to the Multiple Intelligences that you are now familiar with.
• What do you think is the main intelligence for this position?
• Note the intelligences being used to do those tasks.
• Do these intelligences match yours?

Now is the time to decide, if you want to pursue this job any further or not.

After working through a few of these, you'll be able to use this tool effectively, to analyze any job before you make a move toward it.

Links to Step 1 - The 5 Career Tests on This Site

1. Discovering Your Work Style Preferences

• Your Work Style Preferences Overview
• Work Style Preferences Inventory
• Work Style Preferences Descriptions

2. Choosing Your Work Values

• Your Work Values Overview
• The Work Values Inventory
• Sam's Story
• Karen's Story

3. Identifying Your Personality Style

• Your Personality Type - An Overview
• The Personality Test
• FAQS On Personality Type

4. Pinpointing What Motivates You

• Your Central Motivators - An Overview
• Your Central Motivations Quiz
• Central Motivations Descriptions

5. Making Your Multiple Intelligences Work For You

• Multiple Intelligences - An Overview
• Multiple Intelligences Inventory
• Multiple Intelligences Descriptions
• 60 Ways to Boost Your Intelligences
• The Quick Job Analysis Guide
• Career Chart

Links to Step 2 - Career Exploration

Getting Started - Opening the Door to Exploring New Careers

• Step 2 - An Overview

9 Frequently Asked Questions on Job Searching

• Get the Answers Here

How to Do Job Research - Your Search Tool Links

Familiarize Yourself With the Major Occupational Groups

Links to Step 3 - Getting into the Nitty Gritty

How to Do Job Searching

• Step 3 - An Overview

Paper Research

• Help For Doing Paper Researching

Online Research

• Help For Doing PC Researching

People Research Links

• Help For Doing People Researching
• How to Prepare for the Information Interview
• 20 Interview Questions for Informational Interviews
• Sample Phone Scripts for Information Interviews
• Writing the Interview Thank You Letter

Participation Research Links

• Help For Doing Participation Researching
• Open Houses in the Workplace &at Schools
• Job Shadowing
• 21 Sample Job Shadows in the Workplace
• Temping & Volunteering as Participation Research
• 50 Basic Questions Checklist For Job Researching

Links to Step 4 - Taking Care of Your Career

Ways to Make Yourself More Valuable to Employers

• Managing Your Career
• Taking Care of Your Career
• Arriving in Your New Career