Well, it been quite a busy spring for my web tech and I as we created, designed and launched the first phase of TestEts: The Assessment Hub.

Our Goal has been to provide widest variety of the best quality assessments at every price point, including free tests, with a satisfaction guarantee along with the most career resources and consulting services. Why? Because we, at TestEts, truly care about your satisfaction and success.

Phase 1 included designing the layout and filling in content for over 80 career testing and leadership test combinations, 30 career resources, 3 testing consultations, and 4 coaching services.

TestEts contains career tests, leadership tests, team tests, student tests for career and college information, learning tests, entrepreneur tests, . . . basically every type and kind of test for career choice, career change, work performance and leadership success.

Behind the scenes, we set up an extensive shopping cart, subscriptions and auto emails. The emails contain career tips, career test explanations, recommended career steps and free career advice. The cart includes recommended items for specific test selection, easy and secure payments with PayPal and account set-up containing all purchases, calendar scheduling and access to purchased tests and products. Subscriptions include sign-ups for perpetual peak success coaching, a career tips series and online leadership development coaching tips. More subscriptions to come.

Check it out today and find career test discounts and free career tests.

Would I Make a Good Surgeon?

We recently looked into the perfect traits of a doctor, but surgeons and specialists actually carry vastly different abilities. Let’s look at one of the differences: Persons who possess a “specialist” orientation are driven to drill down into a subject area to master it. This makes them natural candidates to become experts. It can result in a lack of bedside manner. Doctors and physicians on the other hand are more likely to naturally relate to the people they serve. 

The annual salary for a surgeon is $200,000, and the field continues to grow faster than others. This career focuses on diagnosing and treating injuries or illnesses, and the education and training requirements are demanding. Physicians need a bachelor’s degree, a medical school degree, which takes 4 years to complete, and, depending on their specialty, 3 to 7 years in internship and residency programs.

Will You Enjoy Being a Surgeon?

The Meyer’s Briggs finds most great surgeon candidates to be ESTJ or ENTJ because they are:

• Very practical, results-oriented and respect deadlines 
• Good at focusing on organization’s goals 
• Natural organizers; good at making objective decisions 
• Forceful carrying out their commitments; can be tough when needed 
• Good at seeing what is inconsistent, impractical, or inefficient 

Could this be the best career step for you? Take this test to find out! 

Would I Make a Good Model?

Models in the U.S. earn an average of just $11 per hour. The thrill of being famous makes it an interesting career choice, even though the field is declining. Models work in a variety of conditions, from comfortable indoor studios and runway fashion shows to outdoors in all weather conditions. Most models work part time and have unpredictable work schedules. Many also experience periods of unemployment.

Do you have what it takes to make a good model?

What Abilities do I Need?

Above all, models to be socially perceptive, meaning they’re aware of others’ reactions and understand why they react like they do. They need hypersensitivity to color, light, sounds, and touch, plus rhythm memory. Their observation skills need to be honed so they can notice subtle differences in other’s reactions. 

Being an Introvert is helpful because of their ability to internalize roles. When interacting with others, they typically act out a role. Situations where no role has been defined are highly stressful for introverts, but models must take on and play roles with every other shoot. 

Specialist is also a helpful natural ability for models because it would drive them to want to achieve mastery in their chosen field.   

Paramount is their  natural physical structure which is critical to  obtain entry into the field.  Tall and lean body build with symmetrical facial features and ability to create and communicate different illusions and messages with their physical assets particularly with their face. 

How can you know whether you possess these abilities? The Highland’s Ability Battery test shows you exactly where your strengths are.

Natural Interests of a Model

• Artistic — Self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.  
• Enterprising — Leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes taking and often dealing with business.  
• Realistic — Working activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions.  

Do you have these interests? 

Personality of a Model

• gentle, sensitive people, who keep most of their personal opinions private 
• express their deeply felt passions through actions, rather than through words 
• patient, flexible, and easy going with little need to control others 
• observant of people and things around them and don’t seek to find motives or meanings 
• prefer short term to long term planning and don’t prepare more than necessary as they live completely in the moment 
• like to enjoy the current experience, without rushing into the next 
• usually loyal followers and good team members 

Does this sound like you? 

 Work-Related Strengths of a Model

• Prefer hands-on participation 
• Welcome change and adapt well to new situations 
• Work hard when they believe their work is important 
• Are loyal members of organizations and take orders from superiors well 
• Thrive in supportive and affirming climates 

Work-Related Weaknesses of a Model

• Accept others’ behavior without questioning suspicious motives 
• Not see opportunities unless they exist at the present 
• Feel overwhelmed by large, complex, or unclear tasks 
• Miss opportunities due to lack of organization 
• Feel restricted by excessive rules and bureaucracy 

Would I Make a Good Doctor?

Have you ever wondered why doctors just can’t solve your medical issue?  They are supposed to be among the smartest people in the world, yet they can’t seem to figure out your issues. I warned my college son of my experience with traditional medicine doctors when he demanded to see one for his ailment. So I set an appointment up for him with one that was highly rated in the area. After the appointment, my son returned dejected. The doctor had told him his problem had to do with anxiety at college. But as my son told me, this was the summer time. He didn’t have any studies to be anxious about.   

If you look at the career ability pattern required to be a traditional medical doctor, you will notice that it doesn’t require they “think outside the box” to find a solution. In fact, it is inversely associated with the ability to earn a degree in the field. Instead they have Concentrative Reasoning. This ability that allows people to study volumes of material without distraction. And they certainly have volumes of materials to study, learn and  memorize in order to regurgitate it back when they have used their other abilities to comprehend your situation. When the solution isn’t in their field or in their books, they are not able to generate a novel solution. 

Doctors in the U.S. typically earn $200,000 a year, and the field is growing faster than ever. You’ll need a doctoral degree, as well as the natural abilities and interests. 

Do you have what it takes?

According to the Highlands Ability Battery, Pediatric Physician and General Family Physician are among of the most demanding careers. The higher the scores on Observation, Verbal Memory, and Pitch Discrimination abilities yields more capacity to notice issues.

• Observation, the ability to  notice subtle differences, is obviously key.
• Verbal Memory along with low to moderate low scores in Idea Productivity is necessary to concentrate and remember volumes of data.
• Pitch Discrimination is related to hypersensitivity of all the senses enabling the physician to perceive subtle physical elements.
• With a moderate to moderately high IP score you can expect the practitioner to better think outside the box to solve unique medical issues.
• Design Memory is a must since it enable one to glean volumes of information from charted data about patients, although I’d say that at least a moderately high score would be sufficient. 
• Spatial Relations Visualization is necessary for perceiving the anatomy and physiology of a patient.
• Spatial Relations Theory is essential to understand the invisible interactive systems of biological and chemical and physiological functions.
• Classification is necessary to perceive problems readily; Concept Organization is the ability to create patient plans to resolve those problems in effective and efficient ways. 

Would I Make a Good Film Director or Movie Producer?

Producers and directors create motion pictures, television shows, live theater, commercials, and other performing arts productions, oftentimes under a lot of stress and deadline pressure. The payout is about $70,000 annually, and most people need a Bachelor’s degree to enter the field.

One of my favorite producers is George Lucas, producer of the original Star Wars series.  People in the industry thought he was crazy to make this new type of movie, but he stayed true to his vision of creating “another” world based on the big themes of our world. In an interview I heard years ago he described how he envisioned it. He told that he researched religious belief systems and used the dominant themes of them all upon which he would create the story.  Good wins, community of diverse people who band together to do good, the underdog saves the world from the ever-lurking evil entity out to deceive and destroy the planet. This kind of thinking demands a multitude of natural talent based reasoning abilities.

Ready to work with the skills I have for a career I love.

How he raised his children confirms his vast array of talents.  He told Oprah he had given all of his children the education they needed, but they would not receive a dime more in inheritance. How many of us would do this with our own children? Not many at all because we do not possess the breadth of his natural reasoning abilities. Can you reason out for yourself why he concluded that this was necessary? I’d love to hear your answers on this question with a comment below.

Do you have the natural abilities to be a movie producer? 

There are few occupations that demand all of the talent based reasoning abilities: Movie Producer is one of them. A talent based reasoning ability is a high score on a driving ability on the Highlands Ability Battery. They are called talent-based because they are innately born with ways to think that do not require knowledge to know what to do. Movie Producer is one of a few occupations that require all of these unique natural abilities. It also satisfies the drives or needs to express them.

How do I score?

You also need to have high scores in several of the smarts abilities.  These are high scores in multiple learning channels especially verbal memory which enables you to comprehend and recall what you read. Vocabulary needs to be at a moderate level. It is related to IQ (storage and access speed of data stored in your head).   

You also need high scores in ability combos that relate to visual and creative abilities: Idea generation or productivity, design memory and pitch discrimination. High scores in pitch are related to sensitivities to subtle variances in color, light, smell, sounds, taste and touch. You will need to explore further to learn if you have the most important ones: color, light, and sound for movie producing. 

Finally, scoring high as a generalist is very useful as a movie producer. It enables you to get into the heads of all of your employees from actors, to camera persons to art directors and so on. By that I mean that you will automatically understand them and what they need and how they think and communicate. Specialists tend to need to check in to see if they are on the same page; they don’t automatically think like others. Millennials are increasingly becoming specialists in their relating abilities.