Between classes, business students can discover more about themselves.
Inside Heavener Hall is an alcove called the Discovery Cube, which hosts CareerMaze, a 5-minute self-assessment, according to a UF adviser.
The Discovery Cube is an option for students who don’t have a clear career path, said Melissa Forgione, an academic adviser and career coach at the Heavener School of Business.
CareerMaze, the touch-screen assessment, asks two questions: how one would describe oneself using the adjectives provided and how one thinks co-workers would respond with the same adjectives.
The goal of the assessment is to get a profile of the student’s personality and help students better understand themselves, Forgione said.
“Based on the results, it tells you the types of environments you usually prefer, ideally prefer, types of environments you may not prefer, and it does it by looking at four different continuums,” Forgione said.
The results will provide a personality style and a description, Forgione said, which can raise a student’s self-awareness to confidently choose a suitable career.
Forgione said she thought UF is either the first or one of the first universities to use this program.
Students will not immediately get the results after finishing the assessment. They will have to make an advising appointment, where a staff member will go into detail, Forgione said.
Brian Ray, associate dean and director of the Heavener School of Business, said the assessment’s data will act as a conversation starter.
“The idea is the assessment is a way to either validate what the student thinks he or she is interested in or to open their eyes to some things they haven’t really contemplated previously,” Ray said. “I tell students the two questions to ask yourself in college are, ‘What am I good at?’ and ‘What do I enjoy?’”
[A version of this story ran on page 8 on 1/28/2015 under the headline “Discovery Cube in Heavener Hall hosts career assessment"]
