Empowering career search and enrichment

At CPP, we’re constantly looking for ways to expand our MBTI® product suite and want to make you aware of two of our most recent efforts—the college editions of the MBTI® Form M Self-Scorable and the MBTI® Form M Profile! We've updated these tools in order to provide you with an easier way to interpret and help your students to understand their results.

The MBTI® Profile, College Edition furnishes a summary of your student's MBTI results, allowing you the ability to tailor interpretation and feedback sessions to your student's needs. It provides reported type, explanations of the preferences, characteristics frequently associated with the type, and an easy-to-read graph displaying the preference clarity index. Click here to learn more.




The MBTI® Self-Scorable, College Edition is a compact, all-inclusive booklet which makes administration of the MBTI instrument easy in a classroom, group or teambuilding setting. It contains 93 items, an answer sheet, and basic interpretive information. Easy-to-understand instructions and a simple three-step process make scoring quick and easy. Click here to learn more.

We're very excited to have these college editions especially for our educators! We are currently working to expand on these and will keep you updated!

According to Introduction to Type® in Careers by John K. Ditiberio and Allen L. Hammer, people tend to be attracted to, and are most satisfied in, careers that provide them with the opportunity to express and use their preferences. When students learn about their personality type, they can be better prepared on their search for a career. Knowing the type of work settings they can expect from certain occupations (which is something they can research) can help them decide if that will fit with their personality. A great example is the article I shared in my last blog.

In the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing how each of the sixteen types chooses a major on our facebook and twitter pages. I encourage you to check out the booklet. It is broken out in six main sections which lead to more specific insights for each of the sixteen types:

1. Choosing Courses, Majors and Careers – includes how students choose majors and what majors students choose. 
2. Learning styles – each of the sixteen types has a different style that works best for them.
3. The tasks of a college student – includes writing, studying and taking tests.
4. Its not all work - this section focuses on dating and relationships.
5. Living with a roommate – learning how to deal with other types in a situation where there isn’t much control on the student’s part. 
6. Dealing with stress – each person copes differently, but knowing what works best for one’s personality type can be helpful.

If you haven’t connected with us yet, find us on www.facebook.com/cppeducation and www.twitter.com/cppeducation. Don’t forget to visit us to collect all sixteen insights!

I understand that I’m a little biased saying this, but I love hearing success stories from students who have used our products. I was one of them, but many feel it’s much more credible to hear from others who have no ties with CPP (i.e. aren’t employed there, as I am). I came across a blog site called “Beyond the Elms: Exploring Careers with Scripps Students and Alumnae” where several students from Scripps College track their career search journey by blogging. One blog in particular is from a student, Emily Chesbrough, who was having a hard time deciding on what major to choose. She felt she loved each equally but needed to pick one. After meeting with a career counselor at her college, she was advised to take the Myers-Briggs® assessment. Click here to read more about her experience and how the MBTI® helped her make a decision.

Have you attended any education conferences this past year? Every year, we travel nationwide to attend regional and national conferences. We love the opportunity to connect with our customers and meet new faces along the way – as well as learn about what’s going in the Education market!

Here are three (of the many) reasons why you should attend a conference:

-They are a great opportunity to advance in your field
- You can network with like-minded professionals and peers – and make some new friends!
- Gain new learning experiences – many conferences, especially the national ones, offer informational seminars and workshops

Our next conference stop will be at NACADA (National Academic Advising Association) from October 3 – 6, 2010. It will be held at Coronado Spring Resort at Walt Disney World in Florida with an expected attendance of 2,500. Take a look at the workshop schedule here. There will be over 350 workshops, individual concurrent and panel sessions and poster presentations on relevant topics to aid in professional development. To learn more, go to NACADA’s Conference website.

And don’t forget to stop by our booth #2 to say hello!