Is Management for You?

Perhaps. You'll have to decide for yourself. The eCreation Self Assessment should tell you if your temperament type is compatible with a management career, but this tool only reveals your personal preferences-not your ideal career. It should be used along with other information for making a career decision.

In the final analysis, career satisfaction comes from doing things you really enjoy, day in and day out. So the real question is this:

Do you enjoy doing the kinds of tasks that would be required of you in a management career?

Here are some of the tasks you might do in a management career:

Analyze business trends
Assign tasks and responsibilities
Establish and monitor schedules
Establish organizational or department policies and procedures
Establish standards of performance
Evaluate others' performance
Handle a wide variety of day-to-day issues
Hire and fire people
Identify problems and recommend solutions
Make strategic business decisions
Motivate people
Organize people
Oversee daily operations
Prepare and oversee budgets
Prepare and oversee operating plans, expansion plans, and contingency plans
Prepare and oversee strategic plans
Provide leadership
Supervise workers and/or managers
Write reports

Do these sound like things you would enjoy doing?

Did the results of your eCreation Self Assessment indicate that management might be a good career choice for you?

If your answer to either or both of these questions is "yes," then management could be your career. Alternatively, Is Information Technology for you? or Is Information Management for you?

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