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Law Fit Report

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Introduction 00

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The Law Fit Report is designed to provide you with guidance that impacts your decision to go to law school, which schools to apply to, which school to ultimately attend, and how to focus your internship and job search.

Your personalized report contains the following chapters:

Authentic Career Alignment: Uses your personality type to illustrate what sort of work aligns with you.

Defining My Narrative & Purpose: Highlights your natural abilities and strengths.

Career and Work Satisfaction: Uses your personality type to help illustrate what sort of work environments and core values suit you best.

Workplace Fit Factors: Describes the sort of work environments and core values that suit you best.

Legal Trait Analysis: Quickly shows you all 22 traits measured by the Sheffield Legal Assessment and how your scores compare to our global database of attorneys.

Practice Area Analysis: See how you fit in different practice areas based on scores from your assessment.

Work Setting Analysis: See how you fit into various work settings based on scores from your assessment.

We recommend listening to our podcast, I Am The Law, which is available at Law School Transparency or wherever you get your podcasts. Both this report and the podcast can be used with the tools available on LST in deciding where to apply and attend law school. When deciding on whether and where to attend law school, consider how well various schools can help you achieve your career goals. For example, if you have zero interest in working for a large law firm and instead want to practice family law in a particular state, it may not make sense to spend more money on a traditionally elite school. Different law schools have different strengths, especially as it relates to which employers (work settings) graduates of a school tend to find jobs with.

Authentic Career Alignment 01

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This section uses your personality type to help illustrate what sort of work aligns you

In this section, you will see how your personality type represents the values you hold and how that coincides with which working environments will fit you best.  Finding a career that aligns with your values and provides a suitable environment for your personality type will lead to a more fulfilling and productive career.

Based upon her personality type, Beth should consider these industries and professions:

  • There are several opportunities to demonstrate competence
  • The work allows you to utilize your natural ability to analyze and make objective, logical decisions
  • The work involves theory and speculation
  • The work involves creativity, imagination and a creative approach to problem solving
  • The work involves looking beyond the present i.e., future possibilities, future products, future actions
  • The work is not limited to what exists today but involves "what may be" and "what could be"

Those with Beth's personality prefer careers in which:

  • Management allows people to be self-directed
  • The culture appreciates fair but tough decision-making
  • The work offers the opportunity to rapidly change direction and to respond to problems as they arise
  • The work is fun and allows for some spontaneity
  • You can apply your natural ability to focus and concentrate, rather than multitasking
  • The environment allows for freedom and flexibility and is loosely structured without too many rules
  • The environment, culture and pace allow you to consider things fully before having to respond
  • The work allows you to work at a careful steady pace
  • The work allows you adequate private time to work alone and to concentrate
  • The environment allows for freedom and flexibility and is loosely structured without too many rules
Authentic Career Alignment Authors
Original work by: Michael Robinson © Step Research Corporation

Defining My Narrative & Purpose 02

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This section uses your personality type to help illustrate your natural abilities and strengths

In this section, you will see how your personality type represents the values you hold and how that coincides with which working environments will fit you best.  Finding a career that aligns with your values and provides a suitable environment for your personality type will lead to a more fulfilling and productive career.

The natural abilities and strengths of Beth's personality type include:

When Beth is able to utilize fully her natural abilities and talents, she performs at a higher level. Her ability to perform well and enjoy her job depends upon the degree to which she is able to leverage and capitalize on her strengths.

Beth has probably already experienced something like this: Her work aligns well with her natural abilities and she is motivated to bring her best to her roles and responsibilities. Her performance seems to flow, progress on projects is smooth, and the outcomes are successful.

The opposite is also true. When Beth is not working on a project or studying a subject not aligned with her natural abilities, her stress level tends to increase and she finds it difficult to face into her obligations. The result is not satisfying or satisfactory. The key is for Beth to be in "alignment" with her work.

Every profession offers a variety of roles and work expectations. This is true even within a specific role. If Beth can direct her career path into industries and roles where she is able to align and develop her natural abilities, she will be more satisfied and successful.

Anyone can work on developing a skill. When a skill is listed below, we are referring to a "preference" toward that skill. The person is likely to enjoy using and developing the skill. When something is listed as a "natural ability", it is refering to the same concept, a preference. It does not automatically mean the person has or will develop it. It does mean that the person will likely prefer and enjoy developing the ability. Which means a likelihood of spending more time developing it.

  • Natural ability to think strategically
  • Natural ability for coordinating, organizing and leading
  • Natural ability to make things more efficient
  • Natural ability to improve systems
  • Natural ability to solve very complex problems
  • Naturally ingenious
  • Natural ability to invent and create
  • Natural ability to study and learn technology and science
  • Natural ability for research and development
  • Natural ability to work independently without supervision
  • Naturally persistent and resolute
Defining My Narrative & Purpose Authors
Original work by: Michael Robinson © Step Research Corporation

Career and Work Satisfaction 03

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This section uses your personality type to help illustrate the work environments best aligned with your core values.

In this section, you will see how your personality type represents the values you hold and how that coincides with which working environments will fit you best.  Finding a career that aligns with your values and provides a suitable environment for your personality type will lead to a more fulfilling and productive career.

Beth prefers these environmental and cultural attributes at work:

Beth does best at work when the company’s culture aligns with her personal values. Based on her personality type, Beth prefers an environment where:

  • Management allows people to be self-directed
  • The culture appreciates fair but tough decision-making
  • The environment, culture and pace allow you to consider things fully before having to respond
  • The environment allows for freedom and flexibility and is loosely structured without too many rules

Based upon her personality type, Beth should consider these industries and professions:

  • There are several opportunities to demonstrate competence
  • The work allows you to utilize your natural ability to analyze and make objective, logical decisions
  • The work involves theory and speculation
  • The work involves creativity, imagination and a creative approach to problem solving
  • The work involves looking beyond the present i.e., future possibilities, future products, future actions
  • The work is not limited to what exists today but involves "what may be" and "what could be"

Those with Beth's personality prefer careers in which:

  • Management allows people to be self-directed
  • The culture appreciates fair but tough decision-making
  • The work offers the opportunity to rapidly change direction and to respond to problems as they arise
  • The work is fun and allows for some spontaneity
  • You can apply your natural ability to focus and concentrate, rather than multitasking
  • The environment allows for freedom and flexibility and is loosely structured without too many rules
  • The environment, culture and pace allow you to consider things fully before having to respond
  • The work allows you to work at a careful steady pace
  • The work allows you adequate private time to work alone and to concentrate
  • The environment allows for freedom and flexibility and is loosely structured without too many rules

The natural abilities and strengths of Beth's personality type include:

When Beth is able to utilize fully her natural abilities and talents, she performs at a higher level. Her ability to perform well and enjoy her job depends upon the degree to which she is able to leverage and capitalize on her strengths.

Beth has probably already experienced something like this: Her work aligns well with her natural abilities and she is motivated to bring her best to her roles and responsibilities. Her performance seems to flow, progress on projects is smooth, and the outcomes are successful.

The opposite is also true. When Beth is not working on a project or studying a subject not aligned with her natural abilities, her stress level tends to increase and she finds it difficult to face into her obligations. The result is not satisfying or satisfactory. The key is for Beth to be in "alignment" with her work.

Every profession offers a variety of roles and work expectations. This is true even within a specific role. If Beth can direct her career path into industries and roles where she is able to align and develop her natural abilities, she will be more satisfied and successful.

Anyone can work on developing a skill. When a skill is listed below, we are referring to a "preference" toward that skill. The person is likely to enjoy using and developing the skill. When something is listed as a "natural ability", it is refering to the same concept, a preference. It does not automatically mean the person has or will develop it. It does mean that the person will likely prefer and enjoy developing the ability. Which means a likelihood of spending more time developing it.

  • Natural ability to think strategically
  • Natural ability for coordinating, organizing and leading
  • Natural ability to make things more efficient
  • Natural ability to improve systems
  • Natural ability to solve very complex problems
  • Naturally ingenious
  • Natural ability to invent and create
  • Natural ability to study and learn technology and science
  • Natural ability for research and development
  • Natural ability to work independently without supervision
  • Naturally persistent and resolute

Beth's core values likely include:

Her professional environment should align with her core values in order to achieve maximum job satisfaction and career success. The common core values for her personality type include:

  • Demonstrated competence
  • Achievement
  • Creativity
  • Ingenuity
  • Knowledge
  • Constant learning
  • Excellence
  • Perfection
  • Independence
  • New challenges
  • Being calm, emotion free
  • Logic
  • Minimal repetitive work
  • Rewards and recognition are for problem solving in creative and innovative ways
  • The ability to work without much direction is appreciated
Career and Work Satisfaction Authors
Original work by: Michael Robinson © Step Research Corporation

Workplace Fit Factors - Environment, Culture & Values 04

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This section uses your personality type to help illustrate what sort of work environments and core values suit you best.

In this section, you will see how your personality type represents the values you hold and how that coincides with which working environments will fit you best.  Finding a career that aligns with your values and provides a suitable environment for your personality type will lead to a more fulfilling and productive career.

Beth prefers these environmental and cultural attributes at work:

Beth does best at work when the company’s culture aligns with her personal values. Based on her personality type, Beth prefers an environment where:

  • Management allows people to be self-directed
  • The culture appreciates fair but tough decision-making
  • The environment, culture and pace allow you to consider things fully before having to respond
  • The environment allows for freedom and flexibility and is loosely structured without too many rules

Beth's core values likely include:

Her professional environment should align with her core values in order to achieve maximum job satisfaction and career success. The common core values for her personality type include:

  • Demonstrated competence
  • Achievement
  • Creativity
  • Ingenuity
  • Knowledge
  • Constant learning
  • Excellence
  • Perfection
  • Independence
  • New challenges
  • Being calm, emotion free
  • Logic
  • Minimal repetitive work
  • Rewards and recognition are for problem solving in creative and innovative ways
  • The ability to work without much direction is appreciated
Workplace Fit Factors - Environment, Culture & Values Authors
Original work by: Michael Robinson © Step Research Corporation

Practice Area Detailed Analysis 06

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This chapter shows how you fit in different practice areas based on your scores from the Sheffield Assessment

To help you assess how you might fit in different practice areas, this chapter shows how your results on the Sheffield Assessment compare to those of our sample of satisfied attorneys working in 24 different practice areas.

The Practice Area Detailed Analysis summarizes your results by comparing you to our sample in two key ways. Highlighted are the three traits where your scores are most similar to our practice area samples and the three traits where your scores are least similar. In addition, the right side of your display takes into account your scores on all 22 traits on the Sheffield Assessment, ranking your potential fit across the practice areas from most to least similar.

Many factors contribute to success and satisfaction in a practice area. Use this ranking of practice areas, and the top three matching and mismatching traits, as a starting point for investigating which practice areas might offer you the best fit for your future career.

Click the list of practice areas on the right to examine each one.

Beth Person

Assessing The Fit

Additional Instructions For Using This

For additional guidance and instructions, please refer to the Polish Activity guidelines above and online for this report chapter.

Practice Area Detailed Analysis:

Please indicate where you think your current knowledge about Personal Injury, your highest ranked practice area, falls on the continuum below.

Limited Knowledge_____________________________Abundant Knowledge

How and from whom did you acquire the knowledge you have about this practice area? Select all that apply and feel free to add additional knowledge sources. You can also record these in your report using the Comment function of the Polish tool.

  • Law school courses
  • On-campus workshops
  • Professional association meetings or seminars
  • Law journals
  • Professional association websites
  • Podcasts, videos, blogs, other social media or internet resources
  • Books, films, television series
  • Internship/work experience
  • Family members and friends working in law or adjacent fields
  • Mentors and other role models working in law or adjacent fields
  • Informational interviews with people working in law or adjacent fields
  • Other

Come back later after having explored two new information sources.

Please indicate where you think your knowledge about Personal Injury, your highest ranked practice area, now falls on the continuum below.

Limited Knowledge_____________________________Abundant Knowledge

Having explored the two new information sources, please indicate where you think your current willingness to work in Personal Injury falls on the continuum below.

Limited Willingness____________________________________Abundant Willingness

If you rated yourself closer to the “limited” end of the scale, that is you discovered you don’t have a great deal of interest in or passion for Personal Injury, complete this activity with another practice area from the list that interests you.

However you rated your willingness to work in your top practice area(s), remember no assessment is perfect and your results are just one tool to help you make a good decision about what the best practice area(s) for you might be.

Practice Area Detailed Analysis Authors
Original work by: Sterling Bates Mark Levin Karl Schmitt © Step Research Corporation

Work Setting Detailed Analysis 07

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This chapter shows how you compare to satisfied attorneys in 6 different work settings based on your scores from the Sheffield Assessment

To help you assess how you might fit in different work settings, this chapter shows you how your results on the Sheffield Assessment compare to those of our sample of satisfied attorneys working in 6 different practice areas.

The Work Setting Detailed Analysis summarizes your results by comparing you to our sample in two key ways. Highlighted are the three traits where your scores are most similar to our work setting samples and the three traits where your scores are least similar. In addition, the right side of your display takes into account your scores on all 22 traits on the Sheffield Assessment, ranking your potential fit across the work settings from most to least similar.

Many factors contribute to success and satisfaction in a work setting. Use this ranking of work settings, and the top three matching and mismatching traits, as a starting point for investigating which setting might offer you the best fit for your future career.

Click the list of practice areas on the right to examine how you compare to satisfied attorneys in each of them.

Work Setting Detailed Analysis Authors
Original work by: Sterling Bates Mark Levin Karl Schmitt © Step Research Corporation