New Office Director

As you may know, at the end of the school year Judy Rychlewski is retiring. William Jewell has been involved in interviewing individuals who might take Judy’s position as a friend and advisor to students and alumni. It is with great excitement that we are announcing Jewell has hired Marissa Bland to take over leadership in the Career Development and Internship Department. Marissa is coming to us from The University of Missouri Kansas City where she was coordinator for the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs. The current staff had a chance to sit down with Marissa right before she was offered the position to interview her and evaluate how well we thought she would fit into the Jewell community. Marissa has an extremely welcoming and inviting personality that makes it easy to get to know her. In addition to being friendly Marissa has great enthusiasm for students and helping them reach their career goals. We look forward to Marissa joining the William Jewell family May 28!

Myers Briggs

Recently I took the Myers Briggs test along with fellow coworker, Ben Boggs. We took it on a whim because Judy had given it to a business class here at Jewell, and we were interested in how each of us would be classified. Ben had taken this test several times and was once again placed as an ENFJ group (Extroverted, Intuitive, Feeling, and Judging).This group is characterized by their desire to help others and want to bring out the best in people. They are understanding, encouraging, and driven. They are suggested to get involved in jobs that work to help others such as: counselor, clergy member, teacher, politicians, and human resource management. My placement was in the ISTJ group (Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, and Judging). My group is characterized by an extreme sense of dedication and loyalty. We place high value on established systems and rules, and at times can come off distant from others as a result. It told me I should be involved in fields such as: police, law, medicine, and the military. After taking our tests and looking at the results Ben and I talked about our various outcomes. We both thought the descriptions of character traits were startlingly close to the characteristics we actually displayed. However, neither of us felt that our jobs were things we would excel at, but could see why the test would place the other person in the category it did. Overall both Ben and I found the results to be interesting, and especially found the section that listed weaknesses we might have extremely educational. I would suggest taking this test if you are interested in character traits you possess that might influence your job choice.