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Biography
Helen Marie Scully (born September 7, l960) is a career development professional and the author of Elevations®, the Career Discovery Tool. She was born and raised in San Francisco, CA by Leo L. Scully and Marilyn P. Scully. She is the youngest of four girls. Scully’s sisters are Lillian Schulte, Judy Boyle and Annie Scully.

Scully attended Mercy High School in San Francisco, CA and Saint Mary's College of California in Moraga. In her senior year, Scully traveled around the world and completed her fall semester of coursework (credit via the University of Pittsburgh) while experiencing Semester at Sea. Subsequently, she received a Bachelor of Science in Communication. She self-designed her major to focus on interpersonal communication, which has been a life long interest and passion. She also integrated her interest in employee relations and organizational development.

Her first job was with the International Association of Business Communicators headquarters in San Francisco, CA as a research assistant. Then she worked for several years in the Silicon Valley for Applied Materials in Santa Clara, CA as a personnel assistant in the benefits and records department. While her experiences in business provided an excellent general administrative foundation, it left Scully feeling unfulfilled. In the summer of l986 she quit her corporate job and entered graduate school to be trained as a counselor.

She attended Sacramento State University in Sacramento, CA from l986 to l990 and received her Master of Science in Counseling with a specialization in career counseling. While attending graduate school she interned at the University of California, Davis gaining counseling skills in the Internship and Career Center. Concurrently she worked for the California Department of Transportation at the Sacramento headquarters as a graduate student assistant.

One semester before Scully completed her master’s degree in l989 she was hired as the Assistant Director of the career center for the University of the Pacific (UOP), Stockton, CA. Within her first year at UOP she was promoted to Associate Director. Scully developed a program to deliver career assessment services to students called the Career Focus Program. The roots for Elevations® grew out of this early focus on career assessments and a desire to coordinate the information for students.

At the same time that Scully was hired at UOP, she established her private practice under the name Scully Career Consulting in Stockton, CA in l989. She worked with individuals in transition from the general public helping them choose a career direction and find rewarding employment. She also conducted training for local companies in the areas of team building, stress reduction and interpersonal communication. In l996, she was certified by the National Board of Certified Counselors as a Nationally Certified Career Counselor and a Nationally Certified Counselor.

Scully Career Associates
Scully left the University of the Pacific in l997 to work full time in her private practice. She changed the name to Scully Career Associates and opened her office in a Victorian building on J Street in downtown Sacramento. Her focus was helping mid-career professionals make successful transitions. She launched a website under the domain www.ScullyCareerAssociates.com She also managed large consulting projects for the US Army Corps of Engineers and the County of Sacramento in the areas of employee career development, team building and communication training. Scully Career Associates, Inc. now operates out of offices in Folsom, CA.

Elevations®
Elevations® was born of frustration. As a Nationally Certified Career Counselor with a private practice and consulting assignments in organizations, Helen Scully was disappointed with the career assessments on the market. She found she needed multiple tools to help her clients assess their values, skills, interests and personality characteristics—and to link that information with current world-of-work information. To get this outcome, Helen, like most career counselors, purchased four different assessments from a variety of publishers and then manually correlated the results. This cumbersome process was both expensive and time consuming. The tools were not designed to create a clear, easy-to-follow road map. Scoring methods and theories jumbled together, making already confused clients even more uncertain. With effort, patterns across the various tools could be found but it was far from intuitive. It occurred to Helen Scully that the tools should automatically integrate the results and help the client understand what they mean. So, from this place of limited options, Helen Scully decided to create a fully integrated career assessment that included up-to-date careers and links to web-based research. The tool was under development for four years, starting in 2000, and was piloted in corporations, college and university career centers, private practices, and in the general consumer market for career changers and job seekers. In February 2003, Scully Career Associates, Inc. (publisher of Elevations®) released the first edition of Elevations® the Career Discovery Tool {patent pending}. Responding to customer feedback and assistance from the University of California, Davis, the software version of Elevations® was released in March 2004. Elevations® online is an open system from which other applications can be linked or written. It is modular, portable, updateable, expandable, and has proven stable in stress tests. It is currently in use in colleges and universities. Furthermore, more than 1000 coaches and career counselors use Elevations® in their practices. In 2006, Helen Scully authored Elevations for Organizations®. This online assessment is a powerful, customizable “talent alignment” tool. Employees identify their key values, skills, career-related interests and personality preferences. In turn, employers now have the information they need to manage their talent. This version of Elevations® is designed to increase desirable retention, enhance effective succession planning and, ultimately, position an employer in a competitive position as the “employer of choice” in an ever shifting talent market.

Upon completion of Elevations for Organizations®, (taking about 30 minutes on average) the employee immediately has access to a personalized report, offering temperament-based developmental tips. It can be used independently (without facilitation or interpretation) or can be administered by internal coaches or trainers.

Elevations for Organizations® does more than create self-awareness. It provides employees specific guidance on how to find a mentor, how to determine what job classifications match the employee’s natural interests and methods to link his or her goals with the organizations bottom line. Moreover, the employee can take Elevations® multiple times as his or her career with your organization evolves. Organizations seeking talent management tools often turn to traditional interest inventories and personality assessments.

Users sort a series of cards, either manually or online systematically identifying their career aspirations and capabilities. In the process, users define their highest values, clarifying what is important to them, and where they need to focus. Next, they identify their most enjoyable skills. Career alternatives are described in skill-based terminology. Contemporary job titles and descriptions of typical responsibilities are provided. Users are also directed to web sites where they can research the careers that match their profile. The unifying feature that ties each of the four Elevations® assessments together is referred to as temperament. There are four temperaments, drawing from personality research conducted by Dr. Carl Jung and the work of David West Keirsey. After sorting the cards, users read a detailed description of their personality theme that includes information about how they communicate, their leadership style, how they function on a team and the best work environment for them. In addition, the comprehensive Elevations® workbook or online report will guide users through career research, informational interviewing, obstacles analysis and action planning.

Media and Publications

 * Elevations®, The Career Discovery Tool,
 * Elevations® Card Sort System and Workbook by Helen Scully, November 2003
 * Elevations® (Online) for Career Choice and Career Change by Helen Scully, March 2004
 * Elevations® Facilitator Guide by Helen Scully, November 2006
 * Elevations® (Online) for Organizations by Helen Scully, March 2007

Sacramento Bee,

 * When Both of You Loses a Job, by Anita Creamer, May 2009
 * Switching Careers is in the Air, by Mehul Srivastava, September 2006
 * Job Search Survival, by Claudia Buck, November 2008
 * Shifting Career, Improving Economy, by Loretta Kalb, April 2004

California Job Journal,

 * 10 Big Mistakes Job Seekers Make, by Helen Scully, January 2007
 * Overcoming Obstacles in Your Job Search, by Helen Scully, February 2006
 * Career Help that Fits Your Future by Helen Scully, August 2004
 * With a Sunny Forecast for the Economy…Take an Aggressive Tack with Your Career, by Helen Scully, May 2004
 * Surviving and Thriving Through a Tough Job Search by Helen Scully, March 2004
 * Turn Your Career Dreams into Reality by Helen Scully, October 2003
 * Shedding Light on the Course of Your Career by Helen Scully, May 2003
 * Changing Directions, Starting a New Career at 40+ by Helen Scully, November 2002
 * Doing Work that Matters by Helen Scully, April 2002
 * Quest for the Best by Helen Scully, July 2001

Sacramento Magazine,

 * The Local Economy, Finding the Bright Spots By Cathy Cassinos-Carr, April 2009
 * Making Work Work by Cathy Cassinos-Carr, October, 2005
 * On the Rise, Thirteen Women to Watch by Lynn Romminger, July 1999

Comstock Magazine,

 * Unleashing Creativity by Ed Simonsen, December 2005
 * The Really Hard Sciences, by Rich Ehisen, September 2005

Certifications

 * Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (week-long qualifying training)
 * IDAK Career Match (through level four certification)
 * Strong Interest Inventory (advanced administration training)
 * SkillScan (administration training)
 * Values Card Sort (administration training)
 * Five O’clock Club Counselor (certified guild counselor)
 * MG Rush Systems, Inc., Session Leader Certified, February 2001

--JTHoryza (talk) 21:18, 1 August 2009 (UTC) JTHoryza

Amador Valley High School copyedit
Hi Scartol, I noticed your name on the copyedit volunteer list, clicked on your user page, and saw that you were a high-school english teacher. I was wondering if you would be free to copy-edit the Amador Valley High School article and leave your comments. The article is currently going through a peer review process, and many issues concerning MoS have been addressed. However, there may be some awkward phrasings or awkward transitions that have been overlooked. The students of Amador Valley High School would also appreciate the presence of your red pen. Thanks, Deltawk (talk) 06:58, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
 * This is a friendly nudge that your work on Amador Valley High School would be appreciated. I do understand that your other commitments are more important, however. Deltawk (talk) 21:01, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Greetings
Thanks for the message Scartol. Points taken... Have a jellyfish animation in return! Outriggr (talk) 04:23, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

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Pool of Radiance
Ready for a peer review whenever you are! :) BOZ (talk) 02:49, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
 * No problem. I'll be out of town at that point, and if I don't see anything when I come back, I'll bug you. :) BOZ (talk) 12:05, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm back home, and have some free time on my hands for the next couple of days. :) BOZ (talk) 05:21, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Great! I'll be busier today than I thought, but tomorrow should be a lot different. BOZ (talk) 21:17, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks; I'll have a look shortly and see what I can do! BOZ (talk) 17:22, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I implemented many of your suggestions, and replied at the peer review regarding the rest. :) BOZ (talk) 22:21, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Thank you
Hi Scartol, Thank you for your thoughtful review of Amador Valley High School. The prose flows much better now and will help the reading of the article be more pleasant. I appreciate the professionalism of your red pen expression. Deltawk (talk) 01:47, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Thank you again
I apologize for jumping the gun on leaving a note on your talk page. I'm in the process of reviewing the suggestions you made on the talk page of Amador Valley High School and making appropriate chances and additions where appropriate. You've pointed out many things that I've failed to realize - thank you for your peer review of the article to pick up things that I've neglected and failed to see. Deltawk (talk) 03:02, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Copy Edit
Hi, I was wondering if you have time to do a copy edit on Davenport, Iowa. I'm almost ready to renominate it for FA, and need some good copy editing. Thank you!  C T J F 8 3 Talk 18:35, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

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I didn't think so, but the French article uses a category named "roman", and I figured they're the experts. :) Maybe it means novella in French as well? I'll change it to "works", howzabout. Outriggr (talk) 01:32, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Or, "novelette", even! :) Outriggr (talk) 01:35, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

WWZ FA
Thanks for your help. As you can probably tell from the history of my sandbox and the date I suggested adding a character section, I haven't worked on such a proposal for a long time. I honestly lost interest in adding it, but if you think its workable then feel free to use what I have been working on (warning its incomplete). Anyway the prose is obviously a big issue since its one of my weaknesses when it comes to writing (and one of the big criticisms of the GA reveiw) so if you could take a look at that I would really appreciate it. Zombie Hunter Smurf (talk) 14:05, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

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Candide TFA
Congrats on being the front page bigshot for today. =D Scartol  •  Tok  02:39, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks! -- Rmrfstar (talk) 00:40, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

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