In this final blog aimed at helping your career, we show you how to put all the information you have gathered in our previous three blogs together. This is the fruit of your labor. Use it and make it work to your advantage.
Identify Your Strengths and Weaknesses
The final step is to take the information you gathered from (1) self assessments, (2) other people (information gathered from observing others and asking others), and (3) your self-exam (results of your situation and self-analyses) and use it to determine your strengths and weaknesses. Instead of taking all of the feedback about your behavior from others as fact, look for recurring themes or patterns of feedback you heard from more than one person. Look at what others identified as your strengths and weaknesses and compare that to what you know about yourself (from the self-exam) and what you learned when looking at the results of your formal assessments.
- Strengths are usually indicated by repeated success or expertise in a particular type of activity. These abilities may come easily to you even though others find them difficult: What did you note as being your favorite things to do, learn about? What do other people turn to you for help with? What do your recent assessments show are your strengths?
- Weaknesses are tasks that you struggle to learn; have difficulty performing; or find boring, draining, or tedious: What did you note as being hard or not fun to do? What did other people suggest as a limitation of yours? Did formal assessments point out any deficiencies? Identify where these descriptions apply and make a list of your strengths and weaknesses. You will need this list to be able to set a clear direction for your self-development efforts. Good luck!
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