Importance of Self-Reflection in Career Path
Prepare a written summary of your self awareness exercises from ‘Your career and you’, your career planning reflections from the study guide and include a section on ‘your greatest strengths’ giving some brief examples of how you demonstrate these strengths.
Self-Reflection or Self-Assessment earns needed significance in tracing one’s career path in that the self-assessment activity contributes in understanding an individual’s strengths and weaknesses. It also helps to understand and evaluate one’s interests, potentials, attributes, expertise and certain other innate qualities that thereby help the person in effectively making the right career choice. Informed choices made regarding one’s career in terms of matching skill requirements with one’s ability and interest potentially contributes in generating needed productivity and efficiency in the long run.
Exercise for Personal Goals
The exercise for personal goals contributed in evaluating and matching my goals with my personal profile. It helped me in matching my interests with the goals in focus.
Exercise concerning Values and Attitudes
The exercise concerning values and attitudes helped me in evaluating that the degree I am pursuing is very relative for helping me get a Business Analyst job in Turkey. It also helped me in prioritising objectives and in maintaining an effective study-work-life balance.
Exercise for Sense of Responsibility and Competitiveness
This exercise helped me in evaluating my leadership traits during my study tenure and reflected my potential in shouldering needed responsibility. It also reflected whether I was acting in a competitive and coordinated fashion.
Self-Confidence Exercises
This test helped me in understanding my level of self-confidence while interacting with others and in dealing with life.
Leadership and Persistence Exercises
This test helped me in evaluating my leadership and persistence qualities while working out with my study, personal and work life.
Exercises concerning Employability Skills
This exercise focused on evaluating and judging my personal attributes and other personal, interpersonal, organizational, communication and a host of other skills.
Organising Skills
I have developed different types of Organising Skills that are enumerated as follows.
I have learned how to manage and allocate time for conducting of different tasks pertaining to an organisation.
I have also learnt in setting of goals and objectives, designing of targets and also in allocating needed resources for helping in its effective accomplishment within a
stipulated period.
I have also understood the fashion through which the work can be detailed along different steps and procedures such that effective focus can be given along each step.
Exercises for Personal Goals, Values, Leadership, and Skills
I have also developed the ability in taking decisions in a precise and efficient manner to avoid the chances of disruptions.
Further on, I have developed my skill and ability in coordinating and managing work through working based on a bird’s eye view. It thus helps me in overseeing the tasks from different aspects.
I have also developed the ability in not only managing but also in motivating others for steady and effective fulfilment of departmental and institutional objectives.
I have also gained the ability of planning and scheduling the work and thereby in leading and directing the actions of subordinate staffs for its needed fulfilment.
I have also become apt in signing and also in initiating different work contracts.
Socialising Skills
I have developed on skills in encouraging subordinate staffs and thereby also in monitoring, evaluating and also in criticising their actions for bringing about needed perfection regarding meeting of group and institutional goals.
Moreover, I have also developed on networking and partnership skills with different external parties for faster accomplishment of tasks.
I have also developed my ability for dealing and communicating effectively in group settings.
I have also encouraged the growth of teamwork and also operating in a collective and cooperative fashion in the organisation.
Further, I have also learnt the manner by which the responsibilities concerning the accomplishment of different tasks can be rightly shared between group members.
I also understood the significance of gaining feedbacks and suggestions from colleagues and subordinate staffs regarding the accomplishment of complex tasks.
I have also developed my skills regarding evaluating and assessing the actions of others for the fulfilment of departmental and organisational objectives.
I have also learned the process of countering and dismissing the emergence of internal conflicts and also in empathising with the needs and wants of others.
Communication and Linguistic Skills
I have developed needed confidence in expressing to others my own opinions, views and feelings.
I have also developed my orating skills for communicating effectively in verbal fashion to members in large and middle sized groups.
I have also learnt to become an active listener to feedbacks and suggestions rendered by group members and thereby also render counter feedbacks to them.
I help in clarifying the doubts and queries brought about by subordinate staff members and also act in a non-verbal fashion in cues along certain moments.
Creative Skills
I constantly have a perception of likeliness in things that are apparently not the same.
I have developed the ability in dealing with analogues.
I have also developed certain intuitions that help in formulating visions.
Developing Organizing and Motivational Skills
I have also learnt in not being reactive but proactive and also developed my intention in learning from others.
Cognitive Skills
Gained the ability in collecting, selecting and even in ordering the data.
Analysis of the information gained
Ability to discriminate and to judge and evaluate.
Developing on brainstorming and problem solving skills
Contingency Skills
Having the capability to respond effectively to external changes
Adjusting and adapting to new changes and changes in group settings.
Capacity to improvise
Applying new ideas and concepts.
Self-Managing Skills
Increased self-awareness
Ability to operate in an independent manner
Development of self esteem and self confidence
Evaluation and appraisal of self.Identified Strengths
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Strengths · Aggressive in conduct · Friendly and Socialising · Prioritising on meeting of objectives · Flexible and ability to coordinate · Leadership ability · Personal Motivation · Ready to take up responsibility · Working honestly and in a manipulative manner · Good communication and convincing skills |
Demonstration of Strengths · While working as a manager I took an aggressive decision of changing the supplier for generating needed savings. Though my action spurred needed controversy initially yet subsequently my superior agreed with me for being able to save. · I can easily and readily interact with strangers and this helps me in gaining new insights for developing on my career. · I can effectively plan on meeting objectives both regarding my domestic and professional fronts. This helps me in meeting the needs of both family and organisational members. Similarly, I strike a balance between my study and work life to excel in both. · I focus on maintaining an effective work-life balance. I effectively managed and coordinated between 12 times of swimming training per week with studying and also in taking care of needs of family member. Similarly, between studies I effectively manage around 2-3 hours daily for feeding birds in a row of 5 times. · When as a student, I generally played the role of a group leader and thus managed the activities of the group for fulfilment of group objectives. · I personally motivated myself to work in a stricter and harder fashion for training myself to become a good swimmer. I have worked tirelessly in a self-motivated manner. · I am always ready to take up new responsibilities without waiting for others to come forward for shouldering and sharing the tasks. · I focus on working in a honest manner for setting example before others. However, I also focus on acting in a tactful and manipulative fashion for effectively meeting task objectives. · I can easily communicate and share effective ideas with other group members and also help them in earning insights from diverse experiences. I also can judge and evaluate interests and expectations of individuals and thereby convince them to act in fulfilling stated objectives. |
Problem regarding Pain Control Management
I am suffering from potential pain for which I had been taking pills for a long time. I have become addicted to Codeine. Sometimes can’t go to classes or work without taking Codeine. Along with pain I suffered from needed anxiety regarding controlling and reducing it. It affected my study leading to failure. Of late I have reduced the number of pills and have passed the level.
Strategy
I need to join yoga and meditation classes which would help in reducing the pain and also reduce the level of anxiety. It would help in increasing productivity and performance.
No experience in studying and interacting within a team.
I do not have prior experiences in performing within a group or team setting like studying in groups or in getting involved in community activities.
Strategy
I need to join scouts and cadet groups such that working with them would help me gain needed experience in performing within a group. It would help develop my cooperative and interactive skills.
Learning English in an effective and professional manner.
I felt it quite hard to learn English during the initial stages, however subsequently it became quite easy for me though I still need to develop more.
Strategy
Need to join some Business English education programs conducted by British Council or to enrol for programs like IELTS and TOEFL to enhance the language skills.
The analysis reflected different strengths and weakness of me while focusing to complete my study and pursue a career as a Business Analyst in a private firm. It reflected my socialising and inter-personal skills with also my ability to effectively generate a study-work life balance. It also focused on me being a hard worker with also the skill of prioritising and planning of work activities for meeting of domestic and professional objectives. Speaking on my weaknesses, the analysis carried out reflected on my ongoing problem regarding addiction to Codeine for managing the continual pain that I am subjected to since a long time. It also reflected on my problems with English language and lack of team working experiences. Effective strategies were spelt for dealing with the weaknesses mentioned.
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