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Personal Assessment

Explore how your personal characteristics, interests, talents, and skills align with your chosen career. Assess your fit through self-reflection and analysis. Craft an essay showcasing your self-awareness and career alignment.

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Personal Assessment

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  1. Personal Assessment

  2. Personal Characteristics • Self-concept • The mental image you have of yourself. It’s how you understand yourself. • Attitudes • An opinion or general feeling about something. • Aptitudes • A natural tendency to do something well, especially one that can be further developed; AKA your talent

  3. Personal Characteristics Continued • Personality • The totality of qualities and traits, as of character or behavior, that are particular to a specific person. • Self-esteem • A feeling of self-worth and confidence. It’s how you feel about yourself.

  4. Personal Interests and Preferences School courses Interest Survey Hobbies School/Work environment Job tasks Data/People/Things

  5. Personal Talents/Abilities • Verbal • Numerical • Clerical • Manual Dexterity • The ability to use your hands skillfully • Mechanical Reasoning • Measures the ability to understand basic mechanical principles of machinery, tools, and motion • Spatial/Visual Acuity • The ability to be able to tell if something is in the correct place, has correct perspective, or is aesthetically pleasing

  6. Skills and Strengths • Utilization of Resources • Interpersonal Skills • AKA Social skills; display of friendliness and sensitivity to the needs of others through communication and listening (i.e., interacting with others in a positive way • Use of Information • Technology

  7. Skills and Strengths Continued • Basic Skills • Those foundational skills in reading, writing, mathematics, and English as a Second Language. • It also includes learning skills and study skills which are both necessary for students to succeed at the college level. • Thinking Skills • Personal Qualities • Unique to every individual

  8. Homework Write an essay discussing your career of choice (if you have one) or the one you listed on Wednesday’s Bell-Work Assignment. Identify ways that your current self would be a good fit for your career choice. Do this by writing a paragraph for each listed below: Personal Characteristics Interests and Preferences Talents and Abilities Skills and Strengths

  9. Homework Continued All essays must also contain an introduction paragraph, where you introduce your career choice, and a conclusion paragraph determining whether your career choice is still a good fit after a this personal assessment. This essay must be submitted by the end of day Tuesday through Canvas.

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