Today you will learn how to start a self inventory of skills and personality traits that employers are seeking when hiring job candidates, how to analyze past work history for transferable skills, and how to discover your strengths and weaknesses.
Summary
What is a Self Inventory?
A self inventory is an inventory of all your skills, traits, passions, core values, career drivers, career vision, and your most valuable contribution to employers.
Why take a Self Inventory?
By doing this homework on yourself, you will reap to the following benefits:
You learn to describe your skills and abilities in different ways so you can approach multiple job markets.
Brings mindfulness to the process which has been shown to improve your decision making.
You can describe in detail exactly what you're looking for which will aid your networking efforts.
You get a better picture of jobs that really excite you, which mean you will inevitably pour much more time and energy and determination into your job search
You no longer have to wait to approach companies until they say they have a vacancy.
You can accurately describe to employers exactly what is unique about you and what you bring to the table that other candidates don't
Develop a deeper knowledge of who you are and what you need in your job.
What are Skills?
Skills are you're ability to do something.
Technical skills are gonna be the how to of many things. For example, if you're a programmer, it's you actually knowing how to code it's a technical skill. It's those skills needed for a task and the know how to use them productively and efficiently.
Transferable skills are skills that underlie your ability to execute the technical skills of your job effectively. These are the skills that are going to help you solve problems including critical thinking, creative thinking, communication, collaboration, and character building.
What are Personality Traits?
Personalities traits are the way you conduct yourself as you move through the world.
They are evolved solutions to the problem of a highly complex world.
Act as filters of our perception, cognition, and motivation influencing our actions in the world.
Creates a mask to present to the world, but if it's the wrong mask it can leave you feeling like an imposter, inauthentic, shameful and not like yourself.
How to Take a Self Inventory of Skill
In the activity for today you will take the following steps:
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