Market Yourself

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Learning about myself

Having a clear picture of your unique talents, interests, values and skills will be the base of your
career-planning journey.

Tips for completing self-assessments:

• read instructions carefully

• be honest
• remember it’s not a test – there are no right or wrong answers. If you do not answer self-
assessment questions honestly and accurately, you will end up with information that will
not be helpful to you in your career planning.

1. Work/Life Experiences

Your work and life experiences help shape who you are and may include:

 hobbies
 sports or other leisure activities
 volunteer work
 paid work
 travel
 unpaid work

When you review these activities, you may begin to see patterns or themes. These patterns can help to
set you apart from other job seekers with similar work experience or education. For instance, you may
notice that your life /work related experiences, involve a high level of challenge, or problem solving, or
dealing with people, or customer service, etc.
Activity
Use the space provided to list your work/life experiences (ex: management training, customer service,
soccer coach, volunteering, etc.). Look at your list – do you see any patterns or similar roles (ex:
leadership roles)? If yes, use a variety of coloured highlighters to identify patterns (ex: highlight all
leadership roles in yellow).

Red is for paid work

Yellow is for unpaid work that is also leadership
Green is for charity work

System support trainee

Receptionist

Kids r Golden walkathon

Member of AlMabarra Alkhalifia (MKFBH)

Visited ‘Dar Yuku’ Elderly Home

General Training in Microsoft Office

Participant in tamkeen’s ‘mashroo3i’ competition

Think about how the experiences you listed could relate to your career. Are there any experiences that
could lead to paid employment? Highlight those in a different colour.

I have highlighted blue for work that if I continue It could lead me into a paying office job.

2. Learning Experiences

Your education and learning experiences shape the type of work that you are able to do. These
experiences could include formal schooling (ex: general education development, high school, college,
university). They could also include informal education and training (ex: professional development,
courses, seminars, workshops). Be sure to consider learning you’ve done through your life experiences
(ex: volunteering, on-the-job training, family life).
Activity
Use the table provided on the next page to list your education experiences (courses completed,
professional development workshops).

Formal learning Diploma in

ICT from
Bahrain
Polytechnic

High school
Certificate
from
Abdurrahman
Kanoo School
Informal learning International
Baccalaureate
from Oxford
University

International
General
Certificate of
Secondary
Education from
Oxford University

General Training
from Microsoft
Office

To learn how to
Learning goals? create mobile
applications

Increase my
knowledge in
Microsoft
products

3. Personal Attributes
Everyone has characteristics and personality traits that make them unique. These form their personality
or personal style. Knowing your style preferences will help you to choose an occupation or work
environment where you can be yourself and be appreciated for who you are. Although you may
sometimes need to work in situations where you can’t totally be yourself, it’s hard to keep this up long
term.

There are lots of different assessments available to help you determine your personality preferences or
personal style. Some common assessments include:

• Personality Dimensions®
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®

Activity
Use the space provided to list five to 10 of your strongest personal attributes.

Social: According to the Myer-Briggs type indicator I am a sociable person, during my leisure time
I prefer to be with people. This is true as I like to always be around people.

Rational and Practical: According to Myer-Briggs I am someone who is rational and practical. I like
to think of things rationally before doing them. For example, I don’t like to do things that I don’t
carefully think about.

Active. According to Myer-Briggs, I am someone who is active and likes to have a role. I think this
is true as I am someone who likes to be involved in the community. For example, I am a member
of MKFBH bahrain

Experimental: According to Myer-Briggs, I am someone who likes to experiment and try new
things. This is true as I am someone who likes to program with new langauges

Adaptable: I am someone who can work anywhere. I have worked with many people even in
situations I don’t like. For example, in ony of my group projects I did not work well with my team
partners. However, because I am adaptable I can be fine working anywhere

4. Work Values
Knowing and understanding what’s important to you about work will help you to choose an
occupation and a work environment that matches your values. Are you most concerned with earning
enough money to pay your bills or advancing your skills and experience?

I am highly concerned about my bills. As i need to have a good paying job so that I feel that I am secure
in life. However, I still want to advance my skills and increase my experience.
 Based on the work values activities you have done in class list below your top five work-related values.
Explain briefly why they are important to you.

Achievement: Achievement is one of the most work values that are important to me, I like to
achieve and accomplish things at work.

Recognition: I like to be recognized for the work that I do and would want to be awarded from
my boss or at least recognized that I am doing a good job to encourage me.

Honesty: I strongly value honesty, as I like to be told the truth. I would not like it if someone lied
to me.

Trust: I have to be able to trust the people I am working with, so that I can feel safe and can
depend on them.

Fairness: Fairness is important as I wouldn’t feel that I am being exploited and like to be treated
fairly

5. Skills

Skills – or abilities – are things that you are able to do. Some skills are job-specific and can be used in
only one line of work. Skills that can be used in many occupations are known as transferrable skills.
You may have developed these skills in school, on the job, volunteering or through life experiences. In
your career journey, you might hear about “soft” skills and “hard” skills. Soft skills are sometimes called
“employability” skills. These are the skills you need to enter, stay in and progress in the world of work.

Activity

Access this link https://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sk/skillsinventory.html to analyze our employability

skills and follow the instructions to complete the table below:

1. Choose 5 skills that you currently have and provide a brief statement as evidence of your claim

2. Choose 3 skills that you need to develop and that are relevant to the job you would like to do in
the future. Explain briefly how you plan to develop those skills

Skills I have Evidence Skills I need to Development plan

Organising & motivating others.
Gathering/analysing/arranging
info. logically.
Managed and organized
meetings in MKFBH
Able to collect statistics and
information and use them
to get results and analyze
develop
Accepting I would develop this skill, by
constructive asking people to take a look at
criticism & giving my work and give me
feedback. feedback even if I don’t agree
Paying care & I would develop this skill by
attention to quality teaching myself to be extra
in all your work. careful in everything I do and
to teach myself to recheck all
 them. I have created a my work. Furthermore, I will
business plan that required show it to others so that they
me to gather and analyze can point where the quality is
data bad.

Programming Skills
I am someone who studies
programming so I have very
strong programming skills
and I can code in many
languages like C++ and Swift
Making choices I would improve this skill by
based on your own attending more workshops
judgment. that teach a person how to
have better judgment and
how to judge situations and
react to it.

Using body
language/dress/conduct/speech I am able to change my look
effectively and my body language
depending on the situation.
For example, for my
interview I wore a suit and
acted professionally

Using tact & diplomacy. Won best debate speech in

MKFBH annual national day
meeting. Was able to
convince others my option
using tactics and diplomacy
by convincing others

6. Career Interests

Paste below your Career Voyage Interest Profile.