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).

Trainee at DCS (distributed control system) department at YOKOGAWA middle east and Africa,
Bahrain, as part of work placement course at Bahrain Polytechnic. I was trainee at YOKOGAWA from
July 2019 – September 2019, I worked with three different teams working on different projects for
different countries. This experiment helped me to improve my skills such as time management,
problem solving, learning, communication and leadership skills. Working in YOKOGAWA helped me to
improve my learning skills, for I was working on a departure specified in instrumentation and control,
which I had a very basic background of, so I had to make a research, read books so I can understand
the way of company projects, and the tasks given to me. The most stressful thing I have done during
my university is the Engineering program courses, for we have many tasks to complete in a very few
time, and that helped me with my time management skills, because I had to submit many
assignments and projects at the same time.

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.

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 High school
Foundation year
2nd year electronic
engineerin

Informal learning Women power Photoshop courses.

summit 2019.

Professional
Learning goals? certificated

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.
  Easy going
 Competitive
 Good listener
 Inventive
 Active
 Knowledgeable
 Balanced

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?

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.

 Pay attention to details.

 Making a different.
 Honest
 Delivering quality
 Reliable

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

develop
Keeping calm Help me to get over the Using tact and I am always given general replays,
while difficulties difficulties diplomacy. and I am not very good at given
diplomatic replies.

Understand what Being a good listener helps me to Emphasizing the Very often I lose arguments because
the person needs understand what the others positive aspects of I’m not able to persuade the person
wants. your argument. I’m arguing with the positive aspect
of my idea.
Hardware skills As an engineering I have many Paying attention to In engineering is very important to
hardware skills, which can help details pay attention to details so you don’t
me in many ways. fall in small mistake change all the
work plan.

Programing skills I can read many programing

languages and its pretty easy to
me to learn new programming
language.

Love to learn new I am pretty sure that I can get

skills new skills from every single work
I do, so I enjoy to volunteer and
work during my university
vacation.
 6. Career Interests

Paste below your Career Voyage Interest Profile.