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).

- Member of the Bahrain Society for the Family and Friends of the Disabled

- Involved in organizing events including the sale of donated items and goods; participation of

which is part of the commitment to contribute to the improvement of society and providing

assistance to people in need.

- Participated in Alraja School’s M.U.N

- Designed the yearbook of Alraja School, 2015-2016

- Designed posters and brochures for the” Bahrain Society for the Family and Friends of the

Disabled” events

- Showcased a variety of art work in AlRaja school, 2014 Assisted in the design of the logo of
the gaming company 8-Bit

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 - Highschool
diploma
- Bahrain
Polytechnic

Informal learning - Youtube

- Be a better
Learning goals? designer with
more creative
ideas

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.
 - Creative
- Honest
- Determined
- Resilient
- Motivated
Flexible in any work place
- Team player
- Leader
- Objective
- Understanding

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.

Making a difference : I want to push the company I will be working in forward, and I want the
same support from my colleagues, so we can create a better future for our company.

Support : The support from my boss and colleagues are needed in the workplace in order to
create more motivation to do a better job in regards to work.

Positivity : The more positive the work place is, the better the environment will be and the
motivation to do work will be enhanced.

Respect : There needs to be respect between colleagues so there isn’t any room for toxicity and
childlike behavior in the workplace.

Tolerance : Not everyone will be on the same page as me, and I need to be respectful and learn
how to communicate better in order to reach the desired goal.
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
Communication I talk to people everyday in Having more Hearing other point of views
regards to work life and personal responses
life, whether it is friends or
people coming to talk to me
because I create a comfortable
and trusting atmosphere

Creativity The projects that I was able to do Learning about tools Practice on Adobe programs
for my Design course which are
on the E-Portfollio

Working under I always manage to get my work Following the Managing my time
pressure done even if I am under pressure deadline
and on a strict deadline

Positivity I always try to create a positive Being more motivated Nothing in this field
atmosphere to whoever I am
working with

Endurance As a design student we get a lot Personal attributes Being more focused and efficient
of projects to do back to back like staying calm and managing my time
and it takes a toll but my
endurance has enhanced
drastically because of these kinds
of situations
 6. Career Interests

Paste below your Career Voyage Interest Profile.

InterestGuideReport.o
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