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I have never taken the time to really sit down and look at myself as a person. I tend to think inside the box, I’m either good or bad. I don’t take into consideration all of the different parts of me. While taking test after test I have learned so many attributes and strengths that I behold and it gives me hope that I can succeed in school, work, and my personal life by focusing on my strengths and working towards what already works for me.
My results from the Strengths Finder Test are as follows; futuristic, deliberative, discipline, consistency, and restorative. I definitely agree with futuristic. My future is what motivates me. I am always thinking about what I can do now to make a better and brighter future for myself and be successful and happy. I agree with deliberative as well. I tend to be a serious person and I am always looking for the next mistake so that I can fix or prevent it right away. I don’t like when things go sideways, which is weird because I tend to procrastinate and those usually go hand in hand. Discipline is something that is very important to me and I agree with this 100%. I like to have a plan and I like each part of that plan to have a plan. Being organized and ready for what comes next is important to me so I believe that this is very true to my personality. Consistency is another attribute that describes me pretty well. I like balance and I like when people are treated fairly. Lastly there is restorative. I like solving problems and finding a solution when needed, although I do not necessarily seek out a problem to try to fix it. I tend to solve problems when they are brought to my attention.
The next test I took was the Learning Styles Assessment. I found out that Visual is my primary learning st...
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...me. I feel that leaving with a certificate and associates degree with good grades will make me feel accomplished and successful. Plus it will help lead me to transferring to a university to further my education in business and open up more doors for my career.
Long Term Goal:
I want to have $4,000 saved up by September of 2016 so I can trade in my car and buy a new Toyota Hybrid. I have been thinking about getting a new car and what I should get and I have come to the conclusion that getting a hybrid would be my best option. I want to attend Seattle U after completing RTC and that will be a long commute since I want to be living at home. I think that this will help a lot and save me money in gas. It will also add responsibility to my plate having a car payment and I am definitely ready for that, as more responsibility is part of growing up and becoming an adult.
Strengths Finder 2.0 uses an online assessment to evaluate the individuals unique talents by having the taker rate how they view a particular question in 20 seconds or less (Rath, 2007). After taking the assessment, my five strengths were determined to be achiever, maximizer, input, arranger, and relator (Gallup StrengthsFinder, 2012).
Like every other human being, I have my strengths and weaknesses. I know that I am not a perfect person, and that makes me who I am now. I continually strive to develop and grow myself as a person.
After completing the Clifton strength finders test, I learned my dominant strengths and it gave me a sense on what areas I am strong in. It allows you to work in the areas that you are good in and not in the ones you might not be as strong in. My top five strengths were learner, connectedness, belief, positivity, and includer. A lot of these I figured I would have because I am an athlete and I love to be positive. That is good because I practice these strengths every day which in turn will make me better at them and will allow me to use them in my career.
First, by reading over my results it was very helpful to understand why I like putting others before myself, defending those who need it, and always serving others because I am the defender and that’s what 13% of the people around the world do. It is also helpful to understand why I am shyer and introverted because I put others before myself and I serve them. I also felt that by knowing what I am stronger at or weaker of so I know how to approach any situation in the future. The one thing that I found to be least helpful is that even though I know my negative traits, it will be very hard to break those habits because those qualities define who I am. Some of my most accurate responses were supportive, reliable, being a great family man and husband, caring, imaginative and observant, loyal, enthusiastic, hardworking and an admirable employee. Altogether, there was nothing that does not define who I am. These results for me were actually highly
After taking this personality test I could not decide if I felt that my results were accurate about me or not. The personality test resulted in describing me as an extravert, intuitive, feeling, and judging (Humanmetrics,
As a matter of self-knowledge, I have taken the Clifton StrenghtsFinder assessment, my five top strengths were revealed. Rath explains that my results are unique to me. Even though others may share one or more of the strengths identified for me, they may be manifested in other ways. As an Achiever, the assessment explains that I am a self-motivated, hard worker who can spend hours studying, reading, and researching. I enjoy sharing my knowledge and skills through coaching, mentoring, or training. I set lofty goals for myself and relentlessly pursue them.
I am pleased to acknowledge and affirm these strengths. I hope to never let these become obstacles to anything I am trying to attain. I find that it is always good to be aware of who you truly are and I plan to use this newly discovered knowledge to the best of my ability.
I tend to agree with this assessment as it brings out my best qualities as strengths in the right way and enables me to assess myself to realize my potential. The strength that can best describe me is the balance which also means consistency. This has helped me cultivate my reputation and has helped me balance my choices. The one that surprised me is courage since at most times I am a team player, and this rarely enables me to stand out
Before I took the test I had wrote down what I thought were my strengths and weaknesses. My strengths were Hard working, Organized, strong believer and my weaknesses were impatient, not good at remembering important dates, and procrastination.
For personal and professional growth, given my personality traits, I need to embrace my strengths and weaknesses. I must use my strengths to my advantage, to be more effective academically and in the workplace, but I also need to identify and try to overcome my weaknesses, especially professionally.
With the conscientiousness category I was rated with a 58 percentile, stating I was neither organized nor disorganized. This is supposed to state weather you are able to show self-disciple and aim for high success. Which I totally disagree with because I feel as though I am the most disorganized person of all time and can never remember where I place things or can find them if that. Furthermore, I also disagreed because I find myself as a very well disciplined individual with structure and set high priorities for myself in my life to become successful. In addition, I did not quite agree with the category of openness to experience/Intelligent. As Rentfrow states, this category is supposed to say weather you have an appraising art, sentiment, voyage and unique concepts (Rentfrow). I had scored a 20 percentile stating that I have narrow interest and uncreative. Although I might be a tad bit of an uncreative side to myself, I don’t agree however it stating I have narrow interest, because I feel as though I always think out of the box about things and try and figure out problems before they even occur. For the most part of the personality test I would have to agree with what it is stating, especially for being an online data test it sure is precise on how it describes my personality as a single
After taking the test my results came as the following: openness (58%), conscientiousness (69%), extraversion (31%), agreeableness (60%), and neuroticism (10%).
4) With Agreeableness I ranked at 83% with the description of good-natured, courteous and supportive. Being my agreeable self, I agree with this assessment. I have a natural affinity for empathy and sympathizing with others. 5) In Neuroticism I ranked at 37% - generally relaxed. This is also accurate. I would probably rank lower if it weren’t for being a worry wart, which is linked to my high conscientiousness. People often comment on how easy-going I am, but if they could see what goes on underneath th...
During my first weeks of college I was given the task of taking a quiz that helps me determines my strengths that will help succeed in my college career and beyond. The online quiz assesses you talents and strengths with which you can develop by reading the book ,Strengths Quest, which explains your abilities. The quiz takes thirty minutes to ask about various topics that determine your top five strengths or “themes of talent”. When I first read the synapsis on the back of the book I was skeptical about the accuracy of the quiz’s ability to determine what I’m like based on one hundred and thirty questions. Once I finished the test I still questioned the truth behind the results, until I read the book. I believe that Strengths Quest is a helpful tool that will help me through my college career. The test determined that my personal talents were: adaptability, learner, input, relator, and intellection. Each attribute is presented in the order of the strongest to the weakest. I feel as though the strengths are accurate because I see the similarities between them and my personality.
Other strengths include being self-confident, conscientious, diligent and determined. It was interesting to see my lower scores as well; the lowest average score was sensitivity (3.2), followed closely by self-assuredness and perception and empathy. Although I consider myself sensitive, I believe the sense of sensitivity does not apply as often towards others I interact with. For example, I often speak my mind and voice my opinion with little thought of the consequence or impact it might have on those around me. Thus, sensitivity is not one of my existing strengths, but rather an opportunity for growth. I also found it interesting to note how I scored significantly lower in the human skill, and higher in technical, which I did not expect. This score likely correlates with my score form the LTQ, which identified room for improvement in relating with