Self Assessments In The Workplace: Self Analysis

Introduction
Throughout the semester, I took multiple self-assessments to evaluate who I am as a person and how I am in the workplace. The purpose of self-assessments is to explore who I am, what I want, where I want to go, and how I can get there (sdps.ucdavis.edu). Even though I have a good understanding of who I am as a person, it was interesting to see how some of these self-assessments turned out. They correlated with how I feel towards myself, but also they brought up some areas that I did not know about myself. I completed self-assessments on the topics: personal understanding, conflict diagnosis and management, leadership and followership, teamwork, and power and influence.
Personal Understanding
Three self-assessments I took

based on understanding people in the workplace are the Employee Engagement Survey and the Big Five Personality 360. What I learned from these assessments is that I am conscientious when it comes to my work, and I have an outgoing personality. However, when it comes to the workplace, I am not engaged or motivated.
There are more than fifteen thousand words that describe personalities, but when grouped, there are five dimensions.

The “Big Five” include openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Everyone has these traits, but the way everyone differentiates among them is how we differentiate people’s personalities (Bauer & Erdogan, 2015, section 3.3). On the Big Five Personality 360 assessment, I received an extraversion score of twelve and a conscientiousness score of thirteen. A score of twelve through fifteen on this assessment is considered as high. My agreeableness, emotional stability, and openness-to-experience scores were all moderate. On the Employee Engagement Survey, I received a score of nine for vigor, a score of four for dedication, and a score of six for absorption. For the first assessment, I was expecting these results. Instead of basing them on the workplace, I based them on how I view myself as a person. For the last assessment, I knew I was not going to have a high score, but I expected it to be more moderate and not so

low.
My current job is as a receptionist at Northtown Lexus.

My responsibilities are to greet customers, answer phone calls, and write receipts for sales. Since I am the first person customers see, it is my job to be enthusiastic and make sure their visit at Lexus is off to a great start. If I make customers excited about coming to Northtown that could make the rest of their shopping experience a good one, which could lead to a potential sale. Besides that, my job is fairly easy and requires little to no effort. In addition, my job is temporary and once I graduate, I will be looking for a full-time position elsewhere. Even though I complete the tasks that I am assigned, my job does not inspire me and I do not find it challenging. I often become bored and find myself leaving the front desk whenever I get the chance to walk around the dealership or talk to the other employees. My results reflected my views on the workplace. I learned that I do not have the willingness or need to invest effort and I am not strongly involved or experience pride, or inspiration at

work.
Since my job is not challenging, I do not find it hard to complete the tasks at hand. My views on the workplace do not affect my ability to do my responsibilities. I am able to separate my feelings towards my job with what I am supposed to do and how I am supposed to act. In the future, I recommend that I find a job that I find more interesting and challenging. Although I already display an extroverted attitude as a receptionist, it is not genuine. If I am able to find a job that I take seriously, I will find more meaning and purpose in my work, which will lead me to feel genuinely happy at my job and work conscientiously.