The document discusses researching yourself and planning for your future career. It covers assessing your strengths and weaknesses, identifying skills and experience, and exploring different types of jobs and work environments. Readers are guided through exercises to build a mind map of their qualifications and evaluate their interests, strengths, and areas for improvement.
The document discusses researching yourself and planning for your future career. It covers assessing your strengths and weaknesses, identifying skills and experience, and exploring different types of jobs and work environments. Readers are guided through exercises to build a mind map of their qualifications and evaluate their interests, strengths, and areas for improvement.
The document discusses researching yourself and planning for your future career. It covers assessing your strengths and weaknesses, identifying skills and experience, and exploring different types of jobs and work environments. Readers are guided through exercises to build a mind map of their qualifications and evaluate their interests, strengths, and areas for improvement.
The document discusses researching yourself and planning for your future career. It covers assessing your strengths and weaknesses, identifying skills and experience, and exploring different types of jobs and work environments. Readers are guided through exercises to build a mind map of their qualifications and evaluate their interests, strengths, and areas for improvement.
RESEARCHING YOURSELF AND PLANNING YOUR FUTURE CHAPTER 1 RESEARCHING YOURSELF AND PLANNING YOUR FUTURE Learning Outcomes:
ü Understanding steps in the job application process
ü Researching and highlighting skills and experience
ü Identifying your strengths and weaknesses
ü Knowing your ikigai
ü Exploring the job application
In order to apply for any jobs, make sure that you know yourself. In this
chapter, we will try to analyze and maximize your potential in finding a
suitable job offer for you.
A. Assessing yourself
In order to assess yourself, try to answer the following questions.
l Who are you and what do you want?
l Why do you want to get a job?
l Do you have the skills that you need?
l What are the jobs that will suit you?
l Do you want the jobs that are linear with your degree?
l Do you want to have a full time or part time job?
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l Do you want to have remote working, office work, or the hybrid
working?
B. Identifying strengths and weaknesses
Evaluating your strengths and weaknesses comprises two things:
1. Your personal characteristics.
a) Positive characteristics: highlights your behaviors that can support
you in working. Example: humble, honest, and confident.
b) Negative characteristics: list all of your own inferior attitudes that
you have. Example: careless, moody, and easily angry.
2. Strength and weaknesses should be based on your own
performance in a job, not your attitudes or characteristics. Take a
look at the examples below:
a) Strength: on time, loyal to the company, professional, and easy to
adapt to new condition.
b) Weakness: unable to do multitasking, perfectionist, and a deadline
person.
3. Your qualifications: academic qualifications, skills, and experiences.
One way to identify them is by drawing a mind map.
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Exercise 1: Complete the headings (1-6) on the mind map using the words
in the box.
1-4: TEAMWORK – ACHIEVEMENTS – AWARDS – LANGUAGES – WORKING
EXPERIENCE
A-F: IN – WORKING – CAPABLE – SPEAKING – WOULD LIKE – WON
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5-6: TIME MANAGEMENT – SKILLS
G,H,I: DEADLINE – MANAGING – COMPETENCY
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Exercise 2: Draw a mind map similar to that in exercise 1. Add as many
bubbles as you like. Try to use the following phrases.
Strength Weaknesses Positive Negative
characteristics characteristics I’m able to.... I’m not very I am a creative I can sometimes good at... person, I can.... be careless because.. I’m interested in... I think I am also I could be a loyal person, Occasionally, I better at... because..... don’t think I cannot adapt to the condition....
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yourself on the following boxes.
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REFLECTIONS: Assessing your best skills and talent.
For some cases, people tend to be able to find out their talents and skills on what they capable of. However if you are still confused on what are you good at, try to select your talent and field that you are interested with. For a further explanation, try to look for IKIGAI is a mastermind Japanese concept to get your reasons for being. The following image can lead you to achieve your directions in the future.
