Career Plan Building Activity: Competencies and Career Interest Profiler

Career Plan Building Activity: Competencies and Career Interest Profiler

After taking the Career Plan Building Activity: Competencies exercise, I found that my strengths lie in the following areas; cooperating, following instructions, adhering to values, researching, delivering results and coping with pressure. Some of these results I expected, others at first glance, were not expected. For example, I am a pretty easy going person, so I do tend to cooperate and follow instructions. I also am a very moral person, so the fact that the assessment said I am a person who upholds ethics and values, came to no surprise to me. What surprised me was the delivering results category.

I believe that understanding my personal competencies will help me to improve my critical thinking skills. For example, researching was one of my strengths. It is important to remember when improving critical thinking skills, one must be open minded with their personal biases set aside. They must also be sure to gather all facts that support and rebuke the decision. Another one of my stronger strengths was coping with pressure. To improve critical thinking, you must be able to separate yourself from the argument at hand. Being able to keep emotions under control during difficult situations is a valuable strength when learning to possess when making that separation.

Knowing my competencies will help me to evaluate arguments because I know where my strengths lie. Researching, delivering results, and being able to cope with pressure skills could help me to defend, with accurate facts, my point of view in an argument. I will be able to keep an open mind, while still defending my argument without any biased opinions.