How To Assess Your Strength & Weaknesses For Any Job
Introduction
Finding a job is difficult! It is a whirlwind of confusion, apprehension, and dangerous FOMO when everyone else you graduated with is getting a job.
The first thing you need to do is stop comparing yourself with others’ Linkedin achievements. If you focus on others till ad-nauseam, you wouldn’t have the headspace or energy to focus on what you should be doing.
The reason behind your apprehension is your lack of confidence, which is not stemming from your incapabilities but rather a lack of knowledge of your capabilities. Something which makes you stand out among others and makes you a better candidate for a job.
If this is the sole reason behind your mild depression, then you have reached the right place. In this excerpt below, we will discuss tips on evaluating your strengths and weaknesses.
This should give you a fair idea of the work you should be looking for and job roles you should absolutely cross out.
What Is A SWOT Analysis
SWOT is an abbreviation. It means:
S: Strength.
W: Weakness.
O: Opportunity.
T: Threat.
One does a SWOT analysis on themselves to understand what they will be good at with their strength. What they should avoid and which part of themselves they should improve based on their weaknesses. Upon understanding S & W, one can evaluate the opportunities they can get, vis a vis opportunities they can ace with their skill sets.
The threat is something which may arise if you take your strength for granted or do not improve on your set of weaknesses.
How To Do Your Own SWOT Analysis
Doing your own SWOT analysis could be tricky but satisfying at the same time. By the end of the evaluation, you will know so much about yourself that your confidence will restore.
1. Sit With Yourself
The first thing you need to do is sit with yourself and be your own judge. First, go through a few sample job description, and recognize the job roles you are most likely to enjoy. This will start with your degree, skillset, personality and how they can all work towards the strengths and weaknesses of your dream job.
Divide a page into two parts, Strength & Weakness. This will be a little difficult; when you start filling in the “weakness” side of the page. No one likes pointing out their own drawbacks.
However, if you take a different perspective, the sooner you will, the easier it will be for you to start working on them.
2. Talk To Someone Trusted
Now that you have a first-person perspective, it is time to get a trusted second-person opinion. Start with talking to a family member or friend who knows your qualifications and will be unbiased without any hesitation.
Yes, they might pinpoint your flaws and give you some constructive criticism, but you should take them all with a grain of salt. This is essentially the first step of progression.
Plus, someone trusted will have your best interest at heart, and they wouldn’t lie to you for their own personal ulterior motive.
3. Take Professional Help
There are tests like aptitude, personality, and career, which give you a scientific evaluation of what you are good at and not.
It is simply based on the assessment which you took. These assessments are threefold.
- They test your skills in the particular field you are interested in.
- You overlap emotional quotients.
- Then, your overall intelligent quotient.
- Lastly, they will evaluate your personality type. One of the well-known personality type tests you can even take for yourself is MBTI or the 16 personality test.
The Importance Behind Acknowledgement!
It is not just a job role but how your success will look in this job role in the next five years. A SWOT analysis is the most systematic form of acknowledgment.
This will help you ace an interview because when you know where your strength lies, it will be easier to convince the recruiter about your capabilities.
Knowing your strengths and weaknesses can also help you negotiate your salary better. Based on the skill set you are bringing and the average salary which you deserve.
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