Market Yourself

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Learning about myself

Having a clear picture of your unique talents, interests, values and skills will be the base of your
career-planning journey.

Tips for completing self-assessments:

• read instructions carefully

• be honest
• remember it’s not a test – there are no right or wrong answers. If you do not answer self-
assessment questions honestly and accurately, you will end up with information that will
not behelpful to you in your career planning.

1. Work/Life Experiences

Your work and life experiences help shape who you are and may include:

 hobbies
 sports or other leisure activities
 volunteer work
 paid work
 travel
 unpaid work

When you review these activities, you may begin to see patterns or themes. These patterns can help to
set you apart from other job seekers with similar work experience or education.For instance, you may
notice that your life /work related experiences, involve a high level of challenge, or problem solving, or
dealing with people, or customer service, etc.
Activity
Use the space provided to list your work/life experiences (ex: management training, customer service,
soccer coach, volunteering, etc.). Look at your list – do you see any patterns or similar roles (ex:
leadership roles)? If yes, use a variety of coloured highlighters to identify patterns (ex: highlight all
leadership roles in yellow).

1- Bahrain bowling national team (bowler) for thirteen years.

In the past years being a bowling player for the national team helped me gain and develop many
skills such as team work skills, working under pressure, learning skills.

2- Being a student at Bahrain polytechnic.

In the years I spend at Bahrain polytechnic I manage to gain many skills. Since the university
provides it student with problem based learning activities then the main skill I have gained is
problem solving. Moreover, I have managed to gain the ability to learn new things (learning
skills) as well as the ability to work under pressure and pay attention to details, team work.

Think about how the experiences you listed could relate to your career. Are there any experiences that
could lead to paid employment? Highlight those in a different colour.

2. Learning Experiences

Your education and learning experiences shape the type of work that you are able to do. These
experiences could include formal schooling (ex: general education development, high school,
college,university). They could also include informal education and training (ex: professional
development, courses, seminars, workshops). Be sure to consider learning you’ve done through your life
experiences(ex: volunteering, on-the-job training, family life).

Activity
Use the table provided on the next page to list your education experiences (courses completed,
professional development workshops).
Formal learning 1- High school diploma
2- Currently studying at Bahrain polytechnic bachelor of
business.
3- Took ICDL.

Informal learning 1- Courses in Microsoft office.

I aim to develop my knowledge in the business

Learning goals? industry and gain as many skills as I can as well as
develop my current ones. Furthermore, I aim to
achieve high education after completing my bachelor
in business in order to provide the best of my
knowledge and experience.

3. Personal Attributes
Everyone has characteristics and personality traits that make them unique. These form their personality
or personal style. Knowing your style preferences will help you to choose an occupation or work
environment where you can be yourself and be appreciated for who you are. Although you may
sometimes need to work in situations where you can’t totally be yourself, it’s hard to keep this up long
term.

There are lots of different assessments available to help you determine your personality preferences or
personal style. Some common assessments include:

• Personality Dimensions®
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®

Activity
Use the space provided to list five to 10 of your strongest personal attributes.
 1- Problem solving.
2- Working under pressure.
3- Learning skills.
4- Team work.
5- Time management.
6- Communication skills.
7- Self motivation.
8- Leadership.
9- Multi tasking.
10- Work ethics.

4. Work Values
Knowing and understanding what’s important to you about work will help you to choose an
occupation and a work environment that matches your values. Are you most concerned with earning
enough money to pay your bills or advancing your skills and experience?

Based on the work values activities you have done in class list below your top five work-related values.
Explain briefly why they are important to you.

1- Equality.
2- Culture.
3- Growth and educational opportunities.
4- Stability.
5- Honesty.

I believe that the top five listed above are the most important work values because when an
organization provide all above then the employees will feel safe to work and achieve within the
organization and will have loyalty to the company.

5. Skills
 Skills – or abilities – are things that you are able to do. Some skills are job-specific and can be used in
only one line of work. Skills that can be used in many occupations are known as transferrable skills.
You may have developed these skills in school, on the job, volunteering or through life experiences.In
your career journey, you might hear about “soft” skills and “hard” skills. Soft skills are sometimes called
“employability” skills. These are the skills you need to enter, stay in and progress in the world of work.

Activity

Access this link https://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sk/skillsinventory.html to analyze our employability

skills and follow the instructions to complete the table below:

1. Choose 5 skills that you currently have and provide a brief statement as evidence of your claim

2. Choose 3 skills that you need to develop and that are relevant to the job you would like to do in
the future. Explain briefly how you plan to develop those skills

Skills I have Evidence Skills I need to Development plan

develop
Problem solving Managed to accomplish 4 years Time management Taking time management courses
of problem based learning and applying them to real life
activities provided by the activities.
university.

Multi tasking Managed to finish three Decision making Taking trainings about how to make
assignments and 2 presentations the right choice.
during 30 days.

Team work Played for a bowling national Communication Taking communication courses to
team for 13 years. be able to be more social.

Working under Managed to work on several

pressure assignments and have good
grades.

Leadership Led several assignments during

my university time which leaded
to accomplishing the assignment
within the dead line.
Career Interests
Paste below your Career Voyage Interest Profile.