Market Yourself

GS6203

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 be helpful 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).

Volunteer at Bahrain northern governorate.

Worked in a team as an Organizer and Planner at Advanti/RANSOR (Voluntary).

Member in Saar Charity Fund

Patterns of work is that I worked in voluntary work. And all the jobs require time management
skills and great communication skills.

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.

A: Being an organizer helps in getting a job as it requires a great knowledge in time

management. Additionally, working in a team could lead to a paid employment for it is required
in modern jobs to have teamwork skills.

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
High School diploma (Scientific).

Bachelor of ICT at Bahrain polytechnic (currently)

Informal learning
Learned Programming Languages like Python from
internet sources.
I have self-developed some knowledge in Adobe
Photoshop and Lightroom.

Learning goals? To learn Perl and ruby programming languages.

Develop an understanding in Adobe Premiere.
Plans to take a Master’s Degree in Data Mining.

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®

http://www.humanmetrics.com/hr/jtypesresult.aspx
Activity
1. What is your Personality code?
2. Use the space provided to list five to 10 of your strongest personal attributes.
3. Provide three statements related to your communication and learning style.
4. What jobs were suggested to you based on the results of the personality test?
5. Provide three to four statements that describe your workplace habits

You can get the information from the links below:

http://www.humanmetrics.com/hr/jtypesresult.aspx
https://www.opp.com/en/tools/MBTI/MBTI-personality-types
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp
https://www.16personalities.com/personality-types

1. ISTJ

2. Confident, Focused, Practical, Logical, Organized.

3. tend to keep my feelings to myself.

easily frustrated by the inconsistencies of teaching materials

ISTJ types enjoy working within clear systems and processes

4. Accounting Jobs, Computer Science and technical.

5. I preform efficiently when taking a step by step approach. Additionally , I tend to carry out the
work even at the expense of my own health.

I get frustrated when other parties do not keep their commitments.

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. (This is from the material on Moodle in week 2 –3
Understanding workplace values)
 Recognition :I want to receive credit for the work I’ve done

Achievement : I ant my job to give me a sense of achievement so it doesn’t become a routine.

Personal development : I ant my job to develop my skills to be better at what I do

Challenge: I don’t want to feel bored so I need a challenge

Job security: It’s important because hopping from a job to job Is not good.

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.

Activities

1. 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:

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

3. 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
Managing I worked on many project Taking the To take point in the next
your time at BP at the same time so initiative. group project in BP
effectively. I had to manage my time.

Working I worked with a groups Using creativity Adapt new solutions to

cooperatively on projects in BP which to generate present my solutions
towards a helped me develop this alternative
common goal. skill solutions.

Using SQL, MySQL learned in BP Making decisions I need to stick to my

databases. & seeing them dissensions more
through.
Using Learned during System
spreadsheets analysis and design
course in BP

Designing web Knowledge in HTML, CSS,

pages. JavaScript, PHP in
designing web sites and
applications

Programming I know how to program in

skills. C#, PL/SQL and PHP which
I learned in BP

Taking the I have been taking Lynda

opportunity to lessons to develop my
learn new Adobe Photoshop and
skills. Lightroom knowledge

Working in groups in BP
Handling have taught me to handle
objections to objections to my
your argument
arguments.
 6. Career Interests

Paste below your Career Voyage Interest Profile.

7. A graphic representation of your skills

Activity

Access the link below and cut and paste the skills wheel on the space below.
http://college.cengage.com/masterstudent/shared/content/wheels/scans_wheel/discovery_wheel.h
tml
 1. How well does the wheel represent your different skills?
A: Somewhat accurately, I think I have great Personal and Basic Skills, but I don’t think that my
Resources skills are lower than my systems skills.

2. What are your strongest skills and how are they relevant to the job you
would like to have in the future/ or to the degree course you are studying?

A: Information skills and Thinking and they help in thinking logically to tackle the problem at
hand especially in the ICT field

3. What skills do you need to improve on and why are they necessary for the
job you would like to have/degree course you are studying?
A: I need to improve interpersonal skills for the reason that it is needed in the work place.
Also, resources would be beneficial in the ICT field because the workplace needs management
of the resources at hand