Month: May 2020

1. What am I good at?

I consider myself to be a fairly good writer and have used this skillset to further advance me through my education. I am also good at being present for others when they need it. I am pretty good at playing guitar and being musically creative in my process. Lastly, I consider myself to be a good student who knows how to correctly prioritize their time.

2. What do I value?

Somethings that I value are core values such as trust, honesty, integrity and hard work. Other things I value is a cold beer on a hot day. I also value friendship and being there for others in times of need. Lastly I value life itself.

3. How did I get here?

I would not have gotten here without the proper guidance of my parents and my family. They have helped and supported me all the way and are the ones who I can credit my success too. Lastly, I also have an internal drive that has allowed to me to push myself in life.

4. Where am I going?

I hope that I am going on to bigger and better things. While there is no sure way to tell, I do know that I am graduating OSU this year and that is a huge milestone in anyones life. From here, I will have less guidance from my parents, but am still confident in my ability to successfully navigate myself through life and avoid any unnecessary obstacles.

Overall I think I scored pretty well on the IPIP Test, and I chose to take the shorter one due to time. For “Extraversion” I scored a 50 which is not too bad given that I presumed myself to be an introvert. Friendly people genuinely like other people and openly demonstrate positive feelings toward others. They make friends quickly and it is easy for them to form close, intimate relationships. My level of friendliness is perceived as average. For “Agreeableness” I scored 38 and had high levels of trust, meaning a person with high trust assumes that most people are fair, honest, and have good intentions. In the category of “Conscientious” I scored a 43 and noticed that I scored very high in self efficacy. I think that the benefits to this are high and conscientious individuals avoid trouble and achieve high levels of success through purposeful planning and persistence. For “Neuroticism” I was glad that my score was relatively low and only a 39.  Immoderate individuals feel strong cravings and urges that they have have difficulty resisting which correlates to my high score for this subcategory. My “Openness to Experience” score was the lowest by far and shocked me when It said I only scored a 2. I consider myself to be outgoing in most situations, so this surprised me.

As a potential employer looking at these results, I would say that there are many strengths and weaknesses to make a decision off of. Starting with the strengths, Brett would appear to be a great coworker to other employees in an office setting. His scores tell us that he is relatively easy to approach, friendly and willing to help others. This would be the type of characteristic we would want, and would hope that Brett would work well with others. Next, Brett appears that he would be most likely to cooperate in a given situation. Brett, based off his scores should be perfectly willing to compromise or to deny their own needs in order to get along with others. Lastly, Brett appears to have scored fairly high in orderliness and self discipline, which is an extremely important characteristic to have when we have deadlines and projects. Now I would like to look at some of his weaknesses. I would say that Brett’s biggest weakness is his tendency for impulsive behavior. Impulsive behavior, even when not seriously destructive, diminishes a person’s effectiveness in significant ways. Impulsivity also sidetracks people during projects that require organized sequences of steps or stages. My main concern with Brett is that his accomplishments would therefore be small, scattered, and inconsistent.

1. In this situation, I think that I would defiantly hire Jaime over Avery. The main reason being that as the boss, I value my employees who show up on time and produce consistently. Jaime clearly has very high typical performance, which without much detail on the company, is going to be useful to me regardless. Avery would defiantly be a stronger maximal performer, but in this case I would still hire Jaime. Jaimes performance is going to be primarily driven by personality, meaning that he will also get along with other employees.
2. One job where I can see Avery outperforming Jaime, and acting as a better employee is in any innovation company. Whether It be Nike or Apple, I think they will greatly benefit from having an employee that when pushed to the limits will excel. They will want Avery because when they do get him to be motivated, he will push out very high performance, which can ultimately lead to the company’s competitive advantage. Because these jobs are more focused on individual results and creativity, rather than a contribution effort, Avery will feel pressure to perform at a higher standard.
3. The job where I can see Jaime performing at really well, would be in a factory. He is the type of employee that you could rely on to be there day in and day out, on time, and always ready to contribute. It is these type of jobs where a consistent performer will thrive, because their boss will ask them to complete a task, they will, and so on and so on. Having typical performance in a work place like this will allow the company to meet goals more easily. Lastly, having someone that you know is reliable takes a lot of stress of managers back, because they won’t have to worry if the employee will show up that day or if they will get a report in by the deadline.