First, what is your brand? By this, I mean what is the first impression that you present to potential employers? What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses? What makes you unique or different?
I believe that my brand is that I am intelligent and determined, but I also like everyone around me to know that I can lighten the mood with a joke or a witty comment. All of these things I would consider part of my strengths because I want people to know that I have the ability to learn and adapt to situations. I do not want people to think I am a know it all, but someone who is smart and not afraid to ask questions if I need to. I view humor as one that is actually super important because sometimes the impact of a good laugh can improve ones day, especially if things are going bad on a job site or even in their personal lives. Morale is a big part of work production, and having fun really can raise this. My weakness is that I can lose focus fast if I am not interested. I saw this in my first internship where they gave me a bunch of busy work instead of work that was for my job, and this killed my effort. What makes me unique is my drive for success. I want the best for my family and I want to take care of the people who took care of me growing up and there is a lot that I will do to climb the ladder and achieve this goal.
Second, how could this information be communicated to organizations through the means of a novel and creative situation wanted ad and how would you go about making your situation wanted ad visible to prospective organizations?
I would make my ad visible to organizations by actually going in and talking to the individual who is in charge of hiring. I would hand them over information that would tell them where they could find the ad, and I would also ask for their email to send them a physical link where they would not have to type it out or go through any inconvenience. I want to convey that this would be a similar experience to the one where they hired me, I would make their life easier and add tremendous value to the organization. In the ad, I would list my experience and qualifications and put my references in an easy to spot area so that the words of my former bosses, who I have all good repor with, would speak for me. I understand my limits and that I am young with not a lot of experience, but with having Bruce, who is the president of my current company on there, his record and him vouching for my level of work and ethic will mean much more than what I could say in an advertisement.
