Month: May 2020

1. What am I good at? I am good at communicating with people. I could always be a positive person and be kind to others. I could face negative feelings with my positive emotions.

2. What do I value? I value the relationship with others. I put much effort on building relationships because I hope I could be able to get good friends.

3. How did I get here? I could build up my network zone with different social circle. I could meet more friends by introduced by my friends and bring my personality to them.

4. Where am I going? I am going to be a graduate student. I would like to find a job that can give me a chance to communicate with others and make good use of my positive emotions.

According to the test that I have taken, all five dimensions including extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience, I am positioning in the average score. For extraversion, the test told me that my score on Extraversion is average, indicating I am neither a subdued loner nor a jovial chatterbox. I enjoy time with others but also time alone. My level of agreeableness is average, indicating some concern with others’ Needs, but, generally, unwillingness to sacrifice myself for others. My score on Conscientiousness is average. This means I am reasonably reliable, organized, and self-controlled. My score on Neuroticism is average, indicating that my level of emotional reactivity is typical of the general population. Stressful and frustrating situations are somewhat upsetting to me, but I am generally able to get over these feelings and cope with these situations. My score on Openness to Experience is average, indicating I enjoy tradition but are willing to try new things. My thinking is neither simple nor complex. To others, I appear to be a well-educated person but not an intellectual.

These results have both strengths and weaknesses to potential employers. As all five dimensions I am positioning at the average, it means that I am not as bad as most of the people, however, it also means that I am not as good as those upper part’s people. Some employers might want to get the highest potential of the candidates instead of all average candidates. In the strengths part, I will be able to work with a group or work individually as I enjoy time with others but also fine with alone. Also, I have average agreeableness, it means that I am willing to listen to others’ opinions but I will strongly tell others about what my thoughts are, in order not to sacrifice myself. To the employers, it is really important to get an employee that is able to control themselves. I get an average on conscientiousness, it shows that I could be reliable, organized, and self-controlled. For my stress level, it might be a good or bad thing to the employers because I am easy to get stressed but I can still keep calm under pressure and I can cope with it even though it might upset me a little. Also, my openness to experience might suitable for those employers who are looking for the traditional job duties’ position because I am more comfortable with the traditional but willing to try new stuff.

If I were in the shoes of the business owner and had to choose Avery or Jaime to be my colleague, I would choose Jaime. It is understandable that Avery has a high potential when he is performing in some important events in a business. However, Jaime was able to perform his job in the consistent way, letting his performance has the standard one. For me as a business owner, I would prefer to have a consist worker because I do not have to worry about his/her daily performance since I knew that he/she could perform in the way that is acceptable. Although when it comes to some certain situations like the clutch one, it is really unfortunate that Jaime could be only provide me with the daily job performance, it might not also get such situations. Even so, I got such a team could help me to solve the problem together.

I think Avery is more suitable for the job duties that require workers to have different performance and the job environments are fluctuated. If the job requires Avery to change his performance such as the sales team. Sales team requires workers to have different planning in each of the different events. They have to communicate and have meeting with different customers. Different events and customers provide Avery a changing environment that he could provide his high potential.

For Jaime, he is a low potential but high consistent person. I think Jaime is more suitable for working at the company that is required workers to provide a standard job performance but less creative and fewer outbreak situations. For example, the job such as an accountant, it requires workers to perform a high standard without mistakes, it would be suitable for Jaime to work for it.