Month: May 2020

1. What am I good at?

• I am a very outgoing and reliable people person. I thrive in working in diverse teams, where everyone collaborates and shares their ideas to create something great. I know when to take initiative and communicate goals affectively to anyone, and I am very straightforward and assertive when it comes to getting any tasks done, especially during high pressure circumstances. 

2. What do I value?

• I value healthy working and life cultures, and teamwork. I would not be able to participate in a job where I could not interact and communicate with many people on a daily basis. It is crucial that I am working and within environments that are supportive and recognize people’s accomplishments, but also know when to  communicate mistakes so growth can occur. Passive working environments are not for me – I need genuine confrontation that can help myself and my peers grow to be a better team, given in a positive manner. I also value good benefits over a larger salary, but I do expect to be paid according to the work I am doing in a given job and I will stand up for that whenever necessary in my future. 

3. How did I get here?

• I got to this point in my life, graduating from OSU with a degree in business management and wanting to pursue human recourses for my career, from involving myself in controversial sorority leadership roles, taking a chance with an internship in an industry I was foreign to, and pursuing more dedication and interest in the field of HR by taking certain college classes and participating in seminars based on the topic. I also have always known that I want to work with all different walks of life and be a leader in my career within the business industry. 

4. Where am I going?

• I am striving in the direction to be the head of HR for a business company one day. That would be my ideal job in working towards within my early career. Because I value healthy working cultures and working with much diversity, I want to help create a company culture as such with much of my own influence in being the HR leader. I want to instill my values and a positive and constructive working culture, while also the values of others, in order to help create a great working environment. I also want to educate others in an HR leader role on the importance of taking care of your body and healthy living for all employees outside of work and within. I want to do this by creating a health and wellness program for a company within HR to use and have as a benefit for employees. 

For extraversion, my test came back scoring very high on this indicating that I am “sociable, outgoing, energetic, and lively.” It also mentioned that I prefer to be around others most all of the time. I scored highest with the friendliness, gregariousness, and assertiveness domains of this trait. My score for agreeablenesscame back as average, indicating “some concern with other’s needs, but also having an unwillingness to sacrifice myself for others.” I scored highest on the cooperation domain for this trait. I came back with a high score for conscientiousness, meaning that I “set clear goals and pursue them with determination” and people know I am reliable and hardworking. I scored highest on the self-discipline domain for this trait. For neuroticism, I scored very low. This explaining that I am very calm and composed in high stress situations, and I do not react with intense emotions towards such situations. Lastly, my openness to experiencescore was fairly low, indicating that I “like to think in plain and simple terms,” and that “others describe me as down-to-earth, practical, and conservative.” 

If a potential employer were to look at my scores, they might say a strength of mine is that I am very sociable and outgoing, and also assertive when it comes to interacting with people and getting to know others or a company. Assertiveness can be a positive trait in being straightforward, getting things done in the workplace positively, and not beating around the bush. Another strength to an employer from my results could be with my conscientiousness trait and that I know how to set goals and pursue them with determination, as companies wants in their employees to accomplish overall goals. Being a reliable employee, as mentioned in my test, is also a strength that employers count on and look for in candidates to know that they are serious about a job. 

A potential weakness for myself can be that showing an average score for agreeableness could indicate that I lack higher concern for the well-being of others, and sympathy for others, so employers may see this translating negatively in group work settings with many other employees involved. Another weakness to an employer could be that my openness to experience score was low in the imagination and artistic interests domains, so this could translate in myself not being as creative of a thinker as other employees may be. Thus, I probably would not fit well within a design type of job. 

Obviously from learning what I have from this weeks lecture, I would have to know more about what the company is and what the position for hire entails. But, if I were to hire Avery or Jaime, I would have to choose Jamie. Consistency in employees to get their work done each day and be reliable is hard to come by these days in my opinion and from my experience working. Even the simple day to day tasks that can get boring are just as important to overall company success that Jaime does well at and Avery does not. Also, there can always be training and development when it comes to Jaime being successful and confident in reaching her highest potential – this can get better for Jaime with practice and help from caring management and a good working culture. I would get frustrated with an employee like Avery, each day not knowing what I will get from them, even if they can thrive at their best for the company on occasion – usually this means they’d choose to excel only when it best suits them, and not having an understanding of the companies overall goals. Those actions from an employee can upset employee moral and other employees could get the idea they could act the same as Avery, and then no one would show working consistency. 

I feel that Avery would excel in a job that has a lot of variety and different creative elements involved that they could show their passions for when needed. The job would also have less day to day regularities, and more instances where each day of work and product or service is different and unique. For example, these jobs could include being a surgeon or professional athlete, or even a form of an artist or interior decorator. Avery would be more valuable here over Jaime because when crunch time approaches with any of these kind of jobs, Avery would high perform and Jaime would struggle under the pressure. 

Jaime would excel at more of an office type of job where the day to day responsibilities are important but very consistent and create minimal opportunities for problem solving. Also, a job that would not be within a leadership realm, as managers/leaders can be pushed to their limits daily and have to be productive under pressure often. Avery would not be valuable in an office job, and it seems they’d get bored and have no motivation to do the same tasks each day, even if they are crucial to business success.