Week 9 Bloog Post- Self Reflection

1. What am I good at?

Some things that I consider myself good at include working collaboratively with other, and being able to train others. I gained this with my 5 years of working in customer service. At my job at Baskin Robbins, I had to train all of the new employees, and found that I was very good at interating and getting along with other employees. Furthermore, I think that I am good at communicating with those that I do not know in a professional manner. I have had to work with and help may clients through my accounting internship, and had to communicate professionally with clients and tax managers in order to do my job. I also feel that I am good at task management. I am very timely, and when I set goals for myself, I do everything I can to achieve these goals, even if sometimes it means overworking myself.

2. What do I value?

In my personal and professional life, I value respect and honestly. I do not respond well if I do not feel that I am being respected. I also make sure I respect others when I am working with them or communicating with them. I also value honestly. I grew up in a family that valued honestly, and I try to incorporate honesty in everything that I do. If I do not think someone is being honest, I find it really hard to trust them or work with them.

3. How did I get here?

This is a relatively hard questions for me to answer. I faced a lot of struggles growing up, both financiallty and mentally. With that being said, I always tried to find the motivation to keep trying to meet my goals. I made a goal to go to college, and even though my family told me I was crazy because my father did not go to college, I succeeded at this goal, and am graduating soon. I think my determination got me to where I was in life.

4. Where am I going?

In the future, I want to pass my CPA exams and get my CPA license. Furthermore, I want to have a family and own a home. These are my three main goals in life. I believe that my career goal of working as a tax accountant at a public CPA firm will help me meet these goals.

Blog Post: IPIP Results and Reactions

I took the short version of the IPIP test. After taking the test, I found out that on the personality dimension of extraversion, I scored low, indicating that I am introverted. I also found that on the personality dimension of agreeableness, I have an average score, indicating that I have some concearn for others’ needs, but don’t like to sacrifice myself for others. For conscientiousness, I had a high score meaning that I have clear goals and determination to complete the goals I set for myself. Under neuroticism, I have a high score, meaning that I get upset easily (which is very true) and tend to be sensitive and emotional. On openness to experience, I scored low, meaning that I like to plan and be practical.

If a potential employer were to look at my results, they may see some of my strengths as being hard working and having the ability to set and stick to my goals. I have strong determination that is very important to have in the workforce in my opinion. I also think that my average agreeableness score could be a strength as it shows I have concearn for others’ needs, but also can hold my own opinions.

Furthermore, if an employer were to look at my results, I may show weaknesses in extraverson, neuoticism, and openness to experience. My low score in extraversion may be a weakness, because in a lot of industries it is important to work in groups, and these types of settings give me anxiety. Furthermore, they may see my high score in neuoticism to be a weakness because I hold strong emotions and they may feel that I will not be able to seperate my personal life and emotions from my work place. Lastly, they may see my low score in openness to experience as a weakness because a big part of working and adapting is flexability and this score may show that I do not have much flexability. With this being said, my ability to plan and be practical could also be seen as a strength in terms of time management and my ability to complete tasks.