Conduct a Self Assessment and Appraisal When Looking for a Job
May 12, 2009 by admin
Filed under Job Search
A self-assessment may be more useful in the preparation and marketing of yourself when you are job hunting – be it an entry level job or a career major upgrade. Most people avoid and prevent a deep self-evaluation. This will short-change themselves and to prospective employers.
When it comes time to seek employment or gainful employment – whether it is an entry-level position or a significant update to the corporate career or an important step that is often overlooked is a clear self-assessment and evaluation a person’s own skills and abilities. After all who knows your internal personal strengths and weaknesses better than yourself and not another?
Self-evaluation is often a more difficult process. That is why it is so often overlooked. If it is difficult to accept criticism from others – whether in a football or baseball game, a spouse or a boss in what is supposed to be more positive and a learning experience – the much feared “annual or even quarterly “evaluation” is never quite the task entertaining or to enjoy or suffer. This is the same and similar as to why people tend to forget this step in the job search process – which is a self-assessment.
However, a self-assessment can make the difference between getting or not you obtain job – whether that never seem to get that promotion or that entry level job to be the ladder until the Common of “big box” store rather low and certainly lower paying jobs.
The product you are selling in job interviews is “you.” Most likely, you spend a good amount of time and expense to prepare resumes and cover letter. However, the general and overall purpose of a resume is to get a job – some people never received a job offer, simply by submitting a curriculum vitae. If you are most likely to obtain employment or because the company or the country was desperate for employees or was not a good place – indeed, a terrible place to work. The purpose of the resume and cover letter is to get the product at the door – in a real face to face interview situation.
Most people at an interview in general, just think about the skills and attributes that have been used in recent times or in their current or last job. Change in the short and even themselves the potential employer. Most people have skills and attributes that may never have thought of or mention portray. It is a situation similar to that of the Titanic hit the iceberg – only a small percentage of the people real and inherent skills and talents to the surface and are visible to the naked eye – the interviewer and, in fact, the interview subject.
A self-assessment can identify these traits, talents and attributes to you before this interview – perhaps even before the curriculum is updated as well. Being informed in advance and are in a much better position to identify itself as the soul of the most appropriate talent for the job at hand and as well market and hopefully better.
And if they have faults or shortcomings or have not been identified by yourself, if you need an explanation or self-assessment is the best place to start to be comfortable, either a response or question to this situation or take steps to put remedy any situation or provide more training or education.
It is getting that job, job search, a leader in life – all by yourself in presenting the best possible light.
If you do not take the time and effort to appear on the best ways and means either to obtain better pay and employment who will? It’s all up to you.
A true and real self-assessment and evaluation is one of the best things you can do. It’s more than worth the time and effort spent on testing. I think.