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Yourself
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Learning about myself
Having a clear picture of your unique talents, interests, values and skills will be the base of your
career-planning journey.


Tips for completing self-assessments:

• read instructions carefully
• be honest

• remember it’s not a test – there are no right or wrong answers. If you do not answer self-
assessment questions honestly and accurately, you will end up with information that will
not be helpful to you in your career planning.



1. Work/Life Experiences

Your work and life experiences help shape who you are and may include:

• hobbies
• sports or other leisure activities
• volunteer work
• paid work
• travel
• unpaid work

When you review these activities, you may begin to see patterns or themes. These patterns can help to
set you apart from other job seekers with similar work experience or education. For instance, you may
notice that your life /work related experiences, involve a high level of challenge, or problem solving, or
dealing with people, or customer service, etc.



Activity

Use the space provided to list your work/life experiences (ex: management training, customer service,
soccer coach, volunteering, etc.). Look at your list – do you see any patterns or similar roles (ex:
leadership roles)? If yes, use a variety of coloured highlighters to identify patterns (ex: highlight all
leadership roles in yellow).





Reception Assistant

Librarian Assistant

Member in Jedhafs Learning Centre.

Member of Al-Noor Centre.

YELLOW: Communication skills

BLUE: Teamwork skills, very important for web media student because I will work with
team in most projects.

Think about how the experiences you listed could relate to your career. Are there any experiences that
could lead to paid employment? Highlight those in a different colour.

2. Learning Experiences

Your education and learning experiences shape the type of work that you are able to do. These
experiences could include formal schooling (ex: general education development, high school, college,
university). They could also include informal education and training (ex: professional development,
courses, seminars, workshops). Be sure to consider learning you’ve done through your life experiences
(ex: volunteering, on-the-job training, family life).


Activity
Use the table provided on the next page to list your education experiences (courses completed,
professional development workshops).



Formal learning Studying Bachelor of Web Media including
• Web Programming
• Web Marketing
• Audio & Video
• Web Design
Have Certificate in Academic Preparation
Have Certificate of Secondary School


Informal learning Have Certificate of INJAZ Bahrain Programee
Volunteer in Al-Noor Centre.
Volunteer in Jedhafs Learning Centre.
Volunteer in Al-Faris Library.




Learning goals? Learn to use new programs such as Adobe InDesign.
Join e-marketing workshops






3. Personal Attributes

Everyone has characteristics and personality traits that make them unique. These form their personality
or personal style. Knowing your style preferences will help you to choose an occupation or work
environment where you can be yourself and be appreciated for who you are. Although you may
sometimes need to work in situations where you can’t totally be yourself, it’s hard to keep this up long
term.

There are lots of different assessments available to help you determine your personality preferences or
personal style. Some common assessments include:

• Personality Dimensions®
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®

http://www.humanmetrics.com/hr/jtypesresult.aspx


Activity

1. What is your Personality code?
Thinking and Extravert

2. Use the space provided to list five to 10 of your strongest personal attributes.

3. Provide three statements related to your communication and learning style.
Working with team is suitable for be.
I like hand activities more than listening or watching based on my learning style which is Kinesthetic.
I am a hard-worker
clear plan an list to do to help me finish my works on time.

4. What jobs were suggested to you based on the results of the personality test?
Business Management and Sales/Marketing Specialist

5. Provide three to four statements that describe your workplace habits

open to use and learn new methods that can be demonstrated to be better
enjoy working in well-organized workplaces
enjoy connecting with others to get things done
hard-working

You can get the information from the links below:

http://www.humanmetrics.com/hr/jtypesresult.aspx
https://www.opp.com/en/tools/MBTI/MBTI-personality-types
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp
https://www.16personalities.com/personality-types


Question 2

1- Thinking over feeling

2- Observant
3- Thinking
4- Judging
5- Assertive
6- Extravert



 4. Work Values

Knowing and understanding what’s important to you about work will help you to choose an
occupation and a work environment that matches your values. Are you most concerned with earning
enough money to pay your bills or advancing your skills and experience?

Based on the work values activities you have done in class list below your top five work-related values.
Explain briefly why they are important to you. (This is from the material on Moodle in week 2 –3
Understanding workplace values)


Creativity: To deliver creative designs for customers such as clear and beautiful advisements

Personal Development: I should be able to learn new techniques to build different and high quality
websites

Friendly: To deal with customers and client.

Direct and Honest: trust facts far more than abstract ideas or opinions.

Time managment: know my responsibilities and plan to do my tasks on time.




5. Skills

Skills – or abilities – are things that you are able to do. Some skills are job-specific and can be used in
only one line of work. Skills that can be used in many occupations are known as transferrable skills.
You may have developed these skills in school, on the job, volunteering or through life experiences. In
your career journey, you might hear about “soft” skills and “hard” skills. Soft skills are sometimes called
“employability” skills. These are the skills you need to enter, stay in and progress in the world of work.

Activities

1. Access this link https://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sk/skillsinventory.html to analyze our
employability skills and follow the instructions to complete the table below:

2. Choose 5 skills that you currently have and provide a brief statement as evidence of your claim

3. Choose 3 skills that you need to develop and that are relevant to the job you would like to do in
the future. Explain briefly how you plan to develop those skills

Skills I have Evidence Skills I need to Development plan
develop
Designing web I designed many web pages using Adapting your writing I am going to search more about
pages. different programming languages style for different writing styles for different
such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript audiences. audiences and will try to practice
and PHP. Such as in Web that.
authoring and web programming
courses.


Using the Internet Managing your time I am going to plan and organize a
& email. I am able to use the internet and effectively. time-table for me to ensure
email effectively for both managing my time to finish my
academic and non-academic work without feeling compressed.
purposes. For example using
internet for research and emails
to communicate with tutors.
Moreover, used internet in daily
life such as to access personal
social media platforms.

Completing work I always ensure to finish my Taking the I am going to watch tutorials on
to a deadline. assignments and submit them on opportunity to learn Lynda website to learn new skills
time. Moreover, in working on new skills. such as skills that related to my
groups I completed my tasks degree such as about designing
before the deadline. applications using new languages
like objective C.

Taking a share of
the responsibility. Specifically if I was working in
groups I be responsible and make
sure to deliver quality work.

Listening to others' I respect others and listen to
opinions. their opinions because it might
be very helpful such as in
working in groups project. Also, it
is a good way to get other ideas
because it is develop and
improve the final work.




6. Career Interests

Paste below your Career Voyage Interest Profile.



7. A graphic representation of your skills

Activity

Access the link below and cut and paste the skills wheel on the space below.

http://college.cengage.com/masterstudent/shared/content/wheels/scans_wheel/discovery_wheel.h
tml


1. How well does the wheel represent your different skills?
I think that it present some of my skills in a good way such as thinking.
However, I think my skills in system is more than the chart presented.

2. What are your strongest skills and how are they relevant to the job you
would like to have in the future/ or to the degree course you are studying?
Thinking and interpersonal are my strongest skills. Thinking is very
important in my future job as a Web Media students. Because it is
important to plan and organize my thoughts and ideas in order to build
websites.


 3. What skills do you need to improve on and why are they necessary for the
job you would like to have/degree course you are studying?
Information skills. Because to build websites, it is necessary to have a good
information and knowledge about the websites’ content.