Self Assessment

Meaning-Making - Understanding Who You Are 

You are more than your major. Your degree is one part of many things you have to offer. Your degree alone will not land you a job; an employer will seek skills, strengths, and fit among other things.  

Fostering self-knowledge builds confidence about:

• what you have to offer and;
• how to make career decisions that are right for you.

Becoming a strong candidate means understanding who you are and who you are becoming. Here are the other things you have to offer:

• Strengths are your innate skills and competencies. No one has to ask you to use these. They come with ease and are your differentiators; they are what make you unique.
• Character is your ability to engage your thinking, feeling, and behaving; these are your virtues.
• Values are what motivate and determine your priorities and guide your decisions; these act as a decision-making compass.
• Knowledge and learning are the ability to apply and synthesize subject matter expertise with additional broader knowledge; these are your continuous learning abilities.
• Skills are used to engage in doing a task. They are both technical and behavioral, and are transferable from one environment to another; these are your work tools.
• Creativity is your ability to think about a task or problem in new or different ways; this is how you approach problem-solving.

Exploration Tools

• Skills Inventory - Identify skills you have and would like to develop.
• VIA Character Strengths - Identify your values in action. How do you show up in the world? Tips on how to use character strengths in new ways
• Professional Strengths Activity - How do you stand out from everyone else?
• Career Values Activity and What are Your Values? - Reflect on your personal and professional values.
• My Creative Type - Everyone has a creative type; what’s yours?