Personality strengths and weaknesses in my undergraduate profile

¶ … personality profiles considered to be part of my strengths. The paper identifies and discusses the specific dimensions that influence my personal strengths and weaknesses.

My Personality Strengths

Conscientiousness and openness to experience are the strengths in my personality traits, I am freshman undergraduate student with the following personality profiles.

Openness to Experience: Openness is one of my strengths in personal profiles that involves active to the imagination, preferring different intellectual curiosity, attentive to my inner feelings, and active in aesthetic sensitivity. With regards to openness, I prefer new experiences over a routing experience because I believe that a new experience will add to my body of knowledge and assist in delivering a wide variety of interests. Creativity is one of my strengths because I believe in developing new ideas rather than relying on traditional old ideas. Moreover, I consider myself to be highly intelligent and knowledgeable. Essentially, openness is correlated with intelligence because I am highly motivated in intellectual pursuit, which adds to my body of knowledge. I also enjoy solving difficult problems that other people may face challenging to solve.

Conscientiousness: Conscientiousness is also part of strengths in my personality profile. Typically, I consider myself to be vigilant, thorough, and careful in all tasks, which assist in completing an excellent task. Based on my conscientiousness ability, I consider myself well-structured and more goal oriented. Moreover, I believe in planning my tasks before venturing into an activity since a careful planning assists in achieving my goal objectives. My level of conscientious is also correlated with my level of academic performances, I believe in working harder to achieve higher scores in my academic performances.

a. Successful Experience

I have a lot of experience in life that I consider being a success. One of the requirements of the college admission in the United States is to pass the SAT (standardized test). Importantly, a college applicant is required to score high mark in the SAT examination before being considered for admission. The SAT exams consist of critical reading, mathematics, and writing. When I sat for the SAT examination, I was able to score above the national average. The national average scores for mathematics are 511, writing 484, and national average for a critical reading is 495. However, my scores were as follows: Mathematics 525, Writing 501, and I scored 502 in critical reading. I was able to come out brilliantly in SAT exam based on my personality traits. Typically, I am a highly conscientious individual who takes my academic performances very serious. Moreover, I work hard to achieve success in life. My high open to experience personality assists me in achieving success in the SAT exam because I believe in active imagination with preference to intellectual curiosity, which make me coming out brilliantly in my academic endeavor.

Personal Experience in being Struggled

I have some experiences, which I have to struggle to achieve my aim. While some people may find it easier to address the public, however, I struggle to address people in a social gathering. If I am asked to address the public, I have to prepare myself very well before I can achieve this aim. Moreover, I am anxious about the outcome of this task. My personality trait has influenced my inability to address the public gathering. When I was in the high school, I was asked to represent my class in the science debate competition. Despite being one of the best students in science, I was still nervous to express myself when asked to answer particular questions. This issue shows that I am not as agreeable as other people.

3. Influences of My Personality in the Workplace or Personal Life.

My personality profile has influenced my interactions with others in my personal life and workplace. I like to be on my own rather than mixing with other people. When I was in high school, I liked to be on my own, although, I mixed with people, however, my social interaction with people was not extended outside the school time. In my high school days, I was being considered an introvert, and many students considered me to be unfriendly. Contrarily, the issue is different because I am always at my best when I am on my own. Moreover, I am able to solve difficult problems when I am on my own rather than co-partner with other people.

4. Goal-setting Theory

The goals setting theory is linked with motivation and task performance stating that challenging goals along necessary feedbacks contribute to better and higher task performances. (Locke, 2001). The theory can be applied in the workplace environment to direct employee about what needed to be accomplished with a required effort. I believe that goal setting theory can be useful in my life and workplace since it is necessary to cooperate with people to complete a given task. Thus, I believe that I will need to develop a habit of being more social with people to enhance my ability to achieve my goal objectives.

Reference

Locke, E. A. (2001). "Motivation by goal setting." In Golembiewski, Robert T. Handbook of organizational behavior (2nd ed.). New York: Marcel Dekker. pp. 43 -- 56.