Self-SWOT analysis of personal emotional intelligence and workplace readiness

¶ … SWOT analysis of self

After the training and acquisition of skills within the institution, there will be the other life outside the college where the skills and knowledge acquired will have to be pout into practical use. This is an eventuality that every graduate faces and hence there is need to know oneself properly and understand your emotional intelligence and behavioral pattern as well as disposition of the personality so that one is adequately prepared for the job market out there. It is on the basis of these facts that the below SWOT analysis on myself was conducted with the ultimate aim of affirming my presumptions about my personality using a professionally proven metrics like the one presented herein. The self SWOT analysis will delve into the personal Strengths that are displayed by my daily approaches and conduct, the Weaknesses that emerge from the perspectives I hold and the decisions I often make, the Opportunities that come up for me to utilize my strengths in a gainful manner and lastly the Threats that come up against my daily plans to achieve the goals that are set before me.

Strengths

In the emotional intelligence section, it emerged that I have 'other awareness' which often helps me in the work that I do. In order to understand the position of clients who walk into the showroom or you meet in the marketing sessions, which is what I am prepared to start my career off with, it is important to be in a position where you can accurately tell what they are feeling. This is also appositive attribute in effectively dealing with colleagues at the future work place and even classmates in the college. Without showing empathy to others, it ca take you so long to understand what they are going through hence you could be around them but still be of very little help. The test also showed that I am a highly introspective person under the section of 'introspection'. This shows that I take deep consideration for inner self before making decisions and the decisions that I make are motivated by strong values that I believe in. Being introspective also allows one to have high levels of self-awareness, hence knows how to deal with their inner emotional turmoil that if not checked, may end up ruining their careers.

Weakness

It is also important to know the weaknesses that an individual has and the matrix presented helps in effectively gauging the weaknesses. One of the weaknesses that emerge from the test is that I come out as a 'performance avoid-orientation' which means I often fear taking up tasks that may reveal my inner inabilities that I had kept to self. On the contrary, I would rather take up assignments in the group or at home that I am confident I will prove by prowess in outperforming others. I am risk averse generally in life and the test has brought that to the fore. These are weaknesses that may hinder my future career since I will tend to choose which job to take up and which one to avoid, yet it is possible that the one I will be avoiding is what will work out better for me. Another weakness showed up in the presentation of my Type A personality, where I recognize and worry about stress in my life. This is an indicator that I can easily get depressed by a stressful situation and it may hinder me from accomplishing my duties.

Threats

There are some characters and behaviors that may act as threats to achieving the full potentials that we have. For instance in my filling out of the matrix, it came out that in the Big Five section, I fell under the personality of agreeableness. This can be said to be the person who does not want to rock the boat and cars much about the emotional state of others. In as much as it may be a good attribute, it can also be catastrophic to the decision and opinions that the individual holds. This means I often have to give in to the opinions of others or even abide by the decisions that others make. Effectively this threatens the good visions and standpoints concerning my future career or even the activities concerning my education. This is a real threat to my career that needs to be changed if I am to have hopes of progressing, especially into leadership positions where others will be looking up to me for decisions and advice. In the scoring of 'the meaning of money' to me, it came out that I viewed money as s strong indicator of achievement and also as strong indicator of freedom. On retrospect, this is a weakness especially in my career life where I may be tempted to gauge jobs and careers in terms of how much money I earn and get respect from people, and not how positively my career influences the community and the people I am in contact with generally. This is a threat to my ultimate career growth that I need to work on. Yet another threat to my career is in the level of trust propensity which indicated that I am too trusting even to new people in my life. This can lead ill intentioned people to take advantage of my trust and misguide or explore the chance for their own good.

Taking into account the strengths as well as the weaknesses that the test exposed about me, most of which I strongly agree with, the organizations that I can effectively work with are humanitarian organizations, sales and marketing firms, advertising firms as well as religious-based organizations. I fit more in jobs where there direct contact with the clients or the victims who need the humanitarian aid. This comes from my ability to empathize and emotionally understand those who ae around me, their suffering and predicament. It also comes from my attention to details and doing more of listening than talking in the group.