Your Personal Qualities for the World of Work

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Your Personal Qualitiesfor the World of Work

• Agriculture, Food Natural Resources education

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Personal ability

• Your capacity to perform complex tasks
• Training or natural talents
• School grades may indicate ability
• Try a self-appraisal
• Commercially available aptitude tests
• Multiple intelligences theories

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Talent

• Something you do well
• Personal talent
• Performance skills often comes to mind
• Mental math number skills
• Develop talent with effort study

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Ask yourself these questions

• Am I an effective speaker? Do I write well?
• Can I word-process efficiently?
• Do I sketch, draw, or have graphics skills?
• Do I have musical talent?
• Am I mechanically inclined?
• Can I perform physical feats well?
• Do I work well with others?
• Do I have a scientific or inquisitive mind?

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Determining my Interests

• What are my favorite classes?
• How do I spend my spare time?
• With which school activities clubs am I
  involved?
• With which extra-curricular activities am I
  involved?
• Am I interested in working with people or things?
• Take an occupational interest inventory

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Physical make-up

• Occupational demands on health, strength
  stamina
• Adjust career choices to physical ability
• Allow for physical limitations

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Educational Target

• Preparation is the Key to success
• Employers subscribe to your knowledge skills
• Occupational competency
• Education training

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Attitudes Values

• Workplace attitudes look for favorable feature
• Accept supervision / constructive criticism
• Values may change over time
• Self-appraisal

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Personality traits

• Attitude
• Courtesy
• Enthusiasm
• Friendliness
• Honesty

• Initiative
• Loyalty
• Morality
• Self-control
• Sense of Humor

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Self-concept

• How you see yourself
• Relative to your people surroundings
• Occupational satisfaction is important

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Willingness to Change

• Constructive criticism
• Adjustments to work duties responsibilities

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Previous Experience

• Successful work experiences
• Interest in work performed
• Occupational satisfaction is part of job success!

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Developed by

• Kirk Edney
• Instructional Materials Service
• 2008