BSB124 Working in Business
Portfolio Part 1
Semester One 2017
Word Count: 873
Introduction.
According the research done by University of Kent (2016) Your degree will not guarantee success in the professional world. Sufficient qualifications might give you some of the skills needed to succeed in the workplace, but personal qualities and your awareness of them can help you achieve your wanted career goals. I will therefore in this portfolio evaluate and analyse my intrapersonal strengths and weaknesses that will aid me in my pursuit of workplace success in my chosen career. I will present and reflect over my results from the International Personality Item Pool (NEO IPIP) and apply what I have discovered against my SMART …show more content…
The big Five has highlighted several of my interpersonal strengths but also my weaknesses. My strengths are Openness to Experience and agreeableness which pleases me. I am however quite disappointed over my low score in conscientiousness because of the often-stressful workplaces I might end up in.
Goals.
I wish to develop skills that will assist me in stress and anxiety management and with time-management to lower my Neuroticism and conscientious score. As a professional goal, I aim to learn and adopt ways to manage and reduce anxiety and thoughts of incompetency and enhance self-confidence (Costa and McCrae, 2002).
To increase my professional performance and ensure that my weaknesses do not completely damage my future, I would like to set myself specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and timely (SMART) goals. I aim to increase my performance level of conscientiousness to 25/50 within a 6-month period, I also aim to decrease my score of neuroticism to 23/50 in the same period because it is the trait that relates to poor job performance due to its association with low self-confidence.
Portfolio Part 1
Semester One 2017
Word Count: 873
Introduction.
According the research done by University of Kent (2016) Your degree will not guarantee success in the professional world. Sufficient qualifications might give you some of the skills needed to succeed in the workplace, but personal qualities and your awareness of them can help you achieve your wanted career goals. I will therefore in this portfolio evaluate and analyse my intrapersonal strengths and weaknesses that will aid me in my pursuit of workplace success in my chosen career. I will present and reflect over my results from the International Personality Item Pool (NEO IPIP) and apply what I have discovered against my SMART …show more content…
The big Five has highlighted several of my interpersonal strengths but also my weaknesses. My strengths are Openness to Experience and agreeableness which pleases me. I am however quite disappointed over my low score in conscientiousness because of the often-stressful workplaces I might end up in.
Goals.
I wish to develop skills that will assist me in stress and anxiety management and with time-management to lower my Neuroticism and conscientious score. As a professional goal, I aim to learn and adopt ways to manage and reduce anxiety and thoughts of incompetency and enhance self-confidence (Costa and McCrae, 2002).
To increase my professional performance and ensure that my weaknesses do not completely damage my future, I would like to set myself specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and timely (SMART) goals. I aim to increase my performance level of conscientiousness to 25/50 within a 6-month period, I also aim to decrease my score of neuroticism to 23/50 in the same period because it is the trait that relates to poor job performance due to its association with low self-confidence.