Self-review: Personal Branding for Career Advancement

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Student’s Name
Institution

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INTRODUCTION
A person advances in his/her career, there is always a great need for marketing
themselves as well as their careers as a brand. This technique holds strongly that
success comes from how well one is packaged (McChesney, Covey, & Huling, 2012).
This is always a continual process and therefore it cannot be achieved in one instance.
This is an activity that requires one to create a prescribed picture in the mind of other
people (Tsai, 2005). In this paper, this technique will be centered on as I brand myself
to make other people know me better too. I will be talking more of my current state, my
feature dreams and ambitions and also a way through which achieving them will be
possible. The paper will be as explicit so that one can know who really I am at a glance
on it. It will also heavily borrow ideas from other scholars on the relevant principles of
personal branding. This all will be to ensure that a good image of myself have been
created. This information is aimed to be helpful to anyone who might be interested to
know more about me. Normally there is more about a person that cannot be captured at
a glance. This ranges from a person’s interest, goals and ambitions, a person’s history
and match more. It is a document that is expected to be helpful especially in my career
field as it stresses more of my career ambitions. It is expected to serve as a compass
that can guide other when tracing me in any way. It is also expected to add weight to my
resume as I seek employment out there.
FINDINGS
I’m a graduate of Jordan University where I did a course in aeronautical
engineering. It’s been a while since I cleared with campus life. Life at Jordan was
amazing as it shaped me and molded me in diverse ways. This a platform that helped
me in realizing my interests and strengths too. I love playing soccer a big deal. This was
one of the interest that I realized on campus. I frequently attend tournaments when they
are available. My love for soccer is beyond money as I find more fulfillment playing the
game even when there is no any pay. I have also enrolled for masters for a master in
business to further my knowledge in business management. When it comes to working
experience, I have already worked with Jordan aviation airline as an aeronautical
engineer. This one year was a golden opportunity to put what I had learned into

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practice. In many cases, it becomes hard for students to put into practice what they
learned in the classroom out there in the job market. I, however, had a chance to bridge
this gap by identifying my weak areas and improving on the same, it is during this time
that I learned on how to work together and in collaboration with people of different
personalities and values. I also had a chance of learning how to work under minimum or
no supervision (Alloza, 2008). I have also worked as a manager as in my family’s
wedding company hence having some ability to manage personnel. This was a ground
where I was natured in the field of business. I love this moment because my parent held
my hand as I made those baby steps. I knew less in management but I gradually
improved to the point of handling complex situation. I started by handling petty things
such as emails and being a messenger. Later I could be given a substantial assignment
to point of standing for my parents when they were not there. Besides having other
mentors in this field, I can proudly attest that my parents lead in the list. They are the
one who did the primary and most essential job. All these fired up my passion to learn
more about business management.
As mentioned earlier, I have a dream to work as a business manager. Despite
being an engineer, I aspire to venture in the business industry. This has been
contributed by a number of reasons but above all, I find it to be a passion. From a
distance, it may appear as a waste of times but it is an added advantage. As an
engineer, is have learned on how activities and things integrate so as to produce the
desired end results. I find some of these engineering principles helpful too in the
business industry as they help in finding the solution to some complex activities (Avery,
Paharia, Keinan, & Schor, 2010). My experience as an engineer has helped me to bee
deep when making a decision and also when performing any analysis. Shallowness in
business at times can lead to a form of myopia. This always to great problems as a
business person is expected to be longsighted and visionary. This ability helps one in
analyzing this to the root. What propels me most in life is my dreams. I have a dream of
owning my own organization in a feature. I also aspire to be in a position of advising
other emerging business people. I have a great confidence in business since I know it’s
the only thing that can unlock our economy. I have also developed this interest from my
family who are serious business people. They own a wedding company which at times