Self-Assessment Report: Suitability for Coles Supermarket, MGMT6012

This report presents a self-assessment of a student's suitability for a position at Coles Supermarket, Australia. It begins with an executive summary highlighting the importance of self-reflection and its role in understanding oneself. The report employs a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis, drawing on naturally occurring data like emails and conversations, to evaluate the student's personality traits and potential fit within the organization. Key strengths identified include good communication skills, fast learning ability, and an individualistic, creative instinct. Weaknesses include perfectionism and a tendency towards undivided focus. Opportunities involve bringing change and enhancing customer satisfaction, while threats include self-disappointment and employee competition. A PEST (Political, Economic, Socio-Cultural, and Technological) analysis is also included to assess external factors influencing performance. The report concludes with an organizational fit assessment, emphasizing the student's learning strategy, experience, and motivation. The report also discusses the scope for improvement. The overall aim is to provide a comprehensive evaluation of the student's suitability for a role at Coles Supermarket.

Running head: SELF ASSESSMENT
SELF-ASSESSMENT
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Executive Summary
Self Reflection is the best way through which one can shift the mindset and increase then
positivity within themselves. Self-Refection is the best way through which one can
understand or know one own self in a much better way. Self-reflection also gives the person a
chance, a method to analysis or examines how one would react or do in a particular situation.
In the following report, the SWOT (strength weakness opportunities and strengths) analysis
of the presenter on the basis of which the presenter would decide if he or she would be
suitable to be working in Coles Supermarket in Australia. All the data collected about the
presenter for the purpose of SWOT Analysis for the research purpose is mainly the naturally
occurring data taken from emails, conversation from various people in present and past. In
the conclusion, the entire report along with SWOT Analysis will be summarized which will
provide the answer if or weather the presenter will be suitable for working in the Coles
Supermarket in Australia.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
DISCUSSION............................................................................................................................4
SWOT ANALYSIS................................................................................................................4
STRENGTHS.........................................................................................................................4
WEAKNESS..........................................................................................................................5
OPPORTUNITIES.................................................................................................................6
THREATS..............................................................................................................................6
PEST ANALYSIS......................................................................................................................6
POLITICAL...........................................................................................................................6
ECONOMIC..........................................................................................................................7
SOCIO CULTURAL.............................................................................................................7
TECHNOLOGICAL..............................................................................................................7
ORGANIZATIONAL FIT IN COLES SUPERMARKETS......................................................7
SCOPE OF IMPROVEMENT...................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................8
APPENDIX................................................................................................................................9

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INTRODUCTION
In today`s hectic schedule, everyone leads a extremely busy life. Everyone is very busy with
either school, university or school. As a result, it becomes all the more difficult for one to
understand or analysis one’s self, one`s character, one`s action and one`s aim and motives in
life. No matter how much busy one`s life, it is very important and vital to that one should take
out time for taking for doing the self reflection, self analysis because it is an “important
ingredient for success in life” (Bronfman, 2015). In the following report, when the presenter
had put together his or strength, weakness, opportunities and threats (SWOT), it was found
that the main five traits of his or her personalities were “Good communication, Fast Learner,
Input, Individualization, achiever and creative instinct”(Sarsby, 2016). As a learner, the
presenter always believes in a Sanskrit shloka or quote that means, “Every moment one
should learn earn. If you waste a second (kshan) you can't get knowledge (vidya) and if you
waste a bit (kan) u can't get money (artham)” (Chauhan, 2018). As a personal individual, the
presenter believes in true facts rather than hearing out to biased opinions. The presenter is
always just a phone call away in case of any help or emergencies. He or she believes in
“creating novel ideas for their enigmas each time they confer upon them”. Communication is
believed to a strong asset of the presenter. As a result, he or she is very comfortable talking to
the stranger and befriending them. He or she tends to make people very comfortable in his or
her companionship, as a result people who are very introvert with other tends to open up with
the presenter. The character sketch of the presenter is required in the following report
assignment, which was a continuation of a previous assignment in order to find out if or
whether he or she is suitable for working in the Coles Supermarket in Australia (coles, 2019)

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DISCUSSION
SWOT ANALYSIS
“To take great managing from theory to practice, the author says, you must know three things
about a person: his or her strengths, the triggers that activate those strengths and how he or
she learns” (Buckingham, 2019).
STRENGTHS
1. Dexterous Moral Learner.
The presenter has a photographic memory. He or she tends to grasp everything when
it comes to learning and understanding new skills and understandings. The presenter
tends be aware about the surroundings and the living conditions through clear
established facts. As mentioned earlier, the presenter tends to belief more in the
established facts rather than rumor- “the surety of knowledge means that even against
heavy resistance, sticking to the inherent values and push an unclouded vision of what
is acceptable and what is not acceptable”.
2. Strong Willed Achiever.
Achiever tends to feel huge satisfaction when they do something important and
productive. The presenter with strong will power will be able to make correct
decisions. They will also be able to defend their idea and hold on to their moral and
political ground. Hence, this strength of the presenter will help him or her to work
better and in way that is more effective for the Coles Supermarket.
3. Individualism and creative instinct.

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The presenter has the gift of maintain his or her own individualistic characteristics
when while working with people with different personalities and skill sets. This
strength would help the presenter to coordinate in a better way with all the staff
members and customers of different personalities and traits in the Coles Supermarket.
4. Good Communicator with extrovert characteristics.
As mentioned earlier, the presenter is a good communicator as he or she has good
communication skills. As a result, he or she is very comfortable talking to the stranger
and befriending them. He or she tends to make people very comfortable in his or her
companionship, as a result people who are very introvert with other tends to open up
with the presenter.
WEAKNESS
1. Trying to be perfectionist.
The presenter tends to be complete all his work and task with absolute perfection. As
a result, he or she tends to taken a much longer time than the others.
2. Setting high life expectation.
As mentioned earlier, since the presenter is a high achiever, they tend to set higher life
goals and target, which is a good thing. However, when they are not fulfilled they
tend to get more depressed and disheartened.
3. Undivided focus
Undivided focus is a doubled edged sword. While it is a good skill to have in a
person, in the case of the presenter when he or she faces difficulty in the assignments
or the tasks or even problems that capture and keep the presenter’s attention for a very
long time (Yang, Lee & Cheng, 2016).

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OPPORTUNITIES
1. Opportunity to bring change.
As the presenter is an achiever, he or she would be willing to take risk in order to
achieve higher goal for the Business organization.
2. Opportunity to enhance customer satisfaction.
Since the presenter has good communication skills, he or she would be able to deal
with the customer in a much better way through various new innovative techniques.
THREATS
1. Self-Disappointment.
As mentioned earlier, since the presenter has is achiever he or she tends to get easily
disappointed when the high expectations and goals are not meet.
2. Competition among the employees.
“Competition among the employees has not always led to an issue, it has resulted in
better performance. But the threat of competition also cannot be ignored” (Adner,
Oxley & Silverman, 2013).
PEST ANALYSIS
In order to have a better understanding about the different external factors that can
have a influence on a work performance of the presenter can be thorough the PEST Analysis-
POLITICAL
In the recent times, Cole’s supermarket faced a controversy over the taking over the
“Little Shop 2” of toy during the “Plastic free July”. People had signed petitions over internet

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to boycott “Little Shop”. To handle such political situations, the employees should have a
strong moral ground and principles, which is present in the presenter.
ECONOMIC
Coles Supermarket helps in creating good employment opportunities. In addition, it
believes in creating a fair and safe workplace for all its employees.
SOCIO CULTURAL
An organization social and work culture always has a vital impact on the
performances of the employees. The Recruit policies or retain policies of Coles supermarket
along with the Fair Work policy, plays a vital roles in employees retention irrespective of
caste creed sex religion.
TECHNOLOGICAL
Technological advancements had helped in improvement of the work
environment along with the production and sales of a Business organization. With the
opening of the option of the online grocery shopping, Coles Supermarket has opened
up new base of customer. In addition, since the presenter is open to learning new
skills and creativity, he or she would absolutely fit in the business organizations (Ho,
2014).
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ORGANIZATIONAL FIT IN COLES SUPERMARKETS
The strength of the person depends on the integrity of learning strategy and his
experience and the willingness to continue with the job. The presenter must be quite
motivated in this field of work and as well as there are certain categories that needs to be the
highlighted and needs to looked upon. The presenter should be much eager to take up the job.
A serious approach must be kept that will keep the person focused in his work and will
definitely highlight his mode of work (Vij & Bedi, 2016). He should be a quick learner,
which will enhance his mode of work and will keep others motivated as well. He is well
aware of his surrounding and the environment he will working. Thus the presenter will be
competent in accessing information and also beliefs in the true and established and doesn’t
focus on anything hypothetical and doesn’t rely on the rumors, thus person may seem fit for
being fit working the company (Rahimi, 2017). The person will be focusing on the various
mode of the action that can be taken to complete the tasks as required and the achiever who
completes one task must feel quite satisfied when he ]finishes his task and alongside the
presenter must of strong will power and have to determined that will help him to complete his
ask fast with precision and accuracy thus the amount of the work delivered by the person will
be ample and the company will be able to sustain much for the hard work of the person as
well and make profit out of it. Thus, the wok will be not only effective but also will be error
free (Seo, Lee & Moon, 2016). The presenter having the capability to be able to maintain his
characteristics will be enough to make his interaction on and his experience in the work place
better. It will help the person to develop good bond among the customers and the staffs in the
store, this will help the work in the sore enjoyable and will help developing approach in the
workplace. Networking skills of the presenter seems to be at par also, which will contribute

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in the mode of the work and increase in having customer satisfaction. The person having in
good interpersonal behavioral skills may boost his working ability as well, as he will be
interacting with many customers and maintaining decency will grant him the same which will
keep him happy and he will work enjoyable (Anitha, 2016). Companionship is another
quality of the person that the company tends to take interest in, as the company emphasizes a
lot in the customer satisfaction maintaining end-to-end satisfied outcome. The ability of the
presenter to make others feel safe and comfortable is the most important factor that the
company takes interest in. Hence, the presenter seems fit for working in the company as long
he keeps his principles and integrity of work intact and abide by the rules and the policies of
the company (Sisson & Adams, 2013).
SCOPE OF IMPROVEMENT
The presenter seems to be too much motivated and aspires to be perfectionist. Thus he
is willing to take extra work load, and hence the entire work that is granted to him, may not
be completed perfectly and he willing to complete more tasks in a short period of time, will
make him. Thus the problem may arise that the company may face complexities and
complaints from the higher officials as well as the colleagues so that the person may be
helpful and also tries to understand the problem of others. He may work alone and may be
efficient but he needs to work in the company with a team (Khaola & Sebotsa, 2015). He
must be a team man first and then dedicate his labor in his work place therefore the factor of
the smooth functioning of the company can only be maintained if the person works I a team
and is willing to help others and rather only selfishly concentrating on his work only and not
thinking about others. Also the presenter has the tendency of setting high life expectations
and also putting the his expectations in the course of his works, therefore if he does not match
up to his expectations then will be very demotivating for the person to work efficiently and he

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will be consumed by the depression which will cause in losing his motivation to work hard
(Tseng & Wu, 2014). The person needs to understand his need in the company and not only
keep on working without keeping an open mind, he must be easily approachable and be able
to help others as well. Similarly he must be able to seek help whenever he is in self-doubt or
not able to understand the problems, or having problem facing the difficulty or analyzing the
task. He must seek help without wasting time or keep the customer waiting (McDonald,
2017).
CONCLUSION
The amount of task that is done by the presenter to the company has been discussed in
the paper. Several criteria has been discussed in the company that will be beneficial, hence
the requirements of the company has been discussed as well as the mode of the work of the
presenter that is expected is also highlighted keeping the preference of the company as the
main concerns of the presenter so that he may be able to note and specify his working ability
in the company. Various outcomes discussed highlighting the strength and the weakness of
the presenter that will be beneficial of the company. In addition, the probable threats and the
opportunities highlighted as well. Even the political, economic, socio cultural and
technological criteria discussed as well (Carnevale & Smith, 2013).

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