Self-Assessment of Personal Attributes and Employability Skills

This self-assessment reflects on a student's personal attributes, employability skills, strengths, and weaknesses in the context of their Bachelor's degree in Information, aiming to assess their suitability for a Graduate Developer role. The student identifies self-reliance, creativity, flexibility, and adaptability as key personal attributes, coupled with strong communication and problem-solving skills. They highlight their experience in public speaking, team work and conflict resolution. Their strengths include strong verbal and written communication, active listening, and goal-oriented behavior. The student acknowledges a lack of confidence as a weakness, and proposes strategies such as personal development courses to improve their management skills and overall confidence. The assessment concludes with a positive outlook on their potential as an asset to a company, contingent on overcoming their identified weakness.

Self-Assessment
Introduction
Understanding our personal goals, values, interests, personal attributes, attitudes
and skills is known as self-awareness. It involves honest reflection and self-exploration.
In this part of the assignment, I shall be describing about my personal attributes and
skills highlighting my strengths and weaknesses, being a student pursuing Bachelor
degree of information for determining whether I am suitable for the job of Graduate
Developer.
Self-reflection exercises
The self-assessment exercises were comprised of the skill tests and personality
tests. These exercises made me feel well-prepared and helped me in feeling more self-
confident at the time of assessment. Through this self-assessment I enabled my
employers to know who I am and what I can bring to their organisations. I am
completely aware of the fact that my personal values, my value of profession as well as
my social status have a great influence on building a professional helping relationship in
between me and my work practices. In this entire process, I found one thing very
surprising. This self-assessment has enabled me to critically identify my strengths and
weaknesses and I feel a positive change within me now. Until today, I was unaware of
my weaknesses and I never thought of them in this way. But today, I do, and I have
understood that to excel in my professional career, I need to overcome the weakness of
mine and foster my strengths. I have realised a change in myself to overcome this
weakness.
Personal Attributes and employability skills
As far as my personal attributes are concerned, I want to mention that of my
skills and attributes of self-reliance, creativity, flexibility and adaptability. I am very
creative. I love making eye-catching presentations and easy to handle documentations.
With the same, I am very flexible and always have the willingness and ability to respond
to positive changes readily within the organisation. I never say things like “It’s not my
job” like things whenever I am asked to make on new assignments or new work. Even in
during my project, the things that my team members failed in doing, were done by me. I
never afraid of taking responsibilities and always willingly take the responsibility of
anything if it is within my expertise. I have identified my employability skills. I have found
that I have a good communication and problem-solving skills. Through various
stages in my life, I have been given the task of public speaking and speaking with new
members in my society. Whether it is in inter-school competition or in community
program or in my part time job that I am doing being a second-year student, I have
always been successful in ensuring thorough communication. I do believe that
communication is undoubtedly one of the most important skills to possess in
contemporary scenario. Being able to communicate effectively and in clear manner in
our environment and comfort zone do seems challenging sometime but it increases
rapidly in different culture. Globalisation is something that is completely unavoidable in

today’s world and this has made effective communication in the face of cultural diversity
important than ever before. I am good with working with other and improving my own
learning. Moreover, I have the potential of speaking confidently about my business. I
have always listened what others want to convey to me and I have always considered
their suggestions and advices respectfully. I am also good at problem solving and I can
say this because I have always been in the advisor and problem solver during my
school and university years. I was the one to solve the conflicts among my peers as
well. I always think before reacting and never show aggressiveness. Therefore, I am
good at handling conflicts sportingly. Hence, I can assure that if I am given the job of
being the Graduate Developer, I shall be effectively playing my role and would assist
the escalated support team with all the technical supports for resolving the customer
issues in proper and timely manner.
Furthermore, my other key skills include the team working skill. I always work
towards knowing more. I do believe that there are things that I am not good enough.
Like, for example, I usually suffer from low motivation for leading a team of huge
members. Once, during my graduation years, I was given a team project. The team was
quite big of 8 members. Since, my academic career was good, I was in the good books
of most of my professors. Hence, they made me the team leader. I faced many
challenges in leading the team effectively and managing them and our project. Different
members had different opinions and they wanted to handle the work in their own
different way. Finally, I let my team members finish their allocated work in the way they
want, and I just ensured that they meet the deadline and accuracy and deliver the
desired results. Along with that, I personally believe that I can become an effective
leader as well. I have good leadership skill and I ensure that my team follows all the
standard processes that are required for maintaining the accuracy and quality of the
work. While taking any decision, I do not usually take them for my people, rather I allow
them to make their own. I always inspire my team members to make the best decision
that would surely to be fruitful for our entire team and the best one for all the concerned.
Therefore, I believe that I am a good decision maker as well. Furthermore, it is also to
note that I always pay much attention to minute details of everything and thereafter,
take the necessary decisions. I never take any step quickly in a single go.
Identified Strengths
To my viewpoint, I would like to mention that there are several strengths of mine
that I believe, help me in being an effective employee in the workplace. One of the most
significant of them is that of having a good verbal and written communication skills.
I believe that for running a successful business, one needs to communicate effectively
with the peers, the staffs as well as the management. I help in avoiding the
misunderstandings which could influence the workplace productivity, efficiency and
workplace morale. I had my own freelance graphic designing business that went on
good for a total of 3 years. I am also a web designer and have designed more than six
websites for several events and companies. I had to interact with many international
clients as well. I never even acquired any negative review from any of my clients. I am
very good at managing and conducting meetings and presenting verbal presentations.
Through various stages in my life, I have been given the task of public speaking and
speaking with new members in my society. Also, I am very good at making

conversations in between employees. As I have already mentioned that I have always
been good at communicating and meeting with new members. I am very jolly natured
and have the potential to get jell up with people very easily. I speak clear and ensure
that the electronic messages that I send are not vague in any way. With the same, my
other strengths include being effective listener, determined and team working. I
would also like to mention that I am always clear on my goals and I ensure that same at
my place of work as well as I think that my performance towards achieving my goal is
the only thing that would be reflected to me. The better my performance would be, the
better would be my result. Furthermore, I have the potential of speaking confidently
about my business. I have always listened what others want to convey to me and I have
always considered their suggestions and advices respectfully.
Professional development required
Notwithstanding these facts, it is also to mention that like any other individuals, I
too possess weaknesses and it require further development. However, there are many
weaknesses of mine but the only one related to my career world is that of lacking in
confidence. I do lack in confidence many times and in many situations. For example,
although I have all the potentials and capacities of leading a team in right way,
sometimes, the lack of confidence within me wants to quit when something gets wrong.
When I was given the role of team leader during the project at my university, there were
times, I felt completely shattered. I was failing in managing my team as many among
them were non-cooperative. The final deadline of the University was reaching and there
were only five days left. I thought of quitting and make other the team leader. I have
decided to use several strategies to boost my confidence level by means of doing a
course on personal development. This will help me in improving my management skills
as well.
Summary
From my self-assessment, I have identified my good fit for satisfying my career. I
have identified my personality traits, attributes, employability skills and my strengths and
weaknesses. I have good communication, team working, and problem solving and
leadership skills. With the same, I also pay attention to minute details and have strong
written skills. I do think that I have the potential to become an asset for my company
and this is sure to happen if my successfully overcome my weakness of low confidence
level.