As I am preparing to graduate I am also preparing to find a job and get interviews. One of the most common interview question is, what is you great strengths and weaknesses? The last time I took a personality assessment it rated me on hundreds of personality traits. My top five personality traits I would also claim as my strengths which are Integrity, self -motivation, leadership, faith and curiosity. Integrity and faith are two strengths that I did not realize I had until taking this personality assessment. To me this means that I am true to myself and what I believe in. This can be reflected in my confidence in the athletic training clinic. I believe without these traits the athletic training profession would be tiring and wearing whenever I fail or did not do something completely right. Being faithful to myself and believing in myself is what will keep me strong and long lasting in the profession. This leads me to self-motivation and curiosity. You have to have these as strengths as an athletic trainer. You have to keep pushing yourself to find the next best thing that can be applied to medical practice. Because I am naturally self-motivated and curious I will always seek the best for myself, my patients, and whatever institution I am associated with. Finally, my last strength is leadership. I think this comes from the combination of all my other strengths. I have always been a natural leader. I believe leadership should come from within the group and should be led by example. I always seek to be an example therefore people naturally follow me and I will always help myself and other people find their version of success.
While these are my strengths, everybody has weaknesses. My weaknesses are that I am shy and I struggle to sell my skills. I have always been a shy and slow to warm up person. This is because I am an observer. I like to watch how everything is done, how other people react to certain things, and how I should be acting in a similar situation. While this does hinder me in terms of personal relationships, the end goal is always met. I will talk to people I need to talk to and I will form important relationships too. For me, it just takes longer because I like to take in all the information first. My other weakness is on that is hard to deal with, especially because all job interviews are is trying to sell your skills to someone. I think I find this hard to do because I do not like to brag on myself, but also because I struggle to get my point across on the spot. I just need a chance to prove myself in a non-verbal way. Because I can’t do this in an interview, the only thing I can do is to just keep practicing and have others give me feedback. At some point, my point and worth will get across to someone.
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