Dependable Strengths: As others see me

[kevyn]

The 3-week workshop I am participating in at the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) has been focusing on my "dependable strengths" - those characteristics or skills I posess that make me valuable to an employer. As part of the process, I have been working with a small team of peers to identify each other's strengths.

Below is the list of my strengths, as seen by my peers in the group. These aren't my views, but others. Some of them surprise me (People skills? Responsible? Me?), but most are nice to hear from others.

3-D thinker
Advertising skills
Artist
Artistic
Caring
Compassionate
Computer skills
Creative
Decision maker
Delegates
Determined
Diverse thinker
Dreamer
Educated
Educator
Excited
Expressive
Fascinating
Finds new approaches to things
Focused
Good at planning
Good communicator
Good judge of character
Good presentation
Hands-on
Hands-on learner
Hiring skills
Honest
Informative
Inquisitive
Interested
Interviewing skills
Intuitive
Inventive
Journalism skills
Knowledgeable
Leader
Learner
Learning
Likes challenges
Love of Knowledge
Lover of geography
Loves challenges
Loving
Loyal
Makes a difference in people's lives
Makes a difference in the World
Manager
Memory skills
Newspaper skills
Non-biased
Organization skills
Out-of-the-box thinker
Pays attention to detail
People person
People skills
Perseveres
Plant knowledge
Quick learner
Quick memory
Relational
Researcher
Resilient
Respectful
Responsible
Risk-taking
Sees potential in others
Smart
Storyteller
Talent-finding
Teacher
Team player
Team-builder
Time management skills
Trusting
Watchful
Writer
Writing skills

Comments

[bluebear2.livejournal.com]

Great. These kinds of things can be really good to learn more about oneself. I took a career course and they had us do exercises to help us learn more about what our traits are. I was resistant at first but decided to play along. Some of the things they put down I saw as completely foreign and so not me but I decided to just see where it took me and then later on realized that some of what they said is true and it was only me who wasn't aware of these things.

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

Yeah, part of what I am discovering is that, I've failed miserably at some things in life, and consequently have managed to convince myself that I don't posess qualities that I actually do.

Sometimes, I am my own worst enemy.

[detailbear.livejournal.com]

Hon, you went from Intern to Manager in a year, remember? You're not skill-less or stupid; you're chemically unbalanced.

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

True dat.

[detailbear.livejournal.com]

True data.

;-)

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

Thpthpthpthp.

[kadyg.livejournal.com]

What everyone else said. Plus, you are a Lover of Geography and everyone knows that they are the very best people.

(I'm envisioning a line of "Geography is for Lovers" bumper stickers. I think I may have to mull on this.)

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

You are so weird.

[gmjambear]

Good idea. I refiling some papers and found a form where I needed to write out my Dependable Strengths. Personally, I'm very stubborn when it comes to change. Currently, bad cold notwithstanding, I am forced to change my job search drastically and consider other possibilities.

Good luck to you.
*hugs*

[kevynjacobs.livejournal.com]

And you as well. Have you looked into video editing?