Ready to Roar: Self-Awareness
July 16, 2024
LSU produces highly capable students that are ready to enter the workplace of any
discipline. The combination of professional experiences, academic pursuits, and involvement
opportunities on and off campus produce graduates that are: Ready to Roar.
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Self-awareness
What is self-awareness?
The ability to identify, articulate, and develop one's values, interests, skills, strengths, knowledge, and experiences relevant to personal growth and professional success
What self-awareness looks like:
- Acting equitably with integrity and accountability to self, others, and the organization.
- Maintaining a positive personal brand in alignment with organization and personal career values.
- Being present and prepared.
- Demonstrating dependability (e.g., report consistently for work or meetings).
- Prioritizing and completing tasks to accomplish organizational goals.
- Consistently meeting or exceeding goals and expectations.
- Having attention to detail, resulting in few if any errors in work.
- Showing a high level of dedication toward doing a good job.
Where to build self-awareness skills as a student:
- Student employment
- Professional internships
- Center for Academic Success
- Wellness Activities
- Engaged Citizens program
- Class discussions
How employers may ask about self-awareness:
- Tell me about a time when you had to put in more effort on a project than you initially expected.
- Describe a time when you made a mistake and how you went about rectifying the situation.
- What unique skills and abilities do you feel make you qualified for this position?
- What motivates you to put forth your greatest effort?
- Guide me through yesterday (or last week) and tell me how you planned the day’s (or week’s) activities.
How to put communication skills on your resume:
- Adapt personal communication style to meet the needs of each individual fifth grader on elementary basketball team.
- Balance a full-time student course load with the requirements of being a Division 1 Student-Athlete, including team meetings, volunteer opportunities, practices, and team travel.
- Sought out opportunities to learn new skills when tasks were slow at the office.
- Recognized mistakes and identified ways to address and rectify without oversight.
- Represented my student organization chapter at a national leadership conference, participating in multiple case study activities to build leadership skills.
- Effectively communicated with a multi-disciplinary team of engineering students on a yearlong capstone project.
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