Ready to Roar: Self-Awareness
July 16, 2024
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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:
- Showcasing dependability by consistently arriving on time, being prepared, and staying focused at work.
- Understanding personal strengths and weaknesses and seeking opportunities to build upon and develop them.
- Actively requesting feedback, and approaching it with an open mind, using it as an opportunity for growth and improvement.
- Remaining open to adjusting your strategy when new insights or perspectives are presented.
- Reflecting and learning from mistakes, accepting responsibility, and working to improve from the experience.
- Assessing how your career path aligns with personal values and long-term objectives.
Where to build self-awareness skills as a student:
- Student employment
- Professional internships
- Center for Academic Success
- Wellness Activities
- Engaged Citizens program
- Class discussions
- Career assessments
- Mock interviews
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 self-awareness 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.
- Created a collaborative team environment for a year-long engineering capstone project by adapting communication styles to fit different team members.
- Implemented regular feedback cycles to ensure continuous improvement as lead project manager.
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