Assignment: Raw Materials Assessment
As explained in the PDF reading "Start the Marketing Yourself Process by Assessing Your RawMaterials," a thorough assessment of your personal raw materials will be necessary for you to beginthe marketing yourself process.
For this assignment, you will need to conduct an evaluation of your own personal raw materials with respect to the following six categories (each of which was explained in the assigned reading and videos):
1. Strengths (or what you're already good at)
2. Potential Strengths (or what you think you could possibly be good at with practice)
3. Faults or Bad Habits
4. Interests, Desires, Passions (or what motivates you)
5. Your "Personality"
6. Core Values (or what's important to you)
After conducting your self-assessment, write up your results using the following guide:
1. Cover Page: Name, Panther ID, Major, Minor, Certificate(s), Assignment Title
2. Introduction: Discuss the purpose for your raw materials self-assessment.
3. Raw Materials: For each of the six categories, please explain the following (you must have at least one paragraph for each of these three parts for each one of the six categories):
a. How did you conduct your self-assessment for that particular raw materials category? Use at least one online assessment for the Strengths category and at least one online assessment for the Personality category. You may use other online assessments for other categories if you wish. For all categories, you should seek the feedback of your family, friends, co-workers, supervisors, and/or employees, etc. in order to gain knowledge from a different perspective. Explain why you used the various assessments and/or sources that you used.
b. What are your resulting findings? In other words, what are your strengths? ...your potential strengths? ...your faults or bad habits? Etc. Be sure to describe each traitor aspect (just listing a few adjectives is definitely not "A" or "B" work). Be specific and detailed in describing your findings.
c. What insights about yourself did you learn from the self-assessment for each particular raw materials category? What was expected and what was unexpected? Why? How did you feel about the insights of the other people you consulted? Are you coming across as having different raw materials than you think you possess? Are you portraying your raw materials as you desire? Also, what do you think about any discrepancies between the feedback that you received from other people and from the online tools?
Synthesis and Summary: Provide (a) an overall summary of your raw materials and then (b) (this is very important) synthesize the results for all of the categories. Consider the balance between the positives and the negatives. Consider how certain traits or attributes might complement or might compete with others. Consider whether certain traits (either initially seen as positive or negative) might coincide with or perhaps might conflict with your discovery of your core values. Speculate on how the synergies or lack of synergies between particular raw materials categories might help and/or hurt your abilities to develop your personal/professional brand and market yourself. This synthesis and summary section is a critical element in tying all of your assessment work together, and will help you drive your "marketing yourself" plans as you move forward. Be sure to put significant effort into this section.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.