Developing personal career strategy - MBA Student Exchange

no longer enjoy using. What you are searching for in this exercise is to identify the
overlaps that exist between your interests (that which you find engaging and motivating)
and the skills that you enjoy using. This point of overlap between interests and skills is
variously labeled as areas of strength or key competencies. For example: Based on
your interests and personality, you find other people very engaging and you enjoy
interacting with them. In addition, you see a pattern in your achievement analysis that
demonstrates that you have well developed interpersonal, communication and
management skills, which you also enjoy using. Clearly, this represents one aspect that
you would like to be present in your future career and also represents one of your key
competencies or strengths. And once you have targeted particular positions that
interest you, you now have a compelling story to tell about why this activity is important
to you, as well as how you have been successful in applying those skills to add value in
a previous experience. As you can see from this simple example, this exercise can
assist you in identifying your interests and skills, help you to identify particular duties,
tasks, roles and responsibilities that you would like to be part of your career future. This
will assist you in focusing your career goals and aid in preparing you to persuasively
market yourself in the job search.
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