Self Awareness and Self Analysis Course Project

Self Awareness and Self Analysis Course Project

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Self Awareness and Self Analysis Course Project

Prior to starting my PDP, I how to take an inventory of my personality, intelligences, learning preferences, work styles, weaknesses, strengths, biases, and my capacity for perceiving these.

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I start this report in the easiest way possible, by doing assessments of myself. Prior to doing this though I have to be aware that I cannot just use any ideas, but will be following the four criteria set out by Tasha Eurich’s Tedx talk (Eurich, 2017).

In this talk Ms. Eurich mentions that self-analysis is difficult (only 15% of participants did it well), unless they utilize the four-principal system of analysis

1. a) You have to agree with the analysis yourself
2. b) It is externally verified by an independent source
3. c) It is empirical (meaning it is measured)
4. d) It is something that is improved upon

For the purposes of this report, I used the following assessments

• VARK test (learn, 2020)

The result of which was mainly reading and writing. This suggests that I would be best suited for a PDP that was heavier in self – study, which included text materials. It should be noted that this is only a preference in a learning style and does not mean that I cannot learn by other methods.

• Myers Briggs Type Indicators (Briggs, 2011)

The result of which was ISTP, The Virtuoso. This suggests that I would be best suited for professions police officers, detectives, engineers, mechanics, forensic lab workers or computer programmers. It should be noted that the inherent weakness of this analysis is that it might be influenced by mood swings.

At the time of this assessment, I appeared to be in a fairly regular state of mind without undo influences, so assume that this assessment is accurate.

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• Multiple intelligence test (Gardner, 2020)

The results of which was analytical / math / logic solving / languages. This would suggest that my targets for future career advancement should be in these areas. Although MI may be mistaken for acquired skills, I do not believe this to be the case in these situations, because I not only strong in these, but enjoy them as well.

From our definition of MI, the ability to create cognitive solutions to these intellectual problems, I think they qualify as my multiple intelligence.

• I also took a work styles preference test, but have not included this, because the results were inconclusive.

Cognitive biases

At this point of the project, I have to acknowledge the reasons for my methods and the practical application of them. The Dunning Kruger effect suggest that most people do not know what they don’t know, and because of this, they either over estimate or under estimate their abilities and strengths and weaknesses.

I am sure that there will be cultural biases that will also affect the outcome of my PDP, but being aware of these biases will at least make me aware of the possibilities, and thus I will be utilizing a mentoring and coaching aspect later in my monitoring progress section.

Capacity

I am only adding this section in my report, as I have to acknowledge the capacity to which I am able to assess my environment and thus myself. To say that I am influenced by my personal development, maturity, moral development and social awareness is an understatement. Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory, suggests this.

Being aware of this does not change these tendencies to be influenced by them, but knowing them precludes me from dismissing their influence. My age, social setting will influence my ability to make a PDP, but this does not mean that they will be in error; only that they will most likely change as my circumstances change.

Strengths and weaknesses

• SWOT analysis:

From our lectures in PDEV, we have learned to utilize our strengths and thus put them as the main points of our PDP objectives. The reason that these sections are considered strengths are because I enjoy these activities and of course I am also good at the. In this case, I should be looking at some job that utilizes computers, video games or logic puzzles on a daily basis.

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However, one cannot just ignore one’s weaknesses. In my PDP I will also have to take into consideration my weaknesses and how to address them. We have several strategies for dealing with weaknesses such as the temporal motivation theory (TMT) for procrastination.

In my case, it appears to be poor time management skills and this will directly affect the delay in this equation. If I can use some of the strategies to get around the delay aspect of the TMT, then I should be able to address two of my weaknesses. Maybe the Pomodoro technique as described on line (Cirillo, n.d.). They have paid services, but I just used the information for free.

I am not sure what I will do about my patience, as we never studied this in the course. Physical exercise is a scheduling problem which I will address in the finding balance section.

In the sections for opportunities and threats, we have many things we can deal with. Suffice to say, being in Canada, I have some opportunities that I might not have if I were not here. On the other hand, I also have to deal with the limitations of my visa and culture shock.

Personal branding and online presence

Being in Canada is not at all like it was back home, so I have to be aware of the hidden job market aspect finding work here. To increase my chances of networking and building my rapport with prospective employers, I am employing the idea of Dunbar’s Number, and only concentrating on 50 potential contacts.

I will build a LinkedIn profile, clean up my online presence, and even submit blogs to promote my potential to said contacts. I think building an online portfolio will help disseminate my work product easier.

I still have my blog that I started in class, and will link this with my LinkedIn profile. Of course, I have standardized my personal brand, by similar email signatures, business cards, thank you letters and letter head.

All of these self-awareness concepts lead me to believe that I will be looking at a PDP that involves computer programming.

Contingency planning

If my plans to be a computer programmer do not come to fruition, because of unforeseen circumstances, I will make the following plan based on the five-step method learned in class. This is based on the worst-case scenario that the Pandemic will not get better and we all have to stay in our homes and never go outside again.

The situation – in this idea, everyone has no relief from the pandemic, and there is no end in sight. This means that the vaccines are not successful, or they are not distributed well. Commers is much lower, and we all have to stay in our homes to do work.

The mission – from what I can see, my chosen profession of computer programmer is actually well suited for this situation. However, my other aspects of my PDP will be in jeopardy. There will be little work-life balance, because that aspect will be suppressed with the pandemic.

The execution – the action plan for this will be to try and be sustainable while dealing with the external forces just mentioned. This will probably involve further online classes, getting a job online and ordering everything online.

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This will involve a much more extensive use of online tools, which a computer programmer should be well suited for. The relationship will be harder, as these don’t work very well online.

Sustainment – the actual implementation will involve a much more robust internet connection, Canadian bank accounts and a better visa.

Command and control – once the crisis are over, hopefully the skills learned and the experience gained will further my PDP that I am developing now. If they don’t then I have to see how they might.

Goal setting

Skills audit

In this section we look at the practical outcomes of our self-analysis from the first section. The results of which are a computer programmer. In this section we will look at the process to become one based on the skills that I possess that are directly related to this profession, and those yet to come.

This will involve an assessment of directly acquired and transferable skills based on industry standards through job postings and networking information.

We begin with a search on Indeed.ca, search words, “computer programmer.” This search resulted in 406 jobs posted in the last 15 days. Of these, filters for part-time, and 15 km distance resulted in a list of 284 jobs. This is a general list of the skills posted on these postings. The top six skills called for in these posting are as follows:

Self Awareness and Self Analysis Course Project

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