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To identify your physical strengths:

  • Test yourself using professional weights.
  • Challenge yourself, such as entering a marathon.

To identify personal strengths (morality, ethics, interests):

  • Find something that you like to do, or something your good at. Work at it!
  • Look at your past achievements and list the skills you used to reach that goal.
  • Pay attention to what excites you--what you feel passionate about; your strengths often are intertwined with your passions.
  • What activities make you feel proficient or competent? Usually, we're using some personal strength during those times.

To identify work strengths, you'll need to look at your personal strengths plus your interests. Work strengths are usually a combination of those two areas, along with training. However, while training often follows our interests, our true interests don't always follow training. For example, many young people get their first jobs at fast food restaurants or a youth training program that hires summer help. The person may receive training specific to that job, but the person's passions are not really in being a fast food worker or summer helper-- it's not what the person truly wants to do as a career. So the training may follow only the interest of "I need a job; I want to earn money", but the training does not develop or support the person's true interests or what the person yearns to do, dreams of doing.

However, negatives often identify positives: What we don't like doing often helps us to know what we do like doing. What we don't excel in doing often helps us more clearly see what we do excel in doing. Think about your old jobs. Which jobs did you hate? Which employment settings left you feeling inept, useless, out of place? Which jobs did you do where your mistakes outweighed your successes? List those things like, "I hated working the cash register and dealing with people", or "I resented having to mop floors." Next to each negative, put what task you "would rather have been doing _____". Your list of "I would rather have been doing" often contains your work strengths, even if you have not yet been thoroughly trained to do that specific job fully. For example, many future nurses know that their personal interests and strengths include: working with people; hands-on caring for someone's needs; organizing a place/space; putting together details; supervising others; and interests in math, chemistry, Biology, etc. But these future nurses have not yet had the training that qualifies them to sit for State Boards and call themselves Registered Nurses.

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