Discovering Your Strengths
- Feb 23, 2018
- 2 min read
Talents is made up with gifts, passion and skills. For instance my gift is working in team settings because I bring the best out of people. Passion is something that you love to do, such as general learning for me. Skills is something you have acquired over time such as programming or mathematical backgrounds. When you combine these things you will have talent. You gifts are the first step in discovering your talent.
What comes easily to you? Ideas I generate, possible solutions,
When you are younger? Drawing and artistic talent
Areas I received I awarded? Drawing, Mathematics
I wish I were as good as Eugene at? Academics, Intelligence, Motivation, Giving Advice
Other: Problem Solving, Learning Capacity, Dedication (going to gym everyday or going to church every week)
When you love what you do, you're willing to endure the moments of work that you dislike. So consider aspects of your hobbies that you may love doing that can be useful in your career. What kind of work do you love the most? Science
What did you focus on your education? engineering/environmental studies, GIS
What careers are you exposed to at work? Computer Science, Engineering,
Who were your mentors been? Consultant, Professors, Computer Science
What do you study on your spare time? AGI, AI, machine learning
Additional training: MOOC
Combine the gifts list, passion list and skills list where you have one of each in the list (that is your talent)
Example Data Scientist Job Description
Responsibilities
Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques
Data mining using state-of-the-art methods
Extending company’s data with third party sources of information when needed
Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner
Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance
Tracking your current responsibilities will discover hidden job responsibilities. Help improve your ability of doing your job. What if you have job description skills where you don't have a talent in them.
The more you understand your business, the more valuable you become. If you were to move to a new business, you would lose momentum and become less savvy. The transition time of moving from one company to another is very costly. Instead, you can work toward a job description that better matches your talents.
Access your performance to find areas of improvement.
Source: Lynda.com
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