{"id":1826,"date":"2018-05-30T13:39:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T13:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/?page_id=1826"},"modified":"2019-04-02T14:13:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T14:13:13","slug":"playing-to-your-strengths","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/playing-to-your-strengths\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing to your strengths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Keller.png\" alt=\"Keller\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"384\" width=\"1024\" title=\"Keller\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/2-who-you-are\/\">Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/skills\/\">Skills<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Playing to your strengths<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/using-your-subject\/\">Using your subject<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/interests-and-passions\/\">Interests and passions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/personality\/\">Personality<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/identity\/\">Identity<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/values\/\">Values<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/motivations\/\">Motivations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/personal-circumstances-and-needs\/\">Personal circumstances and needs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/a-vision-of-your-future\/\">A vision of the future<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/worklife-balance-living-in-harmony\/\">Finding the balance<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/environment\/\">Environment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/summary\/\">Summary<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Playing to your strengths<\/h1>\n<p>The aim of this section is to increase your understanding of your \u2018Strengths.\u2019 \u00a0A strength is an activity that you carry out on a regular basis, that you perform well at, and that you enjoy doing &#8211; and even energises you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Understanding your strengths can help you to evaluate different jobs options and see how they can\u00a0play to\u00a0your strengths &#8211; or alternatively avoid your weaknesses!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Watch this short video which explains more about strengths in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vui4uZ1X0bw\" width=\"695\" height=\"395\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>The Strengths Profile Model<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CAPP, a firm of Occupational Psychologists have produced the\u00a0\u00a0<b>R2<\/b> <b>Strength Profile Model<\/b>. This is based on 60 different skills or attributes that people most commonly have or use, for example, \u00a0listening, writing, persuading, taking pride in your work, being organised, hardworking, competitive, etc.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These skills can fall into different categories:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Realised Strengths<\/b> \u2013 these are things that you are good at and which give you energy. You get chance to use them regularly. In an ideal world, you should \u2018Marshal\u2019 these strengths \u2013 use them when you need to but don\u2019t overuse them unnecessarily otherwise they may become de-energising!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Unrealised Strengths<\/b> \u2013 these are things that you\u2019re good at and give you energy but which you don\u2019t get to do quite so much of at the moment. These represent opportunities for you to develop yourself and work towards your goals so you should try to \u2018Maximise\u2019 their use.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Learned Behaviours<\/b> \u2013 these are activities which you are good at but drain you. You should aim to \u2018Moderate\u2019 your use of these skills and use them less in the workplace in order to prevent \u2018burn out\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Weaknesses<\/b> \u2013 these are things you\u2019re not good at and which don\u2019t give you energy. Try to \u2018Minimise\u2019 your need to do these activities. Only work on developing these behaviours if it is necessary to help you achieve your goal, otherwise avoid having to use them wherever possible.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We each will have a different set of strengths, weaknesses and learned behaviours and the following interactive card sort exercise (used by kind permission of\u00a0CAPP) will help you to identify these. This should take you 5 &#8211; 7 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/..\/interactive\/cardsort\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/card_sort-1.png\" alt=\"card sort\" width=\"727\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whether in a career or even now during your time at University, you might want to consider what opportunities you have for using your unrealised strengths more and for further developing your realised strengths. Also watch out for any of your realised strengths which you might have over used.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click on the graphic and download\u00a0the strengths definitions list to your portfolio.<\/strong>\u00a0Note your &#8216;<strong>Realised Strengths<\/strong>&#8216; and &#8216;<strong>Unrealised Strengths<\/strong>&#8216;.\u00a0 You may also want to see if you can identify\u00a0and record your &#8216;<strong>Learned Behaviours&#8217;<\/strong> and &#8216;<strong>Weaknesses&#8217;<\/strong>. When researching potential job ideas, try to think how these jobs might play to your strengths &#8211; and avoid your weaknesses!<a href=\"http:\/\/www.careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/careerplanning\/index.php\/self-awareness\/5-course-using-your-degree\/\" target=\"_self\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/..\/documents\/planning\/strengths.docx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/strengths.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"114\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/skills\/\" target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/charcoal_nofill-Copy-150x150.png\" alt=\"charcoal_nofill-Copy\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" title=\"charcoal_nofill-Copy\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/2-who-you-are\/\" target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/jigsaw1.png\" alt=\"jigsaw1\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"152\" width=\"200\" title=\"jigsaw1\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/using-your-subject\/\" target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/charcoal_nofill-150x150.png\" alt=\"charcoal_nofill\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" title=\"charcoal_nofill\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction Skills Playing to your strengths Using your subject Interests and passions Personality Identity Values Motivations Personal circumstances and needs A vision of the future Finding the balance Environment Summary Playing to your strengths The aim of this section is to increase your understanding of your \u2018Strengths.\u2019 \u00a0A strength is an activity that you carry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2949,"href":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1826\/revisions\/2949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/careers.dept.shef.ac.uk\/gradplanning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}