What are your strengths?
The self-assessed strengths you pride yourself on should contribute to your job satisfaction. When you are good at what you do, you enjoy doing it and strive to continually improve. If you have trouble identifying your strengths, consider what your coworkers, teammates, friends, and family members have said about you in the past. Lastly, evaluate the strengths RSM looks for and celebrates in their employees and how your strengths align with those.
Cappfinity centers the branding of their assessments around identifying their clients' strengths. They try to identify "what you can do, as well as what you enjoy doing." Cappfinity looks at strengths as "the things that we do well and find energizing, they are found in every person. Strengths can be interpersonal, like Rapport Builder. Strengths can be about how we think, like creativity. Strengths can be how we are motivated, like Drive. When people are in roles that enable them to use their strengths, they are happier, more engaged at work, and achieve higher levels of performance. Using your strengths regularly increases your well-being, confidence, resilience, and overall life satisfaction."
Your non-verbal cues will reveal how much you believe in what you are communicating verbally. Therefore, your non-verbal cues often hold more weight and are almost always interpreted as your true feelings, intentions, and attitude. When words and statements are incongruent with your tone, facial expressions, or mannerisms, it can further suggest a lack of self-awareness and emotional intelligence. Take the advice given by RSM's recruiters, who advise "candidates should avoid fidgeting and playing with their hair. Make sure you smile and make eye contact. It's all about looking confident." They advise, "Be engaged, look at the screen, and use non-verbal cues to show you're listening. Most importantly, be yourself!"
"I would say that I have a great attitude, am often able to inject clean humor into any situation, am a strong communicator, am humble, am creative and innovative, am great at building relationships, and have strong time management skills."
Read Cappfinity's brochure on Strengths Profiles on The World's Strengths. This will come in handy, especially when you decide to counterbalance your strengths with your weaknesses. It will also offer insight into how their 'Strengths Profile' works. For example, did you know there are five family classifications of the most and least common realized and unrealized strengths, learned behaviors, and weaknesses across the globe? Cappfinity breaks this down into "Being; Our way of being in the world. Communicating; How we give and receive information. Motivating; Our drive towards action. Relating; How we relate to others. Thinking; Our approach to situations."
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