BACKGROUND
The aim of students pursuing higher education is to improve the quality of employment that they get as well as to get a wider view of things, while getting deeper into a few specializations. However, there is a need to balance the learning with deeper self-insights. This comes particularly handy when faced with job interview situations and answering some the questions which invariably asked:
- “Tell me something about yourself?”
- “What are your Strengths?”
- “Where do you see yourself in 5 years from now?”
- “What do you do well?”
- “Why should we hire you?”
All too often students answer these questions vaguely without conviction or structure.
The key is for students to understand what their fundamental strengths are.
Also, at the age of 20-25, getting to know our Signature Themes or Talents gives us adequate time to invest to fully develop these strengths.
The aims of the programme were the following:
- For students to have a structured understanding of their Strengths that they can relate to.
- Be able to claim these Strengths with examples
- Understand the Strengths holistically
- Be able to set long term goals using these strengths
- Map their Strengths to Job Descriptions of coveted companies and jobs that come to campus.
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE
We have run the Gallup Strength Finder Assessment with 75 students – and done a Group Coaching in groups of 15-20. We have seen benefits not just from an Interview point of view, but a dramatic rise in self confidence and engagement levels. Coupled, with this is a sense of complementary team strengths.
STUDENT TESTIMONIALS
- “Thank you so much for such an enriching session ... This has given me a great insight into my strengths and ways in which I can claim them.”
- “A journey that resulted in a high degree of self-awareness. I now feel that every step I take henceforth will be full of confidence and a positive outlook.”
- “It was nice to know our strengths, but it was great to know the interpretation of those strengths.“
- “The session in actual sense helped us to discover something unique in ourselves which we can carry forward in our lives as the most powerful strength.“
- “Thank you so much for helping us to know the real strengths. The session really motivated us to put forward our strengths more confidently.”
