Personal SWOT analysis

In general, the following five steps should be followed when conducting SWOT analysis on career/career development issues:

 

1. Evaluate your strengths and weaknesses

 

Each of us has our own unique skills, talents, and abilities. In today's market economy, where the division of labor is very fine, everyone is good at a certain field, not everything is proficient (unless, of course, a genius ). For example, some people don't like to sit at their desks all day, while some people feel uneasy when they think they have to deal with strangers. Please make a table to list your favorite things and your strengths (if you feel it is difficult to define your strengths, you can ask a professional consultant to help you analyze them, after analysis, you can find your strengths ). Similarly, through the list, you can find out what you do not like very much and your weaknesses. Finding your weaknesses is equally important as finding your strengths, because you can make two choices based on your strengths and weaknesses: First, try to correct your common mistakes, to improve your skills, the second is to give up the jobs that have high requirements on the skills you are not good. List the strengths that you think are important to you and the weaknesses that affect your career choices, and then mark the weaknesses that you think are important to you.

 

2. Identify your career opportunities and threats

 

We know that different industries (including different companies in these industries) face different external opportunities and threats. Therefore, finding out these external factors will help you find a job that suits you and is very important for your job search, these opportunities and threats will affect your first job and future career development. If the company is in an industry that is often affected by external adverse factors, it is natural that the company offers very few career opportunities, and there is no career promotion opportunity. On the contrary, industries full of positive external factors will provide job seekers with broad career prospects. List one or two industries you are interested in, and carefully assess the opportunities and threats faced by these industries.

 

3. Outline your career goals for the next 3-5 years

 

Carefully perform a SWOT analysis and assessment on yourself to list the four to five career goals you want to achieve within five years after graduation from school. These goals can include: what kind of career you want to engage in, how many people you will manage, or what kind of salary you want to earn. Keep in mind that you must do your best to make your own advantages perfectly match the job opportunities provided by the industry.

 

4. outline a career action plan for the next 3-5 years

 

This step mainly involves some specific content. Please prepare an action plan for achieving each of the goals listed in step 3 above, and describe in detail what you want to do and when to complete each goal. If you feel that you need some external help, please explain what help you need and how you can get it. For example, your personal SWOT analysis may indicate that you need to take more management courses to achieve your ideal career goals, your career action plan should describe the courses to be attended, the levels of courses, and when to take these courses. The detailed action plan you have prepared will help you make decisions, just as the plan you have prepared before traveling will become your action guide.

 

5. seek professional help

 

It is not difficult to analyze the shortcomings in your career development and behavioral habits, but it is difficult to change them in a proper way. We believe that your parents, teachers, friends, superiors, and professional consulting experts can help you, especially in many cases, with the help of professional consulting, You can take shortcuts. With external assistance and supervision, you will be able to achieve better results.

 

Hong Xiangyang, a career planning expert, points of view:

 

Obviously, this kind of personal SWOT analysis requires some investment and you must take it seriously. Of course, it is very difficult to do a good job of career analysis. However, no matter what channel, it is worthwhile to conduct a detailed personal SWOT analysis, because after you complete the detailed personal SWOT analysis, you will have a coherent and practical personal career strategy for your reference. In the fierce competition in the workplace, it is everyone's dream to have a challenge, fun, and well-paid career, but not everyone can achieve this dream. Therefore, in order to make your job search and personal career development more competitive, please seriously do something for your career development.