In the highly competitive business world of today, marketing oneself is crucial in
determining where one will end up – desk assistant or manager. To properly market oneself, a
raw material assessment works as a great guide. The purpose of a raw assessment is to gather as
much information about your strengths, potential strengths, bad habits, interests, personality, and
core values. In order to gather this information, online assessments and feedback from peers,
family, coworkers are very helpful and valuable. Once you’ve hit all six categories, they are
analyzed and synthesized into creating your own personal brand. Personally, when you know
your faults, weaknesses, and strengths, it allows you to know yourself better. The better you
know yourself, the more confident you feel about who you are. This confidence allows you to
promote yourself in a positive aspect aligned with your strengths and potential strengths, despite
the known weaknesses and faults. However, once you know your bad attributes, you can target
and fix them. You are able to show the company you are marketing yourself to that you know
you have some bad habits, but are willing to correct them and not let them define you. A proper
raw materials self-assessment is not only beneficial in the business world, but allows a deeper
look to who you are.
The first category in this self-assessment was strengths. After taking the strengths test
from high5test.com my strengths included, bond builder, focus expert, deliverer, holistic mind,
and root digger. I would like to conclude that I do agree with all these 5 strengths. I see myself as
a bond builder because I enjoy creating meaningful relationships with others. I feel in every new
group of people I am the catalyst into breaking the ice and speaking first if everyone seems too
shy. My next strength is focus expert because every day I ask myself if what I planned for the
day will help me achieve my overall goals. My next strength is deliverer which entails my
