What is your superpower?

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Thank you for completing our Online Strengths Assessment. We use your responses to work out thethings that come naturally to you, things that give you energy, and make you unique. We like to think ofthem as the Superpowers that represent you when you are at your best.

Choosing the right graduate role is a big decision. A critical part of deciding on the right opportunity, isknowing what your strengths are, and how they might match up to the sort of work you will enjoy doingand find motivating.

To thank you for your time, we wanted to share what the Online Strengths Assessment told us about yourSuperpowers.

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Your Superpowers are the strengths you are likely to have possessed from a young age. These arethings that will probably feel easy for you, because they are natural strengths. You will typically seeexceptional results when you use these Superpowers and you are likely to feel really good when youapply them. You should be looking to identify graduate opportunities that are going to give you thechance to use your Superpowers as much as possible.

Your top two Superpowers from the Online Strengths Assessment are shown on the following page.

1. Collaborate1. Collaborate1. Collaborate1. Collaborate

You love working as part of a team. You know how to work successfully with others to maximise results.People know you as a team player and someone they can rely on for support. Your powers are beingcollaborative, adaptable and supportivecollaborative, adaptable and supportivecollaborative, adaptable and supportivecollaborative, adaptable and supportive.

Unleashing your Superpower:Unleashing your Superpower:Unleashing your Superpower:Unleashing your Superpower: What are the different types of teams you could join, professionally orpersonally? Think about the most successful team you have been a part of and what role you played inmaking that team great.

Use your Superpower and find projects and opportunities that allow you to collaborate as much aspossible.

Remember... Remember... Remember... Remember... Not everyone thrives in a team. How can you support people who prefer working alone?Think about how you motivate yourself when you have to complete work on your own.

2. Analysis2. Analysis2. Analysis2. Analysis

You love to analyse and investigate, exploring data and information. You can quickly identify the keypoints, even in the most complex scenarios. You can offer others insight and clarity. Your powers arebeing analytical, investigative and questioninganalytical, investigative and questioninganalytical, investigative and questioninganalytical, investigative and questioning.

Unleashing your Superpower:Unleashing your Superpower:Unleashing your Superpower:Unleashing your Superpower: Look for different types of complex work that would benefit from youranalytical skills. How can you use the way you naturally work with information to solve problems and findopportunities for yourself and others.

Use your Superpower to simplify and solve complex problems.

Remember... Remember... Remember... Remember... Know when to stop investigating. Sometimes we can be overly curious and waste timewhen actually a high level summary is enough.

Areas of PotentialAreas of PotentialAreas of PotentialAreas of Potential

Your Areas of Potential are the things you may need to practice and develop. These things may feel lessnatural to you because they are skills you have to work hard to get better at, or they may not energiseyou as much. It might be that you want to develop capability in these areas, or consider them whenthinking about the type of work or job you might like to do.

Your top two Areas of Potential from the Online Strengths Assessment are shown on the following page.

1. Resilience1. Resilience1. Resilience1. Resilience

You may sometimes find it difficult to pick yourself up after receiving bad news. You may dwell on thenegative and can find it frustrating when trying to learn from constructive feedback. You could developmore resilience, persistence, and strength of mindresilience, persistence, and strength of mindresilience, persistence, and strength of mindresilience, persistence, and strength of mind.

Developing your potential:Developing your potential:Developing your potential:Developing your potential: The next time someone offers you constructive feedback, try to identify waysin which this could help you in the future. Think about how you could turn around a challenging situationto your advantage.

Reflect on how developing in this area makes you feel and how you can build up resilience when facedwith problems or negative feedback.

Remember... Remember... Remember... Remember... Setbacks happen to everyone. It is important to understand why a setback has happenedand explore how you can learn and move forward from it.

2. Advocate2. Advocate2. Advocate2. Advocate

You may find doing work that is 100% for the benefit of others draining. It can be difficult to strike abalance between seeing things from other peoples perspective and bringing your own views andpriorities to bear. You could develop more in the areas of selfless delivery, giving, and your overallin the areas of selfless delivery, giving, and your overallin the areas of selfless delivery, giving, and your overallin the areas of selfless delivery, giving, and your overallprofessional styleprofessional styleprofessional styleprofessional style.

Developing your potential:Developing your potential:Developing your potential:Developing your potential: How can you make serving others feel more rewarding? Proactively ask forclient, customer or stakeholder feedback and use it to help determine what great customer servicemeans for you.

Reflect on how developing in this area makes you feel and the impact it has on your work.

Remember... Remember... Remember... Remember... Great service means repeat business. Working hard to exceed the expectations of otherswill create future opportunities.

How can I learn more about my Superpowers....?How can I learn more about my Superpowers....?How can I learn more about my Superpowers....?How can I learn more about my Superpowers....?We hope this report has allowed you to learn a little more about your own strengths, and maybe givenyou some ideas as to how you could take them even further. It is important to note that there are manymore strengths than the ones we have detailed for you in this short report. If you are interested to learnmore we recommend the following resources and tips.

www.jobmi.com Learn about your strengths and how you can use them to achieve your goals, to learnmore about your personality and more.

http://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/Default.aspx Learn about strengths, developing greaterself insight and authentic happiness.

Our top 5 tips for spotting your strengths as you think about the right graduate role for you are:

1. EnergyEnergyEnergyEnergy - What activities make you feel motivated and enthusiastic? These are likely to be drawingon your strengths.

2. EaseEaseEaseEase - What activities do you find easy to do and excel at? It’s likely you are using your strengths toachieve these.

3. To do listsTo do listsTo do listsTo do lists - What are the things that you never seem to get done? You might be avoiding thembecause they don’t draw on your natural strengths.

4. AttentionAttentionAttentionAttention - what activities do you get really absorbed in? When you are able to really concentrateon something and naturally give it your full attention, it is likely that you are using strengths in someway.

5. AuthenticityAuthenticityAuthenticityAuthenticity - When do you most feel like the ‘real you?’ Remember strengths are what make usunique and feel powerful, if you don’t feel like yourself in a role; it’s likely you are not using yourstrengths.

Thank you again for taking the time to fill out our Online Strengths Assessment,

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