Fe Sweet
06/12/2013
Paul Porch
COMPETENCIES AND CAREER INTERESTS PROFILER
Competencies and Career Interests Profiler
My personal competency profile measures my own strengths and weaknesses. How am I technically fit, how can I relate to others, what are my qualities, and how can I get things done. Knowing my personal competencies helped me understand my strengths and would help me focus on improving my weaknesses.
Understanding and Knowing My Personal Competencies My Critical Thinking and Evaluate Arguments
By completing the competency assessment it helped me analyzed the result, my strengths are: following instructions, adhering to values, organizing, delivering results, coping with pressure, and cooperating. By appropriately following instructions from others without unnecessarily challenging authority will improve my critical thinking skills. Adhering to values, is another strength of mine. In critical thinking I should not take what I hear or read at face value, but weigh up the evidence and consider the implications and conclusions of what was said. “There is nothing more common than evaluation in the everyday world but for sound evaluation to take place, one must establish relevant standards, gather appropriate evidence, and judge the evidence in keeping with the standards” (Russell, 2013). Part of critical thinking is evaluation, to be able to evaluate an evidence is needed. I am an organized person, I can gather all information needed to evaluate something for critical thinking. Another way in applying my results is through evaluating arguments. Coping with pressure is one of my strength, because this, I should be able to see arguments from different point of views. “Reasoning is generally seen as a means to improve knowledge and make better decisions” (Sperber, 2011).
Conclusion
In conclusion competency profiler helps me understand what to do in personal and in professional life. It showed the
References: Russell, B. (2013). The Critical Thinking Community. Critical Thinking Identifying the Target. Retrieved from http:/criticalthinking.org Sperber, H. M. (2011). Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Why Do Humans Reasons?, pp. 34, 57-111.