In this section I will describe my shortcomings in my professional profile discovered during my Internship and how I'm planning to remedy them between now and the time I graduate. You can view this in a simple graph I made below.
Flaw |
Comments |
Remedy |
Writing articles |
This is one of my biggest challenges. I have to learn how to write concise and write like I'm telling a story. |
Reading helpful books and practice, practice, practice. |
Presenting my ideas (on paper) |
Arguments! I have to be able to explain the reasoning behind my advice/ideas. |
Every time I have to present I have to keep in mind the following questions:
What do I want to tell?
Why do I want to tell it?
Why is this idea good?
What are the benefits?
How do I want to achieve my goal?
And back it up with facts and examples. |
Presenting my ideas (orally) |
I need to prepare myself more for the presentation and most importantly I have to be enthusiastic about my idea. |
See above topic.
By giving more presentations I will learn to present my ideas better over time. |
Writing promotional text |
This is a minor thing I have to work on. I have to give more varieties on the text. |
I have to learn to be more creative with text and the message I want to convey. Reading helpful books and practice, practice, practice. |
Making Google advertisements |
I need to make them with more variety and more eye-catching. Don't promise anything I can't give. |
Take the time to let my mind come up with ideas. Ideas come to me at home or when someone says something that triggers my imagination. |
Analysing statistics |
I need to come up with better conclusions. |
Brush up my knowledge on statistics by reading books, articles and the Internet. |
My input at meetings |
I'm still too quiet even though I have ideas about certain subjects. |
It's hard to change your personality, but when I feel comfortable and have the confidence to speak up I can bring input to the table. This is something I will have to work on by working in teams and playing an important role in that team. |
Doing things at the last moment |
The small tasks were things I didn't worry about until the moment it was all I had to think about. Like for example bringing a video clip to the video centre to be placed on the website. |
I need to view every task as an important task. |