{"id":20795,"date":"2013-04-29T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T20:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=20795"},"modified":"2013-05-27T13:07:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T17:07:05","slug":"finding-and-explaining-your-strengths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=20795","title":{"rendered":"Finding and Explaining Your Strengths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Jennifer Crutchfield, Head Editor, <a href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?page_id=5677\" target=\"_blank\">INALJ Connecticut<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Finding and Explaining Your Strengths<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/headshot1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6116 alignleft\" alt=\"headshot\" src=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/headshot1-201x300.jpg\" width=\"121\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>Finding your strengths and knowing how to explain them can be an excellent resource in finding a new job. It may seem like a simple idea, but I find that during hard times, it is easy to forget what you\u2019re good at and focus on the negative. Maybe you are having a hard time focusing on what skills you have to offer.\u00a0 Sometimes I can be good at finding examples of things I do well, but need assistance on how to I create an overall picture of what I\u2019m good at.<\/p>\n<p>A tool that I found useful for this very topic is<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/StrengthsFinder-2-0-Tom-Rath\/dp\/159562015X\">StrengthsFinder 2.0.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You first take a short quiz, which will help gauge what your best qualities are. \u00a0One of my strengths is that I am a \u201clearner\u201d. Being a \u2018learner\u2019 means that I \u201chave a great desire to learn and want to continuously improve. In particular, the process of learning, rather than the outcome, excites them.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Knowing that I\u2019m a good \u201clearner\u201d will help me in my interview process when I am asked questions like, \u201cWhat are your strengths?\u201d I can come up with a great answer using any of the strength attributes shown to me through StrengthsFinder.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I did not have this tool when applying for my recent job, but I feel like it may have made preparing for my interview process a little easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jennifer Crutchfield, Head Editor, INALJ Connecticut Finding and Explaining Your Strengths Finding your strengths and knowing how to explain them can be an excellent resource in finding a new job. It may seem like a simple idea, but I find that during hard times, it is easy to forget what you\u2019re good at and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=20795\">Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[69,3592,3604,3899,679,4208,3037],"class_list":["post-20795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-article","tag-blog","tag-inalj-connecticut","tag-jennifer-crutchfield","tag-strength-finder","tag-strengths","tag-strengthsfinder-2-0"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1WoMK-5pp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}