Hailey Savage Strengths

Avoid a career in which there is significant conflict.

Seek out environments that provide security, compatibility, and low risk.

Fill a mediator role with your friends.

Avoid confrontational, aggressive professors. They might make you so uncomfortable that learning in their classes will be difficult for you.

Seek opinions and ideas from experts. Their insights will help you formulate your own beliefs and philosophy.

Ensure that future employers know how much they can count on you.

Choose a work environment that focuses on outcomes rather than processes.

Choose friends you trust.

Discover what “doing it right” means to each of your professors.

Ask professors and successful students to show you what an “A” paper and an “A” essay look like.

List the various paths possible in your future so you can give careful thought to each one.

Choose careers that will allow you to be a leader and voice your ideas.

In group settings, work with others to generate new ideas or clarify your own.

Choose classes that emphasize alternative ideas or solutions.

Participate in cultural activities and exchanges to better understand the world around you.

Research roles in quality assurance, risk management, safety compliance, law enforcement, and production standards.

Work in environments that have regulations, policies, procedures, and guidelines firmly established. Realize that you are more effective and efficient when everyone, regardless of status, must follow the same rules.

Identify similarities and differences in your professors’ teaching styles. Choose classes taught by instructors whose approach matches your learning style.

Seek professors who set the same clear expectations for everyone in the class. Make sure that you know exactly what is required to earn the grades you desire.

Make a list of courses of study that naturally incorporate routines, processes, and procedures. Consider specific science, mathematics, accounting, music, engineering, and law programs.

You may want to work in roles that require research and analysis of information to plan wise actions or gain new understandings.

Work in organizations and roles in which you can be independent.

Choose friends who have academic goals similar to yours, so you reinforce one another in your serious pursuit of studying.

Always be well prepared for class. You will feel more comfortable and confident talking in class when you are sure of the validity of what you have to say and the completeness of your thoughts.

You are most comfortable in classes where you are well aware of expectations, where the discussions are serious, and where the time is used well. Before you enroll in a class, get the opinions of peers who have already taken the class.