Santos Baltazar Roman Strengths

Achiever

Select a career that provides you with numerous opportunities to excel as an individual. Control your workflow, schedule, productivity, quality level, and action plan.

Seek a position that lets you do what you do best every day. Inform people that you have a need to exceed, not just meet, minimum requirements.

Identify the most important fact, philosophy, concept, or law you learn in each class each week. Notice recurring patterns. Pinpoint discoveries.

Seek opportunities to apply several of the ideas and concepts you have learned. Address groups and conduct demonstrations so others can benefit from what you know.

Pay close attention to your body clock. Decide when your mind is most alert. Use this insight to your advantage when scheduling time to study.

Analytical

Opt for jobs that allow you to make decisions based on your evaluation of facts, data, tangible evidence, circumstantial evidence, and research findings.

Select careers that permit you to sharpen your ability to determine the existence of cause-and-effect relationships on a daily basis.

Examine data, collect facts, and read material for discussions. Anticipate problems. Ask questions to discover others’ perspectives on issues. Clarify your own position.

Deduce the consequences of someone’s decisions, inaction, and pronouncements. Use logic to trace the effects of scientific breakthroughs, ethical lapses, and legal judgments.

Record questions as you read. Ask: “What is missing here?” “What questions should the author have answered?” “What biases are evident and not so evident?”

Competition

Regard grades as your scorecard. Invest more effort in classes where the results of tests, papers, and projects are posted for all to see.

Clarify how professors weight class participation, final exams, presentations, laboratory experiments, and research projects. Continuously monitor your grades and class standing.

Pit yourself against a fellow student to increase your chances of being the first person to finish the paper, test, or project.

Choose work environments that challenge you and in which your success can be quantified with scores, ratings, and rankings. Avoid situations lacking meaningful, objective measurement criteria.

Decide whether you prefer to compete as an individual or as a team member. Select employment that matches your preference either for total or shared control over final results.

Individualization

A career in education would directly use your talents because you would value and treat each student as an individual.

As a supervisor or manager, you would help individuals determine what they could do what they do best on a regular basis. Your evaluations would be based on who the person is and on what he or she had accomplished.

Build on your curiosity about people by observing the different ways in which people learn and process information.

Study various cultures. Their uniqueness will intrigue you.

As you read a novel, take notes about how the author vividly sets up the uniqueness of each character.

Restorative

Choose a profession where deficits are remedied.

Consider a service position where you can help others solve their problems.

Think about school as a way to improve yourself. You will increase your motivation, particularly if you reflect on your progress.

Research every missed test question to determine your gaps in knowledge, and fill those gaps.

Ask friends for honest feedback about your weaknesses.