Understanding your own personal strengths and weaknesses
We all have our strengths and we all have our weaknesses. Many people will be familiar with an interviewer asking about an interviewee’s weaknesses. However, when most of us are asked about our strengths and weaknesses, we do not really know how to answer.
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT analysis) is a management tool used worldwide by managers to help them to analyse a situation as part of strategy development. You may have heard of it in relation to thinking about yourself when you are considering applying for a new job or changing career direction. It has many uses. It can be used to analyse the features a team.
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- The University of Borås, Sweden
- The University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland
- The University of Alcalá, Spain
- Digital Connections, Scotland
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