Finding a job is a job but, fortunately, like the most difficult activities, job searching is likely to succeed only if it is well planned. With the planning, the first thing that comes is self assessment. That is, assessing yourself and according to that narrow down career possibilities and alternatives.

      Good planning requires the job seekers to do a lot of self searching or self assessment. You have to decide on your strengths and weaknesses and then figure out the kind of job that would best suit you. But the question that arises here is how to actually plan that self assessment. Here are a few tips on conducting self assessment tests:

1. Begin by making a list of strengths that your parents possess, then compare those with your self and mark those that you have and those that you do not.
2. By contrasting your self with your parents, add strengths to the list that you posses that you have not noticed in your parents.
3. Once the strength list is complete, move on to the weakness list. You can start of by writing down the antonyms of your strengths and then marking your weaknesses there.
4. Follow the same procedure for the likes and dislikes and then make a self assessment chart that would help you figure out the kind of job you are able to fit in.

      Apart from these, self assessment is also about research, which is, speaking to people in the industry. Learning about professional skills and what skills need to be developed. At first this might seem to be a tough job but in the end this really helps in the job search when you know how and where you can fit in easily and work.

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