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Jessica Devitt EXPL 390 03 February 2020
Clifton Strengths Reflection
The top five strengths assigned to me in the Clifton Strengths report were strategic,
futuristic, ideation, command, and competition. I believe each of these accurately demonstrate
who I am or who I want to be. The strength I think is the most accurate for myself is strategic,
and the one I think is least accurate is command—however, even prior to this exam, this skill is
one I’d like to improve. I believe each of these strengths will be incredibly important in
determining my success at my internship and future job there. Last week, I accepted a full-time
position to start as an Associate Consultant upon graduation in May. This essay will reflect on
how I feel each strength currently represents me, how I think I can strengthen and use each of
these skills in my internship/career, and how I believe these skills align with my academic
coursework.
Receiving the strength of being strategic did not surprise me. I’m always thinking,
whether it be a worry of mine, a goal of mine, what I need to do next, or whatever else may be.
At times, I think it feels like a curse, as if I wish I could get my mind to stop sometimes just so I
could relax. At the same time, I think this strength has helped me excel in whatever I put my
mind to because I think about every possible outcome and how to optimize the benefits of my
actions. Likewise, I know this skill will help me succeed during my time at Inspire11. Most of
my time will be working with the managing director of the company helping him with internal
reporting. In that position, I need to be able to be strategic about how I represent data to
accurately display the health of the company, but also be strategic in developing new, innovative
ways to perform my analyses.
I think the strengths futuristic and ideation go hand in hand and I’m not very surprised I
was assigned those strengths. I love to think about the future because I believe wholeheartedly
that my future is bright. This aligns with my faith because I know I can do all things through
Christ who strengthens me. My faith teaches me to speak blessings into my life, so when I think
about the future, I can’t help but speak positive affirmations into my life. That being, I don’t feel
as though my goals or ideas are limited. I believe that if I can dream it and it’s within God’s will,
I can achieve it—given that I allow God to direct my path, the desires of my heart are part of his
will. I often think of my future and how to achieve it. I already have a future business idea and
the steps I think I should begin taking to achieve it. Even now while I’m an intern, these skills
help to propel and motivate me. Since my position is to be an innovative thinker for the
company, it’s perfect that my strengths involve being mindful of the future and creating new
ideas to support the success of the company from an administration perspective.
I think my final two strengths also relate to each other because I think I’ve developed
them from my relationships with my family. Those strengths are command and competition. As,
I mentioned earlier, I think the command strength could improve in my professional life.
However, when it comes to my personal relationships, I have no fear taking charge and asserting
my thoughts and opinions. I have five siblings and we’re all incredibly close in age. I’m the third
oldest. When we were kids, our mom died, and we had to grow up. I was eight years old and the
oldest of my siblings was eleven. The three older siblings had to become leaders for the family
who knew how to take care of the younger ones and the household while our dad worked. I had
to learn to take charge and make adult decisions as a child. While that experience disrupted our
childhood, we still had time to play with each other and compete. Each of us is incredibly
competitive and our dad instilled that spirit within us, whether we’re competing against who’s
the fastest or who’s the smartest, we’re always looking to improve and be the best. To be the best
professionally, I believe you also need to be a leader which takes the strength of having
command in whatever you do.
I firmly believe each of these strengths will be incredibly useful in my internship site and
the rest of my future career endeavors. As a statistics major, I think strategical thinking, ideation
and futuristic thinking show up in my academic coursework the most because each of these skills
are required in being an analytical thinking and using statistics to solve problems. While I may
not see each of these strengths consistently in my coursework, I know I will use strategical
thinking, ideation, futuristic thinking, command, and competition in my future career endeavors
and I hope to further these skills during my time as an intern at Inspire11.

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Jessica Devitt EXPL 390 03 February 2020

Clifton Strengths Reflection

ways to perform my analyses.

ideas to support the success of the company from an administration perspective.

command in whatever you do.

and I hope to further these skills during my time as an intern at Inspire11.

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