Assignment 6: Work Ethic

Your interpersonal score is 5.69 out of 7 Your initiative score is 5.31 out of 7 Your dependability total is 5.57 out of 7

	Interpersonal Skills	Initiative	Being Dependable
Female	6.00	5.67	6.34
Male	5.75	5.52	6.07

For this assignment, I took the OWEI test. My score is listed above, underneath it are the average scores for males and females. I also read this article for this assignment.

I think my scores ended up relatively low compared to the averages because I did not pick the two extreme answers (always/never) at all. I think my biggest issue is that because I am still in my most formable years and not really settled down in life, my attitudes and behaviors have not become totally suitable for the workplace. That's okay, however, because I still have over five years to learn before I enter the workforce, and lower scores mean that I have room for improvement across the board. 

I think as one gains more work experience, their work ethic improves over all. Going into something new, my expectations of how much work it is going to be are often times far from the actual workload. Because of this, I am constantly adjusting to what I need to be doing. This inventory shows me that I need to work the most on interpersonal skills and being dependable. I think it is fair that I do not have the best interpersonal skills, since I have only ever been interacting with my friends, family, and teachers. As I get older, I will get more opportunities to communicate and work with strangers, thus the need for stronger interpersonal skills arising. Additionally, I can improve on being dependable starting now. I think my score was low for that category because I did not confidently answer any of the questions that related to that skill. Also, dependability is an umbrella term, so it will take some time to strengthen this trait.

As a whole, this assignment showed me that my mentorship will be a great opportunity to work on bettering the skills that I am lacking in. I am in at least one meeting a week with my mentor and someone else, so I get plenty of practice for my interpersonal skills with new people. Additionally, some of the things we work on are sensitive and cannot be revealed to the public, so having to keep them hush helps me focus on dependability and trustworthiness. Having this mentorship prepares me better overall than being in high school ever could, because my actions here are affecting the real world and those outside my academic bubble.

Yasamin, 9/16