Pg. 39 Using Reasoning for a Career Choice

Identifying your strengths is definitely important when choosing a career. If you do not have strong math skills, you shouldn’t aim for a career in accounting. If you do not have good communication skills, you should not go for a customer service job, and so on. Chapter 2 in the book THINK by Judith A Boss discusses empathy and defines it as the ability to enter into and understand the experiences and emotions of others. I believe that I am an empathetic person and according to the text, “An empathetic person is more flexible and open to other’s perspectives and is motivated to use critical analysis, important skills in forming a satisfactory logical argument regarding a plan of action.” (43) I believe that this has been used while making a career choice by me choosing to major in human resources. The book also says empathy helps make us better listeners and communicators which are definitely two extremely important strengths to have in the HR field.