Negative Aspects That Can Enhance Your Professional Profile

Professional profiling for say, contracts or job search is an essential task (especially when it is being carried out on an individual level for contracts) and a rather complicated one. For some, it is easier because of a simple targeted history or profile in general; for some, it is easy because of their presentation skills, but it is sure that negative points are the most difficult to process with it. And why? Well, there is always something negative that can be extracted out of any information. And hence, that what is completely or mostly negative is avoided from the profiles.

And the most common negatively impressionable aspects in an individual's profile are the Unskilled Jobs, Back Office Jobs, and Failures; academic, professional or otherwise. Let's understand each aspect first and why they are taken into this account.

Unskilled Jobs

The works that require none to little physical and/or mental skill and training. They do not have criterion except the willfulness and physical capabilities (or lack of certain or all disabilities) and a basic understanding of the undertaking.

Many individuals, as financial support, employ themselves in these jobs. And for the same fact, acting only as an economic aid, they are neglected or viewed negatively in profiles.

Back Office Jobs

Entry level jobs, again with very low to basic skill requirements. Also, being very time-dependent and quantity work oriented, they do not leave much room for an individual to learn or develop professionally.

Sharing similar perception bias as above because of the economics confined intents of individuals, mostly, they are also often not recommended to include in the profile.

Failures

The only aspect that needs no explanation. More often than not, many of us fail in our endeavors, big or small. And many a time, they are big enough to be considered professionally as one too, or at least be a considerable part of professional history, to be neatly covered and hidden.

Why should they be considered?

Well, for a start, irrespective of their nature, they are still experiences. And experiences always bring with them some or the other added advantage. Even failures are an experience, and on a very important note, all these experiences usually belong to times of difficulty, hardships, and other situations that require mental to physical strength to go through. And thus, they are experiences that can never be forgotten and neither their lessons. Traits acquired during these times make for the person at the core, one reason why!

On the other hand, the cumulative knowledge through such experiences of every person has been the foundation of our development. Even on an individual scale, it applies. For a person evaluating a profile or an individual, information and the approach to it can help lay the foundation to an in-depth evaluation and reasonable judgment. Another reason why!

As an applicant, one needs to understand, an evaluator is there to make a rational decision. Irrespective of the reaction to information, whether aggressive or negative or otherwise, a rational evaluation will only work (test) you to extract more information. And withholding information may eventually backfire. Meanwhile, providing voluntarily will only depict values and respect for the experience, the learning and skills acquired through it, the analysis and thought put over it, and so.

Information Theory suggests, in a philosophical interpretation, the more the information, the lesser the probabilities, and the more the possibilities.

Information kills luck and gives birth to confidence.

How to present the case?

Presenting the above cases in profiles like resumes, portfolios, and CVs can be simply formatted to emphasize on the skills developed or learning, analysis, and the more positive aspects of it after introducing the information as it is. Give it some thought and actual analysis, and don't defend but state.

Presenting it in conversational interaction can be approached in a similar manner; introducing the case as it is, elaborating on essential details on the approach (general analysis for failures), and the lessons learned and skills developed.

Being aware and in acceptance with the truth, learning from experiences, and projecting integrity and confidence is all that is needed to get most things. Add to it a thinking mind, it's a cocktail for success.

Hope it was worth thinking over.

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