SWOT – A tool for Self Assessment

SWOT is basically raising the level of self understanding and self appreciation of knowledge, skills & abilities that one possesses. It is understanding one’s strengths and weaknesses when planning for individual’s career. SWOT is a key tool in the career planning for individuals.

A SWOT analysis focuses on the internal and external environments, examining strengths and weaknesses in the internal environment and opportunities and threats in the external environment. SWOT Analysis is a powerful technique for identifying Strengths and Weaknesses, and for examining the Opportunities and Threats you face. It helps you develop your career in a way that takes best advantage of your talent, knowledge, Skills, Abilities & opportunities.
Why SWOT Tool:
It’s a very powerful tool to know what we don’t know & provides a way to develop skills/competencies for the required role.
When one gets into MindTree, this enables the Practice/COE champion to understand the individuals overall abilities & developmental areas and accordingly one can prepare a Plan of Action.
A tool to help a person deal with problems and issues that affect his/her career growth.
A technique that allows for a greater understanding of one’s abilities and areas of weakness and for being honest and objective about these.
Knowing what you are trying to achieve & enables you to enhance the overall personality traits.
A detailed understanding of a situation and the problems inherent in it along with knowledge of the resources available to deal with it
What makes SWOT particularly powerful is that with a little thought, it can help you uncover opportunities that you are well placed to take advantage of and also to understand your weaknesses which you can manage /Eliminate threats which would otherwise catch you unaware anytime.

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One needs to evaluate all the time as to what he/she should learn & develop on the job so that they can enhance overall competencies and become a true professional. We believe SWOT is a great technique to adopt so that this can help individual to plan for their overall development and in the process enhance overall competencies and become highly competent professionals.