Career Drivers:

My primary career driver is "professional achievement." I am very dedicated to being an outstanding contributor in my field and being recognized as such. I wouldnít mind getting a Nobel prize if they gave one in my specialty. The only thing I am interested in at work is getting as good as I can at what I do and being the companyís leading expert in it. I would like to produce a body of work that is useful and outstanding. My secondary career driver is "intellectual/physical challenge." I love to solve the toughest problems, be the first to invent or discover something, and really test my wits and skills against other people or just against my own abilities. Iím a very good chess and I-go player.

(People, Data, Physical, Adaptive):

The areas where I really excel at work are analyzing facts and ideas, conceiving, creating, and developing ideas, gathering information and data, perceiving and defining cause and effect relationships, and synthesizing facts and ideas. The skills that I need to develop more are tuning in to needs and feelings of others, working effectively on a team, working within a structure, maintaining schedules, and following through. I think I need these because my growth as a contributor will require that I work more with others to develop and implement major projects.

The adaptive skills that work best for me are concentration, being demanding of self, being intelligent, being methodical, and being a quick learner. In order to become more successful at creating and developing more important contributions, I will need to develop myself to be more supportive of others, resilient, diplomatic, able to use time effectively, and empathetic.

I need to handle the following barriers: difficulty managing time, becoming easily bored, impatience, being insensitive to the needs and feelings of others, and being stubborn.