Personal Value Proposition/SWOT analysis Paper

SWOT Written Assignment

100 Points Written

Creating Your Personal Value Proposition Using a SWOT Analysis

Written assignment instructions (worth 100 points):

After completing the SWOT analysis worksheet, you can begin your writing assignment. This will be a 1 to 1.5 page assessment of your strengths and opportunities.

The format will be as follows:

a. Part I: In one paragraph, you will delineate and describe one relevant strength/skill using specific details from your life to explain how you demonstrated the strength/skill. Thus, you will be developing in more detail the strengths you noted on your SWOT worksheet. That is, on the worksheet you asserted your strength in one sentence; in this paragraph you will detail that assertion proving it with specific evidence.

b. In another paragraph, you will detail an external “opportunity” that gives you an advantage in the job market. Thus, you will be fleshing out in more detail an opportunity you noted on your worksheet.

c. Part II: You will write a one paragraph VALUE PROPOSITION that takes pertinent information from your first two paragraphs and puts them into a statement of your value in relation to the specific job you have chosen. That is, you will summarize who you are as a job candidate and how you are the best fit for the job using the strength and opportunity you analyzed and wrote about.

Important Writing Tips for your paragraphs:

1) Make the topic sentence of your paragraph a “road map” to the entire paragraph.             

My greatest strengths as an employee are that I am detail oriented as shown by my proofreading skills at SKU publishers. Then make sure your evidence follows the road map. Thus your first evidence will be about your first part of the claim—your proofreading skills.

 For example, at SKU publishers, I was responsible for proofreading eight articles per week. The articles came to me after three editors had reviewed them, and my job was to find any last mechanical, typographical, or spelling errors. Since I often found overlooked problems, I was lauded twice by my project manager and earned a raise after only three months on the job. ………

Conclude with a statement that wraps up and highlights the importance of what you have proved…..how it fits the job description or makes you a good fit for a company.