Welcome!

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What are soft skills?

• Communication• Leadership• Self-Awareness

NOT• Accounting Skills• Project Management

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Importance of Soft Skills“Jobstacles: For Youth –

Soft Skills Are Hard Skills” – June 25

“Pickier than ever, employers on the hunt

for soft skills” - June 25

“Hard times for soft skills” - June 21

“How Grads can Effectively Showcase

Soft Skills to Employers” – June 12

“Soft skills graduates need to master in a job

market” – June 25

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Personality & Behavior

Personality is who you are-a combination of an individual’s emotional, attitudinal, and response patterns

What is personality?Behavior is the range of actions or mannerisms made by an individual

What is behavior?

Personality is a strong driver of Behavior

Personality Behavior Reputation

What does Reflect measure and help develop?

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Your core personality: what Reflect measures

Behaviours you’ve developed to counter core personality traits

Additional behaviours developed by using Reflect

Reflect prepares individuals for the business school application process and beyond

• Write a stronger application that showcases you self-awareness of your strengths and areas for development

• Position yourself better in admissions, internship and employment interviews by speaking knowledgably about your soft skills and personal development

• Identify and build upon the 10 key competencies that global recruiters and business schools are looking for

• Be better prepared for group work experiences in the program

Reflect helps you know themselves better so you can:

How can Reflect benefit the you?

How was Reflect Developed?

10 Competencies• Collaborated with industry

experts, • Conducted Extensive research

with 900 corporate recruiters and 40 leading graduate schools around the world

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80% of respondents gave a rating of 80 or higher

Top “additional” competencies cited by corporate recruiters were either knowledge based (ex: project management, technology skills), or cognitive (ex: critical reasoning, analytical skills).

Corporate Alignment

Why only 80%?

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Reflect Workflow

Hogan Personality Inventory

Hogan Development Survey

Motives, Values, & Preferences Inventory

Assess Discover Improve

Overview

Applying Reflect: Sample Application Questions

• What are your strengths?• What are your areas for improvement?• How can you contribute to a group?• What makes you stand out in a crowd?• What skills do you want to build in a graduate

business program?

Ask Us Your Questions…

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Type your questions using the Q&A option

Thank You!

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