Article that i got from 'Recruit'

Read this article and i find it quite good so i decided to share it here. will be kinda wordy.

Paper qualification aside, an apitude for the job, an engaging personalityand harnessing your intelligence are essential to achieving your life goals.

If you have paid attention to a goldfish in a bowl, you may have noticed that it just swim round and round the bowl and never gets anywhere. Many people are like goldfish. Busy as they might seem to be, they dift and wanders through life without plan or purpose.

Life is never intended to be a game of chance. You must decide what you want out of life. The choice is yours.

Think of a successful person that you want to emulate. Make it your life goal, in line with your natural aptitude and talent.

Besides academic qualifications, there are some other qualities essential to ataining success in whatever you do:

Aptitude
The selection of the right profession in life has become quite complicated. Your aptitude is your natural tendency or acquired inclination; both capacity and propensity for a certain course.
This is one of the secrets in selecting your life goal. Make sure you choose a career that you naturally suited for, or in a field that interests you.

Personality
Every person has a personaliy that is all his own, with physical, mental, social and emotional characteristics that are unique to him. A positive personality plays a vital part in building a successful career, as people like dealing with somebody who is optimistic, cheerful and confident.
Analysing your personality profile helps you to understand yourself and how you relate to your work and environment.

Intelligence
There are multiple inter-disciplinary forms of intelligence such as linguistic intelligence (displayed by poets), quantitative-logical intelligence (composers), spatial intelligence (architects and sculptors), bodily-kinesthetic intelligence (dancer and athletics), inter-personal intelligence (entrepreneurs and trainers), naturalists intelligence(botanists) and existential intelligence (leaders). which one of those above is you?
All individuals have these intelligences, but differ from one another in their strengths and profiles.
Psychologists say that an average person uses only 2 or 5% of his mind's potential.Our brain i slike a muscle, use it often to develop it.Make sure that what you do challenges your abilities and forces you to work to, or even exceed, your potential. Of course, in a positive way. hahax

Integrity
Integrity is soundness of moral principles and character. With integrity, you foster closer relationship and trust among those who work with you, especially those you manage. Colleagues will look upon you with rescpect as well.

Besides the above qualities, you should also possess qualities such as humility, self motivated, conscientiousness, positive attitude, self confidence, resilence, perservance, paitence, foresight, vision, kindness and creativity.

Lifelong learning should form part of your daily routine so as to be knowledgeable and to stay ahead of others.

Life is full of trials and tribulations.It is not what happens to you, rather it is what you do about your life that matters. Learn life lessons the wise and cost effective wat rather than the hard way.

Every person is good at something, Be a master of your own destiny. Pursue your passion, uncover and develop your natural hidden talent to your fullest potential and bring out the best that is within you.

MOst agree to the last 4 paragraph all the way to the last paragraph. hahax