Every person is endowed with talents of different kinds or has developed certain abilities. Some people are particularly good at arithmetic. Others are more capable of understanding how machines work. Still others are exceptionally creative.
Different jobs ask for different types of competencies. For example, teachers, interpreters and journalists should be more skilful at using language while an actuary or auditor should be good at analysing numerical information.
To excel in your working life, you should look for a career with an environment that nurtures and rewards your talents.
How to identify your competencies?
The following exercises test your ability in language, mathematics and creativity. Try them out to understand yourself more.
Can you fully express yourself with language?
Please try to complete Exercise (1) and (2). They assess your Chinese and English language skills.
Exercise(1): Take 5 minutes to describe your strengths in 50 words in Chinese.
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Exercise(2): Take 3 minutes to describe the facial expression and posture of this figure in 5 English sentences.
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Could you complete the tasks within the time limitsDid you come across any difficulty in using languages?
Are you good at analysing numerical information?
Please complete the test on logical reasoning within 3 minutes.
(Answers are at the end of this sub-section.)
[Example] | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | ______ | ______ |
Answer:12 14 | |||||||
(1) | 88 | 74 | 62 | 52 | 44 | ______ | ______ |
(2) | 12 | 15 | 14 | 17 | 16 | ______ | ______ |
(3) | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 8 | ______ | ______ |
(4) | 48 | 96 | 24 | 48 | 12 | ______ | ______ |
(5) | 4 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 22 | ______ | ______ |
Do you possess strong power of imagination?
Exercise (1): Take 3 minutes to turn the two pictures in the exercise into meaningful images by adding strokes.
[Example]
[Exercise (1)]
Exercise(2): Take 5 minutes to create two sentences in no more than 6 words each as a slogan for ABC Pen.
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Exercise(3): This is an exercise that assesses your power of imagination, especially on very ordinary things.
[Example]: A pencil is something with which you write or draw. Apart from these functions, it can be used as firewood, envelope opener, hole punch .....
Take 2 minutes to think of the use(s) of an empty can before it is thrown into a litter bin. |
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Analysing Numerical Information
(1) 38 34
(2) 19 18
(3) 64 63
(4) 24 6
(5) 23 46