At the age of 12 it is difficult to envisage the person we will become yet at the age of 17/18 we try to map out our life but naturally still have difficulty seeing where we will end up and who we are. Choosing the course for further education or the training with the correct modules we want to do can also provide problems around the place or best university to attend. Ultimately many students choose to stay in the town they decided to be educated in. But does that town offer the type of work they have been trained in and what about any other abilities and skillset – do the students even know what they are. Are individuals able to identify their best abilities and competencies suitable for the workplace.
Initially, skills are forged during our childhood and teenage years, where we look, listen and learn continuously from the people around us whether we acknowledge them or not. Watching dad change a tyre, watching mum sort out the household finances, seeing how your older sibling relates to others. Learning how to drive, how to play darts among many other skills.
However, learning new skills doesn’t stop when we reach a certain age, we develop behaviours and learn skills allowing us to develop personally and professionally throughout life. Not all skills have to be process driven. For example, developing interpersonal and communication skills can help benefit individuals to become a confident and a more rounded person. Learning how to listen actively, becoming more empathic and learning basics of social interaction are all important. Crashing into a room, taking over conversations and telling bad jokes is not necessarily the politest and best example of social interaction. But it happens. And, can be seen in the handwriting of those individuals.
Annually, I used to attend a careers and training evening with a group of university students. The students were there to meet and greet ex alumni who were now in positions in organisations to advise them on the reality of their professions. However, so many of those students were doing degrees in subjects that they really had no interest in. In some cases, the courses had been chosen by their parents wishing them to follow certain paths.
One of the students who came to me for his handwriting to be analysed was doing a maths degree for him to ultimately use and go on into the finance world. He didn’t like the subject but really didn’t know what he could do. I talked through his handwriting with him and pointed out that his abilities lay far more in the creative arts than in science. He agreed that he was far more interested in subjects like graphic design, but his parents had not thought that it was a suitable profession for him. It transpires his tutor also thought that maths was not a suitable degree for him, and he elected to not continue with that degree. This student then had to talk with his parents and persuade them that his life direction with his particular skillset was not working in the finance world.
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