The document discusses the author's rationale for choosing various work experience options based on their identified strengths and weaknesses. The author's strengths include being loyal, having good perseverance, and being flexible. Their weaknesses include a lack of creativity and not being an activist. To improve their employability and decide on a career path, the author has chosen to do work experience at an outdoor paintball business, leisure center, and rugby club. These varied options will allow the author to build on their strengths like flexibility while also working to improve their weaknesses such as being more creative.

1. Rationale<br />I feel that my strengths and weaknesses have affected my work experience choices a great deal. They have made me decide to look at different options for a job at the end of university. I have decided to pick a variety of different options for my potential work experience so I will have a better idea of what path I want to go down for getting a job at the end of university.<br />At this point in time I haven’t got a big variety of work experience so I feel that by trying different areas I will improve my employability. My current strengths are that according to the graduate skills questionnaire I am loyal, according to the enterprise questionnaire I have good perseverance and according to the BBC questionnaire I am flexible to different people and situations. These are all very important skills for employability so I feel these skills are what I want to show the employers in my work based learning because I feel they are some main points that employers look for in employees.<br />I also currently have weaknesses that I feel employers would want to see improving to give me a job. The current weaknesses I have are according to the enterprise questionnaire is I am not particularly creative and from Lashleys questionnaire I am not an activist. These are important skills for employers because these skills could need to be used a lot in different jobs.<br />I have chosen a few different possible places for my work experience which I have had my strengths and weaknesses in mind. The possible places I have chosen are <br />to work for an outdoor paintball business called Armageddon