Rae(l) Strengths
Know what you bring.
Twenty strengths. One honest assessment.
Most people cannot tell you what they are good at.
Ask someone what their strengths are and you will usually get a job title, a qualification, or an awkward silence. Ask them what they are naturally good at and they will often describe something they do every day without noticing, then apologise for it not being impressive.
That is a problem when you are trying to work out where you fit. You cannot position yourself for a role if you cannot describe what you bring to it.
Rae(l) Strengths exists to fix that. It is a framework built around twenty real-world strengths that the technology industry, and most industries, genuinely value. Not a personality type. Not a label. A proper, honest look at what you bring.
Four clusters
Twenty strengths, across four areas.
Five strengths sit in each cluster. You rate yourself honestly against every one, and the pattern that comes out is usually more useful than the individual scores.
How you think
How you approach a problem, what you notice first, and how you make sense of things that are unclear.
How you connect
How you work with other people, how you communicate, and what you bring to a room full of them.
How you are wired
What comes naturally, what drains you, and the conditions in which you do your best work.
How you move
How you get things done, how you handle change, and what you do when the plan stops working.
What makes it different.
It does not put you in a box and give you a four letter code. It does not tell you what kind of animal you are. It will not flatter you either.
Every strength in the framework is something an employer would actually recognise and value. Not abstract traits, but things you could put on a CV and defend in an interview.
You rate yourself across four levels, from not like me through to this is absolutely me. The strengths that come out strongest carry suggestions of roles worth exploring, so the assessment leads somewhere rather than simply describing you.
The more honestly you answer, the more useful it is. There are no right answers here, only honest ones.
Where to find it
Inside the Companion Workbook.
The full assessment, all twenty strengths and the scoring that goes with them, sits inside Getting Into Tech: The Companion Workbook. It is not published anywhere else.