Transcription: Knowing your strengths and weaknesses is important. It's also useful to know what kinds of work environments you prefer, and you need to have a good idea of your goals. This kind of self-assessment will help you define your work personality. I think it's important that a person asks themselves things like, do I enjoy working with people? Do I like technical writing? And of course, you need a good idea of what kind of salary and benefits you'd like to aim for.