Assessment of in individual strengths and weaknesses

Before finalizing career plan for an individual and placing him on career path, it is necessary to access his strengths and weaknesses. Every individual has certain strengths and weaknesses. Strengths is a feature of an individual that helps in achieving his life's goals (in the context of work life, career goals). A weakness is a feature that produces hindrance in achieving life's goals. A paradox with the most people in that their own aspirations do not match with their own strengths, often aspirations are over emphasized in the relation to strengths. Therefore, there is a need and opportunities. While assessing strengths, it should be borne in the mind that strengths are not fixed features but go on changing over the period of time because of continuous learning. Therefore, strengths should be assessed but in the terms of present and potential (in terms of lean ability and motivation to learn).