Max Carnes' Business Blog

Last week in my Business 2001 course our class completed a personality quiz that gave us five signature themes. My five themes are competition, achiever, futuristic, significance, and command. I felt as if these themes reflected my personality very well. I would like to continue to improve these traits in order to be successful, and this blog post will explain how I plan to improve competition, achiever, and futuristic. I will start with competition. This a trait that I developed through sports growing up. One part of the trait that I would like to improve would be the last line of the description, which states that "over time you will come to avoid contests where winning seems unlikely". This is sometime that I would like to fix because this will lead to avoiding competition. To do this, I will actively seek challenges instead of looking for the easiest way to win. One simple way I can see myself improving my competitive drive is through pick-up basketball, where I catch mys...

This week in class we took the  CliftonStrengths for Students Assessment. This was a quiz that gave you five signature themes based on your answers. The signature themes I got were Competition, Achiever, Futuristic, Significance, and Command. I thought these reflected my personality very well. I have always been very competitive through sports and my career chose of finance reflects my futuristic attitude. We also interviewed one classmate who had a theme in common with us. My partner was Andrew Dreyer, who had competition in common, which we both felt was our strongest trait. Through this exercise I learned how these traits affect our work in group projects. Andrew uses his achiever trait when the project starts stalling and he needs to get the group together and back on track. I use my command trait to take charge of the project to make sure that everyone has a part to contribute to the final product. We also used these traits as a way to show a positive trait to future employer...

My name is Max Carnes and I am a sophomore Finance major at the University of Tulsa. I am also getting a minor in Economics and have been accepted to the Accelerated MBA program. I am currently enrolled in Essential Business Skill Development. Through this course, the university hopes to prepare students for collaboration in the workplace and help them develop a better understanding of their individual skills and career path. With the use of different career building exercises such as mock interviews and resume building, the University of Tulsa hopes that its business students will be better adapted when entering the workplace. To do this, students need to have a good understanding of their strengths, skills, and talents. From this class, I hope to get a better understanding of how I want to use my Finance degree once I graduate. With a more defined career path I can take courses that can better benefit my work in the future. I would also like to go through the interviewing process wi...