Insights

Whether you’re applying to college or interviewing for a job, we’re asked many times throughout our lives, “What are your greatest strengths?”

It’s never easy to be evaluated and sometimes it’s even more difficult to evaluate yourself. From a career perspective, we are often encouraged to specialize based on these lifelong evaluations and our strengths in academia.

While academic pursuits are certainly one way to find your profession, what if there’s another way?

I’ve known since high school that one of my greatest strengths, public speaking, is often cited as the most common answer to, “what is your greatest fear?” Public speaking is a handy skill in the real world…but it’s not exactly something one can easily craft a career around, right?

I had no idea what I wanted to do for my professional career both at the…