Feel Prepared Your Senior Year

Pierre Francois Verley
Talentoday’s blog
2 min readAug 8, 2014

It’s your senior year and you’re really not looking forward to going back to school. We know about having “senioritis.” We really understand it too! For this reason, we want to help with your transition from senior year to a new school. The Talentoday Team has come up with three tips to help you have a positive outlook towards filing applications to different colleges, looking for housing, and meeting new friends or classmates for the coming year.

Tip #1: Applying to colleges

Take a look at your strong points on your personality and motivations radar. Are you someone who is at ease in public? Or do you tend to be an independent and autonomous person? Research schools and programs where your personality and motivations will be satisfied and fulfilled. This way you’ll feel more confident applying to the programs at different schools. You shouldn’t have to drastically tailor yourself to programs; you should feel like you belong where you apply!

Tip #2: Looking for housing

For many of us, tuition fees are extremely high and cannot afford to live on our own. Because of this, we have to look for roommates. Compare your personality and motivations radar with potential roommates via your Talentoday profiles. Do you prefer to have an organized roommate? Or do you want to be roommates with someone who has similar motivations as you? Want to get to know your potential roommate at a more personal level? These types of questions can be answered by simply connecting and sharing profiles. You might just save yourself from a stressful quarter or semester with a roommate you do not get along with.

Tip #3: A-team for group projects

Attending a new school means you’ll meet new people. You may meet some who are studying the same thing as you or are part of other programs that your school offers. Either way, if you are assigned a group project, you will be interested in who you can count on for the completion of these. Who will be the leader, or the event organizer? Who can keep up with stressful situations and meet deadlines? By sharing your personality and motivations results with friends and classmates, you will be able to distinguish each person’s character and might be able to form a grade A-team.

Your personality and motivations radars reveal the real you. After you recognize your talents and motivations, you will feel more confident applying to the programs at different schools, as well as seek roommates and group mates that complement your qualities. So, put senioritis off to the side and take control over your skills and incentives. Invite your friends and classmates to take the Talentoday questionnaire, and compare your results with everyone to identify those whom you can successfully work with in the personal, academic and professional world.

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