Before pursuing a career, it is important to ensure you will have success and satisfaction within your position. This might be common sense to everyone but to do this you have to actually identify your strengths. However, figuring out your strengths may prove to be quite difficult. To help evaluate strengths, you want to see what is easiest for you to do and what makes you happiest.
If I decide to pursue my legal career, both my skills in inductive and deductive reasoning would be utilized. Deductive reasoning will come into play when there is no other possible suspect; the conclusion reached would be certain or definite. For example, if a suspected drunk driver is pulled over and takes a breathalyzer and gets a BAC level of .20, then it is definite that the driver was operating the vehicle while intoxicated. Inductive reasoning, on the other hand, would come into play when the conclusion is probable, or reasonable. In an inductive argument, the decision is up to an officer, the judge, or the jury to weigh the probabilities presented. For example, if an officer sees someone in a parked car with the keys in the ignition and suspects them to be drunk, gives them a breathalyzer, which they fail, the officer may then assume that the suspect was going to drive the vehicle.
I believe I am strongest in inductive reasoning, or proving something probable. This will be useful in trials because the standard of proof is “beyond a reasonable doubt.” Knowing what your strengths are before starting a career will help you be more successful and satisfied with your position.
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