Positive personality trait
Ambitious
Eager and determined to achieve something worthwhile.
4 ready sentences Updated Run by Adrian Nutiu
What it looks like
- Sets high goals and works hard toward them.
- Takes on bigger challenges than they need to.
- Plans their next step before the current one is done.
Fits when a person sets high goals and works hard to reach them
Not when the ambition is for power or money at other people's expense
How to say it
Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.
Fills [Name] in the reference and the report card comment, ready to copy.
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Resume line Set and met a target of [number or result], [amount] above [the previous year or team average], in [period].
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Reference or recommendation [Name] is ambitious in the right way: they asked for [a harder project or more responsibility], and they [delivered result] with it.
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Report card comment [Name] sets ambitious goals for their work and is working hard to reach them.
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In a story, shown not told He was the only first-year who applied for the research post. He did not get it, and applied again the next spring, with a list of what he had done in between.
The ambitious student applied for the summer research post a year early.
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