Motivated – how to prove it?

Four years ago, there was an opportunity to repair the relationship between me and my eldest daughter who was studying in Australia.  It was her last year of university study.  She was ready to apply for her first job.  Unfortunately, she got very stressed because she got no feedback from any recruitment ads.  She got desperate.  I happened to call her for some other reason and felt from her tone not right.  I asked her what was going on.  She burst to tears and claimed that she was really stressful of the job searching.  I commented that it must be something wrong with her CV.  That is correct.  I guided her through on how to correct her CV with highlight of her personality and her summer jobs experience on taking care of panda, working in Hong Kong sole farmland and etc.  She became confident and ultimately got a job.  After 2 years of hard working, she is promoted to a small section manager of a farmland and our relationship got much improved.  Great!

Now it comes to the turn of my second daughter.  However, she is too busy to let me help her.  Till now, I only got 2 phone calls with her.  The latest call happened 2 weeks ago and we reviewed 1 of the recruitment ads for agricultural surveyor with one of the requirements being motivated, hardworking and like to work in outdoor.

My question to her is: how to express you are motivated?  Simple?  Definitely not.  Have you ever thought of proving yourself as a motivated person while the reader of the CV does not know who you are?  Is it a silly question?

Definitely not! By means of motivated, what motivate you?  Should it be self-motivated?  But what internal force that motivate a person?  What should be that force?  Why can a person become initiative to endlessly work on a task?  She must want to achieve something.  I give her a clue of 2 things: curiosity and self-realization (sorry, it is psychology again).

Curiosity: why things be that?  Human beings is inborne with curiosity.  We feel interested with everything around us.  Each person may have its own sphere of interest which is unexplainable.  It is instinct.  Some people are interested in nature, some in mathematics, logic, art or sports.  There is no need to explain why you like music but if you declare that you enjoy music or making music, nobody will question further, right?  It must be answer from your heart.

Self-realization: we want to do something to enjoy the process of proving we are capable.

These are the 2 internal force that motivate a human to persevere.  Actually, these 2 intrinsic forces are extracted from my self-study of psychology.  If you are the reader, will you be okay with these?