...Competencies and Career Interests Profiler Understanding your personal competencies can help improve your critical thinking skills in a number of ways. By understanding what your abilities are you are able to utilize your critical thinking skills. For example, some companies expect their employees to reach a certain level of competency at the end of their training. This is because developing or capitalizing on your core competencies entails learning and thoroughly understanding the job at hand. Based on my career aptitude test, my results show that scheduling; material recording and law would be a good fit for me. I am an efficient communicator, detail oriented and I take the time to research what I am doing. Because of these inclinations/competencies, I can have a more profound understanding of what I am doing in contrast to someone who may not be good at these things. It is said that capitalizing your strengths is more important than working on your weaknesses. Knowing your competencies can help you evaluate arguments through understanding every aspect of what you are doing. By utilizing your competencies and understanding the details of your task you are then able to overcome any objection and validate your argument. For example, lawyers know that they are efficient communicators and they use this competency to validate their argument in the courtroom. They research the case, ask questions, and interpret the law to help the jury reach a verdict. Knowing your strengths...
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...Competencies and Career Interest Profiler Completing the competencies for this assignment I learned that my top three competencies are adapting to change, cooperating, and adhering to values. My two lowest competencies were strategizing and organizing. Knowing theses personal competencies is important to the way that I can improve my critical thinking skills because it gives me a base outline of the areas that I should be attentive to. For example, one of my strengths is adapting to change. I feel that it is important for people to remain open minded when looking at a subject critically. Many arguments can be made for something that are good valid agreements, but if someone is close-minded then there would be a lot at loss for both sides of the argument. My second strength was cooperating. Being able to cooperate in a group is important. Respecting the views of others allows there to be a foundation on which each member will be able to speak freely of their views. Even though there are members of the team that may disagree with other’s opinion, it is important to respect their own opinions. This will help lead the team to more powerful debate when both sides are able to speak feely of the views and opinions. Looking at the lowest compentcies ratings, strategizing was one that surprised me the most and definitely one that I feel is very important when improving critical thinking skills. When setting up an argument, there must be a strategy. Taking resources, data, and facts...
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...Career Plan Building: Competencies and Career Interests Profiler Susy Pereira BCOM/275 June 2, 2014 Pearl Maxwell Based on results from the Career Builder and Profiler being innovative and artistic, will help with critical thinking by being able to determine what information can be used as credible facts or that can be considered fallible information. Career matches would be something in an artistic, media, or social scene, where being persuasive, strategizing, and adhere to values will benefit having to recognize one of the most common mistakes, which is the reasoning. Believing in the person making the claim or believing the actual claim. There is some detective work involved, if there is a party of interest that will make a profit by spreading inconsistent information, it can involve risk taking but doing the research and finding a reliable source will make better critical decisions. Career competencies can help evaluate arguments by applying expertise theoretically and practical to distinguish from someone that is exaggerating the truth and trying to persuade them to accept they claim they are making without any relevant facts. Taking initiative and being responsible for one’s own actions, making clear and quick decision, doing the research to find the facts and not taking another’s word for it. The person may sound intelligent and their body and facial language plays a big part in persuading a person on to their side, as they mentioned in Chapter 5 euphemisms...
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...Career Plan Building Activity: Competencies and Career Interests Profiler Tonya L Uhlman BCOM/275- May 19, 2014 Shawn Castle Career Plan Building Activity: Competencies and Career Interests Profiler Critical thinking is a challenging process of reflection in which you carefully consider a problem, question, or situation in order to determine the best solution by means of reviewing is the issue reasonable, and then evaluating and refining that solution or belief. Self-awareness is the most significant thing I have learned during this course. Learning to be aware of how my thinking affects other people and myself. I am challenging myself to put aside prejudices and misconceptions that can undermine the quality of my thoughts. I have also learned that I am not an authority on everything. I have come to the understanding that I have a lot of room for growth and I need to continue to develop and practice my critical thinking skills, especially if I am wanting to pursue my degree in Human Resource Management. The career interests and competency assessments have shown that the passions I possess are on target with achieving my goals. The competencies that I possess is the ability to cooperate, adhere to values, and the ability to adapt to change. These competencies add value to an effective human resource Manager. To be a true critical thinker you must be able to look at all sides and find credible information to which might be the exact opposite of your personal...
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...My Career Plan Lorria P. Anderson MGT/521 January 29, 2013 Jeffrey Jordan Abstract A set of tasks were conducted in the Career Plan Building Activities; Career Interests Profiler and Competencies. The Career Interests Profiler is based on different activities placing them in order of the most to the least interesting. The results determine occupations appealing to my career paths; social, conventional, and investigative. The competency determines my skills, behaviors, and abilities drive performance at a workplace. The results are based on strengths in goal focus, organizing, and coping with pressure. Also, in taking initiatives, following instructions, and delivering results. Both activities assist in understanding the personal competencies that will help become a better communicator and manager. They also help determine what communication techniques to focus on the most or change to work effectively in the work place. Career Plan A set of tasks were conducted in the Career Plan Building Activities; Career Interests Profiler and Competencies. The Career Interests Profiler is based on different activities placing them in order of the most to least interesting. The results determine occupations appealing to my career paths; social conventional, and investigative. Under social occupations its frequent involvement is in working, communicating, and teaching people. Under conventional occupations its frequent involvement is in following set procedures and...
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...Career Plan Building Activity: Competencies and Career Interests Profiler University of Phoenix MGT/527 1/19/2015 In completing the Career Plan Building Activity and the Career Interests Profiler, I was able to collect interesting and significant information on the career fields that very well can be of interest to me as well as provide information regarding my strengths in where my competencies are applicable. In understanding and having knowledge of my personal competencies, I would be able to improve my critical thinking skills (Geng, 2014). Understanding critical thinking is important when trying to improve your critical thinking skills. Critical thinking deals with reflective reasoning regarding beliefs and actions makes it likely to take a situation, analyze it, gather what is essential in order to form a clear and concise origin of meaning and understand it as needed according to the circumstances. While discovering my strengths and weaknesses in competencies and with the outcome of the Career Interest Profile enable me to take a look into the areas of my expertise (Geng, 2014). The profile showed me having a more conventional occupation which usually involve following usual processes and practices. These careers include working with details and data more frequently than working with ideas. The Career Interest Profiler also included an enterprising occupation that usually includes leading people and making numerous decisions. They sometimes require taking risk...
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...course of Business Communication and Critical Thinking, there were activities at the My Career Plan page on University of Phoenixes website that were required to be completed for the week. They were Career interests Profiler, Competencies, Work Culture Preferences and Reasoning Aptitude. This Author will discuss those activities that were taken and completed during this course. The discussion will also be tailored around how this course applies to the career plan. Career Interests Profiler The first activity was the Career Interests Profiler. Before the My Career Plan can give ideas as to the possible career paths for this author, a series of questions needed to be answered in order for the profiler to tailor the careers according to the answers given. Upon the completion of answering the questions, the profiler had identified three specific characteristics for this author. They were: artistic, realistic and enterprising. Below these were possible career paths that correlated with the three characteristics. Amongst the top picks were arts, designs, entertainment, media and sports. Innately a creative person, this author agrees with majority of the matches given. Critical thinking is an imperative aspect when looking at the arts and design careers. Innovation is key and requires a large amount of focused and creative perspectives. Competencies The second activity was the competencies section. This activity is to uncover the personal behaviors, skills and abilities to drive...
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...Career Plan Building Activity and Competencies and Career Interest Profilers Crystal A. Naquin University of Phoenix BCOM 275 November 6, 2013 Virginia Carter Looking over the completed career interests’ profiler and competencies assessments, it helped me gain a better understanding of my competencies and how I apply them to a business setting. With the career interests’ profiler, it very much already told me what I already knew but more of a deeper understanding. What I do appreciate after taking completing the career interests’ profiler is providing me with a list of the different careers that would be best suited. Completing the competencies assessment, has helped me analyze my results such as adapting to change, delivering results or innovating and how I can apply them to critical thinking. By understanding my personal competencies, what I can do to improve my skills can be using my results to help look outside the box. One result I found very intriguing was innovating. “To innovate” means to show something as if it was the first time or to alter something and I found that intriguing as one of my results. Applying innovation to critical thinking would mean to think outside the box, change my perception on how I see the problem so that the solution may present itself. Another way in applying my results can be in how I evaluate arguments. For example, adapting to change or coping with pressure are great competencies in which can help me evaluating arguments. With adapting...
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...Competencies and Career Interests Profile COM/503 JULY 1, 2013 Patrick Thorton Competencies and Career Interest Profiler The results from the Career interest profiler said a lot about me that I did not realize. Often times I think about my strengths and weakness. Understanding our competencies will help you to go in the right direction of your career. When understanding your competencies you can identify your strengths and weaknesses. The results from the competencies and career profiler were almost correct on where I am at in my career. While some of the competencies have told me that I did not know of myself. Lawyer, Judge was at the top of the list. This information was interesting as I have never thought about a career in legal, but I have thought about investigative work earlier in my career, but did not pursed it. The results of the competencies activity gave me a score 3 out of 5 in each categories of Adhering to Values, Cooperating, following instructions, strategizing, coping with pressure and Goal focus. Which I am not sure why I scored 3 out of 5 for following instruction, adhering to values and cooperating. Those three categories I hold to great standard, but I will take that score because maybe I did not understand something. Understanding your competencies can help in becoming an effective communicator with group/ team members. After getting the results it helps me to see clearly on what I need to improve in to have a successful career. This...
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...James W. Lago BUS 275 Professor Leo Colegrove May 12, 2014 Career Interests Profiler and Competencies activities Discuss the ways in which understanding your personal competencies will help you to improve your critical thinking skills. How can knowing your competencies help you to evaluate arguments? This paper will discuss the results of my career interest profiler and competencies activity. It will also discuss the ways in which understanding your personal competencies will help you improve critical thinking skills, and how can knowing your competencies help you to evaluate arguments. I was asked a series of question during my career interest profiler. The profiler based on those results determined that I am enterprising, conventional and artistic. My results reflect what I have been working towards. My career matches are advertising, marketing manager, fundraising manager, grants manager, and business development executive. I am aiming to go to grad school for my Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing upon completion of my bachelor’s degree, and this information has given me even more confidence that I am on the right path. Many of the strengths listed I already knew about myself, having this confirmed will give me the confidence to trust my instincts about myself and stop holding back. My strengths are delivering results, writing, goal focused, entrepreneurial thinking, organizing and innovating. I have always loved writing...
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...I was grateful surprise with the results of my Career Plan Building Activity; The Career Interest Profiler: Based on my answers to the questionnaire I am… Enterprising Occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking. Conventional Occupations frequently involve following set of procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear of line of authority to follow. Social Occupations frequently involve working with communicating with and teaching people. Often involve helping or providing services to others. Suggesting the following Career and Education Matches Options for me: Careers: Supervisor of; office and administrative support, Personal Care and Services workers, Sales manager, Operations manager, General Manager and CEO. Education: Associate or Bachelor of Art with concentration in Accounting, Finance, Business Foundations, Marketing, Services Sector, Management, Global Management, HR Management, etc. Career Plan Building Activity: Competencies, My results were: Adhering to values: Upholds ethics and values; demonstrates integrity; promotes and defends equal opportunities, builds diverse teams; encourages organizational and individual responsibility. Delivering Results: Focus on customer needs and satisfaction, sets high standards for...
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...Career Plan Building Activity: Competencies and Career Interests Profiler Business Communication and Critical Thinking BCOM 275 University of Phoenix Demonstrative Communication After completing the Competencies and Career Profiler I realized that I have been on the right career path according to my results. The assessment outlined the following fields Freight Forwarder, Executive Assistant, Management and Supervisor in the areas of Customer Service, Administrative, Medical Office or Practice and Sales. Out of all the fields listed Freight Forwarder and the Medical Office and Sales are the only fields I have not worked. I’m working as a Logistic Analyst in the Supply Field and to my surprise it was not one the suggested options. However, the medical field as well as the freight business has been on my research agenda. The great thing is the career profiler provided me a guideline that shows that there are numerous of degree options to explore if I wanted to focus on being a manager. I had now idea that to work in the secretaries and administrative field your course of study should be a Bachelors of Science in Psychology. I think this is an awesome tool because it allows you view the different career option understand the educational path that’s needed to be success. Also, the assessment results provided me the knowledge that I have the ability to apply expertise, thinking logically, cope with pressure, follow instructions, deliver results and I’m innovating. The...
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...1. Adjust your professional or career goal you created in Week Two based on the Career Plan Building Activities results from the My Career Plan assignment. How did the results of the Career Interest Profiler and Career Plan Building Activity on Competencies contribute to your professional goal development? My career goal has not changed after I did the activity. The results of my career interest profiler told me what I had already known all my life. My profiler results and career plan goes right along with what I have wanted to do most of my life. It just helped me to see I know myself much better than I realized. 2. Describe how you will balance academic expectations and your personal and professional responsibilities. I have made myself a very strict routine to help me balance my time and set my priorities accordingly. I have time set up in the morning and afternoon for job searching. I use a majority of the time in between for my schoolwork. I also have the evenings set aside for time with my daughter. 3. How can understanding the importance of SMART criteria and your career interests and competencies help you move toward your career and academic goals? The SMART criteria are just a guideline to setting good achievable goals. It will help me to set more specific obtainable goals in order to be successful in reaching said goals. If you are smart in remembering the four types of goals and following the five guide words (SMART) to setting your goals, it will help...
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...|[pic] |Course Syllabus | | |School of Business | | |BCOM/230 Version 3 | | |Business Communication for Accountants | Copyright © 2012, 2010 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course introduces students to the foundations of communication in a business accounting setting. Students are exposed to various topics related to interpersonal and group communications within the context of applications to the accounting field. Students will develop skills in the forms of written communication, including memos, e-mails, business letters, and reports. Other topics include communication ethics, collaboration, information utilization, critical thinking, and professional competence and values. Policies Faculty and students will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document...
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...by an individual to reflect upon their own learning, performances, and/or achievement to plan for their personal, educational and career paths and development. Even though there might be other ways to get class assignments done, making a personal plan will help you get your class assignments done, as well as help you with your career path and goals. The reason being is you are using a SMART goals system and setting a schedule that is right for you to help with your classes and class assignments. To help with your career path and goals you can use a Career Interest Profiler as well as the SMART goals system. Having a personal plan will help gets assignments done by setting SMART goals, SMART goals are achievable realistic goals that you can complete. Here are a couple examples of SMART goals. In this first example this can be used for an educational goal in your classes. In the next couple weeks I will take a writing workshop to help with my writing skills. This next example can be used towards your career path or goals. In the next couple weeks I will start to fill out job applications that are in my field of study at university of phoenix. A career interest profiler is a program that asks you various questions about your thoughts on job related questions and then based on those answers gives you some ideas of multiple career interests that are right for you, for example some of mine are: based on my responses I got social, investigative, and conventional. Based...
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