..."Career Plan Reflection Paper" Shelley Bonner BCOM 275/ Business Communication and Critical Thinking February 26, 2014 Lynda Sohl "Career Plan Reflection Paper" The My Career Plan program and individual assignments were intended to help me develop a strategy for my career goals. The process revealed my career interests, competencies, work culture preferences, and thinking style. It also helped me identify strengths and weaknesses that will be key throughout my career. My interest profiler results were realistic, conventional, and social. Although I did not agree with most of the job titles listed, I definitely identified with the interests. Realistic occupations regularly involve practical activities, hands-on problems, and solutions. Conventional occupations follow set procedures and routines, and social occupations work with, communicate with, and teach people. The BCOM 275 program has provided me with many practical applications I can use to attain my career interest goals. During the career competencies exercise, I received 4 of 5 marks in the areas of adapting to change, writing, and logical thinking. I received only 3 of 5 marks for organizing, strategizing, delivering results. Although the exercise helped me validate traits I “thought I had,” it also made me realize there is much I need to improve. My work culture preference results were ethical, high powered, and supportive. These outcomes revealed my desire to be in a demanding, secure, and fair work...
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...Career Plan Analysis John David BCOM/230 Career Plan Analysis This paper will analyze the results of my career building activity and describe how it relates to my communication and leadership style. This paper will also briefly review my career matches, competencies, and work culture preferences and describe how business communication applies to my career plan building activity. Communication and Career Matches Communication plays a key role in the success of all individuals in all types of career. The results of my career plan analysis revealed that I will be successful in careers including material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers. My results also revealed that careers as sales representatives; wholesale and manufacturing are best fit. In addition, I will be effective as supervisors of installation, maintenance and repair workers. According to Lesiker & Flattley (2008), “Communication is the most used skill in almost every job” (Ch. 1). I will need communication skill to succeed in almost all the above jobs. Competencies Career plan analysis reveal that I will be competent in the roles including entrepreneurial thinking, goal focus, researching, taking initiative, organizing, and following instructions. All these competencies will require me to have good communication skills and everything we learned from business communication will enable me to be successful in all these competencies. Work Culture Preference Career plan analysis...
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...Career Plan Reflection Paper: After completing the Career Plan on the University Of Phoenix Career website my results were as follows. The career profiled deemed me as enterprising, realistic and social. The website defines enterprising as frequently involving starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business. The website defines realistic as occupations frequently involving work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals and real-world materials like wood, tools and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others. Lastly the website defines social as occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others. As determined by the website I would work well in sales, food and service working. This exercise may have proven accurate for some but highly off based for myself. I have no interest in working in a food industry or in a social setting. I believe the questions and results weren’t accurate to say the least. I will not be using this career planner. The questions that were presented to us are: discuss the ways in which understanding your personal competencies will help you to improve your critical thinking skills...
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...Vocational/Career Self Assessment It is essential for individuals to discover what careers fit their personal desires and personality traits. Through the use of assessments, individuals are able to establish what vocational areas they are remarkable in and which areas they should steer clear from. Assessments are one of the major components of career counseling and it is essential all counselors are competent in implementing and interpreting assessment scores (Amir, Gati, & Kleiman, 2008). As a future counselor, it is essential I am able to complete career assessments and gain my own personal insight of the results. In this paper, I will discuss the results and insights from the Self Directed Search Assessment and the SWOT assessment. Self-Assessment Results The first assessment I completed was the Self Directed Search, influenced by John Holland. The assessment was formed to investigate whether individual’s personality traits could fit into a specific type of working environment (Holland, Powell, & Fritzsche, 1994). The assessment is devised of six characteristics, however only three types will be generated based on the test takers answers (Holland, Powell, & Fritzsche, 1994). My findings from the Self Directed Search...
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...Career Plan Reflection Paper B/COMM 275 Oct 6, 2014 Steven Johnson Career Plan Reflection The My Career Plan program and individual assignments were intended to help me develop a strategy for my career goals. The process revealed my career interests, competencies, work culture preferences, and thinking style. It also helped me identify strengths and weaknesses that will be key throughout my career. My interest profiler results were realistic, conventional, and social. Although I did not agree with most of the job titles listed, I definitely identified with the interests. Realistic occupations regularly involve practical activities, hands-on problems, and solutions. Conventional occupations follow set procedures and routines, and social occupations work with, communicate with, and teach people. The BCOM/275 program has provided me with many practical applications I can use to attain my career interest goals. During the career competencies exercise, I received 4 of 5 marks in the areas of adapting to change, writing, and logical thinking. I received only 3 of 5 marks for organizing, strategizing, delivering results. Although the exercise helped me validate traits I “thought I had,” it also made me realize there is much I need to improve. My work culture preference results were ethical, high powered, and supportive. These outcomes revealed my desire to be in a demanding, secure, and fair work environment that promotes personal development and...
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...Career Management and Development for Research Faculty Good Practice Guidelines for Research Faculty As well as the support you should receive from your principal investigator and the University to help you with your career development, you have an integral role in managing your own career. There are many ways you can develop and effectively manage your career while working at the University. What You Should Do To Manage and Develop Your Career: [ ] Think ahead ! You need to start thinking about the next step in your career as soon as possible and at least six months before the end of your contract. You also need to think about how your next step fits in to your overall career plan Decide if you want your next career step to be academia or elsewhere To help you do this: - talk to your supervisor about ways of continuing working in the School/Unit, if that's what you want to do e.g. who the relevant funding bodies are etc. look at the internet sites of funding councils for possible sources of funding - ask your supervisor, your peers or the careers service to help you identify the skills that you are developing as a researcher. Once you know what you can offer you are in a better position to start identifying possible employers - talk to your supervisor about your goals. Involve him / her in helping you to achieve them wherever possible - find out if there is a School/Unit research faculty contact, or another member of staff you can talk to, if you are unhappy about talking to...
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...TE AM FL Y FEARLESS INTERVIEWING How to Win the Job by Communicating with Confidence Marky Stein McGraw-Hill New York Chicago San Francisco Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan New Delhi San Juan Seoul Singapore Sydney Toronto Copyright © 2003 by Marky Stein. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. 0-07-141572-6 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: 0-07-140884-3. All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use names in an editorial fashion only, and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Where such designations appear in this book, they have been printed with initial caps. McGraw-Hill eBooks are available at special quantity discounts to use as premiums and sales promotions, or for use in corporate training programs. For more information, please contact George Hoare, Special Sales, at george_hoare@mcgraw-hill.com or (212) 904-4069. TERMS OF USE This is a copyrighted work and The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (“McGraw-Hill”) and its licensors reserve all rights in and to the work. Use of this...
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...| [ |Course Syllabus | | |College of Humanities | | |Foundations for General Education and | | |Professional Success | | | | | . All rights reserved. Course Description This general education course is designed to introduce the intentional learner to communication, collaboration, information utilization, critical thinking, problem solving, and professional competence and values. The course uses an interdisciplinary approach for the learner to develop personal academic strategies in order to reach desired goals and achieve academic success. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: University...
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...Reasoning Aptitude Paper Intro After completing the reasoning aptitude portion of my career plan, I was a little surprised at the results. This was not the first time that the results caught my attention but I did see how the system was able to produce the information it did in relation to my working abilities, thinking processes and habits. My profile showed that I could work well in a career field where my success would come from my ability to apply my practical skills. Maybe in a field of work where thinking was a key ability needed to solve practical problems. It showed that I was likely to be attracted to more practical jobs or careers. My results tell me that my individual thinking style is what I had anticipated it to be. I tend to be more successful or interested in work that I can learn by watching and conquer and be proficient after I have learned and comprehended the process. I am a hand-on type of person that stand behind the statement that seeing is believing so in order for me to perform a function to the best of my ability, I need to see it done, maybe a few times. I like supervision and training until I am confident in my ability to accomplish the work. It is sometimes hard for me to accomplish a task based on a theory because to me, a theory is something that is not necessarily proven to work or be effective. I want to know that what work effort I am about to put in is going to be substantial, get the job done and get it done accurately...
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...My chosen career is to become a Social Worker dealing with kids and their families. I have so much love for kids that I just want to see smiles on their faces. I want to start as a Social Worker and work my way up to become a Child Protective Specialist. Becoming a CPS would mean a lot to me because it will make me help kids get out of harm that is caused by parents or guardians. It also will make me feel better knowing that some kids are going to sleep safe at night and trying to live a normal life. The strengths that I bring to this career are a strong and open mind, work efficient, and can work under pressure. Having these strengths makes me more valuable because my supervisor would be able to see the kind of person that I am and will value my work. They would see that I can be able to handle cases on my own and hopefully get promoted to a higher position. The opportunities that I would make for myself improvement to allow me to be more valuable in the workplace would be to sometimes think outside the box and understand my clients with a better and clearer understanding. The opportunities that I look forward to is getting to help kids and hopefully landing a supervisor position with New York City ACS Agency. The result of my Ethical Lens Inventory was that my personal preferred Lens was None – periscope and Paralysis. This means that I see the gifts and weaknesses of each lens and I am able to move smoothly among them to adopt the right tools to each situation to get the best...
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...Theme Paper 4; Mental Health and Disabilities Tonjia Berger-Day Brandman University PSYU 617 Dr. Renee DuVerger SPRING II, 2015 Abstract “There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender, or disability” Sharron Angle; American Politician. All individuals with the capabilities and will to work should be offered equal opportunities to do so. Unfortunately, those with disabilities – physical or mental – face not just the condition they are dealing with, they also face a deficit in the world around them; a lack of equal opportunity for many when seeking employment. Career counseling for those who have a disability is an essential task that should include the community as well as the client. Zunker (2012) states, “The overarching counseling goal for persons with disabilities is to maximize each individual’s potential for life and work in the 21st century” (p. 268). This is a task that the counselor should undertake with their clients who have added challenges, as well as advocating to the community to assist with acceptance; “Ideally, a cooperative effort between teachers and counselors promotes an effective school program that is supported and recognized by the community” (p. 269), this further supports all continued efforts and opportunities for our clients. Mental Health and Disabilities: “There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender, or disability” Sharron Angle;...
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...Management Theory & Practice Tara Neitzel MGT/230 13 January 2014 Hilary Johnson- Lutz Abstract There are many times in my life that I have had to make executive decisions to make certain changes in my life. One change in particular that I have had to embrace recently is changing my job. There were many decisions made in this big change, it took a lot of thought, planning, and the weighing of pros and cons. In this paper I have decided to go into depth about this change, which led to many differences in my everyday life. Management Theory & Practice Recently I had to make some big decisions about changing my job from one career to another, from one city to another. I had to make the decision based on many factors. First I began looking for another job, I was trying to decide how far away from home to search, what field I want to work in, what salary I was willing to take, really, what will make me happy in all aspects. First, I had to decide how far I was willing to commute. Time is huge for me, and I wanted to make sure it made sense, as I was working 5 minutes from home with my job at the time. But I just wasn’t happy. So I set out to find a job within a reasonable distance from my house. I started looking into staffing agencies, and doing my own search for a job. I came along an interesting job, something I thought I might enjoy, and the salary was about right for me, the only problem was that I could not get over that my commute to work...
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...Table of Contents 3.3 Classroom Tab 3.3.1 Materials 3.3.2 Discussion 3.3.3 Assignments 3.3.4 Grades 3.4 Library 3.4.1 University Library 3.4.2 Media Library 3.4.3 eBooks 3.4.4 Center for Writing Excellence 3.4.5 Center for Mathematics Excellence 3.4.6 Phoenix Career Services 3.3 Classroom Tab The classroom section is one of the most important sections on the student website. It is where you will find all of the information on your current classes and the material that will be used. The classroom section is broken down into four tabs to make it easier for you to find everything; they are Materials, Discussion, Assignments, and Grades. 3.3.1 Materials When you first click on the classroom tab it takes you to the materials section where you will see the name and start date of your class. Scrolling down the page you will see a list of what each week of your class will contain. Each week will have a section that has the objectives and the materials that will be needed for that week such as books or other reading material needed to complete that week’s assignment. Directly to the left of the materials tab you will notice a drop down box that will let you switch between classes. It will show your most recent past class, your current class or classes, as well as your next upcoming class. You can quickly switch between them by clicking on the down arrow to bring up the drop down box and clicking on the class you would like to go to....
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...PAGE Abstract The purpose of this paper is to explain the career development process and outline an approach of how to progress through it. I will choose a specific Career Theory from the textbook that fits into my personal beliefs of human behavior and career development. I will provide the main points of this theory and use examples from my life to demonstrate how this theory will be beneficial. I will also identify any potential weaknesses or aspects that I may disagree with. What Is a Career? A career can be defined as the "time extended working out of a purposeful life pattern through work undertaken by the person" (Zunker, 2012). This also includes "activities and positions involved in vocations, occupations, and jobs as well as to related activities with an individual's lifetime of work" (Zunker, 2012). A career should be a job that one benefits from not only monetarily but also in some personal way. People should be careful in choosing a career because most people spend over half of their lives working. If one chooses the right career than they can lead a happier life. So many people have what can be considered job instead of a career. A job where one works only to receive money can lead one to be unhappy and cause quite a bit of stress. Overtime this can have an effect on an individual’s overall health. This is why the idea of career development can be so important. What is Career Development? Career development can be defined as a process...
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...Marybelle’s Career Profiler Results Name BCOM 275 October 9, 2014 Linda Torres-Kleinhans Marybelle’s Career Interest Profiler Results I am going to be an astronaut! I am going to be a doctor! I am going to be a teacher! As children, a lot of us would change our minds so many times of what we would like to be when we grow up. Now that we are grown up, there is still comes a time in life when we are a little lost; or is having a hard time figuring out the career path; or just need some validation. I myself needed a little help and at this time I’m still trying to figure it out. Upon enrolling in University of Phoenix, I took the Career Plan surveys to include the Career Interest Profiler. This is a pretty handy tool that could help people like me to figure out my next career path or the very least give some insights on my interests and suggested careers. In this paper, I am discussing my Career Interest Profiler results; weather the results fit my desired career path and why or why not; as well as tell you how I feel about the results. Results My Career Interest profiler results is as follows: [pic] This shows that I lean towards careers that are investigative, social, and conventional. The suggested careers are counselors, health practitioner, lawyers, judges, and educational trainer. Fitting of My Desired Career Path? I was in the military for 13 years as a soldier and a food inspector. I thought this career path was it. After the military...
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