...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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...| [ |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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...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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...|[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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...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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...Phoenix Material Career Goal-Setting Worksheet Respond to the following in 50 to 100 words each: 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? Well I now that I know more about my actual strengths and competencies when it comes to a professional standpoint and I can now focus on improving them even more and I can look for a job(when it comes to be that time) in my field that will utilize these skills and competencies and actually help me improve on them. 2. Describe how you will balance academic expectations and your personal and professional responsibilities. For me that is fairly easy since I have little personal responsibilities short of paying my bills and maintaining a relationship with my fiancé so that is covered. Professional is also an easy one since I am only required to participate three days a week and I have three days a week off since I work four ten hour shifts it works out nicely. Of course school will always be just as if not more important than work so I will also be participating some on my work days as well. 3. How can understanding the importance of SMART criteria and your career interests and competencies help you move toward your career and academic goals...
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...University of Phoenix Material Goal Setting Worksheet Review this week’s resources (for example SMART criteria, and the Career Plan Building Activities). Respond to the following in 50 to 100 words each: 1. Describe one academic goal that you have created using the SMART criteria. How do SMART criteria contribute to your academic goals?. One academic goal I have for myself is to obtain my Associated in Psychology. The SMART criteria helped me to understand that I can set smaller goals related to my bigger goals that I want to achieve. This helps me to feel like I am moving closer to my bigger goal each time a smaller goal is accomplished. 2. Describe one professional/career goal you have created using the SMART criteria and Career Plan Building Activities results. How did the results of the Career Interest Profiler and Career Plan Building Activity on Competencies contribute to your professional goal development? A career I created was to finish my first year of college. The results on my Career Interest Profiler and Career Plan Building Activity on Competencies contribute by showing me my strength and weaknesses. Adapting to Change is the area I am highest in my strength I think that is beneficial when switching from class to class. It is suggested to speak to people in my field and see if there is volunteer work that is available. This will help me gain my insight in my desired field. 3. Describe the stress and time-management strategies...
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...Material Career Goal-Setting Worksheet Respond to the following in 50 to 100 words each: 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 result from the career interest profiler and career plan building activity contributed to my professional goal development because I was able to map out my goals. I was able to understand and decide which goals were important to my career. I also was able to understand how my decision making could improve earning my degree. 2. Describe how you will balance academic expectations and your personal and professional responsibilities. I will be using Time Management to balance my academic expectations, my personal and professional responsibilities. I will be setting time aside and blocking out certain things (turning off my phone and television) while completing my school work. I will also focus more on my school now and will prioritize what is important to reaching my goal. 3. How can understanding the importance of SMART criteria and your career interests and competencies help you move toward your career and academic goals? Understanding the importance of SMART criteria and my career interests and competencies help me move toward my career and academic...
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...Career Plan Reflection The Career Plan Building exercises revealed to me the kind of work that I would best excel at based on my career interest profiler, competencies, work culture preferences, and reasoning aptitude activities. My career interest profiler told me that I am enterprising, artistic, and realistic. Enterprising occupations involve leading people and making many decisions. Artistic occupations require self-expression and can be done without following a clear set of rules. Realistic jobs involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. I agreed with being enterprising and realistic because during my military career I had to lead soldiers and come up with solutions to all kinds of problems. I neither agree nor disagree with being artistic because I like to express myself but I also like having a clear set of rules to work with. My competencies strengths all leveled out at 3 out of 5 bars. The competencies that were chosen for me were innovating, applying expertise, taking initiative, adapting to change, coping with pressure, and entrepreneurial thinking. These competencies tell me that I am good at producing new ideas, handling criticism well and learning from it, and I like to initiate activities and introduce change into the work process. My work culture preferences results were jobs that are high powered, supportive, and well-resourced. High powered jobs are demanding jobs with the chance to try different jobs or work in different...
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...head: CAREER PLAN BUILDING ACTIVITY Career Plan Building Activity Tiffany East BCOM/275 3/11/14 Dr. Joanne Tritsch Career Plan Building Activity I took the Career Interest Profiler quite a while back. I do not recall the testing method, but while viewing the results I do recall the impression it left on me. According to my results, I was assigned conventional, social, and realistic aptitudes. I agree with this assessment; the description seemed to describe the needs in my current career. According to the profile, “conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines” (University of Phoenix, 2014). In my role as a trainer and Continuous Improvement, this was my job description exactly. The Social Aspect perfectly aligns with my strong communication skills and mentoring roles I have adopted with many employees. The last of the profile indicated ‘realistic’ aptitude, which lends itself to “practical, hands-on problems and solutions” (University of Phoenix, 2014) which is also the goal of Lean Six Sigma and Continuous Improvement. I cannot say I agreed with the career matches, but in all other aspects, the profile was correct. The Career Plan Building Activity: Competencies was completed a while ago, and I cannot recall the questions it uses to assess to competencies. The report does not provide detail, but I can comment on the results I have available. The highest competency listed...
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...University of Phoenix Material Goal Setting Worksheet Review this week’s resources (for example SMART criteria, and the Career Plan Building Activities). Respond to the following in 50 to 100 words each: 1. Describe one academic goal that you have created using the SMART criteria. How do SMART criteria contribute to your academic goals? Using the SMART criteria I found the one most important academic role for me was getting my degree in associates of arts. The main reason why this will contribute is that it includes most of what it takes to complete my academic, and professional goal. By fulfilling this main goal will help me to achieve the career I have been longing for. 2. Describe one professional/career goal you have created using the SMART criteria and Career Plan Building Activities results. How did the results of the Career Interest Profiler and Career Plan Building Activity on Competencies contribute to your professional goal development? The one professional career that I`m interested in,and still very much interested after using the SMART, and CPBA is information technology. By using these as resourceful tools I could see where my interests, and feelings are really going to be involved with my every day job. Performing my job the best I can will contribute to better decisions in the future. 3. Describe the stress and time-management strategies you have learned this week that will help you achieve your goals...
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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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...(for example SMART criteria, and the Career Plan Building Activities). Respond to the following in 50 to 100 words each: 1. Describe one academic goal that you have created using the SMART criteria. How do SMART criteria contribute to your academic goals? One goal I have created using the SMART criteria is to have all my work in by Sunday afternoon. I can create a map each week on how to accomplish this goal. Although it is not a huge goal that is long term it is a very important one and not as easy for some people as it is for others. SMART criteria contribute to my academic goals by showing me how to properly achieve each step you have to take to achieve my goals. 2. Describe one professional/career goal you have created using the SMART criteria and Career Plan Building Activities results. How did the results of the Career Interest Profiler and Career Plan Building Activity on Competencies contribute to your professional goal development? One career goal I have created is to choose which firm I want to work for when I get my degree. Having this in mind will help me create my plan on how to get to the place I ultimately want to be. By knowing where I want to work I can better understand the requirements it takes to get there. The career interest profiler really didn’t help me too much because it came back with careers that I have no interest in being in. The Career Plan Building Activity on Competencies helped me a lot though because it made...
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