...2014 Career Interests and Profiler The results of my Career Plan are beyond ridiculous. After completing this necessary step in my continuing education, I took the tests with great hope and interest as to what results it would come up with for me. To state that I was disappointed is an understatement. As you, the reader of this paper, do not know me personally, you do not know my life experiences, what I have been taught or what I have learned from my teachers, mentors, coaches, and most importantly my father. Neither does the Career Plan test. Therefore, the results should be based on my answers, which would be derived from my own personal learning and experiences. Based on this, I would have thought that the Career Plan would have made choices based on my 51 years of life. It did not. I have always enjoyed working with my hands. My father was an electrician. He was also very talented with other trades, such as pipe fitting, plumbing, and just about everything related to manual labor. To say that he taught me a lot is an understatement. I learned how to fill fire extinguishers at the age of 8. I also learned basic electrical wiring and was able to do complex motor control by the time I was 18. By the time I was 21, I was a certified welder in 4 different welding processes. Most recently, I built an electrical contracting business with 15 employees, and over $2 million dollars in yearly sales. My point is that I do very well with “hands-on” work. When my Career Interest...
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...UNIV/100 Career Exploration Plan Worksheet For this assignment, you will use the My Career Plan tools on eCampus. To complete this assignment, follow the directions provided in each section. You may refer to the completed example in the Week 3 Materials as a guideline. After you have completed all sections, submit this document to your Week 3 Assignment 1 link on your student website. Section 1: Career Interests Profiler 1. Complete the Career Interests Profiler, located in My Career Plan on the student website. To access the Career Interests Profiler in My Career Plan, complete the following steps: • Log in to the student website at https://ecampus.phoenix.edu • Click the Careers tab. • Click Career Plan. [pic] • Click the Start button to launch the Career Interests Profiler. [pic] 2. After completing the profiler for the first time, view your results within the profiler or by downloading the PDF version. If you completed the profiler before you started the Orientation Workshop, you can retrieve your results from the View Results button on the My Career Plan home page. [pic] 3. Complete the following table after viewing your results. You may describe each career in your own words or copy and paste the descriptions from your Career Interests Profile. [pic] |My Career Interest Areas |Description | |1Conventional...
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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" 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 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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...Problems are human judgments about situations. Many question and steps have to be taking. Also with an ethical solutions in place. I’ve found that The Five P’s from my text book if placed right cover’s those questions to most problems although everyone problems or challenges maybe different you can use techniques to decide on a course of action. One of my listed above is fear of failure. I think when it comes to education and failure that can present a big problem, an attempt to impose expectations on us in a way that is difficult. In the 1940’s According to a survey reported in a 1988 issues of Time magazine, Schools faced problems such as Talking, Chewing Gum, and Improper Clothing. Source: Time Magazine, 2-1-88 and though that is far from the problems in the 1980’s just some examples how that could affect education and have a judgment or put someone in a situation where failure can present a big problem. Problems and Challenges Problems and Challenges can be viewed differently by simply following the 5 P process. But for those that don’t have access they see that a situation conflicts with their interests, and they declare, “There is a problem here” all is the same different terms what is the situation? Whom does it concern? How do we perceive it? Why does it concern you? What changes will it propose? Are all just other steps and procession question that have to be asked Another Problem is self-motivation it is hard for me to find the energy...
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...Career Plan Work Culture Preferences April 12, 2013 Well after doing the Work Culture Preferences in the Career Plan I was a little surprised on the results because it showed me that maybe I do have more skills to work with helping people than I thought. My results were under the Ethical section; emphasis on families, that if given the chance to contribute positively to society I could make a difference in people’s lives, emphasis on social and environmental responsibility, and active in promoting equal rights for all. Well Resourced; I like a well-designed and comfortable work place, and I utilize necessary resources to do high standard work. Team Work Culture; enjoy working in a close knit team, have lots of interdependence, friendly and supportive colleagues, and cooperative and sharing atmosphere. After exploring the resource in the Phoenix Career Services I realized there are a lot of resources that believe might actually be very useful like the Interviewing link where you can go and they have help with conducting pre-interview research, preparing for your first interview, how to answer common interview questions. Which I think I will really explore that link, beings interviews seem to be the toughest part about job searching for myself. I think the resources in the Phoenix Career Services are wonderful resources for students to follow their career choices and with the extra help with certain areas of job searching can make it easier to obtain employment...
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...Career Plan Building Activities Management 521 January 14, 2013 Steve Wernick Career Plan Building Activities Discuss the ways in which understanding your personal competencies will help you to become a better communicator and manager. A person’s competency in general forms part of the way he or she operates in a working environment. A manager with a good working knowledge of his or her own competencies understands their strengths and weaknesses. A manager of this caliber knows that understand his or her own strengths and weaknesses will communicate a better working relationship with his or subordinates. A good manager has the skills to work as a team, plan strategically, and has developed organizational skills. Good managers are leader and know how to apply his or her competencies in any professional setting thereby leading by example. How might you need to change your communication techniques to work with the different functioning areas of your business? The four functional areas of business are planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Most successful projects began with a manager and a vision to accomplish a particular project successfully. The project manager begins with a plan. A plan is a roadmap to follow to achieve mission accomplishment. Organization of the project spells out who, what, and how a project is to be accomplished as well as the sequence of events, and who is responsible for what. Leading involve previously designated...
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...Career Development Plan Summary University of Phoenix Today’s economy demands that employers face the challenges that are associated with the economy, internal budget pressures, and a highly competitive business environment. Kudler Fine Foods is owned and operated by Kathy Kudler. She currently manages the business by herself which includes staffing, ordering of merchandise, marketing, and personalized customer service. With visions of growing the business, Kathy is stretched to the extreme and needs assistance with the leadership roles necessary to successfully operate and mature the business. Even though Kathy has managers and assistant managers in each store, she needs a team that can not only relieve her of some of her duties, but also assist Kathy in creating a roadmap for the envisioned future state of Kudler Fine Foods. Business Development and Excellence The proposed reorganization in the chart below will give Kudler Fine Foods the leverage and capabilities to offer not only additional products but a full range of new catering services. This proposal strives to reorganize our current staff to best draw from their talents as well as evaluate new employees for the best appointment. Proper department organization and placement of employees is critical to the success of this new endeavor. A new department has been created within the organization and is identified as Business Excellence and Development. The department will consist of five new positions to include a purchasing...
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...Assignment 2—Career Development PlanIn this assignment, you will recommend the components of a career development planning program and explain how the plan will integrate the organization’s mission and value statements.Consider the following scenario:You work in the HR Department of an electric power company in the southwestern region of the U.S. The company was founded in 1940 and has an excellent reputation as a provider of electricity. It is also considered to be an outstanding corporate citizen and known to be an excellent place to work. It has been ranked among the top three employers in the community for several years.Its mission is to serve customer’s needs for electric power in ways that provide exceptional value to all stakeholders including customers, shareholders, employees, and the communities in which it operates.Its values include providing a safe work environment; fairness and respect for customers, employees, shareholders, and partners; honoring commitments to use resources wisely; providing a high quality of work life for its employees; and striving for excellence and having fun.Given its long history, many of its current employees are children or grandchildren of former employees so there are close family ties to the company as well as a sense of loyalty.However, technological advancements in the power generation business over the years have resulted in jobs being either redesigned or eliminated. For example, in the past, the company had many employees who read...
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...Running head: CAREER DEVELOPMENT PLAN PART I - JOB ANALYSIS AND Career Development Plan Part I - Job Analysis and Selection As a result of the current merger, the organization has taken a new direction. With this change, the opportunity to grow and develop a new team had become available. The creation of this team will require a structured development plan and defined processes to follow. Developing a job analysis will require a combination of a summary of task requirements and resource or people, requirements. Defining and documenting the workforce planning system will provide an efficient method to meet the demand on providing qualified resources to fulfill business needs. Part of the process that will be taken into consideration will be the Selection method and what are the advantages and disadvantages to the methods that will be used. These development plans will provide the foundation necessary to identify several key employees to fit the needs of the new team. As part of the creation process of the new team a job analysis will provide the required information to progress in defining what it is we need. The job analysis is a process to identify and determine in detail the particular job duties and requirements and the relative importance of these duties for a given job (hr-guide.com, n.d.). The job analysis will be specific to the new marketing and sales person that will be required in the new team. One of the elements that the job analysis will look into...
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...Career Development Plan Growth is a Must 2014 to 2023 Growth is a Must Executive Summary “If you’re not growing, you’re dying” ~Anthony Robbins The quote above by life coach Tony Robbins, though extreme, is true and applies directly to my career development plan. Due to my work ethic and unique skill set, I have continually been given growth opportunities and in the past four years I have risen from a newly hired Sales Account Manager to Manager of Finance and Administration. My focus on constant growth, taking advantage of my strengths as I face new opportunities, and by knowing my weaknesses as difficulties come up, I will continue to be successful and bring value to the company. The following pages outline my career development plan for the next ten years. This plan will outline the specific path that ultimately leads to being the Chief Executive Officer. Each step along the way will be outlined with its specific rationale and timeline for completion. As you go through this plan you will see how my current strength in cross-functional leadership, as well as others, will be exercised and how my current weakness in finance, and other areas, will be addressed. Plan at a Glance 1. 2. 3. 4. Personal Assessments Areas of Strength Areas of Improvement Career Development Plan a. Master of Business Administration b. On the Job Training c. Human Resources d. Board Membership e. Master of Science in Accounting f. Succession g. Necessary Changes 5. Appendix A: Assessment...
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...Human Resource Development 28 November 2010 A Career Planning Essay Where do I want to be? I would like to have a very successful career making more than enough money to take care of my bills and to save for retirement and college for my kids. My short term career goal is to finish college in March and to apply for a GS-7 job by the end of this year. And to receive that job and move to a different state. While sitting in that GS-7 position I want to accomplish all the tasks that’s is required of me and to learn everything there is to know to get to the next level in my life. Being that if in that position I can further my career in Human Resource or Accounting to go on and receive a Master’s Degree in Business. My long term goal is to apply for a GS-11,12, or 13 job within 3 years of being in the GS-7 position. By this time I will have the acquired the skills and knowledge necessary to perform a job in a higher grade. I’m seeking to be able to help out those people who are not as fortunate as I am and help them to get some kind of success in there lives. The lifestyle issues that are important to me is that I need to be in a location where there are jobs that will allow you to advance. And that the area is very family oriented. The hours I work has to be no earlier than 7:30 am and no later that 5:00 pm. My work schedule has to be Monday- Friday, no weekends, and no holiday. Some other things that are important is the atmosphere. The atmosphere has to be a positive setting...
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...Career Plan Reflection Mabi Verduzco BCOM 275 October 23, 2014 Linda Doyle Career Plan Reflection The career plan building activities proved to be a very useful tool. The work culture preference survey results indicated the type of work culture that I prefer, which is high-powered, competitive, and leadership intensive. The competencies, reasoning aptitude, and career interest profiler surveys provided additional information to consider. The combined results provide an interpretation of the type of work culture that I see as ideal, the most suitable career fields, and the types of work environments I prefer. I am open to new information and ideas and the survey results did not seem to be too far off from what I would consider to be my true career goals and desires. I think the surveys provided insight to aspects of my career I had not given much thought to before this course. This course (BCOM/275) discussed many important aspects of communication verbal and nonverbal, cross-cultural communication, and barriers to effective communication to name a few. One aspect in the forefront of my mind is communication also takes place within different contexts like physical, chronological, and functional, to name a few, but the cultural context (corporate culture) applies directly to the surveys and results discussed earlier. Choosing the proper job that corresponds with my interests and ideal work culture can lead to more personal satisfaction. BCOM/275 provides ideas about proper...
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...Anthony S. Armstrong BCOM/275 November 18, 2014 Reflection on the Phoenix University Career Plan Reviewing the career plan suggestions from the University of Phoenix website did help solidify my decision to teach after college. I have a huge interest in history as well as government and cultures from around the world. One of the recommendations that arose from the career plan was teacher; something I have been doing for over 15 years now except not in an official capacity. My teaching career first started soon after acquiring the rank of sergeant in the U.S. Army. I enjoyed the research and pulling together all the learning aids needed to make the teaching more in depth and engaging. Shortly after that my wife and I introduced our first child into the world. This change of events further instituted the art of teaching in my life. I found it ever more important to be able to arm my children with facts, a moral compass, and to question everything. I am currently teaching my oldest daughter how to research topics and how to give credible references for facts that dispute a certain claim or way of thinking. I enjoy hearing about conversations she has disproved or how she was able to change the way her friends thought about voting. My plans after graduating with my degree are to obtain my teaching certificate through the state of Texas, and hopefully teach history to sixth graders, I am looking forward to teaching American history and/or world...
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