...University of Phoenix Material Effective Study Habits Worksheet Review Phoenix Career Plan results of Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preference, respond to the following in 50 to 100 words each: 1. Describe your ideal study environment. My ideal study environment is an unusual one. I have ADD so any distractions can hinder me learning abilities. I prefer a dim lighting and a comfortable seating arrangement with absolutely no distractions. In this environment I feel comfortable which helps me to focus better on the task at hand. 2. List some of the distractions that might hinder your study progress or your performance in an online classroom. My children are a huge distraction for me in an online classroom. My four year old doesn’t understand the meaning of me having to do homework and is very much a mama’s girl. She always wants to sit beside me and point out whatever is on TV, something to do with her baby dolls or just plain being inquisitive about what I am doing. 3. What actions can you take to manage and eliminate distractions? The action I choose to take is to wait until I put my girls to bed. I get less sleep then I would like this way but unless I hire a sitter I have no other options. Sometimes I put on tinker bell and go into my bedroom to work if I have to get up early or need more sleep but that rushes me because she has a short attention span. 4. How will you apply your personal learning style? How...
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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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...- What is an ideal job? - There is no basis for any comparison, in other words, standard of an “ideal job” to all people, to all of us, to all the community. - The definition of the “ideal job” depends on each individual’s view. 1. One may think an ideal job is an occupation that gives him/her opportunities to communicate with many interesting people, or to travel around the country, or all over the world. In order that he/she can exchange the relations, raise his/her knowledge about many things, make friendship, etc. 2. Many Vietnamese students now who live and study in Viet Nam consider their ideal jobs as jobs that provide them a guarantee of constant monthly payment, which would allow them to have money enough to afford their lives (Regardless of the fact that they don’t love their jobs at all) Students care about the degrees they get when they finish colleges and universities. A student wants to have a job to earn money enough to maintain a normal life. As long as he will have enough money from what he does, regardless of his interest of any careers else, he would go for it. So that is his ideal job. Thence, right at the beginning, students tend to apply to faculties those regarded as the “hot majors” in the community. Such as Finance and Accounting, Banking, Business, etc. These majors seem to be promise to them to enter the right careers of their lives that make them earn a lot of money. 3. Some may say that if they went for their ideal jobs, they did what they...
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...Name: Muhammad Taha Ahmed There are FOUR parts to the Self-Assessment. Part 1: Reflect on your results from the self-assessment exercises you’ve done from the textbook, as well as others you might have done in the past, and complete the table below. Review current or past jobs to identify your transferable skills. Develop an inventory of your most marketable career-related skills (minimum 15), instances where you have demonstrated these skills (minimum three), and the core values you want your work to reflect (minimum five). Take into consideration the traits employers are seeking, including technical and transferable skills and general abilities. (30 POINTS) SELF-ASSESSMENT EXERCISES & MY RESULTS | I completed the following assessments/inventories as part of my self-assessment activities: 1. Marketing Readiness Quiz 2. Self-Awareness Checklist 3. Ability Assessment 4. Transferable Skills Checklist 5. Work Environment and Life Preferences 6. Self-Assessment Summary Sheet | My most marketable career-related skills are . . . (minimum 15) (Remember to include technical and transferable skills on this list!) 1. Organization and planning 2. Orderliness 3. Handling details 4. Making decisions 5. Arrange functions 6. Assemble products/build 7. Audit records 8. Budget, money 9. Buy products/services 10. Calculate/manipulate numbers 11. Supervisory 12. Teaching 13. Coaching 14. Counseling 15. Check for accuracy | ...
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...My Ideal Career My ideal career lies in the law field. I have not decided on one particular law career yet because I do not yet know enough about the different types of law, but the ones that I think do sound interesting are mediation, family law, and paralegal. A paralegal can work in any area of the law. They can work in family law, criminal law, etc, and also in the mediation field. What made you interested in the law in the first place? I think mediation sounds interesting because a mediator helps people settle their disputes outside the court room in a peaceful way. Mediators need to have excellent reasoning, problem-solving, and peace-making abilities (The Princeton Review, 2012). This appeals to me because I am more of a peaceful person and do not really like conflict or arguing, though I can stand my ground if I need to. According to the Princeton Review, a good mediator is honest, neutral, encouraging, listens well, and has excellent communication skills (The Princeton Review, 2012). I have all of these skills, especially the honest part, down well. In fact, my dad is always telling me I am too honest and I could never get away with doing anything wrong when I was little because I would always give myself away. hahaha Family law is interesting because I like the idea of helping families through the hard parts of life. Family court lawyers handle divorce, guardianship, prenuptial agreements, adoptions, parental rights, custody cases, and the financial and tax...
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...BCOM/275 Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preferences Completing the Career Plan Building Activity was overall a very unique and interesting assignment. This particular exercise, showed me positive results, yet it confirmed my confidence in my skills and values that I already knew about myself. It allowed me to get a better understanding of what type of work environment best suits my needs in a professional setting. Furthermore, allowing me to see that I have more professional skills, and work values that I can apply in my future career goals. My results all identified my work ethics, and what values, and skills I prefer in my work environment. My results were well resourced, high powered, and ethical. The well-resourced listed: I like a well-designed and comfortable work place, and I utilize necessary resources to do high standard work. My high powered listed: career development, demanding positions, high salaries, the chance to learn new skills, the chance to try different jobs or work in different place, and having benefits such as the likelihood of rapid promotions. My preferred attributes of an ethical job would include being fair, making a difference in people’s lives, and have a social and environmental responsibility. How can knowing your ideal work culture help you in determining appropriate channels for communication? Communication is a vital and crucial role in the business world and if employees want to have an effective communication in the workplace...
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...job that they have already set their minds on. According to a study conducted by the Ministry of Higher Education in 2011, out of 184, 581 students who graduated, 44, 391 (24%) of them are unemployed. Among the reasons for unemployment were that the jobs were not suitable and graduates were not confident to face the workplace. Therefore, it is important for fresh graduates to be able to adapt quickly to their situation as there might be a chance that they might not be able to secure the job they want. As the members of this group consists of those studying Psychology and Mass Communication, the area of expertise or the first career choices of each member include to become a counselor, therapist, educational psychologist, clinical psychologist, forensic psychologist and journalist. This assignment will talk about the prospective career choices that can be made with either a Degree in Psychology or Mass Communication should the members of this group are unable to secure the jobs listed above. Three alternative job options will be highlighted, which includes jobs in the field of Advertising, Public Relations and Human Resource. Advertising For a job as an Advertising Sales Executive, the academic requirement is to have a Diploma/ Higher Diploma/ Degree in Marketing/ Business/ Advertising/ Media & Mass Communication or equivalent. The job also requires a minimum of two years working experience in the field. After graduation, the skills a graduate...
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...am a... Student Job Seeker Career-Changer Career Counselor Other Visitor Job-Hunting Tools: Search for Jobs Corporate Job Sites Order a New Resume Career Tools: Content Index Career Resources Career Tutorials Job-Search Samples College Planning Job/Career Bookstore Search this Site Career Categories: Career Networking Personal Branding Resumes and CVs Job Interviewing Salary Negotiation | Job Interview Question Database: Questions with Excellent Sample Responses, 1-8 The Job Interview Question & Response Database includes 150 of the most typical interview questions that you may face in your job interviews. Questions are in no particular order, so take your time and go through the entire list! ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form what | where | | | | | job title, keywords or company | city, state or zip | jobs by indeed | | Bottom of Form Displaying Job Interview Questions 1-8 1. How would you describe yourself? Sample excellent response: My background to date has been centered around preparing myself to become the very best financial consultant I can become. Let me tell you specifically how I've prepared myself. I am an undergraduate student in finance and accounting at ____________ University. My past experiences has been in retail and higher education. Both aspects have prepared me well for this career. See also this page of...
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...University of Phoenix Material Effective Study Habits Worksheet Review Phoenix Career Plan results of Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preference, respond to the following in 50 to 100 words each: 1. Describe your ideal study environment. My ideal study environment is my room where I can be alone. When my sister goes to school, it becomes quiet and I’ll be able to concentrate and complete my assignements.Sitting on my bed makes me relax and comfortable to do focus. If I get distracted, I lay down and take a break until I gather my thoughts together so I can write. 2. List some of the distractions that might hinder your study progress or your performance in an online classroom. Watching TV, doing chores around the house, listening to music, helping my mom cook , reading articles online which is no school related. picking up my sister from the school bus, giving her a bath, sometimes she wants to play, and making sure she gets her nap. People visit and I have appoinments every week to see my therapist. 3. What actions can you take to manage and eliminate distractions? When my sister go to school, I try to squeeze in as much time as I can to finish assignments. When she goes to sleep, I take 30 more mintues to finish everything I didn’t finish before. It’s a routine I follow everyday and I always use my cell phone alarm to remind me of what I need to do in case I forget. 4. How will you apply your personal learning style? How...
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...Work Culture Preference Maria Hernandez MGT/521 February 27, 2013 Dr. Vela Work Culture Preference The following describes ideal work culture and how it is essential for developing strategic and operational plans to achieve organizational goals. “Each of us has a unique personality – traits and characteristics that influence the way we act and interact with others” (Robbins & Coulter, 2012, p. 51). These personal traits and characteristics when matched up with the values and competencies of the work environment make easier to achieve company goals. One can find the ideal work culture based on one’s values by completing an evaluation, such as the Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preference. Ideal Work Culture For instance an ideal work culture may include high powered, expert, and ethical environments. High-powered organizations have demanding jobs, career development, and the chance to try different jobs or work in different places. One with these preferences would need to find a culture that not only promotes the above but also one that motivates the employee to obtain career advancement. When an employee does not have opportunities for advancement his or her motivation will decline. In an expert culture this includes varied and groundbreaking work, high emphasis on specialist expertise, people encouraged to express opinions, innovative, creative atmosphere, control work schedule and organization, and a dynamic and changing environment...
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...University of Phoenix Material Effective Study Habits Worksheet Review Phoenix Career Plan results of Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preference, respond to the following in 50 to 100 words each: 1. Describe your ideal study environment. My ideal study environment would be a nice quiet place with no Distractions like: my kids asking me to do something for them every 5 minutes or a place with no white noise like a fan or the air pump in my fish tank. My ideal study environment would have a comfy chair with lumbar support a quiet temperature controlled room and the proper lighting for reduce visual stress. 2. List some of the distractions that might hinder your study progress or your performance in an online classroom. Distractions that hinder my study progress and or performance are: having to get up in the middle of studying to get somebody a drink, clean my house or if an uninvited guest drops in to say ‘hi.” Two other examples would be a telemarketer calling or unexpected repairs to my home. 3. What actions can you take to manage and eliminate distractions? Some actions I could take to manage these distractions are to stay up late or get up early when everybody else is sleeping, so I get some piece and quiet. I could inspect my home daily to look for things that may require my attention and get them taken care of ahead of time. 4. How will you apply your personal learning style? How does your personal...
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...University of Phoenix Material Effective Study Habits Worksheet Review Phoenix Career Plan results of Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preference, respond to the following in 50 to 100 words each: 1. Describe your ideal study environment. My ideal study environment would be a safe and comfortable area free from distractions. I would want to make sure that I have all that I would need to stay organized and be able to do my best work or studying. When I am relaxed and able to write out my ideas I am usually able to complete my assignments in a timely manner. 2. List some of the distractions that might hinder your study progress or your performance in an online classroom. Some of the distractions that might hinder my progress in an online classroom are watching TV, eating with my family, listening to music, interacting with my children, talking on the phone, or getting tired. Not getting the proper amount of sleep can cause me to become unfocused and I will not be able to complete my studying or assignment. 3. What actions can you take to manage and eliminate distractions? The actions that I take to manage and eliminate my distractions are making sure that I get enough sleep the night before, eating dinner before I start to study, turning my ringer off on my phone, spend time with the kids before I study and recording or just missing my TV shows. 4. How will you apply your personal learning style? How does your personal Learning style affect your...
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...University of Phoenix Material Effective Study Habits Worksheet Review Phoenix Career Plan results of Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preference, respond to the following in 50 to 100 words each: 1. Describe your ideal study environment. My ideal study environment is a quiet room maybe some music going and not to be interrupted while doing my school work. A place to work with a nice computer desk for my school work zone with a dead bolt on the door so I really don’t have to be bothered while doing my studying. 2. List some of the distractions that might hinder your study progress or your performance in an online classroom. The two biggest things that might hinder my study progress or my performance in an online classroom is my step daughter’s and my cell phone I know it’s my schooling but I can’t seem to turn off my cell or not talk to my step daughter’s they are just too cute. 3. What actions can you take to manage and eliminate distractions? The actions that I can take to manage and eliminate distractions are to turn off my cell phone and tell people that it is my study time and to tell my step daughter’s that I have to study and we can always play in a little while when I get done . 4. How will you apply your personal learning style? How does your personal Learning style affect your study habits? I will apply my personal learning style by talking in groups making flash cards interviewing outside sources and by creating...
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...girl, when Amazonian-like beauty is pressed in on them daily. “I looked at a Barbie doll when I was 6 and said, ‘This is what I want to look like.’ I think a lot of little 6-year-old girls or younger even now are looking at that doll and thinking, ‘I want to be her.’ The previous quote was said by a model, Cindy Jackson, during a CBS News interview in 2004. Scientists have spent a good amount of time and effort trying to decide if Barbie and her ideal figure have a hand in young girls developing eating disorders. In a study done by Helga Dittmar and Emma Halliwell they found that young girls are extremely impressionable when it comes to how they feel about their bodies when compared to Barbie. During the study, 162 girls, all of who were between the ages of five and eight were exposed to one of three different images of a doll. The first group was shown images of a Barbie doll, the second group was shown images of an Emme doll (she is a doll in the UK, who’s body dimensions equal that of a woman’s size 16), and the final group was the control...
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...Week 3 – Case Study LAWS 420 Professor Melinda Whitman 09/22/2013 What are the moral issues in this case? What ideals, obligations, and consequences must Carla Lombard consider? What rights, if any, are at stake? Will it make a difference whether Carla adopts a Kantian approach or a utilitarian approach to this situation? Over the years, this country has been confronted with many legal and ethical issues that surround the AIDs epidemic, and the workplace has certainly found itself at the center of these legal and ethical questions. Carla must consider many things when dealing with her situation with Tom, and most certainly the first one would be, “how do I determine if this information is even true”? Carla came by this so called information second hand, from an ex-spouse of all people, so she should first find out if the information is even true, and to do this she must go to Tom and tell him what his ex-wife told her. Carla knows Tom to be a valuable employee, and out of respect for Tom she should make him aware of the fact this is being “reported” to her. What if this turns out to be malicious slander on the part of Tom’s ex-wife, and even if it’s true, Tom has the right to privacy on many levels. Whether or not Tom chooses to disclose this information to Carla is strictly up to him. By law, an individual has no legal obligation to tell an employer that he has AIDS unless his or her job could expose others to blood or bodily fluids, and even then, the employee should...
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