...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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...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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...I feel as though the information that I received by doing the Career Interest Profiler will help me with my future planning, by allowing me to analyze things that best fit what the profiler has suggested for me. The profiles showed me that things that I would never have pictured myself being involved with previously are obtainable goals now. It also allows me to see things that although I didn’t think I was a good fit for before, I now know that I am and would be more willing to pursue those options moving forward in my development. I will think more clearly about the position and choices that are put before me so that I can use the skills that I have and am obtaining to highlight myself in a particular area of interest. Rather it is with my current employer or for a new industry or field of interest. The Competencies that were revealed to me in the assessment also helps me in my future of decision making by allowing to know what areas I should most apply myself in. Many times it is asked, “what do you prefer to work on in this project?” and many times I didn’t have any answer, now I am able to identify my qualities and move in the direction that best suit my abilities to perform at the expected level. Knowing my competencies also helps me to confirm with others what I am “sure” I am capable of handling. Being able to approach the situation with my best foot forward will show an employer or potential client that I am very competent to handle the situation. While working on a...
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...Running head: HISPANIC AMERICANS Paper Title Author Author Affiliation [CLASS SUBJECT HERE] [PROFESSOR’S NAME HERE] Feb 18, 2009 Since 1970, United States of America has seen a considerable amount of immigration because of economic chaos and civil wars in Latin American countries. The fight between the government of El Salvador and leftist guerrillas in 1980 brought about 500,000 immigrants to United States. They settled primarily in California, Florida, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C. The civil war in Nicaragua in the year 1980 drove an estimated 800,000 Nicaraguan immigrants to the United States Mexican Americans are the most prevalent Hispanic group within the United States. Their history can be dated to four centuries within America, contrasting in different regions. In States like California, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada have great amounts of Mexican Americans. (Mexican Americans, 2007). Most of Mexican Americans residing in the United states converse in their own native language. Spanish is usually the solitary language that they use .But english is the universally unrestricted language in the general community. As many generations have passed, a new verbal communication has emerged, called Spanglish, which is a blend of both Spanish and American. America has always been harsh on Mexican Americans. Mexican Americans had a hard time elevating their financial...
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...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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...Assignment – Career Interests Profiler and Competencies Discussion Jayme Bjorklund BCOM/275 Version 2 January 120, 2014 Doris Savron In order to be successful in a career, I must understand my strengths and weaknesses. Competency is defined as “being qualified to perform certain tasks”. Understanding my competencies in evaluating arguments will qualify me to build stronger arguments. I am pleased with my results after taking the Career Profiler questionnaire. My results reflect what I have been working towards. My career matches are financial specialist; lawyer, judge and related workers; librarian, curator and archivist; and supervisor of sales. I am aiming to go to law school 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, and I already use this skill to my benefit. I have used my competencies to help me evaluate arguments. Before I get involved in any argument or discussion with someone, I make sure I know what I am talking about. By using my writing and innovative strengths, I research the topic and write down anything related to the same. By doing this, I am backing myself...
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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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...I was very surprised when I took the Career Profiler; I had taken something like this when I was a senior in high school. In high school my results suggested that I should do something in agriculture, and now 11 years later it suggests that I should do something in Business, Finance or Law. These results were not surprising to me. These are things that I have actually always been interested in. I think that knowing my competencies is really going to help me with my critical thinking in the future. I had never really considered myself someone who thought logically, but according to my results I do. Knowing this will help me to stop second guessing myself whenever I think I am way off from the mark. I already knew that I am a researcher, because I love knowing everything about everything, I love to investigate topics and see where things started. Having this confirmed will give me the confidence to trust my instincts about myself. I have always loved writing and I already use it to my benefit. So researching and writing are competencies that I already knew that I possessed and having them confirmed was nice. I have already used some of the competencies that I knew I had to help me evaluate arguments. Because I love to research and to write I would already use these to my benefit when it came to arguments or discussions. Before I start any kind of argument or discussion with anyone I always make sure that I know what I am talking about. I try to have as much information as possible...
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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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...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 Path Denzel White BCOM/275 April 12, 2015 Dr. George R. Monk Career Path The University of Phoenix provide for their students a wide range of tools and different assets to help their students have a great opportunity to be highly successful. These tools help the students prepare themselves for the future and for the workforce adventure. One of the tools recommended by the school that it provides is the career interests profiler. The Career Interest Profiler gives students the opportunity to set goals to achieve their desired occupation. The results that I received from completing the Career Interest Profiler were very surprising indeed because upon me entering school I was undecided with what I wanted to do. In my case I didn’t really know what jobs were out there that were available to me in the job field that I’m pursuing. I was really happy with the results and it gave me motivation to give my all while in school. There were three job occupations that interested me the most relating to my field of interest. The first occupation that interested me was the Business Analyst Manager. I was able to search the job sites that were available to me pertaining to this occupation. With the Career Interests Profiler, it enabled me to see the job salaries, qualifications, and the high demand interest in this occupation. I found out things I didn’t know before and now I know what I need to do to prepare myself for this occupation. Out of my top three job...
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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 Library tab, then click the Phoenix Career Services link. • 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 ...
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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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