...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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...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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...|[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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...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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...Career Plan Building Activity and Competencies and Career Interest Profilers Crystal A. Naquin University of Phoenix BCOM 275 November 6, 2013 Virginia Carter Looking over the completed career interests’ profiler and competencies assessments, it helped me gain a better understanding of my competencies and how I apply them to a business setting. With the career interests’ profiler, it very much already told me what I already knew but more of a deeper understanding. What I do appreciate after taking completing the career interests’ profiler is providing me with a list of the different careers that would be best suited. Completing the competencies assessment, has helped me analyze my results such as adapting to change, delivering results or innovating and how I can apply them to critical thinking. By understanding my personal competencies, what I can do to improve my skills can be using my results to help look outside the box. One result I found very intriguing was innovating. “To innovate” means to show something as if it was the first time or to alter something and I found that intriguing as one of my results. Applying innovation to critical thinking would mean to think outside the box, change my perception on how I see the problem so that the solution may present itself. Another way in applying my results can be in how I evaluate arguments. For example, adapting to change or coping with pressure are great competencies in which can help me evaluating arguments. With adapting...
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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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...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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...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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...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? An academic goal that I have created using the SMART criteria is to pass this class. The SMART criteria contributes to my academic goals by braking the goal do and making it easier to understand and achieve. By using the SMART criteria I am also able to save time to accomplish other tasks at hand. 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/professional goal I created using the SMART criteria is to get a job as an accountant. The Career Interest Profiler and Career Plan Building Activity on Competencies contribute to your professional goal because I am a Logical thinker. In order for me to be an accountant logical thinking is a must. 3. Describe the stress and time-management strategies you have learned this week that will help you achieve your goals. The time management strategies is learned this week are make a To-Do list. A To-Do list gives you a feeling of accomplishment when you are able to check a task off of your list...
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...Personal Plan Essay Ted Smith Gen195 July 21, 2014 Sarah Hightower Personal Plan Studying at a university is not all about learning a lot of things that is interesting, it is also about having a structured and supported process that is undertaken by an individual to reflect upon their own learning, performances, and/or achievement to plan for their personal, educational and career paths and development. Even though there might be other ways to get class assignments done, making a personal plan will help you get your class assignments done, as well as help you with your career path and goals. The reason being is you are using a SMART goals system and setting a schedule that is right for you to help with your classes and class assignments. To help with your career path and goals you can use a Career Interest Profiler as well as the SMART goals system. Having a personal plan will help gets assignments done by setting SMART goals, SMART goals are achievable realistic goals that you can complete. Here are a couple examples of SMART goals. In this first example this can be used for an educational goal in your classes. In the next couple weeks I will take a writing workshop to help with my writing skills. This next example can be used towards your career path or goals. In the next couple weeks I will start to fill out job applications that are in my field of study at university of phoenix. A career interest profiler is a program that asks you various questions about...
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...Career Plan Building Activity: Competencies and Career Interests Profiler Business Communication and Critical Thinking BCOM 275 University of Phoenix Demonstrative Communication After completing the Competencies and Career Profiler I realized that I have been on the right career path according to my results. The assessment outlined the following fields Freight Forwarder, Executive Assistant, Management and Supervisor in the areas of Customer Service, Administrative, Medical Office or Practice and Sales. Out of all the fields listed Freight Forwarder and the Medical Office and Sales are the only fields I have not worked. I’m working as a Logistic Analyst in the Supply Field and to my surprise it was not one the suggested options. However, the medical field as well as the freight business has been on my research agenda. The great thing is the career profiler provided me a guideline that shows that there are numerous of degree options to explore if I wanted to focus on being a manager. I had now idea that to work in the secretaries and administrative field your course of study should be a Bachelors of Science in Psychology. I think this is an awesome tool because it allows you view the different career option understand the educational path that’s needed to be success. Also, the assessment results provided me the knowledge that I have the ability to apply expertise, thinking logically, cope with pressure, follow instructions, deliver results and I’m innovating. The...
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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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...(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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...Material Team Building Worksheet Complete the Team Building Worksheet by answering the following questions in 200 to 300 words each. 1. Describe team members’ results on the Discovery Wheel and Develop your multiple intelligences exercises. What similarities and differences exist within the team? A similarity Team b shares would definitely be that we are each use to using our critical thinking skills, managing time and have been exposed to a very diverse group just by serving in the military. Most of us scored about a three or four in each category of the discovery wheel. This makes sense considering the fact that it has been years since any of us have gone to school. Our note taking and reading and comprehension skills will be put to the test while we transition to college life. Our differences have to do with what the ultimate score in these areas were. Some were a little stronger and weaker in specific fields. By doing the discovery wheel I found that my two weakest areas are test taking and memory. My two strongest are health and diversity. Money was a very strong one also because the military is taking care of me while I go to school. Some of my other strong traits are communicating and diversity. 2. What are the advantages of having diversity on a team? What challenges might the team face because of diversity? 3. How might factors such as diversity, attitude, learning, and work styles affect team building? ...
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