...Personal Career Profiler Elisa Huggs MGT/521 Management April 02, 2015 Gloria Flores Personal Career Profiler Developing a career profile is not simple, especially when the individual has unclear professional goals. However, if this have an excellent career influence and direction in mind things are easier. Taking into consideration that the University of Phoenix not only encourage its students to meet their goals although provide them with practical and useful tools to achieve those goals. For an undecided student counting with a reliable support and consistent academic advice is a bonus. The career interest profile in the official school site offers a complete set of tools that help to guide the students. The ultimate purpose of these tools is to support the student throughout the scholar journal to become successful professional. With the help of the information discussed during this course and all the available tools Elisa had learned that establishing realistic goals, building confidence and sharpen skills are the first steps to becoming a real professional. She also had learned that creating an excellent resume and craft the personal image is essential; same as learning basics networking skills, maybe finding a mentor, using school connections and writing a good quality cover letter that employees would want to read (Robbins and Coulter, 2012). Elisa states she is well prepared for interviews and...
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...Your Career Interest Profile: Based on what you told us, you are... Social Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others. Conventional Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow. Investigative Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally. Your Career Matches ... Counselors, Social Workers, and Other Community and Social Service Specialists Explore Jobs Probation Officer Medical / Clinical Social Worker Academic / Guidance Counselor Career Counselor Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor Family / School Social Worker Health Educator Social / Human Service Assistant Mental Health / Behavioral Counselor Family / Behavioral Therapist Substance Abuse Counselor Explore Degree Options Bachelor Of Science In Psychology Master Of Science In Psychology Bachelor Of Science In Human Services/Management Bachelor Of Science In Human Services Master Of Science In Counseling/School Counseling Bachelor Of Science In Business With A Concentration In Human Resource Management Human Resource Management Certificate Graduate Human Resources Management...
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...After I made a research into the Career Exploration tool provided for the University of Phoenix, I found out possible careers opportunities available to all of us studying a Master of Accountancy. I completed the process of analyze the Career Areas, Our Recommendation and Specific Occupations tabs provided on it. In every one of those, I found out valuable information that helps me to organize my ideas toward a more clear point in my professional life. All the suggested careers and occupation fit well with the idea I have about my goals, possible jobs and salaries aspiration. The career exploration suggests positions such as auditor, tax analyst, treasure/controller and financial analyst, would be successful position that matched with my skills and expertise. Of course, I still have other requirements I need to pursuit in the educations, general degrees and certification licenses to achieve to assure a final conquer in the area of business and financial operations. All the information I got from the career exploration tool did not surprise me at all. I had in mind all those kind of positions recommended but I had not any idea about the requirements to get into and neither the possible salaries. I really appreciate that I have that tool in hand. The results given to me after pass by all the steps made me feel confident and add force to all those ideas I have had about my professional future. Before pass for this experience, I had idea about what I wanted, now I found a better...
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...Career Plan Reflection Paper B/COMM 275 Oct 6, 2014 Steven Johnson Career Plan Reflection 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 environment that promotes personal development and...
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...Reasoning Aptitude Paper Intro After completing the reasoning aptitude portion of my career plan, I was a little surprised at the results. This was not the first time that the results caught my attention but I did see how the system was able to produce the information it did in relation to my working abilities, thinking processes and habits. My profile showed that I could work well in a career field where my success would come from my ability to apply my practical skills. Maybe in a field of work where thinking was a key ability needed to solve practical problems. It showed that I was likely to be attracted to more practical jobs or careers. My results tell me that my individual thinking style is what I had anticipated it to be. I tend to be more successful or interested in work that I can learn by watching and conquer and be proficient after I have learned and comprehended the process. I am a hand-on type of person that stand behind the statement that seeing is believing so in order for me to perform a function to the best of my ability, I need to see it done, maybe a few times. I like supervision and training until I am confident in my ability to accomplish the work. It is sometimes hard for me to accomplish a task based on a theory because to me, a theory is something that is not necessarily proven to work or be effective. I want to know that what work effort I am about to put in is going to be substantial, get the job done and get it done accurately...
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...The nature of the work of a financial manager varies a lot with their specific titles, which include controller, treasurer, credit manager, etc. Controllers direct the establishment of financial reports that sum up and predict the organization's financial position, such as income statements, balance sheets, and analyses of future earnings or expenses. Controllers also are responsible for preparing special reports required by regulatory authorities. Often, controllers superintend the accounting, audit, and budget departments. Treasurers and finance officers oversee the organization's financial goals, objectives, and budgets. They overlook the investment of funds and manage associated risks, supervise cash management activities, execute capital-raising strategies to support a firm's expansion, and deal with mergers and acquisitions. Credit managers manage the firm's publication of credit. They establish credit-rating criteria, determine credit ceilings, and monitor the collections of past-due accounts. Managers specializing in international finance acquire financial and accounting systems for the banking transactions of multinational organizations. In summing up to the general duties described above, all financial managers execute tasks unique to their organization or industry. The role of the financial manager, particularly in business, is changing with these new technological advances that have reduced the amount of time it takes to produce financial reports. They often work on...
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...An organization without career planning and career development initiatives is likely to encounter the highest rate of attrition, causing much harm to their plans and programmers. Similarly without succession planning managing of vacancies, particularly at higher levels becomes difficult. There are examples of many organizations that had to suffer for not being able to find right successor for their key positions. With the increase scope for job mobility and corporate race for global headhunting of good performers, it is now a well established fact that normal employment span for key performers remains awfully short. Most importantly, the major focus of career planning is on assisting the employees achieve a better match between personal goals and the opportunities that are realistically available in the organization. Career programmers should not concentrate only on career growth opportunities. Practically speaking, there may not be enough high level positions to make upward mobility a reality for a large number of employees. Hence, career planning efforts need to pin point and highlight those areas that offer psychological success instead of vertical growth. Career planning is not an event or end in itself, but a continues process of developing human resources for achieving optimum results. It must, however be noted that individual and organizational career are not separate and distinct. A person who is not able to translate his career plan into action within the organization...
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...Home > Career Plan > Reasoning Aptitude > Survey [pic]Focused Your profile shows you could work well in careers where success comes from applying practical skills and where thinking is used mostly to solve practical problems. You are likely to be attracted to very practical jobs and careers. • Strengths • Opportunities |Competencies | |Ways to | | | | |Improve | | |Logical Thinking |[pic] |13 Tips |[pic]Add to Career | | | | |Plan[pic] | | | | |Updating...Added to | | | | |Career Plan | | | | | | | | | | | |Logical ThinkingAnalyzes numerical data| ...
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...TE AM FL Y FEARLESS INTERVIEWING How to Win the Job by Communicating with Confidence Marky Stein McGraw-Hill New York Chicago San Francisco Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan New Delhi San Juan Seoul Singapore Sydney Toronto Copyright © 2003 by Marky Stein. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. 0-07-141572-6 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title: 0-07-140884-3. All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use names in an editorial fashion only, and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Where such designations appear in this book, they have been printed with initial caps. McGraw-Hill eBooks are available at special quantity discounts to use as premiums and sales promotions, or for use in corporate training programs. For more information, please contact George Hoare, Special Sales, at george_hoare@mcgraw-hill.com or (212) 904-4069. TERMS OF USE This is a copyrighted work and The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (“McGraw-Hill”) and its licensors reserve all rights in and to the work. Use of this...
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...Unit 4 and 5 Evaluate the purpose of different types of career guidance interviews Evaluate methodologies to explore the career guidance and development needs of clients Corney and Watts (1998) define information and advice as; ‘providing an immediate response to the needs of clients who present an enquiry or reveal a need that requires more than a straightforward information response. Advice is usually limited to helping with the interpretation of information and with meeting needs already clearly understood by the client…’ Advice and information is therefore concerned with meeting client’s presenting issues relating to information. The OECD (2004:10) definition of guidance is; ‘Career guidance refers to services and activities intended to assist individuals of any age, and at any point of their lives, to make educational, training and occupational choices and to manage their careers’. This reflects the variety of activities that may take place in supporting clients to move forward. Guidance is about helping clients to understand their own needs, set and review career goals, understand any barriers and to produce action plans. Hambly (2008; 16) refers to the iceberg analogy to explain the process of guidance. The top of the iceberg represents the clarifying and meeting of presented needs which is advice and information and the bottom of the iceberg is about exploring additional needs which is guidance. The guidance element may be about exploring high leverage...
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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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...sales organization, with more approximately 7,100 independently owned and operated franchised broker offices. I report to the owner of the franchise, which is the head broker. My Positions is Real Estate Agent, been with the company 8 years, the team consist of 10 people all independent agents, we all come to together when it’s time, to discuss ways of working to together on projects, and making the office run more efficient. Our executive officer which is the owner is always open for new ideas. International Headquarters 175 Park Avenue Madison, New Jersey 07940 Contents Assignment 1.2: Organizational Profile Part 1— Description of your Company 3 Assignment 2.1: Organizational Profile Part 2—Alignment of Mission, Vision, Values, and Strategy 4 Assignment 2.2: Stakeholder Analysis 5 Assignment 3.2: Organizational Profile Part 3—Cultural Analysis 6 Assignment 4.2: Alignment of your Organization’s Performance Appraisal System with its Strategy and Culture 7 Assignment 5.2: Professional Development...
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...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 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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...Preparation before searching for a job If you are thinking to begin a job search, how will you start?? Will you be prepared or not? Before your first interview takes place, plan your career moves. Your career interests, values and financial status also have an impact on when to begin. For an internship, part-time, temporary or seasonal position, any time is the right time! Here are some resources to help you navigate the many components of a job search: 1. Know yourself Take sometimes, and ask yourself who you are and what you stand. Know your reflection and try to evaluate yourself. What are you looking for in a career and what focus do you want your career to have going down the line? It very important to know, what do you enjoy doing? , what are you good at? , Where do my skills and knowledge lie? , what characteristics of a job are important to me? It’s also time to determine what your top skills are and what challenges you might face. The first step is being honest about your strengths and shortcomings. Also try to find out your passion, interest, dream and aspiration. 2. Impressive CV and Cover letter A well-constructed resume is one of the main tools needed in any job search. Many times the interviewer is impressed by the attractive and strong resume and cover letter. Explore activities such as volunteering or looking into professional associations. Be short and to the point. Employers receive a lot of applications, so lots of detail isn’t necessary...
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