...Building a career plan is difficult, if people have no clue what career field interest them, what is the person strength and weaknesses, and if the person posse the passion for a certain career. Working on my competencies section, I have identified my strengths. If I have to categorize myself with the results, I will say my top three is adapting to change, strategizing, and innovating. To be a high-quality manager or a leader, they must be willing to accept changes. Since, not all work environments are the same. Adjusting to change will make a person realize what works and what does not work. At the same time strategizing and innovative is critical to managers. For a company to raise profit or cut spending, it requires strategizing because without a road map a person may not be able to find the final destination. An innovative person who thinks outside the box usually performs at a higher level. Creative and innovative thinkers stand out in front of their peers and will be successful in their careers. Conducting the exercise, I understand how competencies relate to one another and identify my strength and weakness. If I change my communication techniques to be an effective communicator, I will ensure to disseminate information at the lowest level and use back brief technique. This will mitigate miscommunication among the staff and I will use this technique to check on my staff. To complete assigned task in a timely manner, I will need to ensure that my staff understands...
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...Career Planner Chris McLoy Com 530 10 February 2014 Monique Georges Every person is different in the workplace. Our personalities can range from expressive and ambitious to quiet and content. The workers have a specific way of communication, leadership, and motivation, goal setting when working in specific careers and teams. After completing the Career Planner Tool for the course, it was evident what type of work culture, career path, communication strengths and personal strengths would fit my personality best. Most importantly, the Career Planner Tool was able to set me up for my future career plan. Career Plan Future The results that I obtained from the Career Planner Tool showed that I fit into a high power, expert work environment that tends to be on the supportive side. I am a strong, ambitious worker, who loves to create new ideas within the workplace. The Career Planner Tool helped me understand where I am able to thrive and grow in my career path. By knowing and understanding all aspects of the type of worker I am, I am better able to search and work for my future career path. This course and career tool have helped me better understand where I would thrive and in what conditions. My future career path has always been one that involved a high-powered work environment and fast paced ideas. After viewing the Career Planner Tool, I was able to truly understand how I am able to put what I have always know into action. Conclusion The workplace is not just...
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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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...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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...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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...HR Plan-06s Career Planning I. Meaning & Elements of Career II. Career Planning: Meaning and Nature III. Career Planning Benefits IV. HR Department Assistance for Career Planning V. Different Stages of Career Development Process Or, Cycles of Career Development Process VI. Career Development I. Career: Meaning & Elements Definition of Career Career is a sequence of attitudes and behaviors associated with the series of job and work-related activities over a person's lifetime. Yet in another way, it may be defined as a succession of related jobs, arranged in hierarchical order, through which a person moves in an organization. As the literal definition of career focuses on an individually perceived sequence, to be more accurate, career may be either individual centered or organization-centered. Therefore, career is often defined separately as external career and internal career. External career refers to the objective categories used by society and organizations to describe the progression of steps through a given occupation, while internal career refers to the set of steps or stages which make up the individual's own concept of career progression within an occupation. For such two different approaches, in organizational context, career can be identified as an integrated pace of vertical and lateral movement in an occupation of an individual over his employment span. Important Elements of Career Analyzing the definitional context, it...
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...Abstract The purpose of this paper is to explain the career development process and outline an approach of how to progress through it. I will choose a specific Career Theory from the textbook that fits into my personal beliefs of human behavior and career development. I will provide the main points of this theory and use examples from my life to demonstrate how this theory will be beneficial. I will also identify any potential weaknesses or aspects that I may disagree with. What Is a Career? A career can be defined as the "time extended working out of a purposeful life pattern through work undertaken by the person" (Zunker, 2012). This also includes "activities and positions involved in vocations, occupations, and jobs as well as to related activities with an individual's lifetime of work" (Zunker, 2012). A career should be a job that one benefits from not only monetarily but also in some personal way. People should be careful in choosing a career because most people spend over half of their lives working. If one chooses the right career than they can lead a happier life. So many people have what can be considered job instead of a career. A job where one works only to receive money can lead one to be unhappy and cause quite a bit of stress. Overtime this can have an effect on an individual’s overall health. This is why the idea of career development can be so important. What is Career Development? Career development can be defined as a process in which...
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...:: Employment. Department of Labor, 2014. Web. 28 Jan. 2016. Explorer, Campus. "General and Operations Managers." Career Information:. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2015. Web. 28 Jan. 2016. 1) My survey responses revealed that I would be best suited for enterprising. I disagree with the results of the survey because none of the jobs listed suit my personal interests. A general manager or a real estate agent are not careers I would choose because I enjoy daily changes, and completing the same tasks would make my job strenuous and boring. I would enjoy having a job where I could meet new people and offer my help to the needy. 2) Out of the two career paths, a real estate agent is more interesting. This is because I would get to travel all around my city, learn about the best school districts, become informed about dangerous neighborhoods, and then some. Factors that influence this choice would be family and finances. If you know a lot of people, chances are you will succeed in advancing in your career, which in turn will mean making more money. Family is very important to me, so having a job that I could dictate the times in which I work would be very helpful. My choice may change over time after seeing how my clients react, or seeing I become bored with showing houses every day. This career path compares to my future job I have in mind because both careers involve being able to communicate effectively and truthfully. They also both require long hours and a large amount...
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...Content: Page Number Answer 3 Appendix 6 Refences 7 Career theory has begun since the early 20th century. As the changing nature of world, career theory experiences major transition from time to time to achieve an applicable theory. This essay will discuss and analyse the literature about career theory in the early 21st Century. Sonnenfeld (1982) has described career theory as theory which attempts to explain occupational variables such as type of job and income or psychological variables such as job satisfaction and job-related stress. Career development began from Frank Parsons’ work where he predicts a person’s career choices from the his characteristics, including self-knowledge, career planning and “true reasoning”(Patton et al, 2006). Later, several aptitude tests were used in the assessment of unemployed workers which led to the development of trait-factor approaches. Fitzgerald (1992) suggested that the trait-factor approach can be attributed to the combination of Parsons matching models with the concepts and technology of individual differences. As consequences, trait-factor theory implies on the match or fit between individual’s characteristics and work environment , emphasizing on the relationship between knowledge about self and knowledge about environment (Betz, 1989). Collin (1986) has argued that the major thrust in career theory has centred on individual rather than on contextual factors. However, Holland’s (1959) research...
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...Career Plan Reflection Chantel Silva-Labrador BCOM/275 July 1, 2014 M. Kizzie Career Plan Reflection Career plan building is a foundation that one may take into account when marketing themselves in the employment world. Having a clear understanding as to what their individual behavior skills and competencies are, along with a better understanding of the individual’s strengths and weaknesses when critical thinking is involved can help in determining the individuals occupational interest. In conjunction to this, work cultural values and preferences can play into what groups the individual will be able to identify with on a professional level and allow them to perform and communicate more effectively. An excerpt from Career Competencies for Managing Cross-Cultural Transition by Nancy Arthur, explains that “people need to be prepared for working with others whose cultural background is different to their own…a frame work for understanding…career development practices need to be expanded…in a world that is increasingly characterized by cross-cultural transition” (Arthur, 2000). The business communications course taken by this author revealed various things from her perspective. While the career assessments have revealed additional fields of interest, the course has also given her insight as to how the various forms of communications are channeled, specific names given to various forms of arguments, and what details should be identified in various forms of fallacies. Prior...
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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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...Theory I. Definition of Career Concepts • Career is a series of job posisitions that people have held during their work life. Many people look back on their careers, knowing that what they might have achieved they did achieve, and that their careers, their lives and their potential went unfulfilled. • Career management is a process that enables employees to understand and develop their career skills and interest, and to use them effectively. For the time being, career management can be briefly described as ongoing process in which an individual - Gathers relevant information about himself or herself and the world of work - Develops an accurate picture of his or her talents ,interest, values, preferred lifestyle as well as alternative occupations ,jobs, and organizations - Develop realistic career goals based on this information - Develops and implements a strategy designed to achieve the goals - Obtains feedback on the effectiveness of the strategy and the relevance of the goals Moreover, individuals will need to develop a set of career competencies that enable them to develop insight into themselves and their environment so they can navigate their increasingly unpredictable and “chaotic” careers. The specific steps in the career management process and the qualities necessary to carry them out. • Career planning is the deliberate...
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...Career Enhancement Tips For First Jobbers: 3 Key Tips to Grow Your Career Simple Career Enhancement Tips You Can Start Now [pic][pic] You found your first job and you feel a little anxious. You think to yourself – “How am I going to survive through all these?” With the right attitude and guidance, you will soon look forward to doing your best. Like any other career enhancement tips, there are no guarantees for success. However, if you bring the right attitude and decide to take action then you are half way there. Nothing will stop a first jobber like you from shining at your workplace. 1. Self-discipline The value of self-discipline in a first jobber is often underestimated. Now that you are in the working world you think to yourself, “Is self-discipline overrated?” I will tell you, no. It is not overrated. I have often found new staff with good self-discipline doing better than those who are poor in it. Let me use a simple example to demonstrate this, assuming it’s a Friday and the rest of the department is planning to go out for a fun night. You have an important document to be completed for the coming Monday. What do you do? Give the fun night a pass and complete the work? Or join the fun and hope that you will find time to finish it over the weekend thus leaving you little chance to perfect it before submission? Part of self-discipline is also about sacrifice. When you have strong self-discipline, it is inevitable that you would need to sacrifice some fun time...
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...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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...Marybelle’s Career Profiler Results Name BCOM 275 October 9, 2014 Linda Torres-Kleinhans Marybelle’s Career Interest Profiler Results I am going to be an astronaut! I am going to be a doctor! I am going to be a teacher! As children, a lot of us would change our minds so many times of what we would like to be when we grow up. Now that we are grown up, there is still comes a time in life when we are a little lost; or is having a hard time figuring out the career path; or just need some validation. I myself needed a little help and at this time I’m still trying to figure it out. Upon enrolling in University of Phoenix, I took the Career Plan surveys to include the Career Interest Profiler. This is a pretty handy tool that could help people like me to figure out my next career path or the very least give some insights on my interests and suggested careers. In this paper, I am discussing my Career Interest Profiler results; weather the results fit my desired career path and why or why not; as well as tell you how I feel about the results. Results My Career Interest profiler results is as follows: [pic] This shows that I lean towards careers that are investigative, social, and conventional. The suggested careers are counselors, health practitioner, lawyers, judges, and educational trainer. Fitting of My Desired Career Path? I was in the military for 13 years as a soldier and a food inspector. I thought this career path was it. After the military...
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