...Transcript of Evaluating Career Choice Arguments Presentation Evaluating Career Choice Arguments Presentation Identify the two most compelling arguments that were presented. List one that had a logical error in it but which you still thought was important. Your best friend: “You should consider a career in information technology. No other degree concentration is as innovative.” Your grandmother: “You need to select a career you love and enjoy no matter the pay scale. If you love your work you will be happy.” ( Continued on the next slide) Continued..... I felt as if the one that had an logical error was the statement my friend made simply because their are a lot of jobs that are innovative.But I do feel that he/she had a point because jobs in technology are steadily increasing because of the new changes. Were there any errors in truth with the arguments you selected? Describe what those errors were and what made them errors. Well I Felt as if the argument made by my best friend was incorrect because their are a lot of jobs that aren't in technology that sparks creativity. Were there any errors in validity with the arguments you selected? Describe what those errors were and what made them errors. Yes because you can see that technology based jobs aren't at the top of the top jobs to have, although it among the top it isn't at the very top. Also schools wouldn't allow other career choices if they didn't think that it was valid. Revise the arguments to remove all errors...
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...Different Arguments Related to the Choice of a Career Assessment Part A: Critically Evaluating an Argument Build your mindmap. Arts and Sciences (Advantage): Lots of flexibility in career choices: Overgeneralization Arts and Sciences (Disadvantage): Leads to a career in food service –“Do you want fries with that?”: irrational appeal Education (Advantage): The best way to make a difference in the world: overgeneralization Education (Disadvantage): Guaranteed low paying job: either/ or thinking Nursing (Advantage): People always will need nurses: logically sound Nursing (Disadvantage): Too much schooling (according to Theo, the Law student): double standard Information Systems and Technology (Advantage): No other degree concentration is as innovative (according to Grace): irrational appeal Information Systems and Technology (Disadvantage): Too limited in scope for much advancement in business situation (according to Ritesh): Logically Sound Business (Advantage): Infinite career options (according to Ritesh): Logically Sound Business (Disadvantage): Boring work, stuck behind a desk all day: oversimplifying Health and Human Services (Advantage): All the benefits of Arts and Sciences, but vastly more focused and relevant: Logically Sound Health and Human Services (Disadvantage): Job options are all in very un-creative fields.: Irrational Appeal Assessment Part B: Articulating the Steps Involved in Evaluating an Argument Write out the two most...
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...Decision-Making Process Fred Flintstone MGT/230 November 27, 2011 Mr. Ed Decision-Making Process After serving 24 years in the United States Air Force the time came to make a professional decision to search for a new career. The intent was to obtain a post military civil service job and capitalize on years of on-the-job experience while in the military. The risks and uncertainty of leaving the military to embark on new career was challenging to say the least. The processes of applying for and obtaining post military employment were relatively simple to accomplish. The decision-making processes were exactly as outlined within the textbook and additionally previously made decisions would not be any different. Exploring the actions taken to separate from the military, employment application processes, and subsequent decision-making steps will give a better perspective on the journey toward a second career. One of the first steps was to set a separation date from the military and establish eligibility for future hiring within the civilian sector. The next step is fairly simple and began with building a resume, gathering military service documents, and submitting online to USA Jobs approximately 10 months prior to separation from the military. After submitting the documents travel through several layers of the human resources department within USA Jobs to validate proper eligibility and consideration for job placement. Approximately...
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...Personality and Career Choice Personality profiles are used by organizations as a method of evaluating an employee’s personal attributes, skills, and values. The results of the personality profiles are also used by management to evaluate an employee’s work performance. It is important to know how to analyze a personality test, and to know how to interpret the results. The purpose of this paper is to offer insight regarding the relationship between personalities and organizational behaviors, to provide some insight regarding the correlation between personality types and leadership styles, and to identify behavioral approaches within leadership roles. Personality and Career Choice Personality can be defined as a mixture of distinctive traits of an individual, and manner in which that individual interacts with and responds to others. According to the text, “Personality is an important individual characteristic to understand. It helps us identify predictable interplays between people’s individual differences and their tendencies to behave in certain ways.” (Schermerhorn, J. R., 2012, p. 29). Personality traits are characteristics that define a person’s behavior or attitudes towards something or someone. Personality profiles assist managers in evaluating whether or not an applicant has the desired personal attributes, skills, and values that the company is seeking for a leadership position. According to researcher Yukl, G., (2012), “To be highly useful for...
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...Arguments Related to the Choice of a Career Assessment Part A: Critically Evaluating an Argument Build your mindmap. Arts and Sciences (Advantage): Lots of flexibility in career choices: Overgeneralization Arts and Sciences (Disadvantage): Leads to a career in food service - 'Do you want fries with that?': Irrational Appeal Education (Advantage): The best way to make a difference in the world: Overgeneralization Education (Disadvantage): Guaranteed low paying job: Either/Or Thinking Nursing (Advantage): People always will need nurses: Logically Sound Nursing (Disadvantage): Too much schooling (according to Theo, the Law student): Double Standard Information Systems and Technology (Advantage): No other degree concentration is as innovative (according to Grace): Irrational Appeal Information Systems and Technology (Disadvantage): Too limited in scope for much advancement in business situation (according to Ritesh): Logically Sound Business (Advantage): Infinite career options (according to Ritesh): Logically Sound Business (Disadvantage): Boring work, stuck behind a desk all day: Oversimplifying Health and Human Services (Advantage): All the benefits of Arts and Sciences, but vastly more focused and relevant: Logically Sound Health and Human Services (Disadvantage): Job options are all in very un-creative fields.: Irrational Appeal Assessment Part B: Articulating the Steps Involved in Evaluating an Argument Write out the...
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...Different Arguments Related to the Choice of a Career Assessment Part A: Critically Evaluating an Argument Build your mind map. Arts and Sciences (Advantage): Lots of flexibility in career choices: Logically Sound Arts and Sciences (Disadvantage): Leads to a career in food service - 'Do you want fries with that?': Irrational Appeal Education (Advantage): The best way to make a difference in the world: Oversimplifying Education (Disadvantage): Guaranteed low paying job: Either/Or Thinking Nursing (Advantage): People always will need nurses: Oversimplifying Nursing (Disadvantage): Too much schooling (according to Theo, the Law student): Double Standard Information Systems and Technology (Advantage): No other degree concentration is as innovative (according to Grace): Overgeneralization Information Systems and Technology (Disadvantage): Too limited in scope for much advancement in business situation (according to Ritesh): Avoiding the Issue Business (Advantage): Infinite career options (according to Ritesh): Double Standard Business (Disadvantage): Boring work, stuck behind a desk all day: Overgeneralization Health and Human Services (Advantage): All the benefits of Arts and Sciences, but vastly more focused and relevant: Logically Sound Health and Human Services (Disadvantage): Job options are all in very un-creative fields.: Irrational Appeal Assessment Part B: Articulating the Steps Involved in Evaluating an Argument Write out the...
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...Examining Different Arguments Pamela C Purvis HUM/111 July 29, 2012 Jennifer L. Bingham, JD Examining Different Arguments Title | Examining Different Arguments Related to the Choice of a Career | Assessment Part A: Critically Evaluating an Argument | Build your mindmap. | Arts and Sciences (Advantage): Lots of flexibility in career choices: Logically Sound | Arts and Sciences (Disadvantage): Leads to a career in food service - 'Do you want fries with that?': Irrational Appeal | Education (Advantage): The best way to make a difference in the world: Either/Or Thinking | Education (Disadvantage): Guaranteed low paying job: Overgeneralization | Nursing (Advantage): People always will need nurses: Logically Sound | Nursing (Disadvantage): Too much schooling (according to Theo, the Law student): Overgeneralization | Information Systems and Technology (Advantage): No other degree concentration is as innovative (according to Grace): Either/Or Thinking | Information Systems and Technology (Disadvantage): Too limited in scope for much advancement in business situation (according to Ritesh): Shifting the Burden of Proof | Business (Advantage): Infinite career options (according to Ritesh): Overgeneralization | Business (Disadvantage): Boring work, stuck behind a desk all day: Overgeneralization | Health and Human Services (Advantage): All the benefits of Arts and Sciences, but vastly more focused and relevant:...
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...make with my family. (T & A, 2011, p. 89) there are six stages in decision making, they are indentifying and diagnosing the problem, generating alternative solutions, evaluating alternatives, making the choice, implementing the decision, and evaluating the decision. In the following paragraphs I will discuss the steps that I had to make when making the decision of getting out of the military. In the first stage of the decision process indentifying the problem, I had to decide on what was right for my family and what was right for me when making the decision on getting out of the military. This was a difficult decision due to the fact that the economy was on a downhill and jobs were very scarce. The second stage of the decision process is generating alternative solutions. In this stage of the process, my family and I had to way out the options of the benefits of getting out such as more time with family and able to start a new career. I also had to see the negative solutions as well, such as having to pay for health benefits and starting from the bottom. In the third stage of the process is evaluating alternatives, and deciding what is beneficial in the long run. My family and I needed to decide on other options such as staying in the military and seeing where they would send us next and what jobs or career field would equal to the same pay as being in the military including benefits. After weighing out all the decisions and seeing what is best for...
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...move and the list quite a bit and I finally agreed that I would in fact give up the life I had known and move across country to Scottsdale, AZ on January 1, 2000. And I did. The example described in the text, Management: Leading and Collaborating in a Competitive World, seemed to be more involved than the process I used to make my decision, but the two processes could be described in a similar fashion and I feel that my decision would have been the same if I used the exact process in the text book. The text book includes 5 decision making steps, Identifying and Diagnosing the Problem, Generating alternative solutions, Evaluating alternatives, Making the choice, Implementing the decision and Evaluating the decision (Bateman & Snell, 2011). The first step, indentifying and diagnosing the problem, would be our concerns regarding my husband’s career and what would be the best possible avenue to take....
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...2014 Dr. Johnson-Lutz Decision-Making Process There has been a time in everyone’s life where he or she had to make a personal or professional decision such as purchasing a home, changing careers, enrolling in higher education, or relocating to another state or region. In this paper I will explain the process in which I have use to enroll at University of Phoenix. Before taking the final steps in enrolling at the University of Phoenix, I have attempted higher education a couple times in the past. There were some factors that made my previous attempts unsuccessful. One main reason was due to working full-time and living on my own hours away from my family. I have always attempted to work full-time and to attend school full-time, it is really exhausting when work is Monday through Friday and night classes were Monday through Thursday. That was a reason to the unsuccessful completion of college. Flash forward to 2012, my cousin made me reconsider about going back to college after she enrolled with University of Phoenix and told me about the flexibility and full-time courses. I was on board immediately and got in touch with an advisor at the university. My decision making process was not too complex. My decision making process was simply to evaluate where I was in life career-wise. I felt I had reached my maximum with only a high school diploma; so having a bachelor would open many more doors with the experience I have already obtained. Also, financially what will...
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...Careers in Accounting Professor Earnest Daniel ACC100 November 27, 2015 There are many choices available to accountants for what particular field of accounting to specialize in. There is a variety of career choices to choose from depending on the type of information he or she wants to analyze. Bookkeeping has become one of the fastest growing careers in accounting. Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks held more than 2 million jobs in 2004. Some of the job descriptions include creating financial transactions and creating financial reports for that information. This also includes posting information to accounting journals. A bookkeeper also reconciles accounts to ensure accuracy. To become a bookkeeper a person should have an associate's degree in accounting or business administration, but some can acquire this position with work experience. A financial analyst is another career option for someone with an education in accounting. A financial analyst guides businesses and individuals investment decisions. They assess a company's performance on their stocks, bonds, and other investments. To become a financial analyst one must have a bachelor's degree, or higher if seeking advancement. Some of their duties include evaluating current and historical data, studying the company's financial statements to determine their value, prepare written reports and also have the ability to use software packages to analyze financial data. In May of 2012, the median annual wage...
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...complex to achieve the goals they have set for themselves. These decisions managers take are to achieve goals that they have set for themselves or the company. Decision making can be very challenging because there are many factors involved. “Most managerial decisions lack structure and entail risk, uncertainty, and conflict” (Bateman, Snell (2011). These factors cause managers not to take action or ignore problems that are occurring. Managers can create efficient solutions for problems by following the decision making process. “The model decision making process has six stages that the decision should follow, which include (1) identify and diagnose the problem, (2) generate alternate solutions (3) evaluate alternatives, (4) make the choice, (5) implement decision, and (6) evaluate the decision” Bateman, Snell (2011). Everyone has had to have made decisions in their lives whether or not they were simple or complex. People may have even used the decision making process without even knowing what it was. I have used the decision making process without knowing what it was when I decided to attend University of Phoenix. I read about the decision making process and realized I had followed the model in some way or another. The Decision Making Process Most people set goals for themselves. Goals are set to be accomplished by a certain time. People make decisions their whole life growing up. Even as children people have set goals to do our homework, go school, and...
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...Abstract The welding career is a great choice for any skill oriented person that is willing to go through some schooling and get great pay and benefits in return. With the wide availability of of the career path, welding would be a great choice to follow through with the field. Considering the fact that there does not actually require schooling, but will reflect the pay. The low end salary for a welder is $46,000. It is said that some additional education is recommended, like math science, and welding. There are numerous different locations and types of welding careers. That being said why would it be reasonable to steer away from welding. Welding Fabricator: Evaluating the Career of a Welding Fabricator...
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...Barron MGT/230 01/29/2013 Dr. J. Gary Harris Decision Making According to the 2012 Career Cast research the enlisted soldier had the most stressful job (Brienza, 2012). From 21 September 2004 to 20 September 2010 that was me, the enlisted airmen in the United States Air Force. The military was great to me and never regret for a minute that I enlisted. It was not up until I had my daughter that I started contemplating that maybe the military was not right for me anymore. My job was very demanding and I was working 12-hour shifts both days and nights. Having a child I started to feel like I was missing out on my child’s life. I had a decision to make. The stages of decision making defined in the text book Management: Leading & Collaborating in a Competitive World was a general process of how I came about to my decision. I had already defined the problem, which was my demanding job taking time away from my time with my family, especially my daughter. When I had my daughter in March of 2008, I still had a little over two years left in my enlistment contract so was there was not much I could do but stick it out until then. My husband and I did discuss other options incase that I didn’t want to get out of the military. The Air Force gave you the option to try and cross train into another career field, meaning that I tried to get another job with in the Air Force. After evaluating that option, I came to realize that I could be selected into another job that was just as demanding...
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...life, along with other alternatives I could take. Some of the tougher choices I had to think about were leaving my family and friends, starting a whole new life and not knowing the outcome of my decision. It wasn’t an over night choice, it took a lot of contemplation, a few pro’s and con charts & talking with my family. As the text described, I did have certainty about knowing what I had to do to join and what my job would be once I was in. I had a lot more uncertainties as to where I would be stationed, where I might deploy to or the risks I would be undertaking by joining in my career field. By comparing the good and bad, I “accepted the fact that decisions have consequences entailing risk,” and I chose to explore life and see where it would bring me. The easier choices were getting to travel for free, being able to go to school for free, serving my country, and exploring and starting a new life with new people and surroundings. My maximizing decision was very simply because I had plenty of positive consequences and only one negative, (leaving my family and friends). The alternate solution that I had was easy to overpass because it was to just stay in the town I was raised in and keep my same job as a cook. This made my decision to join very easy, because I didn’t want to stay there all my life and was tired of being stuck there and going no where. This was easy for me because I only had one choice at the time, but in a tougher situation the text would be very helpful especially...
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