...Courtney Bellmore November 1, 2014 Mr. Brechko Economics Stepping Stone Choosing a career can be one of the most important steps to a person’s upcoming future. It’s so important because our career will be the main thing that will be supporting us throughout life. As I graduate high school in a few months I plan on entering the military. The military branch that I choose to pursue is the Air Force. As I enter the Air Force my plan is to go into the social working field. I do not have to go to college for this. The Air Force is the best stepping stone for achieving my goal of being a social worker. However to discover what my actual career will be as my stepping stone I have to take the ASVAB. The ASVAB stands for Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery which is a multiple choice test that determines what career you can qualify for (official-asvab). My goal in the Air Force is to become a social worker. As I try to become a social worker I will mainly focus on helping people with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) (psychcentral). However, depending on the test...
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...What I expected to gain from this work placement, in addition to learning new practical skills, was to further understand the role of a social worker and to help me to narrow down my career decision in the future. The most valuable thing I have gained working in a youth employment environment is learning what career path I will take. This has come from all the knowledge and practical skills I have picked up. This opportunity has also helped highlight that I am not the only one feeling lost when it comes to marking career decisions. As a result, I now have a better understanding of the working world. During the placement period, the biggest amount of support was from the classmates. We shared the experiences and gave support to each other. Last week, I saw a Facebook status from my classmate and it was about her placement work. She said she felt sad and distressed about her case. As a result, I came up with a question in mind “is it good or not for a social worker to be affected by clients’ situation?”. I am not sure actually. My friends described me as a stone because I didn’t show any interest in anything. This is sad but true, it seemed I did not wish for many things in life. I was never addicted to any toys, games, TV dramas and so on from childhood to now. Sometimes, when my friends are jumping and screeching for some interesting things, I never showed much interest. People will say that a personality with mine is good because I will not be easily influenced...
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...Before deciding on my career choice, I have had a lot of time determining if it was really the career for me. My career choice is a clinical social worker. There are many aspects that goes into being a clinical social worker and I have to thoroughly research it before I planned for it to be my future career. As asked in the General orientation toward the future self -assessment, values that are very important to me is reliability, open-mindedness, honesty, and dependability. I feel that everyone in the world deserves to have people in their life that hold these values so I aim to at least help as many people as I can with those values that I instill into myself. The personal satisfaction that I receive from helping others would be for the...
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...While doing the research for the Social Work Reinvestment Act a lot of issues hit home with me. I realized that Social Worker’s, which I aspire to one day become are not compensated and as protected as they should be. My first experience practicing in the field of Social Work was doing my internship during the semester in a city child welfare office. The internship along with this act showed me how challenging the work conditions for a Social Worker can be. Lack of resources is one of my major concerns, because I sat at a desk for an entire semester with no pen, and even something as simple as a stapler. This act helped taught me that I may leave grad-school with debt, and the compensation that I may receive may not be enough to cover my...
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...1. “Starting where the client is”: I learned about the concept of starting where the client is and how important that is in treatment. It means that you have to really get to know your client and build a relationship with them to find out what their goals for treatment is, and where they want to see themselves. This is an important concept because it may sometimes be challenging to accept that the client only wants so much when you know they have the power to go so much further. I know I will use this tool all throughout my future career in social work. You can’t make someone change if they’re not willing to change themselves. 2. Evidence Based Treatment Models: This curriculum/book taught me the 5 change-oriented approaches that can be used...
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...My comprehension of the profession of a social worker has been broadly expanded since being in this class. I’ve learned many aspects of this profession including learning of their goals and purposes, how it is empowering and evolving in society, also the values, ethics, and principles they conduct. The powerpoints have been really helpful even though I do have the book, the powerpoints organized me really well to study and prepare for any social work questions that were given. Although I know I am not absolutely fully knowledgeable about this field, I am aware of most things as of before, I had no clue as to what social work was about. Prior to entering this class, I had no experience with a social worker so actually conducting an interview...
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...CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION A number of African American women are succeeding on the long road to career advancement and leadership positions. Nevertheless, racism and sexism still hinder their efforts for career advancement and leadership positions. Black women are facing an intense combination of discrimination in American institutions. Because we live in a white male-dominated society, it is easy to underestimate African American women’s leadership potential and abilities. African American women are looked at as inferior beings, rather than as equals capable of accomplishing any and everything a man can. The purpose of this research will be to investigate how education influences career advancement and leadership positions of African American...
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...toy Future Life with Toys Tags: Toy, Gender Stereotype Above picture comes from Liuyuhen’s tumblr. This is a typical gender stereotype for children’s toy. Girl will get dolls or anything that female should have. And boy will get cars or anything can represent muscling. Color of the toy is also different for each gender. Girl normally will get toy that is pink, red or purple. Boy will get toy that is black, blue or grey. This social construct norm create stereotype for two genders and potentially affect children’s future career. The difference between two genders’ toy reflect adults’ expectation for their children. Women are assumed to do in-house work or light work such as baby sitting, housekeeping and supporting work (like nurse). Men are assumed to do out-house work or heavy work such as joining army, constructing and political work. When children receive their toys, the toy will represent their future expectation from their parents. When children grow up with these stereotypes and expectations, they might have subconscious feeling about what they should behave or what they should do in order to fit these social construct norm. Some opponents might argue that when children getting older and have their own independent consciousness, this doesn’t necessarily mean they grow up to be in-house worker or out-house worker. However, several studies are showing that toy could affect children’s career. According to an article “Do children's toys influence their career choices...
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...What college am I going to? What degree should I get? What career should I pursue? I am here to tell you why you should consider being a Children’s Protective Service Social Worker in Contra Costa County. In Contra Costa County there are about 250,000 children and roughly 1,100 of those kids are in the foster system as a result of abuse or neglect. Many of these kids are placed into unsafe homes, but are not heard because their social worker is too busy with so many cases to provide the attention that they need.According to retired Social Casework Specialist, Vickie Matthews, “Social workers are responsible for 20-30 kids at a time. It’s a never ending...
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...UNIV/100 Career Exploration Plan Worksheet For this assignment, you will research the http://www.phoenix.edu website and 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. When you complete each section, submit this document to your Week 3 Assignment 1 link on your student website. Save this document so you can reference it as you work on building your career plan in your future University of Phoenix courses. Section 1: Career Research 1. Go to http://www.phoenix.edu and browse the available degrees, then complete the following table. 2. List the degree programs you are interested in and potential careers that might require these degrees. Careers and degrees I’m interested in | What I know about these careers and degrees | What I need to know about these careers and degrees | Case/Social Worker | Great job opportunities available in every city, especially for bilinguals. Salary paying job with benefits, normal work hours; I get to help people. The University of Phoenix offers an Associates of Arts degree with a concentration in Human Services Management. I know that with this degree I can seek a job with the government and it has a rapid growth as Health Care is also growing. | I need to know how likely I am to get a job with this Associates degree or if I need to continue my education to a Bachelor’s...
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...in a constant rate of change and growth. The branches included are all the aspects of human growth, such as emotional, physical, social, intellectual and personality development. Charles Darwin was actually the first to be credited with conducting the first systematic study dealing with developmental psychology. This study of psychology also branches into sociology, education and health care because of its association, not only with the physical aspects, but with cognitive and social forms as well. Developmental psychology also plays an important role in numerous subjects such as anthropology, education, history, sociology and psychology. Those subjects apply to many careers pertaining to the study of human development. The three goals of developmental psychology are to describe, explain, and to optimize development. With developmental psychology comes tons of research. Majority of study begins with hypothesis. The goal of the research is to analyze the interested area and collect data needed to draw conclusions, which can then add to new or developing theories. Developmental psychologists work environments range from schools to nonprofit agencies and hospitals. Some also work in colleges and universities but those tend to focus more on research and teaching. The area of employment I will focus on is a clinical social worker. A clinical social worker is a professional...
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...the relationships I had with people at the company or through my extended network. The importance of relationships and communication also applies inside of organizations. No matter what type of business one works for they will be constantly interacting with other people, particularly if they are in a leadership position. Jordan’s theory of options describes the phenomenon of how, as a person ages their options gradually decrease and their responsibilities increase. This is particularly true from a career standpoint. Older individuals who have been working in a particular field for much of their lives have much less career mobility than younger people who have been working fewer years. Companies may be reluctant to hire older workers because they have a shorter potential future with the company than younger workers, even though they have more experience. Also, as one’s responsibilities grow (supporting children, paying a mortgage, etc.) one becomes more risk averse and seeks career stability, and thus has fewer choices. My uncle lost his job as...
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...My goal is to be a social worker for children and or individual with developmental or mental disabilities. Therefore I plan to major in social work in Rutgers University, which will help me become a better and more competent social worker. I have always loved helping people so I thought it would be best to make a career out of it. Rutgers is one of the best educational programs in New Jersey and I know attending this university will assist me with become the social worker I dream to become. There are a few goals I expect to complete after receiving an education from Rutgers University. First, I want to earn my degree in social work. Secondly, I want to further the information I learned from my two year college and my job. Finally I would like to get a job working in schools or group homes. Helping people has always been a part of my life. I remember in high school when I use to visit my older sister with Down syndrome at her group home. I use to assist her by going to the store with her and visited her every day when our grandmother past. She would remain upset even though I did those things with her. I know gaining education from Rutgers would help me learn how to help my sister better know as well as other. Once I earn my degree in social work I could help individual like my sister to...
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...GS2520: Professor Thomas 12/21/2014 GS2520: Professor Thomas 12/21/2014 MY SELF MARKETING TECHNIQUES Present and Future Self Marketing Plans MY SELF MARKETING TECHNIQUES Present and Future Self Marketing Plans Floyd Kidd II Floyd Kidd II Self-marketing is a tool used to aid in career searching. In a time when the job market is scarce, you must be able to sell yourself to a potential employer. Employers want the best products to operate their businesses so you must make yourself the best product out there. Selling yourself is an important part of the modern job search. There are many techniques available to achieve this and this is my plan on how I will sell myself in my new career. A brand is defined as: "A name, term, sign, symbol or design, or a combination of these intended to identify the goods or services of one seller or group of sellers and differentiate them from those of competitors". Ask yourself; what kind of product am I, what brand of person will my future employer see me as. Joseph Perera from the Canadian Institute of Management said that a self-brand enables you to convince potential employers to hire you. Here are the main components of developing a self-brand: * Discovering yourself * Defining and building your brand * Developing your resources and building a network * Marketing your brand "Your personality, values, ethics, business standards, and everything that makes you who you are, are all fundamental parts of your personal...
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...Succession Planning: Insurance for the Organization's Future What is Succession Planning? Succession planning is a process whereby an organization ensures that employees are recruited and developed to fill each key role within the company (Mathis, Jackson & Valentine, 2013, p. 47). The process of succession planning begins by recruiting excellent employees. Managers in turn utilize their workers abilities and understanding by preparing them for advancement into more challenging roles. Succession planning essentially is what makes it possible for employees to continually advance into a needed role within the organization. So the sole purpose of succession planning is to ensure that the organization has employees ready to fill these new roles when needed. Done effectively, succession planning can prepare the company for expansion and organizational reform for new opportunities to help build your company for success. Why Should Businesses Use Succession Planning? Succession planning is a logical way for businesses to prepare for the future. Eventhough many employees think of succession planning as, who is going to take over the business? Succession planning is much more than just the changeover of ownership. Businesses must prepare to develop and interchange key employees and staff and anticipate and plan for the impacts that any transition in ownership could have. When succession planning is effectively executed, companies experience a smooth transition (Simoneaux &...
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