...My Ideal Career My ideal career lies in the law field. I have not decided on one particular law career yet because I do not yet know enough about the different types of law, but the ones that I think do sound interesting are mediation, family law, and paralegal. A paralegal can work in any area of the law. They can work in family law, criminal law, etc, and also in the mediation field. What made you interested in the law in the first place? I think mediation sounds interesting because a mediator helps people settle their disputes outside the court room in a peaceful way. Mediators need to have excellent reasoning, problem-solving, and peace-making abilities (The Princeton Review, 2012). This appeals to me because I am more of a peaceful person and do not really like conflict or arguing, though I can stand my ground if I need to. According to the Princeton Review, a good mediator is honest, neutral, encouraging, listens well, and has excellent communication skills (The Princeton Review, 2012). I have all of these skills, especially the honest part, down well. In fact, my dad is always telling me I am too honest and I could never get away with doing anything wrong when I was little because I would always give myself away. hahaha Family law is interesting because I like the idea of helping families through the hard parts of life. Family court lawyers handle divorce, guardianship, prenuptial agreements, adoptions, parental rights, custody cases, and the financial and tax...
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...My Ideal Career: Becoming a Lawyer John Shand LS100 Kaplan University Professor Anderson January 6, 2014 My Ideal Career: Becoming a Lawyer My career goal has recently changed to becoming a lawyer. I’m mainly aiming for criminal lawyer and eventually have my own law firm. What makes becoming a lawyer so attractive to me is simply the fact that I can make a difference in someone’s life or simply make someone feel safer by knowing their assailant is behind bars. There are two important factors that got me interested in law the first was when I joined the Marine Corps, was fascinated by military law and I wanted to joined in that field. I didn’t get that job but I was still able to learn part of the legal system. The second factor that pushed and inspired me more to be a lawyer was after a family member was taken advantage of when I was sixteen, I realized that I wanted to make sure that no one has any chance to put anyone through what they went through or at least do my best to prevent it. I’d like to start at a small firm on an internship once I have my bachelor’s degree so I can gain experience and more knowledge as well as get comfortable with the work environment. While working at the small firm I’ll continue my schooling to get my master’s degree. While going to school to obtain my master’s degree, I will be gaining more knowledge and experience from my job. I hope to move up in the firm and slowly branch to a bigger firm once I have enough experience. In the...
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...What is Your Ideal Career? I believe my ideal career would be in the legal field. There many professions in this field. Growing up in the 60’s and 70’s it was a challenge for me and my family. The legal system was unjust back then and I saw the police as a scary, powerful authority and they could do whatever they wanted to whomever they want. This opinion didn’t change until one summer I met a police officer that changed my opinion about the police force. By his action he showed me that all police were not bad. It was then when I realized I could make a difference in my life. I became fascinated with how the process of the legal system worked and as I got older I looked into the different positions that were offered in the legal field. These positions range from Judges, Lawyers, Court Reporters, Paralegals, Police Officers and Legal Assistants. When I began my journey, I had graduated high school and applied for the academy, but that did work out as it was a height requirement at that time, but that did not discourage me. I continued to look for different avenues, within the legal field because I wanted a career that had an energized work environment. Someplace where I never knew from day to day what it will bring. While doing my different research, I chose to work as a Paralegal. I started as an intern for a small law firm in Nevada specializing in corporate law. Working there made me realize that corporate law is fascinating, but it was not what I...
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...Work Culture Preferences XXxxxxxxxxx XXXXXXX BCOM 275 December 8, 2013 Professor XXXXX xxxxxx Work Culture Preferences Having an appropriate understanding of your ideal work culture is indispensable in developing both strategic plans to plans to achieve organizational goals. When conducting a Work Culture Results analysis there are certain competencies that are necessary, each of the competencies involved is important in developing a Career Building Plan, but the level of significance varies between individuals. Based on the outcomes of my Career Plan Building Activity, in the Work Culture Preferences survey of my ideal work culture three competencies are most prevalent, Supportive, Ethical, and well resourced. As the results of my assessment illustrate, strengths are a significant element in my achieving organizational goals. Specific examples are a secure and stable environment combined with factors such as recognition and celebration of success; and the ability to be at a safe place to work. Equally important in developing strategic and operational plans to achieving organizational goals are available opportunities with emphasis on fairness. Specific examples are the opportunity for varied and ground breaking work, innovative and creative atmosphere and the opportunity to control my own work schedule and organization. The manners in which my specific competencies relate to the required competencies for conducting a Work culture analysis are that my competencies...
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...can be viewed differently by simply following the 5 P process. But for those that don’t have access they see that a situation conflicts with their interests, and they declare, “There is a problem here” all is the same different terms what is the situation? Whom does it concern? How do we perceive it? Why does it concern you? What changes will it propose? Are all just other steps and procession question that have to be asked Another Problem is self-motivation it is hard for me to find the energy and motive to do something although I know finding that drive or that push would lead to great results it’s that process of applying it through the steps. The solution would be to have better brainstorming ideals and improved self-motivation. And then set a goal so that I can generate ideals for what I’m trying to accomplish and that ties into my first problem stated when it comes to the...
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...My chosen career is to become a Social Worker dealing with kids and their families. I have so much love for kids that I just want to see smiles on their faces. I want to start as a Social Worker and work my way up to become a Child Protective Specialist. Becoming a CPS would mean a lot to me because it will make me help kids get out of harm that is caused by parents or guardians. It also will make me feel better knowing that some kids are going to sleep safe at night and trying to live a normal life. The strengths that I bring to this career are a strong and open mind, work efficient, and can work under pressure. Having these strengths makes me more valuable because my supervisor would be able to see the kind of person that I am and will value my work. They would see that I can be able to handle cases on my own and hopefully get promoted to a higher position. The opportunities that I would make for myself improvement to allow me to be more valuable in the workplace would be to sometimes think outside the box and understand my clients with a better and clearer understanding. The opportunities that I look forward to is getting to help kids and hopefully landing a supervisor position with New York City ACS Agency. The result of my Ethical Lens Inventory was that my personal preferred Lens was None – periscope and Paralysis. This means that I see the gifts and weaknesses of each lens and I am able to move smoothly among them to adopt the right tools to each situation to get the best...
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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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...am a... Student Job Seeker Career-Changer Career Counselor Other Visitor Job-Hunting Tools: Search for Jobs Corporate Job Sites Order a New Resume Career Tools: Content Index Career Resources Career Tutorials Job-Search Samples College Planning Job/Career Bookstore Search this Site Career Categories: Career Networking Personal Branding Resumes and CVs Job Interviewing Salary Negotiation | Job Interview Question Database: Questions with Excellent Sample Responses, 1-8 The Job Interview Question & Response Database includes 150 of the most typical interview questions that you may face in your job interviews. Questions are in no particular order, so take your time and go through the entire list! ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form what | where | | | | | job title, keywords or company | city, state or zip | jobs by indeed | | Bottom of Form Displaying Job Interview Questions 1-8 1. How would you describe yourself? Sample excellent response: My background to date has been centered around preparing myself to become the very best financial consultant I can become. Let me tell you specifically how I've prepared myself. I am an undergraduate student in finance and accounting at ____________ University. My past experiences has been in retail and higher education. Both aspects have prepared me well for this career. See also this page of...
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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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...Five-Year Career Development Plan Five-Year Career Development Plan There is no rule that states that a career development plan has to be set out before you start with your career; in fact, it can occur at any point of your career. A very realistic plan is a five-year development plan. This period is appropriate to foresee any goal hindrances or complications and then develop yourself accordingly. Five years seems to be a reasonable time to accomplish any certain set of goals. While constructing the five-year plan for yourself make sure, you incorporate the essentials of self-assessment. Search yourself for what you wish and yearn for and them put them in your development strategy; justify it with the compensation you are offered Once you are done assessing yourself, you will also find out what you are best at – skill assessment. While determining your skills, you need to carve out your positives and negatives. Having a few too many negatives is not a drawback; what you need to analyze is how relevant is either to the job you do or the career you intend to pursue. You should bear in mind a couple of things; if you’ve risked pursuing a career that isn’t your choice then you will need to set out two options of careers that best fit your personality. This shall encourage you to bring out the best career development plan for complete five years. This five-year...
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...Reasoning Aptitude The career plan building activities involved responding to a series of questions related to identifying competencies, the ideal work environment, and reasoning aptitude. The most recent activity dealt with the reasoning. Based on the understanding of the results, I fell in the medium profile range indicating I am best suited for careers that use both cognitive abilities and practical skills. Further, the results suggested I prefer practical work, analytical work, or careers that combine practical skills and thinking. After completing the reasoning exercise, “My Career Plan” section included another tab labeled “Opportunities,” which I am not sure if it is directly related to the reasoning results or a byproduct of the results that was added to the competencies segment. The “Opportunities” section revealed additional scored competencies and suggested ways to improve, such as adapting to change, persuading, and networking to include relevant activities to conduct. The results revealed that my individual thinking styles centers on logical and practical thinking, which I find myself using most of the time instead of other styles like creative and relational. Thus far in fusing the entire career building exercises together, I have become more aware of my core competencies, often used thinking styles, and identified my preferred work culture preferences. Through the career planning exercises and the results it has helped me to understand how work is done in teams...
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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 Careers tab. • 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 | |1Conventional...
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...plan in place so that it does not evolve into the proverbial mid-life ‘crisis’. My decision for this problem is based on objectives that meet my physical, mental, social, emotional, and spiritual wishes and goals. Among the alternatives I considered, I selected “Relocating/Transferring to another state with my current company” . I believe this alternative will provide an ideal mix of consequences and benefits such as flexibility, opportunity, challenge, short-term change and long-term sustainability, ability to modify the decision and its subsequent outcomes; as well as acceptable tradeoffs. The primary factors that led me to this selection are that this alternative lends itself to buying more time and gathering information to determine if this alternative is, in fact, the best alternative for me. This method helps to mitigate risk, but more importantly achieves my fundamental objectives, which were the determining factors for my decision selection. Problem Statement The nature of my decision problem is that of a life choice—the path I desire to construct for myself heading into the future—what my career choice(s) will be, overhauling and simplifying my priorities, getting rid of the dross. At first glance, this may first appear to be too broad of a decision problem; but I have considered it for quite...
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...Ethical Lens Inventory Reflection Introduction to University Studies/101 September 08, 2013 Angie Dorrell Ethical Lens Inventory Reflection The results in the Ethical Lens Inventory and Career Plan Building Activity: Reasoning Aptitude both worked in concert to give me an overall view of my moral and ethical outlook in an academic and professional capacity. I utilized these two test to aid in fortifying my strengths and recognizing and building on my weakness. The Ethical Lens Inventory (ELI) determined my preferred lens as Rights and Responsibilities and my Core Values as Autonomy and Rationality/Sensibility. Combined these results state the truth of the range of my moral capacity. ELI summarizes my definition of ethical behavior as one who fulfills their duties as an individual and responsible adult who makes responsible choices that benefit the community. I am an individual first and part of the community second, but in all things I seek truth, justice, fairness, and equality. The Your Gift section of the Inventory best describes my view of what everybody should bring to any situation, Self-Knowledge and Free Will. I use my resources and skills to gather and verify information and truth for myself and use it in accordance with what is right and true. Every coin has two sides. The Inventory’s negative traits state I’m can become greedy or judgmental and in my quest to my “Responsible Self” I could face failure, exhaustion, and a lack of satisfaction in the goals...
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