...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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...University of Phoenix Material Effective Study Habits Worksheet Review Phoenix Career Plan results of Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preference, respond to the following in 50 to 100 words each: 1. Describe your ideal study environment. My ideal study environment is an unusual one. I have ADD so any distractions can hinder me learning abilities. I prefer a dim lighting and a comfortable seating arrangement with absolutely no distractions. In this environment I feel comfortable which helps me to focus better on the task at hand. 2. List some of the distractions that might hinder your study progress or your performance in an online classroom. My children are a huge distraction for me in an online classroom. My four year old doesn’t understand the meaning of me having to do homework and is very much a mama’s girl. She always wants to sit beside me and point out whatever is on TV, something to do with her baby dolls or just plain being inquisitive about what I am doing. 3. What actions can you take to manage and eliminate distractions? The action I choose to take is to wait until I put my girls to bed. I get less sleep then I would like this way but unless I hire a sitter I have no other options. Sometimes I put on tinker bell and go into my bedroom to work if I have to get up early or need more sleep but that rushes me because she has a short attention span. 4. How will you apply your personal learning style? How...
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...Career Plan Reflection Mabi Verduzco BCOM 275 October 23, 2014 Linda Doyle Career Plan Reflection The career plan building activities proved to be a very useful tool. The work culture preference survey results indicated the type of work culture that I prefer, which is high-powered, competitive, and leadership intensive. The competencies, reasoning aptitude, and career interest profiler surveys provided additional information to consider. The combined results provide an interpretation of the type of work culture that I see as ideal, the most suitable career fields, and the types of work environments I prefer. I am open to new information and ideas and the survey results did not seem to be too far off from what I would consider to be my true career goals and desires. I think the surveys provided insight to aspects of my career I had not given much thought to before this course. This course (BCOM/275) discussed many important aspects of communication verbal and nonverbal, cross-cultural communication, and barriers to effective communication to name a few. One aspect in the forefront of my mind is communication also takes place within different contexts like physical, chronological, and functional, to name a few, but the cultural context (corporate culture) applies directly to the surveys and results discussed earlier. Choosing the proper job that corresponds with my interests and ideal work culture can lead to more personal satisfaction. BCOM/275 provides ideas about proper...
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...transferable skills. Develop an inventory of your most marketable career-related skills (minimum 15), instances where you have demonstrated these skills (minimum three), and the core values you want your work to reflect (minimum five). Take into consideration the traits employers are seeking, including technical and transferable skills and general abilities. (30 POINTS) SELF-ASSESSMENT EXERCISES & MY RESULTS | I completed the following assessments/inventories as part of my self-assessment activities: 1. Marketing Readiness Quiz 2. Self-Awareness Checklist 3. Ability Assessment 4. Transferable Skills Checklist 5. Work Environment and Life Preferences 6. Self-Assessment Summary Sheet | My most marketable career-related skills are . . . (minimum 15) (Remember to include technical and transferable skills on this list!) 1. Organization and planning 2. Orderliness 3. Handling details 4. Making decisions 5. Arrange functions 6. Assemble products/build 7. Audit records 8. Budget, money 9. Buy products/services 10. Calculate/manipulate numbers 11. Supervisory 12. Teaching 13. Coaching 14. Counseling 15. Check for accuracy | Examples of instances where I have demonstrated these skills include . . . (minimum 3)1. At my current job I am managing a team of 22 engineers, organization and planning is part of my day to day task. I am responsible for forecasting all my team members hours, budget and allocate them to the projects...
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...Phoenix Career Plan results of Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preference, respond to the following in 50 to 100 words each: 1. Describe your ideal study environment. My ideal study environment would be a nice quiet place with no Distractions like: my kids asking me to do something for them every 5 minutes or a place with no white noise like a fan or the air pump in my fish tank. My ideal study environment would have a comfy chair with lumbar support a quiet temperature controlled room and the proper lighting for reduce visual stress. 2. List some of the distractions that might hinder your study progress or your performance in an online classroom. Distractions that hinder my study progress and or performance are: having to get up in the middle of studying to get somebody a drink, clean my house or if an uninvited guest drops in to say ‘hi.” Two other examples would be a telemarketer calling or unexpected repairs to my home. 3. What actions can you take to manage and eliminate distractions? Some actions I could take to manage these distractions are to stay up late or get up early when everybody else is sleeping, so I get some piece and quiet. I could inspect my home daily to look for things that may require my attention and get them taken care of ahead of time. 4. How will you apply your personal learning style? How does your personal Learning style affect your study habits? I will apply my personal...
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...Habits Worksheet Review Phoenix Career Plan results of Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preference, respond to the following in 50 to 100 words each: 1. Describe your ideal study environment. My ideal study environment would be a safe and comfortable area free from distractions. I would want to make sure that I have all that I would need to stay organized and be able to do my best work or studying. When I am relaxed and able to write out my ideas I am usually able to complete my assignments in a timely manner. 2. List some of the distractions that might hinder your study progress or your performance in an online classroom. Some of the distractions that might hinder my progress in an online classroom are watching TV, eating with my family, listening to music, interacting with my children, talking on the phone, or getting tired. Not getting the proper amount of sleep can cause me to become unfocused and I will not be able to complete my studying or assignment. 3. What actions can you take to manage and eliminate distractions? The actions that I take to manage and eliminate my distractions are making sure that I get enough sleep the night before, eating dinner before I start to study, turning my ringer off on my phone, spend time with the kids before I study and recording or just missing my TV shows. 4. How will you apply your personal learning style? How does your personal Learning style affect your study habits? My personal learning style is kinesthetic...
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...University of Phoenix Material Effective Study Habits Worksheet Review Phoenix Career Plan results of Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preference, respond to the following in 50 to 100 words each: 1. Describe your ideal study environment. My ideal study environment is my room where I can be alone. When my sister goes to school, it becomes quiet and I’ll be able to concentrate and complete my assignements.Sitting on my bed makes me relax and comfortable to do focus. If I get distracted, I lay down and take a break until I gather my thoughts together so I can write. 2. List some of the distractions that might hinder your study progress or your performance in an online classroom. Watching TV, doing chores around the house, listening to music, helping my mom cook , reading articles online which is no school related. picking up my sister from the school bus, giving her a bath, sometimes she wants to play, and making sure she gets her nap. People visit and I have appoinments every week to see my therapist. 3. What actions can you take to manage and eliminate distractions? When my sister go to school, I try to squeeze in as much time as I can to finish assignments. When she goes to sleep, I take 30 more mintues to finish everything I didn’t finish before. It’s a routine I follow everyday and I always use my cell phone alarm to remind me of what I need to do in case I forget. 4. How will you apply your personal learning style? How...
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...BCOM/275 Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preferences Completing the Career Plan Building Activity was overall a very unique and interesting assignment. This particular exercise, showed me positive results, yet it confirmed my confidence in my skills and values that I already knew about myself. It allowed me to get a better understanding of what type of work environment best suits my needs in a professional setting. Furthermore, allowing me to see that I have more professional skills, and work values that I can apply in my future career goals. My results all identified my work ethics, and what values, and skills I prefer in my work environment. My results were well resourced, high powered, and ethical. The well-resourced listed: I like a well-designed and comfortable work place, and I utilize necessary resources to do high standard work. My high powered listed: career development, demanding positions, high salaries, the chance to learn new skills, the chance to try different jobs or work in different place, and having benefits such as the likelihood of rapid promotions. My preferred attributes of an ethical job would include being fair, making a difference in people’s lives, and have a social and environmental responsibility. How can knowing your ideal work culture help you in determining appropriate channels for communication? Communication is a vital and crucial role in the business world and if employees want to have an effective communication in the workplace...
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...Review Phoenix Career Plan results of Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preference, respond to the following in 50 to 100 words each: 1. Describe your ideal study environment. My ideal study environment is a quiet room maybe some music going and not to be interrupted while doing my school work. A place to work with a nice computer desk for my school work zone with a dead bolt on the door so I really don’t have to be bothered while doing my studying. 2. List some of the distractions that might hinder your study progress or your performance in an online classroom. The two biggest things that might hinder my study progress or my performance in an online classroom is my step daughter’s and my cell phone I know it’s my schooling but I can’t seem to turn off my cell or not talk to my step daughter’s they are just too cute. 3. What actions can you take to manage and eliminate distractions? The actions that I can take to manage and eliminate distractions are to turn off my cell phone and tell people that it is my study time and to tell my step daughter’s that I have to study and we can always play in a little while when I get done . 4. How will you apply your personal learning style? How does your personal Learning style affect your study habits? I will apply my personal learning style by talking in groups making flash cards interviewing outside sources and by creating analyzing charts. My personal learning style affects my study habits...
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...was through Appendix F in which I arrived at my first career choice, physician, and my three viable alternatives, mental health counselor, pharmacist, and occupational therapist. Across the top of the blank matrix title, Career Decision-Making Matrix, I listed the occupational prospects in which I had researched. The occupational prospects were: physician, mental health counselor, emergency medical technician, occupational therapist, pharmacist, and school counselor. Down the left side of the matrix list, I listed ten work values I want expressed, and 10 abilities I want to use in my occupation. I gave a weight number to each work value and work ability by using the rank-order system. I then used a code showing whether each of my occupation prospects was very positive (++), positive (+), neutral (0), or negative (-) in relation to each work value or ability listed....
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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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...University of Phoenix Material Effective Study Habits Worksheet Review Phoenix Career Plan results of Career Plan Building Activity: Work Culture Preference, respond to the following in 50 to 100 words each: 1. Describe your ideal study environment. The description of my ideal study environment has to have three very important things. First it has to have a door with a lock and preferably no windows or a curtain (I get distracted very easy). Second I need some type of music (not too loud but not too low either). Third I need a computer to do my assignments, research, ext. 2. List some of the distractions that might hinder your study progress or your performance in an online classroom. There are a lot of distractions that might hinder my study progress or my performance in an online classroom. One very distractive on is Netflix, while I am doing my homework in the back of my mind it always a tab over. Another for me is my family, before I started school I spent all my time with them when I got off work, now there is another factor involved and they don’t always like that. 3. What actions can you take to manage and eliminate distractions? I have a few things (actions) I use to manage and eliminate distractions. One of them is I lock a door behind me when I go into a room until I get done. Another is I will leave the house and go to a quiet place or the backyard to keep from getting distracted. 4. How will you apply...
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...before you submit it. A grading rubric is also available at the end of this document. There are FOUR parts to the Self-Assessment. Part 1: Reflect on your results from the self-assessment exercises you’ve done from the textbook, as well as others you might have done in the past, and complete the table below. Review current or past jobs to identify your transferable skills. Develop an inventory of your most marketable career-related skills (minimum 15), instances where you have demonstrated these skills (minimum three), and the core values you want your work to reflect (minimum five). Take into consideration the traits employers are seeking, including technical and transferable skills and general abilities. (30 POINTS) SELF-ASSESSMENT EXERCISES & MY RESULTS I completed the following assessments/inventories as part of my self-assessment activities: 1. Marketing Readiness 2. Self-Awareness Checklist 3.Ability Assessment 4.Transferable Skills Checklist 5.Work Environment and Life Preferences 6.Self-Assessment Summary Sheet My most marketable career-related skills are . . . (minimum 15) (Remember to include technical and transferable skills on this list!) 1. Coordination of Benefits – Transferable 2. Claims Processing - Transferable 3. Procedural Terminology - Transferable 4. Integration and Functional Testing - Transferable 5. Business Rules and Requirements Building - Transferable 6. System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - Transferable 7. PostgreSQL, SQL and...
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...Print Form CAREER DEVELOPMENT COMPETENCIES ASSESSMENT Congratulations on taking a positive step toward your career development. Taking this assessment will help you get started on your journey toward a more fulfilling work life. PRINT THIS ASSESSMENT, ANSWER THE QUESTIONS, AND SCORE USING THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW. GUIDANCE ON YOUR NEXT STEPS IS PROVIDED AT THE END. What allows some people to effectively manage their careers while others do so less successfully? Often, it is the mastery of several key competencies that allow people to be successful in developing their careers. As you read the following list of career management behaviors, assess your own level of competency in each area of our career development model using the following scale: Not True (1) Somewhat True (2) Very True (3) Self‐Assessment Competencies • • • • • • • Career Awareness Competencies • I know what makes work environments personally satisfying and productive to me and am able to create these environments _____ • • • • • • I understand the culture of my workplace _____ I am able to identify desired organizational values and goals _____ I understand industry changes and their impact on my career effectiveness _____ I have a sense of future options and opportunities for my career _____ I am effective at building relationships and support systems for my career growth _____ TOTAL CAREER AWARENESS COMPETENCY SCORE: __________ I know and value my personal strengths and abilities _____ ...
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...working environment are organization, ability to expand my career, and management. I am a very organized person. I have worked in an environment that was an absolute mess. I was not able to find the correct file easily. It took me a couple months to understand how everything was placed. In an unorganized environment I found my productivity to be very low because I spent most of my time finding the right document instead of working on it. It is very important that I know my career can grow with the company. If I work at places that limit my ability to grow, it lowers my motivation. On the other hand, if the work environment allows me to expand with the company, I would spend more time and try harder to work my best. The last and most important is management of the work environment. Working in a company with poor management would be a disaster. I have had a manager that changed his mind all the time. One day he set up all the rules, and the other day he broke all of them. It is very hard to work with a manager that doesn’t commit to his/her management. Poor management can lead to a lot of issues in work environment. I have never worked at a place that has all of the characteristics above. It would be my ideal work environment if the company is well organized, has the ability to expand my career, and has good management. My current job as an intern in a CPA office gives me the ability to expand my career and has good management. However, due to the heavy work...
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