...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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...Growing up I always wanted to be a social worker. Working with people is something I like to do. I am very good with lending a helping hand and being there when a person needs me the most. I am very wise about the things I say and do. My word of advice could help others in many ways. Social workers save millions every day rather it’s financial, social, private or just local. Being a social worker is a very hard job but anyone with a good attitude and an open heart can be a great social worker with no problem. Social workers make almost $50,000 per year. Social workers make more than the average mental health counselor, abuse and behavioral abuse. The major social workers throughout the world are as listed: medical/public health, substance, mental health,...
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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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...Statement of Intent Joscelyn D. Gonzalez 08/2016 Statement of Intent Trace the development of your interest in the field of social work. I began my educational career wanting to understand the connection between the mind and the behavior; that is why I chose psychology. Starting my current job at a foster care agency I became more interested in the way the children adapt to and are affected by their environments, it was my employment that fully triggered my interest in social work. Working with children and having a positive impact in their lives has led me to wanting to do more them. Being able to do something small for others and seeing that it can be a major impact in their lives is one of the greatest feelings I had ever felt....
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...IN CYPWF Unit Title: Understand employment responsibilities and rights in health, social care or children and young people’s settings Unit number: 201 Unit reference: R/602/2954 Produce an employee document/handbook that has information on Employee Rights And Responsibilities. Your document should consist the pointers outlined below. 1 statutory responsibilities and rights of employees and employers Rights at work Your rights at work will depend on:- Your contract of employment cannot take away rights you have by law. So if, for example, you have a contract which states you are only entitled to two weeks' paid holiday per year when, by law, all full-time employees are entitled to 28 days' paid holiday per year, this part of your contract is void and does not apply. The right you have under law (to 28 days' holiday in this case) applies instead. If your contract gives you greater rights than you have under law, for example, your contract gives you six weeks' paid holiday per year, then your contract applies. There are special rules about the employment of children and young people. Statutory rights Statutory rights are legal rights based on laws passed by Parliament. Nearly all workers, regardless of the number of hours per week they work, have certain legal rights. There are some workers who are not entitled to certain statutory rights Sometimes an employee only gains...
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... PERSONAL STATEMENT & VALUE CLARIFICATION PAPER LEROY JENKINS JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY DATED: AUGUST 01, 2015 INSTRUCTOR: MS. OKHIMENA Jenkins 2. PERSONAL STATEMENT & VALUE CLARIFICATION PAPER. . ABSTRACT: This paper explains my interests in social services. This is a 10 question social examination of my personal interest in the social work field and is a reflection of my goals and aspirations, leading to what I wish to accomplish as a social worker. My ambition is to prove my worth in social work, providing a helping hand to people needing social work. The NASW code of ethics and my obligation to it’s standards are discussed, respecting the guidelines of good fellowship between the infinite relationship of the client’s responsibilities and the social worker’s professional conduct in the practice of social work. In essense, this paper represents my social worthiness...
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...UNIT 6 PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE Unit abstract The aim of this unit is to act as a focal point for all other units in the programme and embed the vocational nature of the qualification. In addition to the requirement for work experience and the opportunity to relate theory to practice, the unit will enable you to bring together your learning from other units. You will initially explore factors that affect learning, then plan and monitor your own personal and professional development and reflect on it. You will also gain key understanding of the health and social care sectors, including aspects of service delivery, and the fundamentals of research methodology. This unit explores the different ways in which learning can take place and how learning from individual experience can be used to enhance the quality of knowledge, skills and practice. You will initially explore your own knowledge, skills, practice, values and beliefs in relation to working in health and social care. You will then draw up a personal plan for self-development over the duration of the programme. The unit also introduces you to health and social care service provision. A minimum of 100 hours work experience is required for successful completion of this unit. Learning Outcomes On completion of this unit you should: 1. Understand the learning process 2. Be able to plan for, monitor and reflect on own development 3. Understand service...
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...UNIT 6 PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE Unit abstract The aim of this unit is to act as a focal point for all other units in the programme and embed the vocational nature of the qualification. In addition to the requirement for work experience and the opportunity to relate theory to practice, the unit will enable you to bring together your learning from other units. You will initially explore factors that affect learning, then plan and monitor your own personal and professional development and reflect on it. You will also gain key understanding of the health and social care sectors, including aspects of service delivery, and the fundamentals of research methodology. This unit explores the different ways in which learning can take place and how learning from individual experience can be used to enhance the quality of knowledge, skills and practice. You will initially explore your own knowledge, skills, practice, values and beliefs in relation to working in health and social care. You will then draw up a personal plan for self-development over the duration of the programme. The unit also introduces you to health and social care service provision. A minimum of 100 hours work experience is required for successful completion of this unit. Learning Outcomes On completion of this unit you should: 1. Understand the learning process 2. Be able to plan for, monitor and reflect on own development 3. Understand service...
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...families. This organization provides a personal look into the life of a professional with hands on job experience for the young adult. Provided is a week in a workplace of choice with the opportunity to shadow an individual and actually take on the responsibility of the career at hand. This is of course a career the foster child is interested in one day possible becoming a part of. A journal is also kept for each day for taking notes and writing the positives and negatives of their week to ensure an understanding of whether or not this career choice is still in favor. The clientele of this organization are human service workers who specialize in the foster child program. This is going to be a non- profit organization. It is going to be little to no cost to allow shadowing in a workplace for learning purposes. I do not feel this is necessary to be a profited organization. Our mission is to help teens in the state foster care program understand that they, too, have a chance at a successful future becoming part of any career they desire. It Is common for foster children to feel unwanted, unloved, worth less than others, or not even have a chance at success , (I was a foster child, so this is personal experience). I want to make the difference in allowing these young adults to have the experience of knowing how it feels to be part of the real world and part of the workforce where they make names for themselves in society. Making personal strides to achieve the best we can do is...
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...BTEC National Diploma in Health and Social Care Unit 6 Personal and Professional Development in Health and Social Care LO1 Understand the learning process * Theories of learning * Influences on learning * Skills for learning * Support for learning * Learning opportunities LO2 Be able to plan for and monitor own professional development * Review at start of programme * Knowledge * Skills * Practice * Values and Beliefs * Career aspirations * Action plan for own development * Consider personal goals LO3 Be able to reflect on own development over time * Monitor and evaluate plan * Changes * Contexts * Professional development portfolio * Relevant experience * Support for development * Reflect on own development LO4 Know service provision in the health or social care sectors * Provision of services * Local health or social care * Health and social care workers What you will be taught 1. Understand the learning process * Theories of learning: theorists, * Skills for learning; * Support for learning; * Learning opportunities; 2. Be able to reflect on own professional development over time * Review at start of programme; * Knowledge; * Skills; * Practice; * Values and beliefs; * Career aspirations; 3. Be able to reflect on own development over time * Monitor and evaluate plan in terms of own development; * Professional development portfolio; * Relevant evidence;...
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...Be able to assess and plan for personal professional development My Career Plan Career Goal: To become a financial manager. To design, plan, control and supervise the financing of construction of buildings, highways, and rapid transit systems. Requirements: • Bachelor's degree in Accounting. • Ability to work as part of a team. • Creativity. • Analytical mind. • Capacity for detail. • Presentation skills. • Writing skills. • Knowledge of physical social sciences and mathematics. • Accreditation by Licensing Board. Current Skills and Interests: • Summer worker for Smith Construction Co. • High School mathematics courses • High School social science courses • Experience working as a team • Attended high school writing courses • Gave presentations in high school courses Plan To Reach Career Goal: • Bachelor's Degree - attend the University of Manchester School of Banking and Finance and a Level-4 Certificate on Management and Leadership at Kings College of Management. • Job Experience - Continue working for Smith Construction Co.; Seek internships through University career placement office • Networking - Join campus organizations for engineering students Introduction: Personal development planning is the process of creating an action plan based on awareness, values, reflection, goal-setting and planning for personal development within the context of a career, education, relationship or for self-improvement. Personal Development Plan (PDP) begins by aiming...
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...ANDREW MIRING’U MARKETING PRINCIPLES (BA 208) LAURA K HUINKER DECEMBER 16TH 2013 Mission Statement: In order to represent my goals, I have the following statement: I am an aspiring entrepreneur by nature that has the ability to create a new business in the market as well contribute to the social good of the society. I have the commitment, the drive and the necessary skills that would allow hand in hand with other organizations. Objectives: In the short term I am looking for a job that can allow me to accumulate some funds as well as earn a reputation that would later help me with establishing my own business and sustain it through strong business network that I plan to develop throughout my tenure as an employee. My basic objective out of running this social entrepreneurship business is providing value to my customers as well as my employees who are otherwise members of societies that do not allow them to prosper. By doing so, I also wish to prove that if talent is explored and utilized properly, one can run a profitable business. Also, I shall be interested in showing and enhancing my managerial skills at a larger level. Strengths: I am a target oriented individual, I will work hard to achieve good results in the tasks that I have been given. I have good interpersonal and communication skills, this skills will help me work well in a team and be able to communicate well effectively with colleague, customers and clients. I have experience working with other organizations...
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...preserving valuable human resources. Managers have begun to listen to the ideas of people like Peters and Waterman, whose best-selling book on corporate excellence exhorts, Treat people as adults. Treat them as partners: treat them with dignity; treat them with respect. Treat them - not capital spending and automation - as the primary source of productivity gains… In other words, if you want productivity and the financial reward that goes with it, you must treat your workers as your most important asset (1982). In general, counseling services for employees can be divided into two major categories, namely, those dealing with personal problems and those dealing with career development. The employee counseling programs that deal with personal problems will focus on employees’ mental and physical health and deal with personal problems that might, even indirectly, affect job performance. Those that deal with career development programs will use assessment, counseling, planning, and training to help individuals make and act on career decisions within the context of the organization’s human resources plans. Each of the two approaches is built on the theory that individual and organizational needs can be compatible (Lewis & Lewis, 1986). Background of the Study It is estimated that the Philippines, in experiencing an astounding pace of development and as it maintains its current growth rate of 8.5% per annum, will become an industrialized nation in the year 2020....
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...(2000, January). From tragedy to triumph: counselor as companion on the hero’s journey. Counseling & Values, 44(2), 100 This article was very interesting in a way from a counselor’s point of view of a new student struggling with a sleep problem. Right away the counselor assumed that Steve (the student) was struggling with the fear of being a new student on campus and that could be the result of his problem. But little did the counselor know that his issues where based on a larger scale. The counselor found himself going on a hero’s journey with Steve which was going through his unique past. As the story goes on through Steve’s journey I think the counselor learned a lot from the student. In the story it states that Steve has a personal goal in mind that he just wanted to be normal. The counselor on the other hand wanted to help Steve through any issues he might be having. But I don’t think the counselor quite understood Steve’s frustration until the part of the story was shared where Steve started to struggle with depression and suicidal thoughts. Steve took it upon his self during the schools winter break to check himself into a local outpatient group at a local hospital during the break. The counselor then recalls getting a phone call from a psychiatrist. That in which the psychiatrist explained Steve’s condition and his struggle with depression. I think this was a turning point for the counselor because he started to understand the struggles Steve has had to...
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...Practice Questions 1. Self assessment tools can be useful in your career planning by a. Helping you prepare a personal profile 2. In contrasts to formal tests, informal measures a. Rely on subjective opinions 3. People who believe that rewards in life are generally outside their control a. Have an external locus of control 4. Your career interests include your favorite kinds of work activities. Most of these interests a. Will still be enjoyable after many years 5. Career interest assessments a. Identify occupations or occupational groups that most likely match your interests 6. Recent research about life stages suggests that a. Adults make dramatic changes in their personal lives and careers as their core values change 7. The works of John Holland and Carl Jung serve as the basis for two major career assessment approached related to a. Personality 8. According to Duane Brown’s career model a. People have different values because they have different experiences and opportunities 9. ESTP is an example of a. Myers Briggs temperament type 10. Among the three most common types of measurement in a complete battery ability tests, you should expect to be tested on a. Psychomotor abilities 11. The College Level Examination Program is an example of a. Achievement measures 12. In assessing your skills...
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