...Personal Career Profiler Elisa Huggs MGT/521 Management April 02, 2015 Gloria Flores Personal Career Profiler Developing a career profile is not simple, especially when the individual has unclear professional goals. However, if this have an excellent career influence and direction in mind things are easier. Taking into consideration that the University of Phoenix not only encourage its students to meet their goals although provide them with practical and useful tools to achieve those goals. For an undecided student counting with a reliable support and consistent academic advice is a bonus. The career interest profile in the official school site offers a complete set of tools that help to guide the students. The ultimate purpose of these tools is to support the student throughout the scholar journal to become successful professional. With the help of the information discussed during this course and all the available tools Elisa had learned that establishing realistic goals, building confidence and sharpen skills are the first steps to becoming a real professional. She also had learned that creating an excellent resume and craft the personal image is essential; same as learning basics networking skills, maybe finding a mentor, using school connections and writing a good quality cover letter that employees would want to read (Robbins and Coulter, 2012). Elisa states she is well prepared for interviews and...
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...Name: Judy Tiitto Week 4: Career and Company Research Part 1: Complete the table below and link your one-, two-, and five-year goals (recall that you identified these in the Week 2 Self-assessment Assignment) to specific company research. You can also use employers you identified in the Week 2 assignment if you wish. (50 POINTS) GOALS | One-year Goal | Two-year Goal | Five-year Goal | | My one-year goal is to find and get an entry level of management. | My two year goal is to improve my manger skills and get a position as an assistant manager. | My five year goal is to obtain a manger position. | EMPLOYERS | Employer of Choice for Five-year Goal | Employer of Choice for Two-year Goal | Employer of Choice for Five-year Goal | Name, location(s), contact information | Wal-MartChardon, OHStore Manager: Jessica(440)286-2250 | KeyBankMadison, OH(440)721-6000 | ProgressiveMayfield Heights, OH(440)252-0991 | Products and/or services | Retail | Bank | Car Insurance | Number of employees | 40+ | 10-15 | 50+ | Annual sales/profits/growth for the past year | Annual sales/profits/growth for the past year for this store is unclear; do to the fact they are part of a big corporation. | Annual sales/profits/ growth for the past year for this store is unclear; do to the fact they are part of a big corporation. | Annual sales/ profits/ growth for the past year for this store is unclear; do to the fact they are part of a big corporation. | Potential for growth of the...
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...the intended audience. Timing, grammar, vocabulary, and other writing skills are vital techniques to master. Planning for college and a career demands consideration of these skills. Advanced composition will assist in reaching my goals of utilizing current strengths, overcoming specific weaknesses, and preparing for a college career. Writers often develop personal strengths. Personally, it is easy to be creative, persuasive, informative, and precise. Creative writing is used to express the writer’s thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Persuasive writing may be expressed by convincing readers of the writer’s viewpoint. Informative writings are used to familiarize the reader with the topic at hand. Various people often face the challenge of remaining focused when writing. Generally it is easy for me to stay focused and proceed with the correct topic. Writers often cultivate weaknesses when writing. Individually, it is difficult to grasp the concept of proper punctuation, extended vocabulary, unwanted repetitiveness, and accurate grammar. Proper punctuation is very important. One punctuation mistake can alter the whole implication of a sentence. Having an extended vocabulary simply means being able to rephrase a sentence or given passage using one’s own words. Repeating an idea or subject is sometimes unwanted in writings. Unclear and inaccurate grammar can indicate an absence of education and an absence of prestige. Advanced composition will help to...
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...Reflective Journal 1 Professor Ogden Reflective Journal 1 While in English 115 my number one goal is to average an ninety or better. I also want to polish my grammar so that I am able to articulate to others in today’s corporate world. I want to be able to send out letters and memo with confidence that my message will be heard professionally. This course is going to be the foundation for my university career, professional career, and personal life. With this course I will be able to submit my best work with the knowledge that I’ll acquire from this class. From writing papers, to research, and even helping my friends and family with paper work they may be confused on due to our current culture and how unclear some things maybe. I am setting realistic goals within my coursed to ensure that I am retaining the information I am getting from my professor. Practicing different styles of writing will helping me to view different opinions and keep an open mind. I want to ensure that I am setting realistic goals when it comes to writing my papers so that I do not over exert myself and miss my opportunity express my thought. Sometimes when writing and thinking I tend to think faster than I type. While writing my mind moves faster than my hands. I tend to jump over thoughts or leave details out due to me trying to get it all out on paper. A common mistake that I tend to make is writing how I would speak to my peers. Whereas there are a lot of avenues that this grammar/broke...
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...When beginning my college education the direction I wanted to take was unclear. What I did know is that I wanted to be in a career field where I would help people. Other than this one fact, I had no clue what I wanted to do. I began my college career majoring in psychology at first, but then soon realized I didn't know where that path would take me. This is where I began my research to find what I really wanted to do. After I had googled which seemed to be every career dealing with psychology, I made the decision to change my major to Occupational Therapy. This path would help me fulfill my duty of serving other people and also continue my love for the mind and body. It seemed to be the perfect blend of what interested me the most. After my first year at WKU I didn't know my decision would impact my personal life. The Spring of 2017 I decided to move home once the semester was over and continue my...
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...Name: Richard Brown Week 4: Career and Company Research Template and Grading Rubric ------------------------------------------------- This document contains the template you will use to complete this assignment. Save the file by adding your last name to the filename (e.g. Week4_Career_Company_Research_Template_Smith.docx). Be sure to proofread and spell check your work before you submit it. ------------------------------------------------- A grading rubric is also available at the end of this document. There are TWO parts to the Career and Company Research assignment. Part 1: Complete the table below and link your one-, two-, and five-year goals (recall that you identified these in the Week 2 Self-assessment Assignment) to specific company research. You can also use employers you identified in the Week 2 assignment if you wish. (50 POINTS) GOALS | One-year Goal | Two-year Goal | Five-year Goal | | My one-year career goal is . . . (state your goal here)Once I finish my Bachelor December 2014, I intend to attend Grad school, and on the same time open the business that I am longing to start and that by early next year. | My two-year career goal is . . . (state your goal here)I intend to finish Grad school and be able to teach in special education. | My five-year career goal is . . . (state your goal here)Retire on my second career. If I plan it right and continue placing big amount in my TSP I should be able to retire after 8 years in Federal which put me in total...
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...will examine my own personality and share an example of how burnout has affected me in the past and what I will do at my next opportunity of employment. The definition of burnout in a work sense it refers to a state of overwhelming feeling, emotional listlessness, and depression because prolong levels of high stress (Scott, 2010) this is usually work-related or in life demands. Some symptoms of burnout is lack of motivation, irritability, physical systems slows down, headaches or fatigue, loss of creativity, anger, not wanting to go to work or do anything, and a change in sleep pattern (Scott, 2011). Those who face burnout feel as if he or she has no control over their lives, receive little recognition for accomplishments, have unclear expectations placed on them, and lack of social support (Scott, 2011). Burnout also consists of emotional exhaustion, lack of sense that a person can do what he or she want and need to do. Some more symptoms are depleted physical energy, lowered immunity to illness, increasingly pessimistic outlook on relationship and life, feelings of resentment, hopelessness, and increase absenteeism, and inefficiency at work. Feelings of...
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...CASE STUDY Appraising the Secretaries of Sweet water University SUMMARY OF THE CASE: This case study is about the newly appointed vice president, Rob Winchester and about the difficulties he faced shortly after his university career began .Rob's boss, Sweetwater's president assigned him the first task of improving the performance appraisal system used to evaluate secretarial and clerical performance. In this case, the main difficulty is the performance appraisal which was directly tied to salary increases given at the end of the year. The graphic rating forms which were used to evaluate clerical staff were not efficient as these forms never gave the true evaluation of performance. So, to change the faulty performance appraisal system two Sweetwater experts gave their recommendations to solve the problem. The first recommendation was not to use graphic rating forms as this rating method did not provide any clear picture about the good or bad performance. The second recommendation was not to force administrators to arbitrarily rate at least half their secretaries as something less than excellent. The recommendations given by the experts were good and made sense but these recommendations created problems like efficacy of any graphic rating forms if it is compared to the original forced ranking approach used by Rob and what should be the basis of performance appraisal. ANALYSIS OF THE CASE: The job of Rob Winchester was to completely change the performance rating system...
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...research in elementary school after-school science clubs. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 20(5), 494-507. Research Questions The study sought to investigate two separate, but related research questions centered on the STEMRAYS (STEM Academy for Young Scientists) after-school program. The first question the researchers investigated was would teachers, through participation of the STEMRAYS program, gain the intellectual and methodological skills to conduct authentic science research? The second question investigated how well teachers were able to transfer and apply their new knowledge to guide student activities. The STEMRAYS project is aimed at increasing science career interest and overall science content and processes. The program’s goals for teachers are centered on similar goals with the intent of creating a variety of authentic instructional methods. According to Crawford (2007), the use of an inquiry science approach allows teachers to facilitate a deeper understanding of science in students. Therefore, the use of partnerships with local researchers and schools (programs, teachers and students) provides an authentic inquiry based science experience. The authors argue that the formation of apprenticeships can create science interest and identity; such as they do with hobbies and sports. Falk and Dierking (2010) support this idea, “hobbyists often have collegial relationships with experts in the field and some have contributed scientific discoveries...
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...During my younger years I cost my mother a fortune because I would disassemble everything, including the family computer. As time went on I researched each individual part inside the computer and started building them as a hobby. This set stage for my college career in Information Assurance and Cyber Security at Anne Arundel Community College. I took a course in computer networking and realized my interest in this career field. I remember how I felt being connected to a network and having data readily accessible with only a few clicks of a mouse. What was unclear to me at the time was how to properly secure that data, which is why I have chosen to study in the field of network security. Near the end of my sophomore year at Anne Arundel Community College, I decided to become a working college student. I worked at Sears as a Loss Prevention Detective for several years. I repeatedly investigated credit card fraud while in that position. I learned that credit card information can be obtained illegally several ways. One way is through skimming an ATM. I learned more on this topic when I was hired by Diebold, Incorporated, just this past year. Diebold installs and services ATMs for the financial industry throughout the world, and security is paramount in this business. Through my experience and training at Diebold, I learned that skimming devices are attached to an ATM, undetected to the untrained eye. Information technology professionals created several methods to defeat...
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...reposition itself like a turnaround expert, beginning using its own portfolio. In this study case, I will try to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of each offers and try to determine which offer might be the best for her personal career goals in the future. Before analyzing job offers, I determined the expectation of Iris about her job and future career; She has deal structuring and consulting experience and she wants to be in a real private equity firm rather than a corporate operation or a limited partner. • She thinks her experience in deal structuring makes her more attractive to buyout operations, but her work in operations could be helpful to larger VCs. • Her motivation to be in private equity is because she thinks that private equity makes a difference by empowering people to change their reality and to take measured risks. • She wants to work in a firm that is well established and had good results, ensuring that it would not struggle to raise its next fund. • She also looked for smart, creative investors doing innovative transactions, from which she could learn, and a compatible firm culture. Considering the expectations and career goals of Iris, I analyzed the three job offers. Option 1: Sunstorm Investment Group Sunstorm Investment Group is a big-‐name, classic private equity firm...
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...their knowledge with one and another, hence, doing researches and reading more updated news are essentially important for me to hit the objectives of the society. Also, I was a volunteer in AusEd’s Education Fair in the second year of my university life, simply because I love to participate into community charity works that actually enable me to lend my hand to the others and at the same time to nourish my inner soul. During the charity work, we need to work together as a team and communicate well with one and another in order to achieve our objectives and goals: by giving out flyers via approaching strangers and assisting more students that are in needs to meet their needs in education issues and university applications .From the beginning of setting up the booth till the end by getting more paper works of applications, I really do enjoy every stage, to the success. Question3 - What factors have influenced your career choice?* My...
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...theories to our understanding of society today Social action theories are known as micro theories which take a bottom-up approach to studying society; they look at how individuals within society interact with each other. There are many forms of social action theories, the main ones being symbolic interactionism, phenomenology and ethnomethodology. They are all based on the work of Max Weber, a sociologist, who acknowledged that structural factors can shape our behaviour but individuals do have reasons for their actions. He used this to explain why people behave in the way in which they do within society. Weber saw four types of actions which are commonly committed within society; rational, this includes logical plans which are used to achieve goals, traditional-customary behaviour, this is behaviour which is traditional and has always been done; he also saw effectual actions, this includes an emotion associated with an action and value-rational actions, this is behaviour which is seen as logical by an individual. Weber’s discovery of these actions can therefore be seen as useful in the study of society. Weber discovered these actions by using his concept of verstehan, a deeper understanding. However, some sociologists have criticised him as they argue that verstehan cannot be accomplished as it is not possible to see thing in the way that others see them, leaving sociologists to question whether Weber’s social action theory is useful in the study of society. Max Weber saw both structural...
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...Introduction Work motivation is a fundamental part of the organisation to increase its performance. Modern organizations are increasingly becoming project-oriented to cope with the challenges of global competition. Place together work motivation in traditional and matrix project-based organizations is of primary interest, Bredillet (2010) Alstom.Ltd with around 5,000 employees belongs to Alstom Group. The company is the leader in integrated power plants for energy production. Alstom.Ltd has solutions for a wide range of energy sources, divided into four main sectors; Thermal Service, Steam, Gas Generation, and Automation. Due to the size of the company, market stability and history, it is mainly a hierarchical structure Huczynski A, (2010). Main services are Power Generation Projects. Due to the nature of these kinds of projects, different disciplines like Engineering, Finance, Quality and Sales are involved on each Project. Therefore the company has global hierarchical structure but at Project level they work within a Matrix Organisation. PMI.Institute (2012) defined matrix organizations as a blend of functional and project organisation, where employees report on day-to-day performance to the Project Manager and on their overall performance to the head of their department, Functional Manager . By the mid–1990s Alstom.Ltd, originally ABB, developed a matrix structure crisscrossing around a hundred countries and sixty five business sectors, Lee G.(2008). The own nature...
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...For many people the insurance industry may seem boring, I felt like that myself when I first entered into this career field. Over time I have come to realize that this is not true, that in fact my ideal career is in the insurance industry. In the insurance industry there are numerous companies and careers to choose from, there are small companies that no one has heard of and larger companies such Allstate and Nationwide. There are a few things to take into consideration other than just the compensation package being offered when choosing which company to work for. How well do they manage their financial issues such as tax issues, hedge funds, and natural disasters risks? My ideal career in the insurance industry would be in the Special Investigation Unit (SIU). In order to achieve this goal I need to start in essence at the bottom and work my way up and gain knowledge to help ensure that I do the best I can. There are a few adjuster positions that can assist me in gaining the knowledge that will help me later be a SIU adjuster. Three types of adjuster positions that will help to obtain my goal are: • Liability – The majority of claims are handled in the liability determination unit (LDU), in Texas the average adjuster handles approximately three to five claims a day. These are claims that the liability is unclear and no injuries are present. • Soft-tissue Unrepresented – Claims handled by this unit involve soft-tissue injuries usually caused by low impact accidents,...
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