After finishing the career building activities and in-class discussion, I have a much better look of my career interests, work preference, and style of thinking. The exercise showed me to locate many personal short-comings that would have kept coming up unfixed.…
A third assessment that could be recommended is an assessment measuring aptitude. Aptitude tests are given to individuals to determine inherent capacity to excel in a specific field or areas. In this case I would choose to use the Career Ability Placement Survey (CAPS) because it relates to specific choice of career. My rational is the CAPS assessment can be done in a web-based format for instant scoring, takes approximately 50 minutes and is cost effective (Drummond et al., 2015). This test is designed to assess and measure vocational competence; linking ability with choice of career states Drummond et al.,…
Identify personal learning and motivational styles or attributes and career orientation traits, and demonstrate how that knowledge can be used to contribute to academic and career success.…
My results from The Career Plan Building Activity: Competencies indicates that I am very familiar with strategizing. I also reflected very scores in coping with pressure and innovating. This has a lot to do with the way I analyze things and complete tasks. I always think positive in all situations. Coping with pressure tells exactly how I handle all arguments or debates. In my case, it would be how I express the song. The song could also represent an argument. I always take the positive approach on any argument. Knowing that arguments are not just one sided, it is common for on to express emotion on a topic of interest. I only show my emotion in a song. As an artist, I spend all my time trying to express an argument that has meaning to me. I tend to keep my emotions under control very well. As an artist, you also experience a lot of criticism by listeners. Criticism only makes you better. I used their criticism as a way to make me improve what I am…
My results from the career interest profiler and career plan building activity contributed to my professional goal development because it encouraged me to plan out my goals and helped me to understand and determine which of my goals were essential to my career. It also helped me to clearly understand how with careful decision making I could advance in earning my degree.…
My initial response to my kuder assessment was very positive. My mindset on how I wanted to decide my future career was derived from the three qualities the kuder assessment labeled me of containing. My three characteristics were Realistics, Investigative, and Social. Realistic meaning I am one to work well with tools and objects in order to build or repair something. Investigative suggests that I am a thinker who thinks of abstract ideas that values fields like science and math. Social tells the assessor to consider they carry the traits of an individual who likes to help and associate people in order to improve their mental, educational, or physical needs. My top working values were Income, Accomplishment, and Innovative. This means I am…
Question #1: Reflect upon your own career development. In particular, identify how each of the factors below has contributed a) one positive and b) one challenge to your career trajectory: K-12 educational experience a) My senior year of high school I did running start at Cascadia College. Doing running start really launched me into college and being there only made me feel more confident that I would be prepared for University the next year. Running start was a very positive experience for me because for the first time in my school career I was able to take classes that I had a genuine interest in, without having to worry about credits.…
By doing this self-assessment I learned about my strengths. I was aware that I accept full responsibility for my actions and results of my life. Since I was a little girl, my mother bestowed in me that, “Life is nothing but the result of the choices you make.” I know that my destiny is counting on me. I know what motivates me and what choices hinder my success. Choosing between the two is the challenge; I call that self-warfare. I believed that I scored high in: accepting personal responsibility, discovering self-motivation, and adopting lifelong learning. I feel really good about my strengths.…
In completing the career interest assessment I found that my skills matched my interest. Though looking at the…
After successful completion of the self-assessment, I learned that I am likely to consider the vision and mission of my…
The self-assessments were very helpful in exploring career possibilities. I was able to gain a better understanding of my interests, such as my skills, personality, and values. The self-assessments gave me a list of possible career fields and professions that matched my interests. This allowed me to explore other career fields and learn about the other employment opportunities out there that best matched my personal attributes. The self-assessment can be helpful in the future by allowing me to discover which type of nursing field I would want to specialize…
In order for me to complete this career assessment paper, I initially took an Interest Inventory survey. Upon completing this process, it revealed that my personality profile score was (I, C, A). These three letters represented my strengths and interests in determining which career field would best suit me.…
According to the assessment, my highest score of 34 was in the category Artistic, next was Social with 32 and my last 2 categories tied at 11 in the categories Investment, and Enterprise(National Center for O*NET Development). In tying this into my Job zone assessment, my results show that I am willing to add more education in order to have a specific career. By choosing to add more to my education, I found my top career choices to be a Mental Health counselor, Marriage and Family Therapist, and a Counseling Psychologist(National Center for O*NET Development). This does not surprise me considering I have been pursuing a career in mental health. It is a good exercise to keep your plan in focus. This is important because as many career-counseling theorists suggest, a career path can often change as life changes (Niles and Bowlsbey, 2013).…
The career plan building activity: reasoning aptitude helped me realize my strengths and opportunities. The results in the strength category were lower than I thought they would be. I scored the highest on adapting to change and that was the one that I felt I would have scored the lowest because I do not do very well with change unless I am prepared for the changes beforehand. When it came to researching, taking initiative, being innovative, organizing, and delivering results, I score 3 out of 5 possible points. I felt that with organizing and taking initiative, I would have had a higher score because I organize everything and I tend to take the initiative in a lot of situations at work, with school, and in my personal life.…
Describe one academic goal that you have created using the SMART criteria. How do SMART criteria contribute to your academic goals?…