During the article, he states “People have unique patterns of interest, abilities personality, values etc. The challenge is figuring out what career path is the…
§ Discuss the types of career directions that an individual may follow and which are of most interest to you personally and why, including any applicable personal example.…
Searching for the right career choice in life is not an easy task. There are a few important points to take into consideration when searching. The career path must be a profession in which the individual likes or doesn 't mind doing through the course of his entire professional career. The author believes that the Career Interests Profiler can be applied to her career choices in several ways. First the Career Interests Profiler gives her an opportunity to network with many in the same profession as her. Second, she can seek out the great diversity of opportunities available to her that she might not otherwise knew existed before the Career Interests Profiler. Finally, the author will always appear presentable to promote herself to interested employers searching for great people who are knowledgeable and experienced in particular areas (Myers, 2015).…
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.…
Everyone is asked one question, at a very young age. That question is: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” There isn’t a time I can remember when an adult didn’t ask me this question. When I was six, I would respond with the usual movie star, fashion designer, or veterinarian. My answer would be said confidently, as at this age I walked through life as if it were no big deal. My answer occasionally changed to fit with my many childhood phases, but my view on the question stayed the same. When I was a child, I replied to this inquiry the same way everyone else did; I answered with an occupation. It took me years to discover my new approach to this question. My new response did not include my dream job, but how I saw myself in the future.…
This class was really a class that I’ll walk away from feeling as if I’ve learned more about myself and my motivations for why and how I do the things I do. When I think about what our WholeBrain Assessment told me about myself, it made many of my actions make a lot of sense. With my strongest preference being in L1, I found the preferences to be right on point while disagreeing with my potential career choices. I found myself also agreeing with the thought preferences of my second strongest thought preference, L2. However, I also found no passion with the subjects and…
Every year millions of college students ' worldwide graduate from college in hopes of obtaining a position in their career field of choice; however a lot of these students do not have a plan of action to actually help them find their career and achieve their goals. So much emphasis is put on college graduates going out and finding a "job", but little focus is put on helping them find a "career." "A five year career plan is a road map that allows for progress tracking, and development of solutions or alternate courses of action (Crump, 2009)." From personal experience I have realized that the chances of achieving my personal and career goals are increased of I actually write them out as a plan. In this paper I will discuss my career goals and…
Things do not always come out the way they are plan, a plan is necessary to have a goal to reach. I currently have a plan in which my goal is to receive a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration. During my journey I encounter many obstacles that had second guessing myself about the roads that I had selected. Until recently I asked myself if I had chosen the correct career. The Career Plan Building Activities in addition to this course was a strong reinforcement that indeed choose the right career for my person.…
During this lifetime everyone has to build or start a career from something of their interest.The most recent jobs vary from, police officers, doctors, lawyers, firefighters , & etc. Plus due to the fact once you get in the career field you want to pursue you have to stay focused and maintain a good progression towards your career.…
We must therefore seriously examine whether we have really been inspired in our choice of a profession, whether an inner voice approves it, or whether this inspiration is a delusion, and what we took to be a…
When I first started to think about writing a paper for this assignment my initial thought was, “just get your thoughts onto paper and you can rearrange for flow, spelling, grammar, etc. This shouldn’t be too difficult”. About an hour later I realized three things: (1) I had never truly completed a meaningful self-analysis, (2) This was going to take quite a bit longer than I intended, and (3) Just how important clearly and thoroughly completing a self-analysis & career outlook is. I continued to struggle generating meaningful thoughts, let alone putting something on paper. After a long break I came back to the assignment and realized I was asking myself the wrong question. I was thinking of careers, positions and titles and then asking myself if I that would be something for me. Instead I should have been thinking about what I enjoy most and what motivates me and then trying to find a profession or position that fits me. In the writing that follows I will identify my “ideal jobs” 10-15 years down the road as well as the road I feel I must travel to obtain these positions and be successful in them. First I will explain a little about my reflection on my personal values and how they were developed.…
The interviewee, Professor Mark Corner, is a man who followed an unconventional career path: he did not have a career path nor did he want to. His career path can be described as organic, non- linear; he let his situations and opportunities veer him towards his current career. Accordingly, the definition of a career being an evolving sequence of a person’s work experiences over time is befitting to Corner, as his career involved continuity and change.…
I remember being asked the common question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” as a child. That one common question brought on so much confusion not only as a child, but also as a “grown up”. Very recently I began exploring different areas about myself and my career interest. I learned what my strong and weak competencies are and I became familiar with my Ethical Lens -- Rights and Responsibilities. I also realized that my desire to gain my Bachelor’s in accounting and to become a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the next five years was in fact, stemming from these things I was not aware about myself. It became a puzzle and the first piece was figuring out how my goal would flourish by understanding my career interest and competencies.…
Analytically, if we see a person’s career building has been very tough now-a-days. Building a career is difficult in this age of fierce competition and limited resources. While building the career, we are afraid of In career building, every one of us contemplates over unnecessary blues such as phobia of failure, self-esteem debasement, dissatisfaction with destiny and the counting continuesetc.…
Career selection is one of many important choices students will make in determining future plans. This decision will impact them throughout their lives. The essence of who the student is will revolve around what the student wants to do with their life-long work. Basavage (1996, p.1) in her thesis asked, “What is it that influences children one way or another?” Over the school’s front door at Rindge School of Technical Arts is the saying, “Work is one of our greatest blessings. Everyone should have an honest occupation” (Rosenstock & Steinberg, cited in O’Brien, 1996, p. 3). Every student carries the unique history of their past and this determines how they view the world. That history created, in part by the student’s environment, personality, and opportunity, will determine how students make career choices. It then follows that how the student perceives their environment, personality, and opportunity also will determine the career choices students make.…