Why Should Professionals Keep Journals?
Why should Professionals Keep Journals?
On a daily, weekly, basis how many times do you really spend planning the development of your career? The majority of us would answer probably not much time at all. Whilst we should all spend a reasonable amount of time on a weekly basis, planning our futures, unfortunately, all too often the realities and pressures of our daily work and personal commitments keep us too preoccupied to spend time planning our long-term career development.
Are you able to identify with the above scenario? Do you have a vision for your perfect job or career? ACSEducation offers you two practical tools to help strengthen the development of your professional goals one of which is a capabilities framework with which to map your skills that we will introduce in week 2. The second is the introduction of a reflective professional journal. Our jobs, our careers and our lives would, or could, be better identified if we were to use a modified version of the written diary or journal. The Professional Environments (PE) unit offers you an open-source environment in which to develop a career journal that will help you structure and focus on specific career-related goals; designed to empower your career development or job-search. …show more content…
As an ICT graduate working within an internship environment you will discover untold things about: yourself; your career field; and job-hunting - all from simply keeping a professional career journal. The use of a professional career journal allows you time to think about your current situation, brainstorm potential ideas, utilize alternatives, formulate plans, implement solutions, document successes (and failures), reflect on your accomplishments, and learn more about yourself and your career. Maintaining a journal also gives you a vehicle to express your emotions (good and bad) about your career progress. (Hansen,
On a daily, weekly, basis how many times do you really spend planning the development of your career? The majority of us would answer probably not much time at all. Whilst we should all spend a reasonable amount of time on a weekly basis, planning our futures, unfortunately, all too often the realities and pressures of our daily work and personal commitments keep us too preoccupied to spend time planning our long-term career development.
Are you able to identify with the above scenario? Do you have a vision for your perfect job or career? ACSEducation offers you two practical tools to help strengthen the development of your professional goals one of which is a capabilities framework with which to map your skills that we will introduce in week 2. The second is the introduction of a reflective professional journal. Our jobs, our careers and our lives would, or could, be better identified if we were to use a modified version of the written diary or journal. The Professional Environments (PE) unit offers you an open-source environment in which to develop a career journal that will help you structure and focus on specific career-related goals; designed to empower your career development or job-search. …show more content…
As an ICT graduate working within an internship environment you will discover untold things about: yourself; your career field; and job-hunting - all from simply keeping a professional career journal. The use of a professional career journal allows you time to think about your current situation, brainstorm potential ideas, utilize alternatives, formulate plans, implement solutions, document successes (and failures), reflect on your accomplishments, and learn more about yourself and your career. Maintaining a journal also gives you a vehicle to express your emotions (good and bad) about your career progress. (Hansen,