Career Comparison

When I answered the questions on career cruising I found that my results were inaccurate as to the career I am interested in. The first career was mechanical engineer. Environmental engineer is the second on list. The career that I am actually interested in Software development and Computer science I did not get the results I was looking for in my career assessment. I will still look for a career in information technology when I enter the workforce but for now I will look into the jobs the field has to offer. I want to become a software developer and work for good software company, I hope it works out that way in the end. I disagree with the survey results because I do not want to become a engineer in those fields, I feel like being an engineer will be to heavy of a weight on my shoulders. Environmental engineer would not fit me because I am not a environmental type of person.

The two career paths that I’m interested in are computer programming and graphic design. The reason why I choose computer programming as a career is because I’m interested in how programs work and how to make my own programs. From what I’ve seen, programming is very difficult because it takes a lot of trials and errors and thinking to get the expected results. However, the product afterwards is worth all the effort. The other career that I’m interested in is becoming a graphic designer because I like to draw and create my own images. If I were to choose a career, it would be one of these two.

The Administrative Assistant curriculum prepares students to enter into the workforce as professional office workers in a variety of areas in today?s work force. The program has three concentrations: Accounting Assistant, Office Technology, and Medical Billing and Coding.

A good administration ensures a good working relationship within an organization and, therefore, the staff and the clients are satisfied with the services they provide or services being provided to them.

When deciding on pay rate you have to take into consideration as to where your business is located, are the cooks getting minimum wage or higher, are the hostess getting paid server minimum wage plus tip outs or are they getting the normal minimum wage amount same with bussers, also with management you have to consider people are coming to work for you from somewhere else either in hopes of making more money or to better themselves. Either way you will have to know if you can afford to do what you are wanting to before you do the hiring and telling people what the pay rate is.

Some responsibilities that you will have to cover include being involved in sales and marketing activities, develop annual business plans to reach the financial goals while meeting customer expectations, and implement services or programs and make changes to enhance resident satisfactory (Healthcare Administrator Job, 2013). Skills that must be applied are to communicate efficiently to other health professionals, must be motivated to lead a staff, and are responsible for finding creative solutions to administrative problems (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2012).

Ranking among the largest number of job openings in the United States, administrative assistants must have a strong knowledge of computer use and current office technologies. They are hired by companies such as hospitals, schools, corporate offices, legal offices and government agencies. Typically, administrative assistants are hired into companies to work full-time (40 hours a week).

I chose discussion question one to discuss, because I consider this is relevant in current society. What does an administrative assistant looks like? In my opinion, it depends on the type of industry an administrative assistant is in. In my career, a downtown business setting an administrative assistant must dress professionally; wearing suits or appropriate business dresses, no visual tattoos, piercings, hair and make-up must be conservative. In a warehouse or factory setting an administrative assistant may wear jeans and a polo shirt; a new tech company may have a creative and relaxed dress code.

Unfortunately, the results of the career assessment surveys on www2.careercruising.com did not place my desired career as one of the careers it thought I would be interested in. Another thing the career assessments told me I was primarily a visual learner, but I had a secondary preference for tactile learning as well. However, it gave me a career that correlates with the subject I want to teach as my career, which happens to be mathematics (career: mathematician). This choice can be the match for lighting the fuse for the rocket that is my career path so I can blast off with my career in the future. However, I was a bit disappointed that these surveys did not land me with a “teaching” job, but one thing I can agree on is the fact that it landed me with a math-related career, because math is my favorite subject in school overall. Even so, these results might help me pursue my dream of becoming a middle-school math teacher if I work hard enough. In conclusion, even though some of these surveys’ results don’t match my interests, I can still work hard to prove them otherwise.

Many youth employment program participants come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Some have left school early and are still working on an equivalency diploma. Others may have grown up in households with few adult role models with strong careers to help them imagine how life could be better. Youth practitioners often find that the biggest challenge to success for these young people lies in the mental framework they have constructed to interpret the world. In particular, as a facilitator and program operator, you may need to counteract two distinct barriers to their success:

I am always in search of new knowledge and understanding. I prefer analyzing situations instead jumping right into them. I have a relatively calm and collected personality, as I prefer to listen to others in order to obtain new knowledge that will then lead me to my own conclusions. I value justice above many other ideals. I don’t feel comfortable with the unknown, which is why I am constantly looking for answers and explanations. These are all simple characteristics that the “What’s Your Color?” assessment gave me. When I first saw this personality test I figured it was going to be extremely inaccurate as many of them usually are. Ironically and to my surprise, it was impressively spot on. Going down the list, I can agree with each and every characteristic about myself. This confirmed my top two careers to pursue. The first being a career in law enforcement as a detective, and the second being a career as a lawyer. After doing some research, I’ve concluded that becoming a lawyer is the superior option.

The three careers that I am interested in are an Army construction equipment repairer, Police Patrol Officers, and Automotive Master Mechanics. These are the careers that I am interested in doing as an adult.

In conclusion, the comparison between Kerr’s profile and mine has given me a lot of insights into how I can make a better profile. I now understand that I will need to add a lot of details that are not present in my profile at the moment. The differences that have emerged from the work experience, connections and groups; interests and visual effects, have put me in a better place to make tremendous improvements to my profile. Given the number of connections that Kerr has, I feel that if I can be in a position to market myself entirely if I incorporate all the details that I have observed from his

Internships are great tools for determining future career paths. Without attending the internship that was required at my high school, I would not be sitting here, clicking on the keyboard, working hard to become a nurse. I believe that required internships for high school graduation is necessary because it is beneficial to student's academic success, future success, and broadens a student's perspective. However, while critics argue that internships may be a tool for students resume's to look good for college administrators, I argue that it can help a student determine what they want to do in their future before they pick their major in college because internships

Charting my male and female friends’ career history reveal that they had a very similar and parallel career history. Those my friends’ careers are different their career development is similar. Both friends started at the lowest level of their respected companies and have both been promoted to higher levels in their companies. Their history is a little similar to Levinson’s model, because they are both in the entry life structure for early adulthood of the model and therefore does not contain enough history to line with the model fully. There were no employment gaps in both their history for they both started working during their high school