Graduation Speech : College Working On Obtaining Associate Degree Science Degree At North Carolina State University

I am an active member of my school and community. At school I feel that i've gained the respect of my peers being elected as Student Council representative for the past four years. I have also been elected the treasurer of the choir, and secretary of the band. I am part of the Ross Middle School bucket drumming group and have been casted as part of the school theatre’s annual play. After school on Wednesdays I assist Ms. Rullman in helping students with homework and enhancing study methods. I am currently participating in science olympiad and have in the past. I am also an anchor on the popular Good Morning Ross Middle School weekly news show. In addition, I have been a part of National Junior Honor Society which takes part in service projects

As an educator and advisor, I am very interested in student interest inventories. Working in the classroom, it can be very difficult to assess interest of students when choosing thematic units or classroom project. As a college advisor, I am constantly searching for resources to help my students choose a future career path. I completed research and found three popular interest inventories- the Strong Interest Inventory, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Clifton Strengths Finder. Each of the three assessments analyze the same general theme of interest, personality and career choice. I have analyzed each to determine the best interest inventory to use with my students.

UNC Wilmington has been my top pick for the college I want to attend to obtain my Bachelor’s degree in Business ever since I was a Junior in high school. I applied for the fall 2016 to spring 2017 semester my senior year of high school and was not accepted into UNC Wilmington. I knew I had a big decision to make and I needed to figure out what I was going to do since I was not accepted into UNC Wilmington. I had been accepted to other universities and I could have easily attended one of them instead but I knew where I really wanted to be was UNC Wilmington. I finally made the decision to take one year at Cape Fear Community College and work hard to get my GPA up to where it needs to be in order to be considered for the fall 2017 semester. I realized that

To prepare myself for this new chapter in my life, I have taken many steps to help prepare myself for the fall of 2017 at Morehead State. In the spring of 2017, I chose to transfer to a community college to help improve my grades and my GPA. (Seeing it went from a 1.3 to a 2.6).  I have talked with advisors that have helped to map out the rest of my college career to have me reach my goals. I have researched all courses needed for my intended major of Health and Physical Education. I know which credits I have already earned and which of those credits will successfully transfer over. I have taken a closer look and

Attending college has always been in my plan because I want to further my education in order to receive a highly ranked job. My original plan for college was to attend Northern Arizona University. This was my original choice for schooling because the atmosphere and physical look reminded me of Colorado. I miss the beautiful scenery of Colorado so much that I had hoped NAU would have satisfied that idea. I decided at the very end of my senior year that a major that captivates my interests the most would be Sports Media or Sports Broadcasting. I was informed that NAU did not offer this major; however, Arizona State University specializes is in it. In the month of May, it was a no brainer for me that I needed to make the switch to ASU. My initial interest was captivated by the Walter Cronkite School. I knew that I would achieve any major I desired in regards to the broadcasting or media aspect if I attended ASU. Currently, my my major is business, sports media studies. I have yet to decide if I want to go the business or journalism route. I chose this major because ever since I was little, I have had this passion and fascination for sports. This fascination grew from both playing and watching

Since I started community college I’ve heard several dozen cases of people changing their major, changing their transfer college, or just changing their mind. I’m not likely to do any of that, I choose to use my time in high school deciding what I wanted to do and so far I am sticking to it without a doubt in my mind. I chose to go to community college, earn my Associate's in Business Administration, and transfer to James Madison University in the fall of 2018, graduate in 2020 with my Bachelor’s. I intend to get my Master’s either right after my Bachelor’s or within a few years of my career. I hope to have a job leaving JMU, my first accounting job of my career. I decided to major in accounting for a plethora of reasons, but not what most people expect.

The purpose of selection of the Strong Interest Inventory is to determine the interest of the students. On the other hand, the purpose of Myers-Briggs is to ensure determination of the personality type as well as the career they would most likely decide to undertake. The instruments that I have selected may offer proper results when I carry out my analysis. For instance, Myer-Briggs ensures the provision of an in-depth personalized account of personality preferences. The Strong Interest Inventory, on the other hand, ensures that there is the generation of an in-depth evaluation of interests among an extensive range of occupations, job leisure activities, and educational subjects. This is always the case to facilitate helping of individuals in matching their interests. They can be educational interests, occupational interests as well as leisure pursuits that are entirely compatible with those particular

Senior year rapidly is coming to an end, I’ve had the opportunity to see many of my friends come to the exciting moment in their life when they sign that dotted line and I was still waiting on my chance. My entire life I had dreamt of the day to finally committed to a college basketball team, this was my goal and it had to be my purpose in life. January 18, 2015 at 4:41 PM I got an exciting text from Truett-Mcconnell’s head coach, Matt Sanders, stating,” Good afternoon Claudia this is Coach Sanders from Truett-Mcconnell College, and I really feel like we need to begin the recruiting process with you! Sorry to bother you on a Sunday, but I just didn’t want to let time slip away! I look forward to hearing back from you!” Here was my chance!

My first and top area of interest was investigative. This describes me well because I like thinking things out. I've always enjoyed watching detective shows where the detective has to look at clues and think about everything to figure out the crime. My second interest area was social. It made sense to me when this was one of my interests because I enjoy helping people. I like tutoring kids and I could see myself being a teacher one day as a backup plan, if things don’t work out with medical school.

When I began both instruments I was a little concerned about not thinking too hard into the questions as well as how long it was going to take to complete the tests. I was astonished to learn that it was pretty simple and I knew more about myself than originally thought. The work profiler took a little more time because I had to sort through each idea and place them in an importance level, but it was still pretty simple. As I completed the interest profiler I was surprised to learn that I scored higher in the social area instead of the investigative one. I have often considered myself to be more reserved and an avid thinker. I enjoy people but above all else I really value my time to think critically about myself and my job. I always think things through and I am rarely a quick witted thinker because of this.

In my opinion, the general description of the interest categories suits me well. Previously, I had read the John Holland’s Career Codes and I predicted that I will have Conventional and Enterprising interests in the result. It was proven when I got the result which stated that Enterprising and Conventional are both the first and second strongest traits for me. I could predict the result beforehand because I knew that I like to work with clear rules. I also like when everything is organized and planned well. That is why I always use calendar to write every task, homework, exams, and other things. I do that to organize my day, and I have been doing that since junior high school.

My strong interest inventory showed me my top three highest-scoring letters in my general occupational theme, which are IAS. The “I” stands for Investigation, which means someone who prefers to take a scientific approach to things and likes researching, and experimenting. Then letter “A” stands for artistic, which is someone who takes a creative approach to things, and likes art, designing, music, or writing. Then the letter “S” stand for social, which is someone who enjoys the companionship of others, and like teaching, or caring for others, or just talking to people. Then in my basic interest scales two of my interest areas were science, and counseling and helping. The interest area science means someone who likes to deal with facts and find the truth in things, and do conduct research and experiments to find these facts. This came up as one of my interest because I was recently going to get biology major because I do enjoy science, and I remember as a child I was always interested in animals and their scientific explain behaviors. Then the interest counseling and helping mean someone who likes more things involving psychology, and likes to aid and give guidance in resolving personal, social, and psychological problems for people. I think this came up in my interest area because it was another job choice that interested me for a moment, and I do enjoy helping people, and my friends and family come to me a lot about their problems, and I like helping them through

The above results show that my conventional interests are highest than the other categories. Which is about the interest in work that follows set procedures and routines. Also, the people with conventional interests pay close attention to details rather than ideas. They work with clear rules and could be a strong leader. My second highest interest vocational category is enterprising. Which is about starting and carrying out business projects. People with enterprising interests like to

The top three interests that I scored highest in were social, enterprising and conventional. I received a 12 in social, which show that I like working with others to help them learn and grow and like teaching, giving advice and helping to be a service to people. Which might explain why I received an award and certificate for recognition for being a preceptor and the main one on my unit? I received a 14 in enterprising which shows that I like work that has to do with starting up and carrying business projects. Which is accurate with me being the type of person that likes to take action rather than think about things? I love to persuade and lead people in the right direction and love making decisions. My last interest that I scored highest in was a 29 in conventional. This trait explains that I like work that follows set procedures and routines. It shows that it prefers I like working with information and details rather than ideas. Not only do I like following a strong leader but I love even more being that leader for those to look up to when needing assistance. (Bachelors in healthcare administration degree,

My results for the Interest Profiler reviled that I am social, artistic, and investigative. The results stated that I enjoy work activities that deal with assisting others. This is very true of me because I enjoy helping others which is a reason why I am in the field that I am. The artistic aspect fits as well because I love to paint and do hobbies. I enjoy doing activities that allow kids and myself to be creative. The job zones I chose to explore was zone 4 and 5. Each job zone