My Career Center Assessment

A global manager is associated with success as an international executive. Dimensions included in this are: general intelligence, business knowledge, interpersonal skills, commitment, courage, cross-cultural competencies, and the ability to learn from experience. My potential for success as a global manager would be on the cusp of being relatively high. In today’s global economy, being a manager often means being a global manager. But, unfortunately, not all managers are able to transfer their skills smoothly from domestic environments to global ones. I believe that I have the ability to accomplish this on a consistent basis.

After taking the FOCUS 2 quizzes and completing the worksheet, I learned about a few of my career options. I have already chosen a degree plan, and know what direction I want to go in, but I am not sure of the specifics. The FOCUS 2 Career Exploration Worksheet helped me to discover some of those specifics.

'....exploration may be essential in order to create a basis for offering further help, for example by using other strategies such as goal setting or action planning.'

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.

My career cluster is Eligibility Interviewers and Government. What they all have in common is about law, math, and science. They deal with customer service, administrative service, algebra, and law and government. They have to communicate by speaking. They also have to listen to people’s problems and try to solve them.

If a teacher sent in a referral it was not addressed by administration if they had not contacted the parent first (there were issues that were classified as automatic office referrals). Teachers were also told that between class changes they were to be out and in the hallways. Duties had always been assigned; however the new administration walked around making sure that teachers were where they were supposed to be during their assigned times. This new expectation set the tone across the school very quickly. Each teacher has a 10 minute duty typically attached to the lunch period or the beginning/ending of the day. The school discipline policy has 3 levels of offenses. Level 1 is primarily classroom and hallway discipline issues. Level 2 includes offenses such as tobacco use violation, cussing a teacher, refusing to do as they are told, etc. these are automatic office referrals. Level 3 involves offenses that could have a student arrested or suspended. Data from last year does not show a decrease in discipline issues it actually shows a slight increase. The main reason for that is teachers were supported in handling discipline and they stopped turning a blind eye.

The mission of the Career Center is, “to design and deliver high-quality career services to UNT students and alumni through collaboration with campus, local, and global partnerships” (Career Center, 2014). This is supported by their vision statement, “Empowering students and alumni to identify and achieve individual goals for career success” (Career Center, 2014). The mission and vision statements both closely align with the Council for the Advancement of Higher Education (CAS, 2015), the National Association Colleges and Employers (NACE), and The University of North Texas (UNT). According to the UNT website, the mission of UNT is, “a major public research university deeply committed to advancing educational excellence and preparing students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens of the world” (Mission, 2015). The Career Center complements the mission of the institution by providing services that enable students to pursue

Heartland Career Center offers a Criminal Justice class (CMJ) it is taught by Leroy Striker. The Criminal Justice class is 5 days a week for approximately 3 hours. Students work on projects such as writing papers visiting different places such as different jails, Wabash Co. Miami Co. etc. Criminal Justice allows students to do job shadowing at courthouses, jails etc. Criminal Justice also allows students to earn 12 college credits after passing the course. Criminal Justice is involved with a group known as Skills USA students compete in different categories and Skills USA opens better opportunities for college resumes.

Heartland Career Center offers a Health Science Education program (HSE) taught by Brandi Pennington. The students have this class five days a week and approximately three hours per day. While in this class the students have clinicals which take place in surrounding nursing homes, and the second year students are able to do internships. The class also goes to elementary schools to do height/weight and vision screenings for the community. In this class the students are able to receive dual credit at Ivy Tech and could get a CNA license/certificate by the end of the year.

My second Ah-ha moment was learning about the Texas College and Career Readiness Standards. I never knew that these standards even existed. Did TEA come up with the Texas College and Career Readiness Standards? If so, when? I do not recall them being discussed when I was in high school. What data are these standards based off of? Instead of forcing more work on the teachers, I strongly suggest that there should be mandatory required courses that Freshman and Seniors have to take, when entering high school and before graduating. This will allow for students to begin thinking about the direction in which they would like to go as far as a career and making decisions regarding their future educational plans. The Texas College and Career

Every time I have a chance to read your post, I learn so much! Throughout the course, your post has been very informative, clear, and to the point. You have truly demonstrated your knowledge and the concept of the usefulness of the Capella Career Center. I agree with you staying motivated and alert will me to prioritize what is important to me and how to achieve this goal. Mostly, I have heard almost everyone is saying how resourceful the tool is and how we can relate it to our need? my question is, how can the Capella Career Center helps the student's to reflect on his or her needs, if that individual does not desire to do so? If so, how? Thank you Shiny for sharing your thoughts with

Career assessment instruments are important in the field of career development. These are the tools that will help career counselors guide the individuals they are working with down the appropriate career path along with equipping the individual with interventions to deal with barriers and handle on-the-job stressors. Career assessment instruments have the ability to measure many traits and one trait is a person’s interests and skills.

During interviews with active job seekers, they expressed frustration with both the number of websites/apps and time spent to effectively look for and apply for jobs. On The Search Dashboard is a new website that aims to streamline how job seekers search and apply for jobs.

Compared to my self-assessment score and career exploration score, my score in career planning (3.17), is slightly lower. In terms of personal development and/or academic needs, I would like to learn how to apply my interests, values, personality, and skills, as well as utilizing the knowledge that I gained in my academics for a career. I would speak to a career counselor at the Career Development services for assistance to plan and resolve any concerns about my career, as well as a SEEK

Career assessments are very beneficial when an individual is trying to determine what career path they may be wanting to take. Sometimes new information will become apparent and other times information that is already known to that individual will just be simply solidified. It is important to answer the questions as accurately to oneself as possible. My personal results only reassured me of what I already knew.