My Journey Of My Career Development

My career advancement includes five (5) years of growth at The Polo Club in Boca Raton, Florida. I am fortunate to have an amazing experience as the Director of Food and Beverage and advancement to the position of Assistant Club Manager. As an Assistant General Manager, I assisted the team in the careful administration of asset management with direct oversight for club operations and financial leadership; Food and Beverage, Social and Cultural Arts, Clubhouse-Common Area, Administrative, Golf, Tennis and Spa. I implemented a detailed payroll budget program including procedures and benchmarks utilized by all department supervisors increasing payroll control with a payroll budget of $18M and an operating/capital expenditure budget of $50M.

There is a lot of things that I have learned about myself in the past few weeks of this course. I have learned many things about myself that I would have never known if it was not for this course. I have learned about my; self concept, attitudes and feelings. I have also learned about social influence, group dynamics and relationships. I learned about myself and how to describe the way that I am and the way that I think.

I had the privilege of starting my career at Union County College in July 2007 as an Adjunct Faculty member of Chemistry. For the past 10 years, I have served our students in different capacities, such as the Faculty Coordinator for American Honors Program, the Chair of the Chemistry Department, the Faculty Advisor to Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society, and the Faculty Advisor to the Student Government Association.

My entire life I have always worked my hardest to get to where I am today. As a child, I had the dream of being a nurse or a detective, and I as I started getting older I became aware that the two job areas are very different and competitive. I believe my determination has been a key quality that has let me enrich my education and move forward with the health and criminal justice fields. I have been able to succeed in classes, as well as my employment opportunities because when I set my mind to something, there is nothing stopping me, and I am 100% determined to finish. Being hard working has also been something I’ve done throughout my life, I was always been told that things don’t just happen and that I have to make things happen. The ability

From the time I was five, I have studied a large range of music including piano, clarinet, viola, cello, and voice. Generations of the Seaver family have always been first chair in the orchestra or the strongest vocal in the chamber choir. From an early age, my mother pressed my three siblings and I to surround ourselves with music but I struggled to get along with every instrument she put in my hands. My clarinet always squawked and when I pressed my bow to my viola, it sounded more like it was screaming than singing.

After moving to Tennessee, my new school had several different characteristics that my old school did not have. One of the characteristics that I am thankful for is having different youth organizations to be a part of at an early age. One of the youth organizations was 4-H and ever since my first 4-H club meeting, I have been dedicated to 4-H and Extension. It was through my 4-H experiences that allowed me to gain several scholarships to me accomplish being able to be the first person in my family to graduate college.

The question “What do you want to be when you grow up?” meant so many things throughout middle childhood, adolescence, and was even relevant in adulthood. My interests varied from law, to education, and even construction for a period. It took most of my lifetime and lived experiences, up until very recently, to actually figure out, make a decision, and follow through, with my true occupational goals. This paper will examine my current career path and goals. It will investigate the results of the O*Net Interest Profiler in which I participated, and how they compare to my current occupational goals. Finally, it will discuss gained insights and further resources for future career exploration.

From the time I was a little girl till now, I have consistently changed my mind on what I wanted to do for a career as I got older. Like every other little kid, I dreamed of being many things including: a professional gymnast, pop star, FBI agent, scrapbook artist, astronaut, orthopedic surgeon, chef, criminal science and the first person to cure cancer. I continued to change my mind until I reached my freshman year of basketball when I helped teach kindergarten through third grade at a summer camp for a week straight. Following, I started finding jobs that involved little kids and I fell in love with being around them. This experience made me realized that maybe an FBI agent or a pop star were not the career paths I was destined for.

This lesson mainly addressed aspects related to career development. This lesson encourages students to discover their academic and personal strengths, their skillsets, and their interests. Students then take those concepts and apply them to career exploration. They are able to link their strengths, preferences, and abilities to potential future career paths. Some of the specific aspects of career development that I addressed include applying planning and career exploration in setting and obtaining lifelong career goals, applying necessary skills for career readiness and success, and teaching students where and how to obtain information about post-secondary options. In this lesson students are encouraged to apply decision making skills to place different careers into the appropriate career fields. In doing so, they are also encouraged to begin thinking about careers that are of interest to them and what career goals they have for themselves. They will be given resources in order to continue career exploration outside of the classroom. While I do not expect sixth graders to fully decide their career path, it is my firm belief that it is never too early to get students thinking about careers and having them set goals in order to obtain the career and future that they desire. I also believe that this unit touches on social and emotional development as well as academic development. This lesson allows the student to collaborate with one another and work in groups as well as in pairs. This promotes relationship building and teamwork. It also allows students to take an inventory of their personal strengths and skillsets. This could boost self-esteem and promotes a sense of self-awareness. Lastly, this unit also encompasses academic development. Students will understand that good grades and academic success are key elements to obtaining the career that they wish to have. By being academically successful, this will allow them greater options and opportunity post high school graduation.

Daniel H Pink emphasizes that our world should move toward Motivation 3.0 and that we should become more type I people than Type X. Pink suggest this because Motivation 3.0 and Type I both go with the three nutrients we need to better our world; autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Autonomy is a self-determination theory, Mastery is the desire to get better and better at something you like, and finally purpose provides activation energy for living. Pink reaffirms “For type I, it’s the main motivator is the freedom, challenge, and purpose of the undertaking itself; any other gains are welcome, but mainly as a bonus.” (76) . I agree to the three elements in Motivation 3.0 and as well as to Type I because of my experience in education toward my career confirms it. I’ve had challenges threw my education and I know that I will continue to have them, but I also know that I have some freedom in the work I have to do. All of this will help me in my career and a Preschool Teacher.

Taxation is which the government finance the expenditures by setting charges on the corporate entities and individuals, it’s usually used to encourage an economic decision and to fund different public expenditures. Moreover, it finances the public goods and services such as, streets cleaning and lighting. Because of that the UAE is planning to start collecting a value added tax at 5% in the beginning of 2018. Which can be a strong tool to help achieving the goals of the social progress and the economic development.

For the career road map assignment, I decided to interview a friend, athlete, coach, and counselor at lafayette high school. The interview consisted of what his career path has been leading up to where he currently is in his career. Daniel majored in counselling at UTC in downtown Chattanooga. While he was in grad school for counselling MA, Daniel worked at a running shoe store named FastBreak Athletics in Chattanooga. He eventually ended up being a sales rep for the company and travelled to different events to market/sell different types of running gear at expos or to different storefronts.

I was finishing high school and I had two options at hands to focus my professional career: a double degree in Law and business, or something creative and also related to business, but more specific. I joined a degree in food and beverage management to go further in my passion for food and at the same time develop my interest in the business and management area. I chose creativity, but I always felt that I wanted more. For example, when I heard my friends discussing and arguing about why the demand of houses was so high that the price would never fall again, I wanted to join that discussions and be in those classes too; But in my mind I had other type of questions that I also felt curious about: Why garlic comes first instead of onions?

My career path was rerouted after the birth to my son. I was managing a 24-hour Alarm Monitoring Call Center with two years of college education in Psychology. Due to an inconsistent work schedule and difficulty locating Psychology courses that worked around my schedule, I decided to change my career path to Business Management, since I already had nearly 8 years experience in supervision and management. My mentor introduced me and made me familiar with the Dictionary of Occupational (DOT) following high school. The DOT is comprised of all occupations and job titles, salary ranges, responsibilities, and industries (Berry, 2003). As I prepared for my new journey, I evaluated my decision, researched, planned, applied for new occupations that interest me, and prepared for my new career in Management.