Personal Career Strategy

It is agreed upon by many that the pathway to achieving success involves the establishment of goals. Through this paper I will outline my professional goals and the job I would like to obtain in the health care field. I will also address skills that I have currently acquired and skills that I would like to acquire and skills that I need to change or alter. In closing I will review my plan to achieve these goals, I will identify the organization(s) that will help me achieve these goals, and I will identify how a career action plan outline will benefit my goals.

Career development is a continuous process of handling proactively work and changes in life in order to move forward and reach the goals set for a better future. It involves learning new skills, moving up in the position within the organization or altogether moving to new organization or even starting up a new business. A career development plan is created to set goals and how to reach these goals using your talents and skills in the working world. A five year plan is ideal to start with, as five years are enough to reach bigger goals while working for and achieving smaller goals.

I selected career assessments because an employment or career change can happen to any client at any point during their lives. Drummond, Sheperis, & Jones (2015) state that individuals may benefit from vocational tests after high school, after college, or during a career change. Additionally, Drummond, Sheperis, & Jones (2015) state that some advantages of career assessments are helping a client discover new occupational interests that match their personality, as well as measuring their skillsets for varying occupations. There are several approaches to career assessments that include interest, beliefs, and capability types of inventories. Interest inventories have been available as early as 1914 and have continued to evolve over the decades (Harrington & Long, 2013). Currently, The U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics (2013) has a section on their website allocated for K-12

After taking the career inventory assessments last week, I found the results to be very interesting. For the interest profiler instrument, my scores were high in both social and artistic which I found to be not surprising. My first highest score that I received for the social was a ten, and the second highest score that I received for the artistic area was a one. As for the scores in realistic, investigative, enterprising, and conventional, my score was a zero in those areas. For the work importance locater instrument, my highest scores were in achievement and recognition. I received a score of thirty in achievement, and a score of twenty six in recognition. For the scores in the other work values: independence (16), working conditions (16),

Career assessments can be defined as the process of accessing your skills, personality traits, interest, and values. Partaking in a career assessment helps you discover careers that fit you best. These assessments allow you to see how high you score in various careers based on your answers to questions pertaining to your interests, skills, personality traits, and values. There is no right or wrong answers in these assessment. To gain a better understanding of my skills, personality traits, interest, and values in various careers, I participated in the Focus 2 assessment on the GRU career service website. Partaking in this assessment assured me that my current major has various occupations that relate to my skills, personal traits, interest,

Part A: Reflect on your results from the Career Interest Profiler Activity and the Career Plan Building Activity: Competencies. Building on your strengths and weaknesses, create five SMART goals to help you with your personal academic and career journey.

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.

The realization of this paper respond to different motivations, both as personal and professional. As result, my individual career plan includes aspects that enriches and improves me with a view to achieving objectives within any given organization. These aspects and actions that lead to the fruit of their own initiative. From the professional level, formal vocational training and completing my master degree has been my new goal. My field of work as a law enforcement officer throughout an Officer United States Army for more than 16 years, over which they have emerged different problems, both from the theoretical and from the urgency of finding practical solutions to everyday.

The professional plan is to help make a brief decision on which route to take to get to the next level. The professional plan is help breakup the goal into separate divisions to help decide where one would like to be in a certain amount of time. This brief information will help one improve self-goals. Also this professional plan can help make decisions on one’s major such as choosing one career out of three. Although choosing three careers researching all three could possibly help one to decide which career is best for them. With this project it seemed to be easy to determine which career is the best choice. Even though having a difficult time deciding on paralegal, legal assistant, and post-secondary law teacher. Knowing the salary of all three but seeming to just wanting to be in the law firm. Post-secondary is not really one of my main concerns more so of a fall back plan. If one was to get bored with paralegal or legal assistant one shall turn to post-secondary law teacher. Although paralegals and legal assistants have interesting goals and facts to let the world know. One can always get bored with one situation but also can change major or return back to college to receive and earn a different degree. Chose this major because always wanted to help others especially the innocent ones. Professional Plan

Career development plans are essential within a successful organization. Career plans allows the organization to both actively manage employee career progression, but also empower the organizations employees with active career management assets. Kudler Fine Foods to maintain sustainable growth and additional success must make an investment in the organizations employees to reach the organizations strategic goals, and objectives. The following summary contains justifications and recommendations to Kudler’s upper management in several key areas including; job descriptions and qualifications for five new positions, training programs to introduce and enhance the skills and

A career management plan is a plan that has been developed in order to help managers guide employees in a positive direction, which in turn helps employees to become successful. The plan here at InterClean includes setting goals, assessing those goals and devising plans to reach those goals. As the manager of this new team, the number one goal is to make sure that my employees know what is expected of them and then to facilitate performance. Expectations will be covered during orientation and training. As time goes by, the team will be assessed individually through performance appraisals

I was able to take three assessments that were able to tell me about my interests, skills, possible jobs and education degrees that I could potentially pursue. The names of the three assessments are the: Strong Interest Inventory, Myers- Briggs Type Indicator and StrenghtsQuest. I’m going to take a look at my results for each assessment and compare the similarities as well as the contrast.

“A career is the sequence if employment- related positions, roles, activities and experience encountered by a person” (Arnold 1997)

This career portfolio aims to plan and organize my career after completing the current postgraduate degree. First, my ideal job has provided the general direction for my broader career. Through acquiring the relevant information concerning my career, the S.M.A.R.T short term and long term goals can be formulated to facilitate me to carry out the career planning. Besides, the specific industry, which I intend to be working on, will be analyzed so that the potential career opportunities and challenges can be identified. Therefore, some related strategies will emerge to help me realize the goal and my wonderful career gradually.

PROMPT: My future career plans, why I want and need to study in the US at the graduate level, and how I hope to contribute to my country's democratic and economic development.