Essay about Professional Goals

Early childhood is a field I see myself staying in for a long time. I am currently working at a child care center, and enjoy learning about the different ways to run a center and the new information available to us. I have worked at two child care centers, and while the curriculum and rules are different, the goal of having the best quality of service for the parent is the same. Providing for parents and wanting the best for every student by having staff who wants to work and wants to do everything they can to supply the best for children is how to deliver quality care. After finishing school, I would like to open up my own child care center. By creating a safe, fun, and loving environment for children, they are able to learn, grow, and develop, in the best possible way.

I completed my BS in Human Services in March 2015. Since that time, I have been researching many colleges fluctuating between the MSW, MFT and Mental Health Counseling degrees. I consider my graduate school decision to be a positive life-altering decision requiring much thought, and research. After an extensive amount of research, and phone conversations, I have decided to pursue a Masters in Marriage Family, and Counseling Therapy.

Continuing my professional growth in Early Childhood is very important to me. The way I could do that would be to learn more things about that area. Talk to different people that have knowledge in this type of expertise. Learn all of the qualifications that it takes to

Physical: By the age of 5 children can start to walk up the stairs unaided, hold a crayon or pencil to draw and write. By the age of 8 children can start to learn to catch and

The majority of my work with children and families has been in the school environment. In my field placement within the school system I gained experience in being a part of the schools programs, as well as getting to know administrators, counselors and teachers. I enjoyed being able to work with different schools in one county. I worked with 8 elementary schools, two middle schools, and two high schools. This provided me with the experience to see how schools can operate in many different ways and how there can be a different culture in each school even within the same school system. I took part in IEP meetings and intervention meetings throughout the year. Being a part of attendance meetings was also an important part of being within the school system. As a school social worker I was able to look at a

I have been working in the healthcare field for over 25 years now. The past 14 years I have been a physical therapist assistant. 11 of the 14 years I worked for HealthCare Midwest, until they joined Bronson Hospital in 2014. In three of the 14 years, I was also the Assistant Clinical Director for a clinic that I helped start in Portage, Michigan. However, two years ago, Bronson decided to cut back on the number of leaders they had in the rehabilitation department and the director over our departments would not allow me to apply for the manager’s position over the three Bronson HealthCare Midwest clinics, because I only had a bachelor’s degree. Consequently, I took a pay cut of $18,000 a year, but it motivated me

The life of a student-athlete entails much sacrifice and plenty of restless days. Whether frantically finishing homework following an all-day competition or dreading to begin a project as injuries are tended to, such a lifestyle is not suitable for the fainthearted. In realizing the amounts of work that is demanded of the student-athlete, one can indubitably feel overwhelmed. However, levels of preoccupation and tension lessen considerably when organization guides the daily course of action. Implementing a set of long-range goals, in any realm from academics to athletics, is essential to attaining success. In setting educational goals to be reached, I strove diligently to achieve those high standards and, eventually, realized them.

Working with children has always been something I’ve loved to do, and that is why I believe the e.c.e career path would be the best choice for me. Early childhood education would be perfect for me because I enjoy working with kids, I believe in healthy childhood development, and also the perks of the all the opportunity to further yourself while working with children. The most important skill that you should have is being able to work with kids. You will need to have patience in repeating yourself if necessary as well as patience in following a daily schedule. In your day to day with being able to keep up with the children involves lots of energy and being enthusiastic in everything you are doing. This is important because it keeps the children’s

[As a passionate health educator who has worked for over 5 years in direct patient care in various forms, I believe I am ready for the next level in my career. While the motive behind my professional experience has always been the desire to promote positive health outcomes and affect change in my community, my main job duties have primarily involved assisting patients and affecting health on an individual level.] In my current role as a bilingual (Spanish-english) care manager, changing the lives of the individuals I work with has only served to increase my drive to promote healthy change actively challenging the stigma around important health issues, through learning more and educating others. The more I work with members of underserved populations who face the systemic, and pervasive barriers faced by underserved and stigmatized populations on a daily basis, the more inspired I am to advocate for social justice and affect change and reduce stigma) on a broader level. Through advanced coursework in public health through the certificate of public health sciences, I will be better prepared to address barriers at a community level.

Over the next several years, while pursuing my degree as a Clinical Mental Health Counselor and becoming a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor it will be important that I am able to maintain my self-care. Self-care is any activity that helps care for or maintains our physical and mental health. Working in a helping profession, self-care is often over looked, due to the need to help others. The burnout and overturn rate in the helping profession is high, due to the stress, of emotional exhaustion, secondhand traumatization and the feeling of helplessness. In order to prevent becoming burned out, you must maintain self-care.

My professional goal is to become a psychiatrist while contributing to brain related research because I believe the brain is one of the most powerful things on earth but our understanding of it is fairly limited. However, in order to reach my professional goals I need to reach my academic goals.

Both my personal and professional goals animate me and motivate me to pursue and finish my degree. The personal and professional are fundamentally interconnected. Personally I aim to live a life filled with a sense of meaning, and growth. These terms are purposefully broad in nature so that I have space to specify how they manifest themselves in a variety of ways. These broad personal aims become more tangible, and are matched, through more exact professional goals. Currently, I am working with a start-up charter school project serving the needs of high-school dropouts. This aligns with my sense of meaning because service to others, particularly through education, is valuable to me. Within the next five years I would like to found my own social entrepreneurship project. I do not see a world in which accomplishing this, and my broader aims, is

Ever since a young age, I have aspired to become a strong, hard-working woman. Throughout high school I have gone through some personal trials that have tested my own belief in accomplishing my dream, but perseverance led me to Central Michigan University. People say that every challenge you face will make or break you, and I believe that Nouvel Catholic Central made me into the person that is here today. With all the occurrences that have led me here today, I will go forth with tenacity and determination to persevere through my college years into becoming the professional I believe I can be and face any obstacle that may come forth with steadfastness and indefatigability.

When I was little, I was always encouraged to run away from adversity. On the whim of my single mom, I have moved from place to place on pocket change and borrowed money. I have been raised a transient: shifting three hundred miles or three thousand, I have experienced poverty in states across the nation. I have lived with rats in Ohio; I have slept on couches in California; I have had to sacrifice groceries for rent in North Carolina and rent for my mom's breast cancer bills in Georgia. Being homeless for several months of my freshman year of high school, I lived in shabby motels. I feared for my life as a man shattered a window and attacked a woman in the motel room adjoining mine. I ate only what a mini-fridge would hold and wore only what a suitcase could

Over the course of my educational career, I have picked up many skills that have made me a valuable candidate for the Charles Herbert Flowers High School Chapter of the National Honors Society. Some of the many valuable personal attributes I have obtained are that I have built a computer from scratch, I am familiar with the basics of the programming language C, I have over 90 student service hours as a sophomore, I do many after school activities while still maintaining a 3.6 cumulative GPA, and I am a student in the Science & Technology Program. With these attributes my 10 year plan is for me to graduate high school with at least a 3.5 cumulative GPA, attend a four-year college where I will graduate and earn my masters degree in Computer Hardware Engineering, and use the information I gained from networking with the friends to