Professional Knowledge and Abilities

In American society, higher education has become the standard and all over the country young people are being told just how important and necessary this extended learning is. The question is: why? Mark Edmundson, author of “Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?”, tackles this question with full-force in his essay about making the most of your college learning. Within the essay, Edmundson’s purpose is to inspire a new way of thinking for students just beginning their college education. He gives the readers a personal account of self-discovery amidst the depravity of academics, and emphasizes that this is one of the most important parts of the college experience.

Gary Colombo, Robert Cullen, and Bonnie Lisle in their book “Rereading America” feel that commencing college is a very disturbing experience. So many things we have to deal while starting college, but the major challenges are expanded difficulty levels and higher expectation which we are not familiar over the years of high school. In order to solve this issue, we have to remodel ourselves by taking up the challenge and rethink about our strength and flaws. To succeed in college we need to be mentally strong and dedicated towards our goal.

The article “Secrets of the Most Successful College Students” by Annie Murphy Paul provides advice as well as experiences of wise students that can be implemented into the academic careers of any determined learner. This article is relevant to my life since I am a student planning to go to college. Many of the advice that was stated is already applied to the way in which I learn now. Becoming aware of the success that could follow from putting this well-advised information into effect is inspiring.

William G. Tierney, Zoë B. Corwin, Julia E. Colyar, (2005), Preparing for colleges, pp 200-264

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Professional competence means that an employee is open with informing the supervisor when he or she is unsure, or not confident in their skills to provide services to certain people. The certain people can be based on different diagnosis, cultural groups, sex, etc. Or perhaps an employee may lack experience or educational background in a certain area, therefore, is not competent to provide services. According to APA (2010), Section 2.01 boundaries of competence indicates that psychologists will provide services, teach, and conduct research with populations and in areas only within the boundaries of their competence (APA, 2010).

9. How can I ensure that my personal knowledge and skills meet required competency standards?

Annotated Bibliography McMahon, Maureen. " Underprepared College Students. " Underprepared College Students - Research Starters Education, 4/1/2017, pp. 1-6.

A couples of my professionalism strengths are organized, reliable, ridiculously punctual, and helpful. I constantly am keeping lists about the tasks I need to complete. Sometimes, it’s hard for me to get out of my routine, so keeping consistence helps. I’m reliable because if I’m asked to do a task it will get done in one way, shape, or form. I like to arrive 10-15 minutes early, so I can collect my thoughts and make sure I’m ready to tackle the task. Part of feeling important and accepted is helping others (it not be a part of professionalism, necessarily, but I think it’s part of how I carry myself). You, Dr. Burrow, can capitalize my strengths to make a strong impression in Field Experience I is if there is a change

The practitioner’s prior experience, knowledge, and understanding of their responsibilities as a practitioner all played a huge role in the interpretation of evidence presented, the situation itself, and therefore also the decisions made on how to proceed.

There are many personal characteristics that can affect a person as an individual and his professional success, namely openness, ability to learn and adapt etc. These personal characteristics can sometimes make a person successful and sometimes doesn’t. As I spend more and more time as a professional, I perceive that there are few characteristics that are essential for professional success: namely ambitious, creative and adaptable. These characteristics come out in many different ways. Have you set your goals? Have you decided the path you have to take to pursue your goal? What are the sacrifices you can do to achieve your ambition? How much can you think out of the box to resolve a particular issue or bring new idea to the table? How

Design and implementation of welfare payments outsourcing models at the State level to support benefit realisation both for the public sector and private sector partner on contracts valued over $20 million

We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you 've got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out. But with opportunity comes responsibility. Companies today aren 't managing their employees 'careers; knowledge workers must, effectively, be their own chief executive officers. It 's up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years.To do those things well, you 'll need to cultivate a deep understanding of yourself- notonly what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what

At the end of article “How to Make It in College, Now That You’re Here,” the writer Brain O’Keeney mentions, “Going to college can be an exciting time. You do learn. And when you learn things, the world becomes a more interesting place” (690). Sometimes, deciding in how to learn things or understand points is uninteresting, but there are lots of ways to help people in refreshing their brain, and to make learning interested to them. Learning can be exciting and gratifying to people, and it can provides people with processes to understand things clearly.

This paper presents personal development plan which I have formulated to identify my career objectives and improve my interpersonal and professional skills. Personal development planning includes a set of questions which try to identify career interests, potentials, and competencies, collect relevant information for future decision making, and personal development matrix to identify short and long term goals and their respective actions to be followed.