Career Analysis: A Reflection of Self Goals

Deliberate goalsetting and planning can be helpful to ensure a career which is both successful and fulfilling. Career planning is the process of evaluating your interests, preferences, skills and objectives, all to ensure that your work is in good agreement with personal values and strengths. Reflecting on a viable career plan is particularly important for U of A Engineering graduates as the economy in Alberta has seen heavy turmoil in recent years, resulting in the loss of job opportunities. As a result, setting realistic goals and strategic planning is essential to navigate the rough economic landscape.

Through my research I have found multiple jobs that interest me, but there are two that stick out the most: Psychosocial Rehabilitation Specialist and Psychiatric Technician. Before researching, I had no idea about these jobs, but now I know good deal about them. After researching, I found out in what settings people in these positions work, how much they make on average annually, what their job entitles, what the education requirements are, what the growth rates for these occupations are. The jobs’ settings are very similar, but their salaries and duties are very different. I was able to find that if one just looks at the average, annual wage for each occupation, Psychiatric Technicians make about $28,000 while Psychosocial Rehabilitation Specialists make about $34,000. The growth rate for Rehabilitation Counselors, in general, is faster than Psychiatric Technicians, but only by four percent. The overall tasks of each occupation, however, differ greatly from each other.

Whilst a great body of careers theory literature leans towards “career as an individual phenomenon” (Schneidhofer, Latzke & Mayrhofer, 2015), careers cannot be isolated from other factors. Grandjean (1981, p.1057) places careers at “the intersection of societal history and individual biography”. Changes in context do impact on careers, however, the extent to which they do so in isolation is difficult to measure. Context has an important part to play, offering careers “a set of external structures and events that create opportunities and difficulties” (Inkson, Dries & Arnold, 2015). Changes in context are inexplicably driven by the forward motion of time. It has been argued that individual reaction to such changes facilitates career

Every individual has accomplished achievements that they will always cherish. Whether the achievement is minimum or maximum , the significance of the triumph is of utmost importance to them. My personal achievement that I am most proud of is when I was blessed with opportunity to be picked as NASH student and observe the different physicians who helped with giving birth to the newborns. In those few seconds I realize that my passion is to become an OB Nurse Practitioner.

I also liked taking the assessments. The career assessments are a great assessment to take for ourselves and also for students who are looking to enter a career. It is great that the career assessment confirmed my beliefs that working as a counselor or in the education field matches my interest. I can’t believe that the unemployment rate is so high. I’m sure this class has prepared you to help the students with their career and college decisions. The websites were very helpful and I will be using them in the future. It was great working with you in this class.

Unfortunately, the results of the career assessment surveys on www2.careercruising.com did not place my desired career as one of the careers it thought I would be interested in. Another thing the career assessments told me I was primarily a visual learner, but I had a secondary preference for tactile learning as well. However, it gave me a career that correlates with the subject I want to teach as my career, which happens to be mathematics (career: mathematician). This choice can be the match for lighting the fuse for the rocket that is my career path so I can blast off with my career in the future. However, I was a bit disappointed that these surveys did not land me with a “teaching” job, but one thing I can agree on is the fact that it landed me with a math-related career, because math is my favorite subject in school overall. Even so, these results might help me pursue my dream of becoming a middle-school math teacher if I work hard enough. In conclusion, even though some of these surveys’ results don’t match my interests, I can still work hard to prove them otherwise.

I started my first career with Old Dutch Foods in 1990 as an owner operator. My responsibilities included: merchandising, delivering product to stores, and ensuring proper rotation of an assortment of premium products. I successfully grew the business from an estimated $450,000 per year to over a million by the time I had left. My route quickly became one of the largest in Canada, and helped me learn the valued set of skills I have today. I Learned to build relationships with my customers and found innovative ways to market our products. In those days I worked with my father shoulder to shoulder as a business partner, and if it were not for his passing in 1997, I would probably have remained with the company. After my father passed away, I

In this research essay, I will be talking about the career that I would like to be in and what I need to do to get into that program: as well as talk about the university that I chose and explain why this would be the best decision to be in that field of research. The career that I chose and want to become is a zoologist and a wildlife biologist. The everyday work-life of a zoologist and a wildlife biologist mostly includes conducting studies, perform complex experiments, and going on trips to secluded areas such as rainforests, arctic tundras, deserts, and other places to collect data and research and make new theories and discoveries of animals. The education needed for this career is just to take a 4 year undergraduate program at a university,

I began my surveying career in 1996 with David Bodo & Associates. While working, I completed college to receive my degrees in Associate of Applied Science in Civil Engineering Technologies at Stark State College of Technology, Associate of Applied Science in Surveying and Construction Engineering Technology with High Distinction at The University of Akron, and a Bachelor of Science in Surveying and Mapping Technology, Magna Cum Laude at The University of Akron. I then passed my State and National Surveying test and received my Professional Surveying License in June 2003. In Fall of 2003 I began teaching in the evening at the University of Akron until the end of 2011. In 2008 I became a partner at David Bodo & Associates,

The start of this project began in early October, and for the most part it was a relatively simple course of action to be prepared, coordinated, and reported for the majority of the school year. Its themes and priorities were simple in theory, however—volunteer, research post-graduation opportunities and ideas, and for the most part settle with a plan on how to address adulthood and future prospective careers and education. My choices led me to volunteer for the necessary twenty hours and my own curiosity has allowed for me to navigate the internet and other sources for ideas on careers, education, and even the possible jobs that I could acquire when moving from Pennsylvania after my graduation. There were many things to learn, but many things

For the past five years I have been an elementary school teacher, and this experience has helped me to identify where my career goals will lead. My interest in the Doctor of Education Organizational Change and Leadership program is to become a staff educator. I would like to guide teachers how to use data to drive their instruction in the classroom.

While researching on my chosen career path, I have noted expected growth in areas of Human Resources, and will attempt to place myself into those thriving roles by developing a long-term plan. As the economy fluctuates, the market for HR professionals will feel the adverse effect of downsizing & job expansion. The additional growth of technology is planned to change the job role on all career roles. And should be noted as a concern for this career path along with many other internal roles. With the continued growth of technological innovation we can expect increase in job efficiency, while experiencing a simultaneous drop in the needed personal of a company, as automation increases employees efficacy. In the current prediction model it is

The majority of college graduates have trouble deciding which jobs are more appropriate for them. A solution to this problem comes from websites such as the New York Career Zone Assessment, a government website designed to suggest types of employment based on the ranking of the users’ three major interests. When I recently visited the website and was asked to “target [my] interests,” I best identified with the terms conventional, realistic and enterprising which were further described and explained. My first choice, “conventional”, was described as “jobs that involve working with data clerical tasks, or numerical ability, carrying things out in detail or following instructions.” My second interest, “realistic,” referred to “jobs that require an athletic or mechanical ability, working

As an undergraduate student, I have learned that I can handle more than I previously thought possible. I am now looking forward to the next part of my life, where I will realize that I must work harder than ever before to reach my full potential.

manual worker one must remain one for one’s entire life; but a lot of young people do not realise that this is not the case.