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Strengths Essay Joselyn Turner Western Governors University PFHM: Business HR Management Portfolio Requirement March, 07, 2011 Strengths Essay The career that I have chosen to pursue is Human Resources Management. When I started out on the path of “what I want to be when I grow up” I started in a completely different line of work. I wanted to be a Nurse when I graduated high school. I enrolled in college and I worked at a children’s hospital. After a while I started getting burned out by working long hours and on the weekend and I started to wonder if this was the right career that I wanted to continue with. I was offered a position at a staffing company that tailored to physicians and nurses and I …show more content…

I decided that I wanted to try corporate recruiting with not having the pressure of meeting “numbers” with a staffing agency and have the freedom to search for candidates for one particular company without trying to solicit clients. I did corporate recruiting for Alorica, PacifiCorp and Tri-Teva between 2006 to 20010. I then relocated to Colorado Springs and started doing contract recruiting work while finishing my education with Western Governors University. My work history of over ten years on both commercial staffing and corporate recruiting makes me a great candidate because I have experience in both sides of recruiting. A third strength I have is an inner drive to be able to stick to a task and get it done. Whether it is at work or at school, if I am assigned a task I make it a point to work at it until the task is done. If a deadline is presented in front of me I have something inside of me that forces me to keep working on it until it is completed and not just completed but done first the right way. Which leads to another strength that I have is a strong work ethic. In my profession in recruiting what I do reflects me and the company that I work for. When I go to recruiting events or career fairs I represent the company that I am there for. Everything about me such as my demeanor, my dress, my attitude, etc. reflects the professionalism of the company as well as any reports or products that are produced and put out by me. I take pride in my work and

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