Career Development Essay

Career Development: Assessment, Feedback and Training. The ultimate goal of every corporation on this planet is to remain profitable and succeed in whatever goals the organization may have set for themselves. Economists and management theorists around the world have their own theories regarding how this should be accomplished but at the heart of some of them is the concept of human capital growth and its ability to act as the ultimate competitive advantage. One of the pioneers of the concept of human capital, Gary Becker, defines it as “the knowledge, information, ideas, skills, and health of individuals (Becker, 2002)”. He continues by stating that human capital is “by far the most important form of capital in modern economies”. It is hard…

As stated previously, the client took all three career assessments listed above. Based on John Holland’s Self-Directed Search, the client received the specific results of SEC, known as Social (14), Enterprising (14), and Conventional (13). The self-identified occupations of interest by the client were teacher, counselor, entrepreneur, clergy member, and marriage and family counselor. Those more inclined to social careers require teaching, treating or healing others. These specific results…

Career Development: Lifetime Employability At the ripe old age of nine, I started my very first job babysitting my neighbor’s three children. While this may not seem like a real job, by the time I was ten, I was babysitting three days after school, most Friday nights and usually at least one weekend day. My cliental, after school was actually six children ranging from 1-6 years old. Soon I found myself having to recruit my friend to help me, for a cut of my pay, in order to take the kids to the…

My journey through career exploration this year has been the most useful experience I have had to date in regards to figuring out what I would like to do with the rest of my life. I have had many opportunities because of this course to explore different resources, such as career panels, mock interviews, and online resources such as glassdoor.com for the variety of careers that are available to me, and how I can go about pursuing them. I am thankful for how much I have learned in this course and…

The 6 personality traits according to John Holland, of which are conventional, realistic, investigative, artistic, social, and enterprising. Conventional are the type of people that are structured, organized, and like efficiency and order. Whereas with realistic people they tend to be more hands on or physical people, compared to Investigative people are introspective, intelligent, and scientific. Artistic people are expressive, initiative, and creative, compared to enterprising people that are…

Who I am in Reference to my Future You can tell a lot about a person by what they want to do in their careers, what their hobbies are and what they are interested in. This self-directed search (SDS) is a good tool to learn more about yourself, your interests, and what career you are suited to pursue. The SDS is a series of self evaluation questions. Questions that ask you what activities you enjoy or do well, occupations that interest you, and what you like to do in your leisure time that…

A very wise and magical man named Walt Disney once said, “if you can dream it, you can do it” (Coombs, 2015). I have had many different jobs over the years, even a stint working for the Walt Disney Company, but ever since I was a little girl I have been dreaming of what my career could be. Now that I am an adult, and I use the term loosely since it still takes some getting used to view myself as an adult, I am very excited about planning my career. Colorado State University’s Global Campus…

the career center was in my sophomore year. I was extremely stressed about declaring my major since this decision would determine the course of my future career. My indecisiveness began inhibiting my academic progress due to enrolling in irrelevant classes. It was during this walk-in that I first met Kay. Her friendliness helped ease the anxiety I felt about my situation and allowed me to comfortably disclose my thoughts, fears, and opinions. Kay understands that choosing a career depends on…

real world; this has strengthened my skills for college and my future career, which shows my growth as an academic student. This semester I have also started an organization here at school that both shows my growth as a global citizen and will, in hopes, help the community, and the people living in it. This year, the junior class, along with the senior class, was assigned the…

whether the University of Northern Colorado Career Services where I intern this semester follows the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) policy or not. After having a one on one conversation with the Career Services Director, she made realize that Career Services used the CAS materials to conduct their 5-year program review. In this paper, I will not offer recommendations for ways the Career Services office might better meet CAS standards. Instead, I will analyze…