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Career Planning
Planning a Career Like a Product
What exactly is your product and how is it different from (or better than) other similar products?
My product is my analytical ability, willingness to work harder and longer at difficult tasks than anyone else, verbal skills and fearless presentation skills. I also have a strong passion to excel and achieve my professional goals, and try to balance this with a commitment to be compassionate as well. I firmly believe everyone deserves respect, from the night cleaning crews to the CEO. Everyone, regardless of where they are in life, deserves to have dignity and their voice listened to. These are what I consider to be my differentiating qualities as a professional.
Where will you sell your product?
My product or my service is for sale to companies who have strong ethical beliefs and considerer the customer the center of their universe. I want to work for a company that has nothing o hide...
I am selling my product, or who I am, to these companies at a reasonable price, as I can bring a very high level of energy, enthusiasm and passion to what I do. My product is the ability for companies who meet my profile of the "ideal customer" to propel them faster and more profitably to their goals than any other competitor I may face. My ideal customer or who I sell to is also going to be continually striving for greater innovation and looking to disrupt their own business models in addition to the industry. My top potential customers include the most innovative and interesting start-ups in the world including Box.net, a leader in online storage, whose CEO is visionary in how he is navigating the enterprise market. Another potential customer is Salesforce.com who has completely disrupted the area of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. Additional ideal customers…
Career Information Finding the most appropriate and up-to-date information about a specific career could be a tedious process. Luckily though, there are numerous sources of career information an individual could rely. In this text, I analyze three occupational information sources. O*NET Resource Center (http://www.onetcenter.org) In brief, O*NET describes itself as "the nation's primary source of occupational information" (O*NET, 2014). As the organization further points out on its Website, its database comprises of hundreds
Career planning is one of the most challenging aspects of human development and success. Within the context of career development there are many main theories, yet the theory that best applies to the information for the following client is the developmental-contextual model forwarded by a distinguished group of career development researchers and instructors at Penn State University. The concepts of the career development theory incorporate the concepts of the developmental-contextual
Career Research Report Researching companies is very important when anyone is considering a future career. The two companies researched here will be Wal-Mart and Target, in order to determine which one (if any) would be the best choice for me to work at based on all the factors that are important. The purpose of the report is to discuss both Wal-Mart and Target, in order to show that the companies have many
The "Dutch Test for Conflict-Handling," indentified my personality to have medium 'yielding' conflict style. This is consistent with my articulated belief that agreeability when handling conflicts is required, but not to the point that ethics are ignored. My test results on the "Big Five Personality" test thus support the notion that when handling ethical conflicts solving problems on a personal level and achieving a mutually beneficial solution is ideal.
The primary competitor for the new indoor softball and baseball facility would be the Suffolk County Police Athletic League, which is a long established and traditional facility. They offer a wide variety of sports, including baseball, softball, football or basketball. This particular facility is mostly focused on receiving adult and skilled members, which will join the club's team and participate to competitions. In other words, they are only limitedly interested
Second, a major benefit for many computer programmers is the option of working on a variety of very interesting and challenging projects. Often the projects require months off planning, programming and continual work to get the applications to performing at their highest possible performance levels. Third, many companies now sponsor in-house training and development seminars, with a few even having local universities come in and teach the latest techniques