Dream Job
My dream job is to be a personal financial advisor. This position is appealing because it is well-compensated, provides a useful service to the public, and because it is an in-demand job. The fact that the job is also independent is another significant attribute of the personal financial advisor position. Becoming a personal financial advisor requires a lot of different educational and training experiences, including getting a college degree, preferably is something like finance or economics that is related to the field, and then there is further training in order to gain an investment advice license (OOH, 2013).
Job Description
The personal financial advisor position works within the investment advice office of the bank, and involves meeting with clients in order to help develop investment strategies that will meet their investment needs. The role combines strong interpersonal skills, sales skills and financial knowledge. The duties for this role include:
Meeting with clients…...
mlaReferences
OOH. (2013). Personal financial advisors. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Occupational Outlook Handbook. Retrieved December 6, 2013 from http://www.bls.gov/ooh/business-and-financial/personal-financial-advisors.htm
Raymond James. (2013). Financial advisor compensation guide. Raymond James. Retrieved December 6, 2013 from http://www.raymondjames.com/advisorchoice/traditional_employee/pdf/payout_comp.pdf
SBA.gov. (2013). Writing effective job descriptions. U.S. Small Business Association. Retrieved December 6, 2013 from http://www.sba.gov/content/writing-effective-job-descriptions
It gives an individual the energy to do things that can make him reach his dreams. Having no motivation is similar to having to no desire or inspiration to achieve a goal. If it can help, perhaps listing and knowing the positive outcomes of every activity that are involved in the process of achieving my dream can help me give motivations.
The third requirement that can help me achieve my dream is to set the right goals. I believe that a dream can turn into reality if the right goals are set. It is like planning every step and taking one right step at a time. As it was indicated by an online source,
Goal setting is nothing more than a formal process for personal planning. y setting goals on a routine basis you decide what you want to achieve, and then move in a step-by-step manner towards the achievement of…...
mlaBibliography
Setting Goals: You Can Achieve Any Dream You Desire. http://www.solveyourproblem.com/setting-goals/setting_goals_choose_wisely.shtml
The main qualification of the person who would be in any management environment most suitable for a CEO position, is to be an ambitious leader, highly positive and decisive in difficult financial, management, environmental and technical company situations. This personal advantage though must be complemented with other personal skills. Thus, the majority of the advertisements for the CEO positions in big companies stress that the potential CEO must be fully aware of human resources to select the right staff to carry out the strategy of the company, marketing and most importantly accounting and finance. Also, the candidate should have a very successful track record. For example, Pinnacle company requested that the candidate should have the experience of having established and operated business with over U.S.$50 ml in sales. This requirement changes with the company and the industry it operates in.
The majority of the announcements in the career opportunity centers…...
mlaReferences
Available from: www.salary.comAvailable at at http://www.ceo-recruiters.com/CEO%20Requirements.htm http://staff.gc.maricopa.edu/~jpell/blackboard/MASLOW.JPGAvailable
Dream Job
WNBA Coaching
IN PUSUIT OF MY WNBA COACHING DEAM JOB
The Early Years
When I was a little girl, I dreamed of playing basketball. As soon as it was possible, I begged my parents to sign me up to play. It was my favorite activity in physical education during school. I played basketball whenever I could and I was a Varsity starter for all four years of high school. I went to basketball camps all summer. I played basketball at the rec center and park with my friends in the off-season. I dreamed of basketball while I wasn't playing and I watched basketball when I wasn't dreaming. I love basketball and I always knew that when I was finished playing, I wanted to be a basketball coach and someday I hoped I would coach in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) (2011).
Many young athletes have big dreams about how far their sports talent…...
mlaReferences
Agarwal, Abishek. (n.d.). Building a basketball coaching career-Hot tips to get started. Retrieved from http://ezinearticles.com/?Building-a-Basketball-Coaching-Career-Hot-Tips-To-Get-Started&id=1664099 .
Granger, M. (2007). Fashion: The industry and its career. New York: Fairchild Publications, Inc.
OSU. (2011). Oregon State University
Stanford. (2011). Stanford University. Retrieved from UC-Berkeley. (2011). University of California-Berkeley. Retrieved from UH. (2011). University of Hawaii. Retrieved from UT. (2011). Lady Vols Basketball: University of Tennessee. Retrieved from http://www.utladyvols.com/sports/w-baskbl/tennw-w-baskbl-body.html.
Creating Your Dream Job / Human esource Consultant
Creating My Dream Job: Human esource Consultant
My dream job revolves around Human resource, the position of a Human resource consultant of my future company, or an existing corporation.
Job Summary
As the H Consultant, I will provide a high level support to the corporation across broad ranging human resource consultancy services (HCU, 2010). In addition, I will take part in stages of recruitment and some key aspects of the role of producing a wide range of written materials, managing enquiries and candidates at an executive level, evaluation, benchmarking and interviewing, reference checking and high level report wiring together with several activities across research, executive search and liaison with stakeholders (HCU, 2010). This position requires a close working relationship with the Chief Executive Officer, Human esource Manager, and other senior staff including the subordinate staff for efficient consultations.
Key responsibilities
Attending concise meetings to ascertain and identify the…...
mlaReferences
Human Resource Compensation Unit. (2010). Tips for Creating a Well-Written Job Description
Retrieved from http://joblink.ucsd.edu/ojd/resources/Tips.pdf
Romanoff, K., Boehm, K., & Benson, E. (1986). Pay equity: Internal and External
Considerations. Compensation and Benefits Review, 18(3), 17-25.
Creating Your Dream Job
We all have an ideal position we would love to occupy in an organizational setting. While there are those who dream of being chefs in a five star hotel, others would do just fine as aircraft pilots. My dream job is that of a General Manager of a fortune 500 company.
Before I develop the aforementioned position's job description and compensation/benefits package, it will be prudent to first develop an ideal scenario with regard to the said position. To begin with, I would prefer to be stationed in a major city as opposed to a small town. In addition to being one of America's largest corporations (by virtue of being in the fortune 500 list), the company in which I would love to serve as General Manager should also have global presence. Most particularly, I would prefer to work for a company in the Auto Manufacturers, Departmental Stores,…...
mlaReferences
Buono, A.F., Grossmann, R. & Lobnig, H. (Eds.). (2011). The Changing Paradigms of Consulting: Adjusting to the Fast-Paced World. Charlotte, NC: IAP.
Griffin, R.W. (2005). Management, (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
Mathis, R.L. & Jackson, J.H. (Eds.). (2011). Human Resource Management: Essential Perspectives (6th ed.). Mason, OH: Cengage Learning.
Nicholas, L. (Ed.). (2009). Introduction to Psychology, (2nd ed.). Lansdowne, Cape Town: UCT Press.
Creating Your Dream Job
Director, Enterprise Mobility Strategies Job Analysis
Director, Enterprise Mobility Technologies Job Analysis
Job Description
The Director, Enterprise Mobility Technologies provides strategic direction for our company's global mobility strategies and supporting technologies by managing partners, alliances and ongoing development of new applications and platforms. Leading alliances, partnerships and development agreements with key telecommunications providers, leading a team of global developers to create the next generation of mobility applications on the Apple iOS, Google Android, and Microsoft Windows Phone platforms, and creating state-of-the-art support applications for our global base of employees are the responsibilities of this position.
As the technology strategist for our company, the Director, Enterprise Mobility Strategies will provide our senior management team with strategic direction on mobility IT support and manage the global roadmap for mobility solutions corporate wide. This position reports directly to the Chief Information Officer and must be comfortable collaborating and working in small teams with all…...
mlaReferences
Currier, G. (2009). Orchestrating enterprise mobility. Baseline, (95), 18-20,22-23.
Goldman, J. (2011). Making the most of cloud-enabled enterprise mobility. CIO Insight, (115), 38-39,41.
Haner, U., & Bakke, J.W. (2008). Proximity, mobility and aesthetics in strategies for innovation management. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, 8(2), 168.
Jainschigg, J. (2008). Managing MOBILITY in the enterprise. Baseline, (88), 28-30,32.
DIPLOMA, SO WHERE'S YOUR DREAM JOB?
You need to take a breath.
You, the successful college graduate, deserve to bask a moment in the delightful glow of your accomplishment. Mom and dad are proud of you, and they believe your education was a wise investment. There are no more anxiety-filled all-nighters fueled by lattes and cold pizza in your immediate future. Take a couple of weeks for a special vacation (funded with all of those generous graduation gifts). Get ready to reevaluate your life. However, don't allow your relaxed breathing exercises to turn into a coma-you have some important decisions to make.
Do your homework.
The idea of homework may be anathema to you at this point, but those study habits will come in handy during your job search. Maybe you chose to major in the intellectually invigorating field of philosophy. Sometimes degrees in such heady fields do not readily translate into a…...
Forward
My dream job is in health care management. I am pursuing this right now because I feel that it meets all of my criteria for a dream job. The first thing that I want a job for is security, and healthcare management offers me that. According to the Occupational Outlook Handbook, healthcare management pays well, and the growth rate is much faster than average. If there is rising demand, and the field is relatively specialized, that means I will have considerable freedom over my future with this job. The median pay in 2012 was $88,580 per year, and the growth rate is 23% over the next decade, with an expected 73,300 new jobs (BLS, 2015). With that in mind, I feel that this is a career that provides a lot of security for me going forward.
But the dream job is not just about security. I want to do something…...
mlaReferences
BLS (2015). Medical and health service managers. Occupational Outlook Handbook. Retrieved April 18, 2015 from http://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/medical-and-health-services-managers.htm
My Utopia Job: CFO Being a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for a major Fortune 500 company would be my dream job. Capitalizing on a core base of competencies in accounting, cash flow management, and risk management, the CFO sits in the C-suite with a greater sense of purpose and a role that is instrumental in guiding the organization’s strategies (“Chief financial officer (CFO) job description,” 2017). An understanding of management concepts, theories, and principles will help me achieve this goal to help me manifest a utopic career. For example, systems theory shows how the CFO fits into the overall organization and its interdependent, multilateral nature. Likewise, the CFO must have mastered the main management concepts like those we have studied in this class including control and coordination. The CFO is role that balances strategy, tactics, vision, ethics, and communication. To be a successful CFO, one must also master essential conceptual, interpersonal,…...
Consider our team's work last year with a major mining client. This company faced a difficult tax situation with regards to an operation in PNG and we were called upon to solve the problem to avoid trouble with the regulators.
Our star accountants set about this task, but the job of coordinating the effort was mine. I needed to organize the paperwork, to track the progress of the different team members and to ensure proper filing of the necessary documents with regulators. Under my direction and leadership, our partners were able to bring the problem to a smooth resolution, saving the client tens of thousands of dollars in the process.
I like to feel that my coordinating efforts and expert information management helped to make this success possible. I had a specific role on the team and I fulfilled it to the highest level. This allowed the other team members to…...
Chasing the Dream
Joe Torre's "Chasing the Dream" is the life story of Torre, and its theme is his lifelong quest to win a World Series and a World Series ring. His brother Frank played baseball, Joe saw first hand the joy of winning a Series, and it became his goal in life to do the same -- to experience the joy of winning the ultimate baseball game. He writes, "As I took my team on a victory lap around Yankee Stadium, I thought, This is what I wanted my whole life" (Torre 12). The book is an autobiography, but it is really more than his life story, it shows how everything in his life helped lead to this defining moment in his life.
Throughout the book, Torre weaves his lifelong love of baseball into the theme of the book, showing how it became his ultimate goal and dream job. He writes,…...
mlaReferences
Torre, Joe. Chasing the Dream: My Lifelong Journey to the World Series. New York: Bantam Books, 1997.
It pays to read all the job descriptions and not be scared off by a title that sounds intimidating.
3. I will search as many job-related Web sites as possible, taking my time and being patient. I will not give up if the first Web site does not present me with my dream job. I will read carefully through the job descriptions on the Web sites, because if I skim too fast I might overlook positions that would be ideal for me. I will maximize my search time by bookmarking positions I am interested in, coming back to those later.
I will search for jobs in many different categories. I will not restrict myself to certain job categories, because the employer might list a position in a category that I normally would not have chosen. I will think long and hard about how my talents can be maximized in a position,…...
Nickel and Dream
People who are born or raised in the United States share unique character traits because of the American culture. Because this is considered a land of freedom and opportunity there are rights and gifts that are promised to each citizen. The American Dream is the unique idea that anyone who is willing to work hard can come from nothing and achieve their life's goals and ambitions so long as they live in America. Anyone, no matter how low class their level of birth, can succeed and have all the material possessions, money, and related power that they want as long as they are willing to put in the effort to achieve it. It is a promise which is two-sided because it requires the American to reach out for what the nation is holding above their head. In response to this ideology, many American authors have taken it upon…...
mlaWorks Cited:
Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and Dimed: On (not) Getting by in America. New York:
Metropolitan, 2001. Print.
King, Martin Luther. "I Have a Dream." 1963. Print.
Organizational Culture
Use the job characteristics model to explain why female MDs are working fewer hours
The most common job characteristics model used to explain why female doctors work fewer hours than their male colleagues is that female individuals retain the disproportionate burden of child and house care, in contrast to their male professional colleagues in the medical profession. Thus, to maintain some semblance of order in the home, and to greater balance home and family life, female doctors are statistically likely to be working fewer hours, as more and more female doctors enter the medical profession. As the medical profession's women no longer is made up only of die-hard future doctors, determined to sacrifice everything in their personal lives for the sake of work, they are less apt to work as many hours to retain that balance.
Another, related, corollary explanation is that female doctors desire, at the expense of professional ambitions,…...
1. Throughout my life, there have been several pivotal events that have defined my journey and shaped my identity. These events have fundamentally altered the course of my life and influenced the person I am today. From childhood experiences to significant turning points in my career and personal life, each event has played a crucial role in shaping my values, beliefs, and aspirations.
2. One of the most defining moments in my life was the loss of a loved one at a young age. This event not only brought the fragility of life into sharp focus but also instilled in....
Our semester plans gives you unlimited, unrestricted access to our entire library of resources —writing tools, guides, example essays, tutorials, class notes, and more.
Get Started Now