Career Interest Profiler and Competencies

Career Plan Building Activity: Competencies and Career Interests Profiler

Great tool provided by University of Phoenix to its students glance at where they are standing to help with future carrier plan. Time to time reflecting self-strengths and weaknesses internally is very important however it always good to have input from outside. Neither knowing right question to ask nor that mental blocks arising within ourselves make it hard to visualize our thoughts. Therefore, when we can, understanding our personal competencies can help in giving us direction because we can see our strengths and weaknesses.

Personal results of competencies and career profiler were interesting.

Social

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Artistic

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Conventional

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Strengths

Competencies

Cooperating: Five out of Five

Adhering to Values: Five out of Five

Adapting to Change: Three out of Five

Networking: Three out of Five

Following Instructions: Two out of Five

Delivering Results: Two out of Five

Understanding Personal competencies can help an individual become a better communicator in business world it also allows more clearly see areas that needs to be improve and highlight strong areas. This understanding will provide significant help to plan more effectively on research topics and gain more experience in particular field.

In business as well as life communication is key to success. "Critical thinking skills take time to learn because you're asking the brain to make changes in both cortical organization and interregional connectivity. Learning new skills literally reorganizes brain mass." Critical Thinking Skills. (2005). In E. Jensen, Teaching with the Brain in Mind, 2nd ed., Rev. and Updated (pp. 112-124).

Every day we are presented with a multitude of examples of how communication is either used successfully or unsuccessfully. Critical thinking is a pathway to explore and learn effective communication skills it is strong