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CS113: Academic Strategies for the Business Professional
Unit 9 Career Action Plan Assignment
Name: Travis Elliott
Two-digit Section #: 06
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Develop your own Career Action Plan based on the information you have gained in this course. Consider information from course Readings, Assignments, and Discussions.
I. Career Action Plan:
Take some time to think seriously about where you would like to be in your future career and how you will get there. Once you have generated some ideas, respond to all items listed below:
Career Goal: Your career goal should be a goal that you can realistically accomplish in approximately 2–5 years. Your responses for items A-C below should be a minimum of 10 complete sentences each.
A. My Present – Where are you right now in terms of your career progress? What current strengths and weaknesses can you identify? What current skills and experiences do you have that make you stand out? This question is important because it will help you to establish a clear picture of your current skills, experiences, and areas for improvement as well. You will want to make sure to reflect upon recent course readings, discussions, and activities that have helped you to recognize your strengths, weaknesses, interests, and abilities.
Profession Action Plan: I plan on getting my Business degree and beginning my own trucking organization
My present – I am as of now in my first year in school. My course content is organized towards Business. Through the LASSI evaluations and understanding my learning style, I have found that I have a double learning style – both Spatial and Kinesthetic. These two learning styles go connected at the hip for me as I am especially a hands-on student. In any case, my underlying guidance is absorbed best through pictures and pictures. I was charmingly amazed at the quantity of qualities that I right now have. I state this since I am new to school learning and I had a few reservations with respect to my capacity to be fruitful. I trust that my qualities are of various dimensions. My most grounded qualities incorporate being a decent communicator and thinking outside about the crate. I am additionally creating quality in the regions of opening myself to new encounters and believing in my capacities. For a large portion of my life, having certainty would have been viewed as a shortcoming. The acknowledgment this was a territory that required improvement has transformed this shortcoming into a quality in advancement. I do find that my primary shortcoming is keeping on target and on undertaking with my assignments. Notwithstanding, I currently understand that I can take this shortcoming and transform it into a quality with a little diligent work and determination.
B. My Future – Describe where you would like to be in terms of your career in the next 2-5 years. Identify at least one short-term goal (1-2 years) and one long-term goal (2-5 years) related to your career progress, making sure to note connections between the goals. Explain why each goal is important and what you will gain internally and externally as you achieve these goals.
My future – I will likely get my four-year college education by 2023. This is my long-haul objective, 2 to 5 years. For my momentary objective, 1 to 2 years, I plan on. I will be working on talking to other trucking companies and get advice on which is the best way to start. I have just chatted with the organization and they have thoughtfully permitted me the chance to and talk to them and see how their company works. I feel this will give me the chance to ask questions. Accomplishing the two objectives will enable me to have a sound establishment as we begin another private company. While acquiring my long-haul objective is significant, I feel my momentary objective takes somewhat more priority. My thinking behind this tie into my learning styles. By seeing what happens in a trucking business it will help me to see what I need to work on. The day by day obligations vary altogether between private ventures and enormous organizations. I feel that I will almost certainly comprehend my coursework by finishing the activity of talking with an owner and be able to ask all the questions that I have.
C. My Path – Describe your strategy for success by explaining the route you will take to move from point A (my present), to point B (progress towards achieving goals), to point C (achievement of short-term goals) and all the way to point D (achievement of long-term goals). Make sure to also identify at least two specific career resources from the Unit 9 Reading that you might make use of as you are working towards achieving your career goal and explain why these resources will be helpful.
My way – My fundamental procedure is to consolidate course work with genuine encounters. To achieve this, I will start to set up the business and get everything set up to begin the business once I graduate. Up until now, I have used Career One Stop and America's Career Info net as two of my principle assets. Profession One Stop gives point by point data on vocations just as various regions of data that are useful to understudies. America's Career Info net gives various assets that give understudies a thought of the various positions accessible under a degree. By keeping a receptive outlook and using various regions of data, I will move along in my objective procedure.
D. Your Actions: What are some of the steps or ACTIONS you will need to complete in order to get your desired outcome (minimum three steps/actions)? Make sure to include a projected completion date for each step/action. Include a mix of short-term and long-term action items/completion dates.
Step/Action Item + Completion Date #1:
Step/Action Item + Completion Date #1 – Complete first year towards Business Degree + March 2020.
Step/Action Item + Completion Date #2:
Step/Action Item + Completion Date #2 – Begin putting together the business with contacts and a business plan, May 2022.
Step/Action Item + Completion Date #3:
Step/Action Item + Completion Date #3 – Obtain bachelor’s degree Business + May 2023.
II. Networking & Career Building:
Carefully consider information from the Unit 8 and 9 Readings regarding networking and career building, and respond to the following items:
I. Explain the steps you will take within the next 2-5 years to develop a stronger professional network. Tip: Refer to the Networking for Career Success information located in Unit 8 Reading as you prepare to respond to this item. Your response should be a minimum of 10 complete sentences.
Building up a solid system of partners and experts is imperative to progress. My system needs to incorporate experts in the field of Business, educators, vocation situation advocates, just as dispatchers from trucking organizations and merchants who acquire drivers for shipment conveyances. Internet-based life is a truly significant device also. LinkedIn and Facebook can give people everywhere throughout the nation and even from remote nations. It is significant that my web-based life profiles are proficient and depict a positive picture to other people. One thought that I gained from Unit 8 Networking for Career Success included volunteering in the network. This humanitarian effort does not really should be in my picked field. As a volunteer, I can demonstrate my expert and good character. Numerous experts feel volunteering in their locale is significant. By volunteering, I can develop my profession arrange.
II. Identify at least two professional skills you will need to strengthen in order to be successful in your career field and explain how you might apply these skills in a professional situation. Tip: Refer to the Taking Control of Your Career Strategy information located in the Unit 9 Reading as you prepare to respond to this item. Your response should be a minimum of 10 complete sentences.
In the wake of surveying Chapter 9 "Assuming Responsibility for Your Career Strategy", two territories that I have to quality are to keep current with Federal and State charge laws and to set up a solid system of merchants. As the organization I am going to be working for is a little, family organization, it is basic that I stay current on all Federal and State charge laws. Not having this learning can open our business to fines and potential reviews. It will be my sole duty to ensure our privately-run company. The other quality that I have to create inside the following five years is to coordinate with trucking organization agents so as to open our privately-owned company to new chances. The trucking business can vary contingent upon the time and different elements. By having a solid system of dealers, we can have a more prominent opportunity to stay occupied.
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Unit 9 Assignment Grading Rubric
Quantitative Analysis: (point breakdown)
Points possible Points earned
Career Action Planning & Resources 30.0
Networking & Career Building 10.0
Style (spelling, grammar, and sentence structure) - 20% as outlined in the Assignment grading rubric located in the Syllabus.
Total points 40.0
