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Individual career plan 1

Individual Career Plan

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Capella University

COUN 5279: Life Planning and Career Development

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Due Date: December 11, 2022

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Individual career plan

An individual career plan is an outline that helps an individual to figure out the steps that they should take in order to achieve their career goals. Through this, a person should be able to realize their dreams. The normal path for graphic designers starts from being a junior graphic designer in a creative agency or even an in-house designer in a big company. This field allows an individual to utilize talent in a productive way in order to satisfy their career desires. The graphic design industry is expected to continue growing and create more jobs than any other sector of the creative art industry. In this industry, one can specialize in advertising, publishing, and merchandizing realms. Landing a graphic design job requires talent, a skilled person, or a degree. A graphic career offers various choices of specialization in industrial and commercial design (Hirschi, & Koen, 2021). Graphic designers are needed in car manufacturers, web designers, newspaper and publishing, furniture, and appliance industries among others. Examining the career profile of a young American girl allows the understanding of complexities, assessment of results, and identifying possible career options exposing the extent of understanding graphic design career as well as other career possibilities. Wrong

Client profile

My client is A Koren American woman named Crystal, age 18. Crystal’s parents are American Koren first-generation and moved to the US many years ago. She lives with her parents and is currently not working. Since her parents arrived to the United States they have operated a small family-owned business. Crystal is a high school student that has been diagnosed with dyslexia. Due to her diagnosis she struggles with her basic studies. She is attending a community-based training program and was recently informed that she needs to pass two English and one math courses. Due to her dyslexia diagnosis, she is worried that she won't be able to complete these classes. She reported that she is close to her family and both of her parents want her to consider a career in engineering. Crystal feels that attending a four institution is not the best choice for and wants to pursue a career in the graphic design field. She lacks support from her family due to her decision of following her own career choice.

Currently, Crystal is at a critical point in her life because she has to make up her mind about the career path she will follow. Her parents have been pushing her toward the engineering field. Choosing to listen to her parents, Crystal will do it just to impress them, but she will not have followed her heart. She is much into a graphic design career. She has not been in any college-level education before. She is planning on attending the community based graphic design program and work on building her portfolio. To help her make a choice in her career path, the resolution split strategy can be applied. Outlining the pros and cons of a graphic design career and an engineering career will be used in making designs using the two-chair method (Hirschi & Koen, 2021). This will enable Crystal to recognize the truths in both careers.

Assessment results

According to the Holland Code (SAE) assessment, the client appreciated working in an environment where she can explore her creativity without necessarily being restricted to a set of existing regulations. This work environment will enable Crystal to use her creativity. Her social setting will enable her to assist others in both learning and personal development. Her values card sort incorporates creativity as well, which is essential for working in the graphic design field. Her values card sort revealed that jobs in the arts often offer greater flexibility which gives room for creativity

Myers-Briggs Type indicator

The client's result from the Myers-Brigg test (ENFP) align with her interest in a social creative environment that makes her want to help others. She is building relationships while maintaining a personal responsibility on a supervision level. Crystal has moral principles, and she appreciates working with others. She takes responsibility and supervision. Her assessment remains constant.

Interests and personality

The clients’ assessment shows a high score in a social creative environment. This shows what the client’s full interests are. Personality assessment helps in identifying the clients’ limitations and positive traits. She likes working in an environment without restrictions.

The issues presented express the client's concerns about her career development opportunities and the level of success she can reach after her transition to a specific career path. This assessment should help Crystal to make a prudent decision on her overall career choice. She has to make a choice between pursuing a career in graphic design, and an engineering career, and a third option proposed is pursuing a career in social work. The assessment of interests and personality shows that Crystal has personal values and a broad interest in social working environments.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) shows that Crystal needs freedom in her workplace where she will have an opportunity to explore her creativity and come up with new ideas. This personality is often related to social creative environment personality. Focusing on the need to develop her personal and professional goals toward sustaining herself in a working environment. Her characteristics also reflect the big 5 personality theory. Crystal has high scores in Openness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and agreeableness. In order to understand the client’s personality further, completion of the values inventories mirrored her qualities that were evaluated based on the Big 5 and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. In her value sort card values that correlated with the personality assessment were independence as described by autonomy, working conditions, status, and authority. Even though the three values would be evaluated differently compiling them with the personality assessment exposed the interdependence the client has with her career. She is much into attaining higher positions and working with fewer restrictions (Ma, Guo, & Fang, 2021). The assessment of the client’s interests showed promising results.

Assessment of personality and interest inventory is relevant to a client’s culture. This considers the client's needs, and how she perceives her career future and life. The clients’ wishes are channeled to a relevant and appropriate assessment profile for accurate evaluation. The main aim of the evaluations is to determine a client’s desires with respect to the value of employment they wish to have (Redekopp & Huston, 2018). The client values building relationships while working at the supervision levels of an organization.

Career options

The client is currently a high school graduate and has an interest in pursuing a career in graphic design. She maintained a 4.0 in her high school educational pursuits. She has not worked before, and she lives in her parents’ house. She has been doing design art back in her home. This has greatly contributed to her interest in this field. She has attended open-day events for graphic design professionals from local institutions. The open days have been encouraging her to dive deeper into the profession and follow various You-Tube platforms for graphic design. The client's second career option is pursuing engineering. She does not have an interest in engineering, but her parents have proposed it to her. Her parents have been working in the field of engineering for years and they think it is the best career option for their daughter. The client's aim goal is to pursue a career in graphic design but she is thinking about the engineering option that her parents have presented to her. Pursuing engineering will make her relevant knowledge for running her family's engineering enterprise in the future. In graphic design, she will have to chant her way out to succeed in her career (Mukhamedov, 2021). In determining the best career option factors to consider should be career timelines, licensure, internships, and future opportunities in the market for the choice made.

Career plan of action

Option One: Graphic design

The client is more interested in joining a graphic design career. To attain a degree in graphic design will take a duration of 3 years full-time. This program will enable students to learn tools, strategies, and design thinking methodologies that a professional need to become an adaptable multi-disciplinary designer. The course focus on harnessing a student’s creativity to enable them to make an impact in the ever-changing world. Through designing, students will develop skills for solving complex problems. There is no special body made to license graphic and web designers. In a situation where one is a freelance worker, they will need to have to file a business certificate with the local country clerk. After completion of the higher education program, the client can begin working actively as a professional in the field. The median salary for graphic designers in the United States is $53,380. The best paid 25% earn $71,310 while the least paid to earn $40,160 per year. This career will involve designing and creating visual concepts using a computer or hand depending on the nature of the project being worked on. This sector is becoming popular in the modern world (O*NET Online, 2021). This option will offer a good opportunity in the market for the client because the industry is expanding.

Option Two: Engineering option

The second choice for the client is pursuing an engineering career option. This will make her fulfill the wishes of her parents. In the United States, it takes four years to complete a typical program in Engineering. Proceeding to master levels will take two more years. Engineering is not an easy career path because going through a program to graduation is not easy. Students in this program have to prepare for long hours and work on projects unlike the situation in other degree programs. Competing for a degree in engineering opens the door to lucrative career opportunities. This path will have rigorous training programs, and internships, and requires licensure for any practicing engineer. To be licensed an engineer should complete a college degree, work under a professional engineer for a minimum of four years and pass two intensive competency exams in order to earn a license from the state's licensure board. Engineers earn an average of $51 per hour and an average of $107,096 per year.

Reflection

A proper understanding of the client’s strengths and limitations provides a unique perspective of her qualities and disparities. As a career counselor analyzing diverse career situations with a client tends to be difficult in this case the client can struggle. The client should think through a logical and realistic perspective that will help them understand. The internal fights of making a decision from the client tend to expose illogical thinking. To make a choice application of the resolution split strategy can be applied. The client should consider exploring the concerns about the choices she makes for her career independently without being influenced by her parents. The resolution of the split intervention will be helpful to Crystal. Through this strategy, Crystal will consider her personality, values, and capabilities in making a choice. The career path she wants is less demanding compared to the engineering option. Using the two-chair method can also be used in evaluating career options (Tang, 2018). This will allow the client to speak, feel, and act with respect to all perspectives.

This can be used to convince her parents that a graphic design career is the best option for the client. Her personality assessment shows that she is more suitable for a graphic design career as opposed to engineering. Using the Holland Interest Code (social, creative, and entrepreneurial) show an artistic upbringing makes influence graphic design for self-expression. Crystal is creative enough and this offers her great flexibility when working as a graphic designer to explore her creativity. The client chose a job in Zone 2 that calls for a high school diploma and some training (Tang, 2018). The graphic design career is at Zone 4 but her determination in growing will push her to further her studies.

References

Hirschi, A., & Koen, J. (2021). Contemporary career orientations and career self-management: A review and integration.  Journal of Vocational Behavior,  126, 103505. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2020.103505.

Ma, L., Guo, H., & Fang, Y. (2021). Analysis of construction workers’ safety behavior based on Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Personality Test in a bridge construction project.  Journal of construction engineering and management,  147(1), 04020149. doi/abs/10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0001958.

Mukhamedov, U. S. (2021). Trends In The Emergence And Development Of Styles In Web-Design.  The American Journal of Interdisciplinary Innovations Research,  3(10), 21-24. DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37547/tajiir/Volume03Issue10-04 .

O*NET Online. (2021, August 23). Interests for: Enterprising.  https://www.onetonline.org/explore/interests/Enterprising/

Redekopp, D. E., & Huston, M. (2019).  The broader aims of career development: Mental health, wellbeing and work .  British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 47(2), 246–257.

Tang, Me (2018). Career Development and Counseling : Theory and Practice in a Multicultural World, SAGE Publications, Incorporated. ProQuest Ebook Central,  https://ebookcentral-proquest   com.library.capella.edu/lib/capella/detail.action?docID=5945459.