Business HW

Task

Using the BUAD 2000 VIPS Inventories located on pages 3 and 4, identify your top three Interests, Skills, Values, and Personal Qualities. List each of the top three below. (12 points)

2. Select one from each category. In the space provided, compose a meaningful action statement or two of how you became aware of the respective item. These statements may be composed like resume statements, (beginning with crisp present or past tense action verbs), or in regular sentence structure. Consider the environment (work, service, with family or friends) and what you were doing when you became aware of it. (3 points for each of the four responses for a total of 12 points) Responses are evaluated on a scale of 0 to 3; 0 to 1 = Needs Improvement, 2 = Acceptable, 3 = Excellent.

1. Interest: Presenting Research and present regularly at regional professional association conferences.  Desire to collect resources and then lecture on wellness at professional association conferences.

2. Skill: Coordination Organized the largest ongoing, all-inclusive, on-campus event at BGSU, New Student Orientation, with collaboration and mutual respect for colleagues.  This experience, more than any, refined my coordination skill.  Around 7000 students and their support-givers would attend summer events.

3. Value: Flexibility Employment requirements allow for flexible scheduling and workflow which supports personal commitments.  Having been employed as a lecturer for nearly 12 years, I could not return to private sector employment as the flexibility offered through teaching creates an ideal family environment.

4. Personal Quality: Detail-oriented Established mostly through Orientation role which required harnessing the capabilities of virtually all on-campus departments.  Continually used now with managing coursework of more than 500 students a semester.

3. Now, select one of the four above, and compose a brief paragraph describing why you believe this particular interest, skill, value or personal quality would be desired by an employer. Approach this task like you were preparing for an interview. If an employer were to ask you to explain why your selected value, interest, personal quality, or skill is of benefit, what would you say? The more effort you apply to your response, the more you will learn about yourself and the way you will promote yourself to employers. (Use the space after the directions to compose your thoughts). Your response should be no fewer than five sentences, and no more than 10. (10 points) 0 to 4 = Needs Improvement, 5 to 9 = Acceptable, 10 = Excellent.

My ability to coordinate is one of the most valuable assets I can bring to an employer. I know how to look at the “big picture,” or the desired outcome, and identify each step that needs to be taken in order to achieve the desired result. First, I identify the tasks that need to be completed. Next, I research what people or departments need to be involved. Then, I develop a timeline by which all tasks need to be completed, taking into consideration potential pitfalls that may occur. The end result is a seamless event that is appreciated by those who are impacted by its presentation. After an event or project is completed, I conduct either personal or group feedback with the constituents involved to ensure subsequent events are continually improved upon.

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Review the list of Interests below. Upon considering the list, place a checkmark in the box preceding your top three interests. Add your own if necessary.

BUAD 2000 Interests and Skills Inventories

Lists adapted from Powell, C.R. (2004). Career Planning Strategies (5th ed.). Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing.

· Acting

· Analyzing numbers

· Art

· Athletics

· Building

· Calculating

· Communicating

· Competing

· Computing

· Constructing

· Coordinating

· Creating concepts

· Creating things

· Designing

· Evaluating

· Exercising

· Experimenting

· Fixing

· Gaming

· Helping others

· Installing

· Investing

· Leading

· Learning

· Listening

· Making money

· Managing

· Meeting people

· Negotiating

· Organizing

· Outdoor Activities

· Performing Arts

· Persuading

· Planning

· Playing

· Promoting

· Reading

· Relaxing

· Researching

· Selling

· Singing

· Shopping

· Socializing

· Solving problems

· Solving puzzles

· Speaking

· Sports

· Strategizing

· Teaching

· Technology

· Traveling

· Troubleshooting

· Using logic

· Volunteering

· Watching media

· Writing

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Review the list of Skills below. Upon considering the list, place a checkmark in the box preceding your top three skills. Add your own if necessary.

· Accomplishing

· Accounting

· Acquiring

· Acting

· Analyzing

· Assembling

· Building things

· Calculating

· Classifying

· Competing

· Compiling

· Composing

· Computing

· Constructing

· Coordinating

· Counseling

· Creating

· Decision making

· Demonstrating

· Designing

· Dexterity

· Developing ideas

· Directing

· Discovering

· Editing

· Empathy

· Evaluating people

· Evaluating projects

· Examining

· Excelling

· Expediting

· Fashioning

· Following directions

· Foresight

· Implementing

· Informing

· Initiating

· Innovating

· Inspiring

· Instructing

· Investing

· Leading

· Lecturing

· Making things

· Managing

· Manipulating

· Merchandising

· Motivating

· Negotiating

· Number manipulation

· Operating

· Organizing

· Participating

· Persuading

· Planning

· Predicting

· Problem solving

· Programming

· Promoting

· Questioning

· Rapport building

· Reading

· Relating

· Researching

· Resolving conflicts

· Representing others

· Reviewing

· Selling

· Serving others

· Setting-up

· Speaking

· Structuring

· Supervising

· Synthesizing

· Systematizing

· Talking

· Teaching

· Testing

· Training

· Verbalizing

· Visualizing

· Working-mental

· Working-physical

· Working-ideas

· Working-things

· Writing

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BUAD 2000 Values and Personal Qualities Inventories

Lists adapted from Powell, C.R. (2004). Career Planning Strategies (5th ed.). Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing.

Consider the Values list. Place a checkmark in the box preceding your top three. Add your own if necessary.

· Achievement

· Advancement

· Adventure

· Aesthetics

· Affluence

· Art

· Association

· Authority

· Autonomy

· Avocation

· Beauty

· Career

· Challenge

· Change

· Comfort

· Commitment

· Community

· Creativity

· Culture

· Dependence

· Diversity

· Education (advanced)

· Esteem

· Ethics

· Excellence

· Family

· Flexibility

· Food

· Friends

· Health

· Hobbies

· Home

· Honesty

· Importance

· Independence

· Intelligence

· Involvement

· Leadership

· Leisure

· Location

· Love

· Marriage

· Money

· Morality

· Music

· Objectivity

· Pace

· Personality

· Physical appearance

· Politics

· Possessions

· Precision

· Pressure

· Prestige

· Professional Development

· Quality

· Recognition

· Religion

· Rules

· Security

· Service

· Solitude

· Sports

· Stability

· Status

· Subjectivity

· Teamwork

· Technology

· Time

· Tradition

· Travel

· Truth

· Understanding

· Variety

· Wealth

· Work Ethic

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Consider the Personal Qualities list. Place a checkmark in the box preceding your top three. Add your own if necessary.

· Achiever

· Active

· Adaptable

· Aggressive

· Ambitious

· Analytical

· Animated

· Articulate

· Bold

· Bright

· Calm

· Caring

· Challenging

· Cheerful

· Clever

· Communicative

· Competent

· Competitive

· Confident

· Conforming

· Conscientious

· Controlled

· Cooperative

· Courteous

· Creative

· Decisive

· Dependable

· Determined

· Dignified

· Diplomatic

· Disciplined

· Driven

· Effervescent

· Efficient

· Enterprising

· Enthusiastic

· Expressive

· Extroverted

· Fair

· Flexible

· Friendly

· Generous

· Gentle

· Gregarious

· Hard-working

· Honest

· Honorable

· Humorous

· Imaginative

· Independent

· Innovative

· Inquisitive

· Inspiring

· Intellectual

· Introverted

· Intuitive

· Kind

· Knowledgeable

· Leader

· Logical

· Loyal

· Mature

· Methodical

· Meticulous

· Observant

· Optimistic

· Organized

· Patient

· Perceptive

· Perfectionist

· Personable

· Persuasive

· Pleasant

· Practical

· Progressive

· Punctual

· Quiet

· Rational

· Realistic

· Reasonable

· Relaxed

· Reliable

· Respectful

· Secure

· Self-confident

· Self-reliant

· Self-starter

· Sensitive

· Serious

· Shy

· Sincere

· Skilled

· Sociable

· Sophisticated

· Stable

· Supportive

· Systematic

· Tactful

· Tenacious

· Tolerant

· Tough

· Trustful

· Wise

· Writer

· Youthful

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