• How have you used your interdisciplinarity in your professional life?
• What has been your professional history?
• What are your strongest and weakest job skills?
• What can you do to develop and improve upon your weak skills?
• Identify two professional clubs or organizations that are useful to your chosen career.
• How have internship or externship helped your professional development?
• Discuss your personal philosophy concerning your professional life
• How is or isn't this philosophy interdisciplinary?
• How have your career goals altered?
I think that the clubs that have been the most useful to my career are school/university newspapers, because they have helped me develop a sense of what it'd be like to work in a professional environment and know what skills are required of me as an aspiring journalist. Whilst I was there, I felt like meeting a deadline, writing and editing my own stories and giving them to the editors to review, presented me with the feeling of what will be expected of me in the future.
ReplyDelete-Camilo Echeverri Bernal
I agree with Camilo in the sense that actual hands-on experience in your area field is the most useful. Did it at any point put you off working in that particular field or seem overwhelming Camilo?
DeleteSokhara Goodall
I believe that my weakest job skill is [having patience during] communication, but not in the normal sense of the word. I believe my strongest job skill is communication in the traditional sense of the word. Wondering how I believe these could be the same? I pride myself on the fact that I can listen without being pulled into an argument. I rarely yell or raise my voice, and I can honestly say very rarely. I have always said to my kids when they got angry, “conversation, not confrontation; I will be happy to discuss it and have a conversation with you, but I won’t have a confrontation. Come back when you are willing to do that.” Now that they are older (14, 19, and 21), all I say is “conversation, not confrontation.” This saying has helped me grow individually by helping me gain patience, persistence (because sometimes they wouldn’t walk away and I needed to quietly be persistent to show the seriousness of my comment), and better communication skills when we did speak because the conversations were now within my guidance. I have also taught many of my friends to use this phrase, which has helped them in their families as well. I have had co-workers get angry and used it to defuse situations in that respect, too.
ReplyDeleteHowever, when I am excited about something, I want to blurt out (communicate) my thoughts and that unfortunately results in me interrupting people. Obviously, this doesn’t happen when dealing with an issue that I have just defused, but it does happen during normal conversations. I have become much better at controlling myself, and I only hope that once I am in my ultimate career, it (the interrupting-communication) won’t be a problem.
Stacey Feldman.
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DeleteThat's pretty admirable. I would also like to teach my children(whenever it is my boyfriend and I choose to start a family)that communication can make things so much easier in life. In a confrontation, I doubt either party gets a point across, and both end up quite exhausted.
DeleteSo, kudos to you for teaching that to your children. This is a skill that can help everyone have better relationships with their family members, co-workers, costumers, etc. Thanks, Stacey.
-Camilo Echeverri Bernal.
I think my strongest job skill is my communication. I thrive in positions where I need to be a team player and motivate my fellow workers. I have really good paitence so explainging things and taking time to help people understand what they need to do or goals is no trouble for me at all. However, my weakest job skill is punctuality in tersm of being there early, I run on a different time schedule and being on the dot of when Im meant to be at work is on time. I also have the worst luck with traffic etc so that probably doesn't help!
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ReplyDeleteMy career goals have altered a lot over the years as I still don't really know what career field I want to specifically enter other than sports-orientated. The only career goal that has remained is to work in a field I enjoy and can both contribute and gain skills and knowledge from.
ReplyDeleteSokhara Goodall