Mike
This question kind of took me for a loop. I really had to think about what my personal philosophy is in my professional life. I guess it would have to be “Work hard, Play Hard.” There is a time and a place for everything and I think its all about time management. In order to get that work done you need to have good time management and know when to play or work. I’ve been trying to do this balancing act almost all my life but I think I got it down pretty well towards the end of college. I study hard for all of my tests and do the best I can. After the test is over I take a day or so to myself and play hard. This time to play hard lets you reset your mind and loose some of the stress you were carrying for the past couple weeks.
I would say that my professional philosophy is interdisciplinary because I had to take many steps to get it to where it is now. I didn’t take the average route to get to where I am today. I did trial and error, but it was more like one day it clicked for me. I think that relates to my professional philosophy being interdisciplinary because I had to think outside the box to get here.
My career goals have altered a ton since I first started college. I think that most people career goals change through out life because they are learning more and more about themselves everyday. Thus, altering the life choices you make, and choices of what you would like to do for a living. I started off college and wanted to be in the radiology program. I was In this program for a year and worked in the hospital before realizing that it wasn’t what I wanted to do. I think it’s perfectly normal to change your mind, but I feel it is very important to have a ending point to what you do. We are capable of doing what ever we want, set the goals high and with hard work, they will be reached.
John
When it comes to my professional life, my personal philosophy is to work hard, maintain your integrity, and be a team player. If you follow these guidelines you should be able to set yourself apart from the rest, and your superiors should notice your value. Work hard, if you ever notice that you seem to be talking or fooling around while everyone else or even anyone else is working, that’s probably a good indication that you aren’t working as hard as you should or could. Maintain your integrity, always tell the truth when your at work. Chances are if you tell a lie, your boss will pick up on that and not be too happy with you. If you make a mistake, own up to it and fix it, don’t try to pawn it off on somebody else. Be a team player, every now and then your co-workers will get overwhelmed, if you have a free moment offer to help. Not only will they appreciate it, but they will be more likely to want to help you out next time your in a jam. All of these strategies should help your company strive, make you feel good about what your doing, and set you apart from the rest of the group.
I would describe my professional philosophy as interdisciplinary because each of the components is vital to the overall success, and they must be used at the same time in order for you to flourish. If I were just a hard worker I would just be going with the flow, nothing about that would make me stand out, unless everyone else is a slacker. Most likely the people that you work with are going to be good at what they do, that’s why it’s important to combine all of your knowledge to give your self that edge above the rest. There are a bunch of qualified hard workers out there looking to out do you, what can you bring to the table?
My career goals have changed many times throughout my lifetime. I've wanted to be everything from a navy seal, garbage man, astronaut, secret service agent, to a restaurant owner; the one thing that has stayed consistent is that I wanted to be the best at what I did. As long as your profession is a legal practice, it doesn’t matter what it is if you are happy doing it and you are good at it as well. In these tough times you may not always get the position that you were hoping for, but if you persist and stay true to your ethics and values, chances are you can achieve that career goal eventually. Don’t become discouraged, most people have to start at the bottom and work their way up.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Cover Letters and Resume
Mike:
Your resume is a great way to highlight your interdisciplinarity. First off, when some one reads your resume they get to know you from a professional standpoint. But, if you write your resume correctly once some one is done reading it, they should know who you are as a person as well. I have always had a cover letter on the front of my resume but its was always different. Depending on who is reading it I would change it up some. An example of a cover letter would be this:
Your name
Mailing address
City,state,zip
Contact numbers.
Today's date
Your addressee's name
Professional title
Mailing address
City, state, and zip
Dear Mr/Ms.
(paragraph I - grab your reader, say something that will realte you two together. Talk about what job you are applying for)
(paragraph II - can be bullet format, make convincing points on why the job should be yours. )
( Paragraph III- future contact, and state what the future will bring hiteering you. Set up an interview etc…)
Sincerely yours,
Your name
SIGNATURE
This is a good thing to have even before someone looks at your resume. It will help them to know what position you are looking for and why you are qualified for i. It will help them to know you outside of just your achievements of your actual resume. When I had to write my cover letter the sources that I used that help a bunch are,
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=s5u&resnum=0&q=cover%20letter%20resume&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi.
John:
When creating a resume you have the opportunity to show all of the good things that you have accomplished. For interdisciplinary studies students, this is a perfect opportunity to demonstrate our interdisciplinarity. We have the opportunity to showcase our many strength by creatively listing them in our resume. A great way to accomplish this is to list our areas and minors, and then add how these different disciplines can be used together to accomplish a common goal.
When creating cover letters in the past I have had some questions that helped me figure out if what I was doing was on the right track. The most obvious question was what so I put on my cover letter? I have answered this question with something that gets your intents across quickly without giving away too much information without boring the reader. Another question was how long should my cover letter be? I answered this with, short and to the point. If the reader has to read for too long they will most likely get bored and stop reading your resume. Mike gave a great format for a cover letter above.
A great place to look for help with developing your resume is at school. The best resume that I have made was done with help from my cornerstone teacher. I would make a rough draft and have them review it and provide feedback, and then I would produce a final product. I believe that the most important thing to consider while creating your resume after highlighting your best attributes is just like with the cover letter is to keep it short and to the point. Do give the readers an opportunity to become bored while reading yours, there will be a stack full of boring resumes that they have just read through. Make yours stand out, not with fancy fonts and colors, but with all of your great achievements. Any time you feel like you are experiencing writer’s block, use the Internet, Google will provide you with about 283,000,000 examples to look over for a cover letter, and 684,000,000 for a resume. That should provide you with enough information to get you going again.
Your resume is a great way to highlight your interdisciplinarity. First off, when some one reads your resume they get to know you from a professional standpoint. But, if you write your resume correctly once some one is done reading it, they should know who you are as a person as well. I have always had a cover letter on the front of my resume but its was always different. Depending on who is reading it I would change it up some. An example of a cover letter would be this:
Your name
Mailing address
City,state,zip
Contact numbers.
Today's date
Your addressee's name
Professional title
Mailing address
City, state, and zip
Dear Mr/Ms.
(paragraph I - grab your reader, say something that will realte you two together. Talk about what job you are applying for)
(paragraph II - can be bullet format, make convincing points on why the job should be yours. )
( Paragraph III- future contact, and state what the future will bring hiteering you. Set up an interview etc…)
Sincerely yours,
Your name
SIGNATURE
This is a good thing to have even before someone looks at your resume. It will help them to know what position you are looking for and why you are qualified for i. It will help them to know you outside of just your achievements of your actual resume. When I had to write my cover letter the sources that I used that help a bunch are,
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=s5u&resnum=0&q=cover%20letter%20resume&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi.
John:
When creating a resume you have the opportunity to show all of the good things that you have accomplished. For interdisciplinary studies students, this is a perfect opportunity to demonstrate our interdisciplinarity. We have the opportunity to showcase our many strength by creatively listing them in our resume. A great way to accomplish this is to list our areas and minors, and then add how these different disciplines can be used together to accomplish a common goal.
When creating cover letters in the past I have had some questions that helped me figure out if what I was doing was on the right track. The most obvious question was what so I put on my cover letter? I have answered this question with something that gets your intents across quickly without giving away too much information without boring the reader. Another question was how long should my cover letter be? I answered this with, short and to the point. If the reader has to read for too long they will most likely get bored and stop reading your resume. Mike gave a great format for a cover letter above.
A great place to look for help with developing your resume is at school. The best resume that I have made was done with help from my cornerstone teacher. I would make a rough draft and have them review it and provide feedback, and then I would produce a final product. I believe that the most important thing to consider while creating your resume after highlighting your best attributes is just like with the cover letter is to keep it short and to the point. Do give the readers an opportunity to become bored while reading yours, there will be a stack full of boring resumes that they have just read through. Make yours stand out, not with fancy fonts and colors, but with all of your great achievements. Any time you feel like you are experiencing writer’s block, use the Internet, Google will provide you with about 283,000,000 examples to look over for a cover letter, and 684,000,000 for a resume. That should provide you with enough information to get you going again.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
professional opportunities & job skills
mike
Interdisciplinarity is used in our everyday life and we might not even know it. I don’t think it is specifically for a job, or school. I think we use it when we leave our houses and venture out into the public every day. I use my interdisciplinarity in my professional life by getting accepted into graduate school. I went to the graduate school and sat down and reviewed my application and displayed my interdisciplinarity right before there very eyes. My professional history has not really been to special. I have not had a “real” job every. I have had plenty of bus boy jobs, waiter, worked at Bills car wash for awhile. I don’t really count these jobs as real jobs, there jobs to hold you over before the real thing comes. My weakest job skills are obviously I am not qualified to do anything. I don’t have a degree yet in college and you can’t do much with a high school degree. My strongest job skill would be me going to graduate school, in order to get that specific job that I will be qualified for. My weak skills is that im not qualified and the only way to improve that would be to stay in school and become a master at my trade. Two professional clubs or organizations that are useful to my chosen career would be business club and chiropractic club. Once I graduate from chiropractic college I plan on starting my own practice so both those clubs are valuable to my success. I did a six month internship in a chiropractors office because I wanted to make 100% sure that this is what I wanted to do with my life. It is very important if you are going to go to graduate school that you shadow what ever the profession is. It could be something you didn’t expect and you might want to change your mind. The six months that I shadowed the chiropractor was the best six months I have had yet and I cant wait to proceed with my education at palmer chiropractic college !
John
I would say that the way that I have used my interdisciplinarity in my professional life is through multitasking. The majority of the jobs that I have held are jobs with in restaurants. I have worked just about every position possible in a restaurant, from a pizza maker to a bartender to a restaurant manager. Most recently while bartending, I find myself in the position where I have to entertain the guests sitting at my bar while still keeping up with the demand of the rest of the restaurant. Often my bar guests would ask me question related to my education and then our conversations would run off into a science related theme. Through this process I would need to access information from different times in my life while maintaining productivity. Also, because my coworkers know that I am also quite knowledgeable when it comes to health code standards persons from the kitchen would seek my advice while working with foods that they weren’t familiar with. This ability is one of my strongest job skills, the ability to do many things at once at a high level of productivity. What my coworkers would probably say is my worst job skill is not relaxing. Often my coworkers call me an over achiever, I don’t like to be idol at work. If there is something to be done, I will do that instead of standing around talking. Personally I don’t see why others don’t have the same level of productivity that I would expect from people while at work. I'm sure that there are things that I could do to improve myself at work, but if my weakest attribute is a high level of productivity I don’t see why I would want to improve on that. I have never participated in any clubs or organizations nor have I ever done any internships, but I believe that programs such as Junior Achievement are a great opportunity to gain a little experience in the education field. Junior Achievement is also a great way to get to know teachers that you could ask questions about a future career in education.
Interdisciplinarity is used in our everyday life and we might not even know it. I don’t think it is specifically for a job, or school. I think we use it when we leave our houses and venture out into the public every day. I use my interdisciplinarity in my professional life by getting accepted into graduate school. I went to the graduate school and sat down and reviewed my application and displayed my interdisciplinarity right before there very eyes. My professional history has not really been to special. I have not had a “real” job every. I have had plenty of bus boy jobs, waiter, worked at Bills car wash for awhile. I don’t really count these jobs as real jobs, there jobs to hold you over before the real thing comes. My weakest job skills are obviously I am not qualified to do anything. I don’t have a degree yet in college and you can’t do much with a high school degree. My strongest job skill would be me going to graduate school, in order to get that specific job that I will be qualified for. My weak skills is that im not qualified and the only way to improve that would be to stay in school and become a master at my trade. Two professional clubs or organizations that are useful to my chosen career would be business club and chiropractic club. Once I graduate from chiropractic college I plan on starting my own practice so both those clubs are valuable to my success. I did a six month internship in a chiropractors office because I wanted to make 100% sure that this is what I wanted to do with my life. It is very important if you are going to go to graduate school that you shadow what ever the profession is. It could be something you didn’t expect and you might want to change your mind. The six months that I shadowed the chiropractor was the best six months I have had yet and I cant wait to proceed with my education at palmer chiropractic college !
John
I would say that the way that I have used my interdisciplinarity in my professional life is through multitasking. The majority of the jobs that I have held are jobs with in restaurants. I have worked just about every position possible in a restaurant, from a pizza maker to a bartender to a restaurant manager. Most recently while bartending, I find myself in the position where I have to entertain the guests sitting at my bar while still keeping up with the demand of the rest of the restaurant. Often my bar guests would ask me question related to my education and then our conversations would run off into a science related theme. Through this process I would need to access information from different times in my life while maintaining productivity. Also, because my coworkers know that I am also quite knowledgeable when it comes to health code standards persons from the kitchen would seek my advice while working with foods that they weren’t familiar with. This ability is one of my strongest job skills, the ability to do many things at once at a high level of productivity. What my coworkers would probably say is my worst job skill is not relaxing. Often my coworkers call me an over achiever, I don’t like to be idol at work. If there is something to be done, I will do that instead of standing around talking. Personally I don’t see why others don’t have the same level of productivity that I would expect from people while at work. I'm sure that there are things that I could do to improve myself at work, but if my weakest attribute is a high level of productivity I don’t see why I would want to improve on that. I have never participated in any clubs or organizations nor have I ever done any internships, but I believe that programs such as Junior Achievement are a great opportunity to gain a little experience in the education field. Junior Achievement is also a great way to get to know teachers that you could ask questions about a future career in education.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Critical Thinking
John
If you think about it, critical thinking can relate to anything. I had several majors before choosing IDS, all related to education and the sciences. When I realized that I no longer wanted education as a major I was faced with the task of deciding on a new major. With help from advisor's I decided that IDS was the right choice for me. I then had to choose what my areas and minors were going to be, this was an easy choice when I thought critically about it. I used what credits I had already earned to tailor fit a degree track that would work well with me. That is the reason why I love IDS as a major; it works with you to accomplish your goals. I use critical thinking in every day of my life, whether planning my week, month, or years activities I need to step back and think about all of my obligations and plan to make sure that I can accomplish all of them while not neglecting any other aspect of my life. I also use critical thinking while at work. I take the time each day to sit down with my bosses to discuss what is going on and how we can improve on our short comings. I also use critical thinking while doing my school work. Before I decide to place something into my e-portfolio I take the time to make sure that it will appropriately represent my abilities, as well as me as a whole. I believe that it is essential that we use critical thinking in every aspect of our lives, to make sure that we will gain as much as possible from our opportunities, as well as contribute to our environment.
Mike
My critical thinking relates to my interdisciplinary every single day. If you do not have critical thinking skill I think that this major is just not for you. Interdisciplinary studies to me is thinking out of the box. This is a new age and we need book knowledge as well as creativity and critical thinking to be able to make it in the world. My major is Life/Biomedical sciences, and I have done well in all my classes which was mostly book smarts, but, if I didn't have critical thinking I would have never been able to study in the way that I do. I don't study like most people, my study habits are very different do to my creative thinking. This is a prime example of the real world, I found a different way to get the job done. Critical thinking is very imperative in the real world and our major is based off of it. Thinking outside the box.
If you think about it, critical thinking can relate to anything. I had several majors before choosing IDS, all related to education and the sciences. When I realized that I no longer wanted education as a major I was faced with the task of deciding on a new major. With help from advisor's I decided that IDS was the right choice for me. I then had to choose what my areas and minors were going to be, this was an easy choice when I thought critically about it. I used what credits I had already earned to tailor fit a degree track that would work well with me. That is the reason why I love IDS as a major; it works with you to accomplish your goals. I use critical thinking in every day of my life, whether planning my week, month, or years activities I need to step back and think about all of my obligations and plan to make sure that I can accomplish all of them while not neglecting any other aspect of my life. I also use critical thinking while at work. I take the time each day to sit down with my bosses to discuss what is going on and how we can improve on our short comings. I also use critical thinking while doing my school work. Before I decide to place something into my e-portfolio I take the time to make sure that it will appropriately represent my abilities, as well as me as a whole. I believe that it is essential that we use critical thinking in every aspect of our lives, to make sure that we will gain as much as possible from our opportunities, as well as contribute to our environment.
Mike
My critical thinking relates to my interdisciplinary every single day. If you do not have critical thinking skill I think that this major is just not for you. Interdisciplinary studies to me is thinking out of the box. This is a new age and we need book knowledge as well as creativity and critical thinking to be able to make it in the world. My major is Life/Biomedical sciences, and I have done well in all my classes which was mostly book smarts, but, if I didn't have critical thinking I would have never been able to study in the way that I do. I don't study like most people, my study habits are very different do to my creative thinking. This is a prime example of the real world, I found a different way to get the job done. Critical thinking is very imperative in the real world and our major is based off of it. Thinking outside the box.
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