Career Aspirations And The Impact Of Relevant Skills And Values Essay.

You will be required to write a comprehensive reflection based on your career aspirations and how your course has impacted your career prospects.

The following 3 tasks will give you an opportunity to STOP and once again reflect on the values, skills and knowledge that you can promote when you apply for employment or post graduate study.

• Task 1.Values Audit
  
  
  • Ranked list of at least 5 personal values that influence your life choices
  • List and explanation of 5 hard skills you will need.
    
    
• Task 2.Capability Audit
  
  
  • Example responses to 5 most common example criteria in job descriptions
  • Reflection and action plan for a skill gap
    
    
• Task 3.Graduate ‘Elevator Pitch’
  
  
  • Elevator pitch as words or youtube clip
  • Your “Linked in” social media personal branding.

Values play a vital role in making out the basic framework of a person that is crucial in projecting the person’s nature and interaction with the outside world (Jimerson 2013). The highlights I personally value are:

Respect,

Family,

Honesty,

Loyalty,

Acceptance.

I feel that these skills should govern the nature of every personality to become a better person (Jamieson and Gellermann 2014).

Several hard skills are there that I need to develop over time. These skills include the:

Communication skills,

Presentation skills,

Skills to write a business report,

Skills to learn Australian sign language (Auslan),

Programming skills that are required to create a software using Java script, HTML and PHP.

Customer service plays a vehement role in defining the success factor of a business. It demands distinct skills of communication in satisfying a customer. Obligating the customer and encouraging progressive, assistive and pleasant surroundings will be beneficial in ensuring that they are well satisfied (Agnihotri et al. 2016). Skills of communication and the presentation skills are the skills that are helpful in facilitating a business and are helpful building a better career. However, the fact is that I am currently suffering with a disability in hearing (Cruickshanks et al. 2015). This disability has affected both of my ears for which I am using a hearing aid in one of the ears while gone through a cochlear implementation in the other to cater my minimum hearing ability.

I began my education for my bachelor’s degree in one of the business schools back in 2016. After on boarding my education I made up my mind to search for experience concerned with the future scope of my employment. This is the reason for which I had to work as part time employee in a company named Marwa Foods. My position in the office was of a front end book keeper that allowed me to work with various functions such as the registering the sales, transaction with the customers, preparing an order list and keeping a regular check on the inventory. One of the big challenges that I faced while working as the front end book keeper is that I had to take orders from the customers that were through phone calls or with real world interactions. The fact that I took more than a year to be accustomed with the system in the front desk helped me to develop my communication skills while interacting with the customers, suppliers and with the team having a particular skill set in the business area. To increase my experience, I acquired valuable lessons about the importance of communicating as a team and about the quick execution of the tasks among the departments.

Hard Skills Development

In the process of establishing a communication between the departments, I learned lessons about how high amount of efforts are required to complete the tasks smoothly with the specific interval of time. In due course, I even developed my writing skills through some processes such as writing emails to the customers and suppliers. My writing styles also developed, as I had to prepare financial reports with a span of three months. I have firm knowledge in the computing skill domain that permits me to design websites, edit photos and videos. My computing skills have enabled me to support this very department of marketing. I contributed the department by designing a flyer and by improving the company website of Marwa Foods (Elgamal, Abas and Baladoh 2013). By 2023, I see myself to be placed in one of the hearing impairment service sectors with a variety of positions such as IT, marketing, client services and the administrative positions. I look forward to all the above because I feel that it will allow me to acquire experience that will drive me further to build new contacts. I have enrolled myself to a 10 year plan to reach my desired goal. I will remain committed towards working hard in these ten years and assess myself accordingly.

I have stern intensions in setting up real time goals and stick to a specific plan. I intend to asses myself from time to time so that I remain well aware of my performance track. My expected plan is to:

Lead a healthy lifestyle (Corbin and Le Masurier 2014),

Possess a house,

Buy a car,

Explore the different parts of the world while travelling and also attend the seminars regarding innovative hearing aids of technologies,

Marry and settle down,

Join the Saudi deaf association,

Develop my own website and an application that will serve the persons with hearing disabilities,

Non-profitably sponsor an orphaned child,

Establish my own business in the hearing impairment service sector by the end of the tenure (Drucker 2014).

Job: Information System Management

Hello, I am 22 years old Tamir Alyehyawi. At present I am pursuing the bachelor’s degree in Business Information Systems at the Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. This course will be completed by the end of 2018. My goal is to shine in my domain and contrive leading information systems and best business solutions for my employer. Further, my goal is to spearhead my career is to the next level. In addition to it, I want to increase my areas of learning and contribute towards providing effective business solutions (Tsai, Shen and Lin 2015). I constantly motivate myself and encourage travelling abroad, gain new experience and developing the present skill sets in the area of business. I am confident and believe myself in having the ability to adhere to new skills that will be beneficial for the organisation and my immediate superior. My personality is such that it allows me to interact with anybody irrespective of the background and the origin. I have a membership in the Saudi Deaf Association. I am presently serving the people with cochlear implants, as I am the technical advisor.

The values I assess myself upon are loyalty, respect, honesty, acceptance and family. With these values, I have been able to walk in the path of success. The writing and the communication skills that I developed in due course will enable me to prosper in future. Along with all these I presume that with my interaction with the customers, presentation and writing skills I will be able to develop myself in the upcoming days.

References:

Agnihotri, R., Dingus, R., Hu, M.Y. and Krush, M.T., 2016. Social media: Influencing customer satisfaction in B2B sales. Industrial Marketing Management, 53, pp.172-180.

Corbin, C.B. and Le Masurier, G., 2014. Fitness for Life, 6E. Human Kinetics.

Cruickshanks, K.J., Dhar, S., Dinces, E., Fifer, R.C., Gonzalez, F., Heiss, G., Hoffman, H.J., Lee, D.J., Newhoff, M., Tocci, L. and Torre, P., 2015. Hearing impairment prevalence and associated risk factors in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos. JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, 141(7), pp.641-648.

Drucker, P., 2014. Innovation and entrepreneurship. Routledge.

Elgamal, A.F., Abas, H.A. and Baladoh, E.S., 2013. An interactive e-learning system for improving web programming skills. Education and Information Technologies, 18(1), pp.29-46.

Jamieson, D. and Gellermann, W., 2014. Values, ethics, and OD practice. The NTL handbook of organization development and change, pp.45-66.

Jimerson, R.C., 2013. Values and Ethics. Journal of Information Ethics, 22(2), p.21.

Tsai, C.W., Shen, P.D. and Lin, R.A., 2015. Exploring the effects of student-centered project-based learning with initiation on students' computing skills: A Quasi-experimental study of digital storytelling. International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education (IJICTE), 11(1), pp.27-43.