Hope you had a good week! Here are some new discussions.
1.) How has Interdisciplinarity thus far been utilized in your Professional life? Reflect for a moment, then explain.
2) Do you have a professional work history? If so, what are you strong skills? What are your weak skills?
3) Continuing with your 'weak' skills, what can you do to improve them?
4.) Do you belong to any Clubs, Organizations, or have you done any Volunteerism relative to your chosen career? Name two of each, if any.
5.) What is an Internship (if applicable)?
6.) What is an Externship (if applicable)?
7.) Can you identify benefits of the Internship or Externship based on your experience--in regard to helping your professional development?
8.) Finally--Are you able to look at your own individual body of work--i.e., skills, professional development, experience--and sculpt a preliminary Interdisciplinary snapshot? For example, from this snapshot, can you "write out" this snapshot in a mini-outline-resume (just brainstorm a few lines, not full-out...)?
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To me an internship is any formal work program used to provide practical experience for beginners in an occupation or profession. I believe that internships are a vital part to ones individual career. This is one of the easiest ways to gain hands on experience in any given field of interest. It is often hard to truly know what you want to do as your life long occupation without any experience. Everything sounds good on paper.
ReplyDelete1. Interdisciplinarity has been used in my life mostly in my thought processes. The most recent work regarding my focuses is the story that I am working on for my Fiction Workshop. It is a historical fiction story of revenge based around Viking society and peoples. As far as in my professional life goes, I have used knowledge gained in psychology to teach the puppies that are for sale at the pet store I work at.
ReplyDelete2. My work history has been dealing with animals mostly. I am able to follow directions well and I am fiercely dedicated to my duties. I think my weaknesses are that I don’t handle stress very well and when stressed I have a tendency to be unable to make quick decisions.
3. I think that if I can learn to panic less when stressed and attempt to keep a cool head, I can solve these issues.
4. The only volunteer work I have done was at the Palm Beach Zoo in West Palm Beach, Florida. I would take care of animals, present exhibits to the patrons, and educate people about the zoo’s collection.
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8. “Worked as a kennel technician at Petland. My duties included…”
“Worked as a hotel associate at the Simmons’ Veterinary Clinic and Barker’s Hotel…”
--Michael Rosenblum
Bob, I would love to hear some stories of working at the palm beach zoo. I grew up in West Palm Beach and am very familiar with that zoo...
ReplyDeleteMy three areas are very diverse, education, criminal justice and hospitality. I have found it so interesting that both my education and hospitality courses were jam packed with personaltiy tests, yet my criminal justice courses has never required one. Is knowing yourself not important in this field?
I think knowing yourself, your skills and abilities, your strenghts and weaknesses is extremely important. I learned quite a bit about myself through the various tests, what areas I may naturally be better at than others and what I need to work on.
Have you ever taken a personality test? Do you think that the tests can help steer you in the direction of a particular career path?
Can you think of reasons why some areas of study focus on your personal skills and others do not?
Take time to learn a little more about yourself... Go to http://www.sric-bi.com/VALS/presurvey.shtml Click on Take the Survey. Find out your primary and secondary type and read the descriptions of each. Do you agree/ disagree? Please share...
There's a lot to think about. We aren't always aware of the many things we have achieved (even volunteerism, hobbies) and it needs to be put on paper. Everyone's inventory will be different.
ReplyDeleteIt's important to be aware and try to translate these thoughts on paper for when it will be shaped into a Resume, Cover Letter, or part of the E-Portfolio.
First off, I'd like to remind you that it says Bob because it was a fake name from my Google account :). my name is Michael, lol. anyways, I did take a personality test (several times, in fact) and I never felt as though the recommended careers would suit me well enough or that I would actually consider pursuing.
ReplyDeleteI just took the VALS survey. I got striver and maker as my results. Frankly, after reading "Striver", I don't think it really suits me, because I am most definitely NOT a shopaholic/monetary motivated person. "Maker" fits me better, as I do prefer value to luxury, but I am not the best at truly making things :\
--Michael Rosenblum
I think the reason some areas focus on personal skills is that these areas have more to do with directly relating to people. If you have to work with people, you would need the appropriate skills in fields of, say, education.
ReplyDelete--Michael Rosenblum
Although I do not have mass amounts of work experience, most of my work history has to do with customer service. I believe this is because I am a very social person and do well in more public environments where I am able to deal and communicate with people on a face to face basis. I do not think I would be as successful in a closed more subtle environment where I was forced to do the majority of my work on an individual basis rather than with others.
ReplyDeleteBob,
I too share the same weakness. I also do not deal very well with stress. Stress and anxiety are two things that have always created a problem for me. When to overwhelmed I tend to shut down, unable to think clearly. It usually takes me a few hours or even days to gather myself and get into a calm state of mind.
My professional work history thus far consists of working in my father's dealership since I was 11 years old, which required me to be an interdiscipinarian because I did multiple jobs at one time. I worked answering phones, filing, writing warranty papers, tag work, and many other things.
ReplyDeleteI am a Guardian Ad Litem, which is a volunteer program in the state of Florida. As a GAL, I am a guardian to children in the middle of court cases when they have been taken away from their parents or placed back with them. I think this will help me in my future career because I plan to become a lawyer, and I have to spend many hours in the courtroom with this job. This makes me familiar and comfortable with being in a courtroom setting, which will be very helpful in law school.
ReplyDeleteThe last Professional job I held was as a professional skydiver. Yep, I would jump out of planes for money. Cool right? I was a videographer for tandem jumps which basically means that if you wanted to go skydiving for the first time and wanted pictures or video to take home and show your friends, then I was the guy who would do it for you. I was already a photographer before I started jumping and was also experienced with customer service thanks to my previous retail job, so I guess you could say there was a little Interdisciplinarity there. My strong skills were things like good customer service, being super efficient, being a quick learner, and good situational awareness (as in not dying). I would have to say there weren’t many weak skills but I could have used a bit more training with the computer software we used to edit the videos. I could never really get used to it.
ReplyDeleteSitting down and learning the editing software wouldn’t have been that hard if I had just took the time. I’m sure all I had to do was come in super early one day and have someone sit me down and show me. I was always a fan of the old school editing technique where you used a video mixer and a TV monitor. I know it was I bit harder this way but that was kind of the idea. It made the video just a bit more personal and unique and you got a sense of pride in your work. After the owners of the dropzone decided that all videos must be edited on the computer to save time, I had a hard time adjusting to the new way.
ReplyDeleteEveryone had great self-observations. It's the beginning of recognizing more about yourselves that can be of interest to future employer, or additional qualities that are not part of your IDS Major--yet can tie-in with relevance.
ReplyDeleteSometimes hobbies and volunteerism can exhibit other qualities (social, conversational, empathetic, leadership, etc.). Always keep in mind that it is 'all valuable' and is part of what you have to offer... It could even heighten your Interdisciplinarity to another level without bragging--just good self-marketing.