Situation: For Week 6 the assignment I successfully created a 5-year professional development plan.  The professional development plan begins with an editing of the career assessment. The career assessment is an assignment that was completed for Week 4 assignment. After editing the career assessment paper, I created a 5-year plan using the SMART goal structure (pgs. 46-47, Career Directions).  The career assessment paper identified a career I would pursue.  And I provided a brief overview of a Forensic Psychologist.  The assignment concluded in a summarization of how the career as a Forensic Psychologist matched according to the career explorer assessment taken, for week 2 of COMO 225.W1.  Much of the completed assignments for the past 5 weeks, correlated into the assignment for week 6, assignment 2, professional development plan.

 

Task:  First task I completed was the editing of my career assessment from week 6 according to feedback received from my instructor.  My feedback specifically requested for my paper be edited based on APA guidelines, including double spacing and indentions for each paragraph. 

 

Action: I opened the assignment and selected editing from Microsoft Word, to begin the requested changes.  Collaboratively, utilizing my research and study skills, to refresh myself on the APA guidelines.  I am familiar with the guidelines, however with assignments, cross referencing material from previous assignments throughout the week, utilizing my organization in note taking and critical thinking to make corrections as needed.  I used excellent study skills with the great resources given to follow needed formatting.  After I completed the editing of my career assessment from week 4.  The second part of my paper began.  I reviewed the course materials from the Career Directions book and applied the SMART goal structure.  The SMART goal structure allowed me to use my analyzing and critical thinking skills to put on to paper, what I would like to achieve in a 5-year time frame. 

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Result: Overall, my actions in managing my time, to create my SMART goal structure, implying a creation that analyzes these years to come.  Analyzing the SMART goal structure, and going back to past assignments as resources, I used computer skills in toggling to and from Microsoft Word and the Modules on acuonline.com. This has created a tool to organize, and structure complete my education applying necessary goals to use for my career and personal wellbeing.