This Assignment is your summative Capstone piece. Please write a scholarly, personal reflection paper in which you examine your professional growth during your master’s program and your future plans.
Content of your Paper: Include your thoughts on the following questions, plus other reflections you deem important:
- How has your master’s program contributed to your career/life goals? Have your goals changed now since your started your program?
- What were your strengths at the beginning of the program, and how did you leverage them to succeed? (List at least 3)
- How will you continue leveraging these strengths going forward with your career development plan?
- What were your weaknesses when you started the program, and how did you find these changed over time? (List at least 3)
- For example, how did you address them?
- Are they still weaknesses? Are they a concern in your career development plan?
- If they are a continuing concern, what additional professional development can you do to continue growing in these areas?
- Include in your paper a description of courses you took that are relevant to your reflection points (e.g. growth, strengths, career plan, artifacts, etc.); (describe at least 3).
- Describe the artifacts for an ePortfolio that you created this term, the associated skills they demonstrate, and how those skills will be beneficial to an employer.
- What do you see as the role of civic and social responsibility in your career plan?
- How will networking, a mentor, or other personal associations play a role in the pursuit of your goals?
- How will you use an ePortfolio in your career advancement?
Components of paper:
Your paper should be organized with appropriate subheadings according to your approach to the questions in the above Prompt. It is not necessary to attach your actual artifacts to the paper. Those are in your Group Locker.
- Title Page
- Introduction
- Self-Assessment
- Summary of Career Development Plan
- Further Reflection [*covering the remaining questions listed above in the Assignment prompt]
- Conclusion
- References
** I have attached the artifacts that are in my ePortfolio that can be referenced. I will address the bullet points below, but please reach out if you need me to clarify or answer anything else.
1. Career goals include getting into the administration field and furthering my career in the federal government. Life goals – complete my MBA and continue on to a Ph.D in Business Administration. My goals have not changed since starting the MBA program
2. Need to list 3 strengths, but one HAS to be organizational skills
3. Any 3 weaknesses is fine
4. Courses that I took that are relevant include Corporate Finance, Marketing Management, Legal & Ethical Issues in Management, Leadership, and Principles of E Commerce. If you need more info on these, let me know.
5. Artifacts include my resume, a PowerPoint, and transcripts. I have attached all of them below to reference.
6. The last 3 bullet points can be answered in any way. Again, if you need more information on anything, please reach out.