Activity: Interest, Skills, and Values Assessment

For this activity, you will use the link provided below to discover your individual interests, skills values.

As you go through this, answer the following questions:

1) What are the your top 4 Interest Profiler Results?

2) Pick a Job Zone. Which Job Zone did you choose?

3) Of the Job Zone choices listed for you, which zone(s) did you feel was right for you ?

4) What experience, education and training is required?

5) W​hat is the top Career Listed?

6) For that top career, what is the Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Personality and Technology information you need for this career?

7) What is the second Career Listed?

8) For the second career listed, what is the Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Personality and Technology information you need for this career?

 

Reflection

9) Do you have what it takes?

If not, describe what you can do right now to prepare? What abilities do you need to improve on? (Math reasoning, concentrating better on tasks without being distracted, basic skills such as listening...)

If so, what abilities do you have that you feel make you prepared for the career(s) you have chosen?

10) The career option that surprised me the most is?

 

PLEASE HELP ILLL GIVE POINTS

 

Which alternate pathway— acquisition, licensing, or partnering—could be an effective way to continue advancing a technology toward the market in each of the following situations? 

The cost of both commercializing and developing the product is very high, but no one else in the field has the capability to develop it better than your team

Your  team is made up of graduate students with differing career interests and no ability to personally take the product forward, but you have invented something very novel that you’d all like to see reach patients 

There are a number of companies working in your clinical area, but your team has a significant head-start in developing an interesting new technology

This method grants the a company rights to the technology but there are conditions and limitations on what they can do with it.

A. Non-Exclusive License

B. Licensing

C. Acquisition

D. Partnering

You have applied for a managerial position as a Business Development Manager in a large retail organisation. 

Following shortlisting you have been asked to attend for interview. Prior to the interview you need to send in a written portfolio which will help the interview panel to establish your suitability for the post.

Task 1 – Written Portfolio

You must prepare a portfolio of evidence which includes:

• an analysis of the characteristics of different organizational structures
• an explanation of how the culture of an organization can impact on the effectiveness of the organization
• an assessment of the impact of learning on the effectiveness of employees
• an evaluation of how working in teams can improve employee effectiveness.
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Extension activities:

To gain a merit grade you must also include in your portfolio analysis of:

• how different leadership behaviors impact on organizations.

To gain a distinction grade you must also include in your portfolio analyses of:

• the process and outcomes of change on the effectiveness of employees.

Task 2

You know that questions from the panel will ask for your views on certain management theories.  In preparation make detailed notes which:

• evaluate different leadership behavior theories
• analyze theories relating to work relationships and interactions.

Extension activities:

To gain a merit grade you must:

• evaluate the relevance of organizational culture theory in developing organizational effectiveness.

Task 3 – Presentation with accompanying notes

You are to make a presentation to the interview panel as part of the selection process. You should prepare a presentation with accompanying notes which shows how organizations can motivate employees in order to improve their efficiency and effectiveness. 

In the presentation and the accompanying notes, you must:

• analyze the benefits and issues with involving employees in organizational decision making
• explain different ways to motivate employees.

Extension activities:

To gain a merit grade you must provide an accompanying handout for distribution to each member of the panel.   The handout must:

• analyze how motivational theory can inform employee motivation.

To gain a distinction grade, using a business organisation of your choice, you must:

• evaluate how a named organisation of your choice motivates its employees.