Write a paper of no more than 300 words discussing the results of your Career Interests Profiler and Competencies activities. • Discuss the ways in which understanding your personal competencies will help you to improve your critical thinking skills. • How can knowing your competencies help you to evaluate arguments? Career Interests Profiler Investigative Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally. Enterprising Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These Occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business. Artistic Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Competencies APPLYING EXPERTISE Applies specialist and detailed technical expertise; uses technology to achieve work objectives; develops job knowledge and expertise (theoretical and practical) through continual professional development; demonstrates an understanding of different organisational departments and functions. TAKING INITIATIVE Takes responsibility for actions, projects and people; takes initiative and works under own direction; initiates and generates activity and introduces changes into the work process; makes quick and clear decisions which may include tough choices or considered risks RESEARCHING Rapidly learns new tasks and commits information to memory quickly; demonstrates an immediate understanding of newly presented information; gathers comprehensive information to support decision making; encourages an organizational learning approach (i.e. learns from successes and failures and seeks staff and customer feedback). STRATEGIZING Works strategically to realize organizational goals; sets and develops strategies; identifies and develops positive and compelling visions of the organization\`s future potential; takes account of a wide range of issues across, and related to, the organization. Speaks fluently; expresses opinions, information and key points of an argument clearly; makes presentations and undertakes public speaking with skill and confidence; responds quickly to the needs of an audience and to their reactions and feedback; projects credibility. LOGICAL THINKING Analyzes numerical data and all other sources of information, to break them into component parts, patterns and relationships; probes for further information or greater understanding of a problem; makes rational judgments from the available information and analysis; demonstrates an understanding of how one issue may be a part of a much larger system.

Write a paper of no more than 300 words discussing the results of your Career Interests Profiler and Competencies activities.

• Discuss the ways in which understanding your personal competencies will help you to improve your critical thinking skills.

• How can knowing your competencies help you to evaluate arguments?

Career Interests Profiler

Investigative

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Enterprising

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These

Occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they

require risk taking and often deal with business.

Artistic

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require

self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Competencies

Applying Expertise

Applies specialist and detailed technical expertise; uses technology to achieve work objectives; develops job knowledge and expertise (theoretical and practical) through continual professional development; demonstrates an understanding of different organisational departments and functions.

TAKING INITIATIVE Takes responsibility for actions, projects and people; takes initiative and works under own direction; initiates and generates activity and introduces changes into the work process; makes quick and clear decisions which may include tough choices or considered risks

RESEARCHING

Rapidly learns new tasks and commits information to memory quickly; demonstrates an immediate understanding of newly presented information; gathers comprehensive information to support decision making; encourages an organizational learning approach (i.e. learns from successes and failures and seeks staff and customer feedback).

STRATEGIZING

Works strategically to realize organizational goals; sets and develops strategies; identifies and develops positive and compelling visions of the organization`s future potential; takes account of a wide range of issues across, and related to, the organization.

Speaks fluently; expresses opinions, information and key points of an argument clearly; makes presentations and undertakes public speaking with skill and confidence; responds quickly to the needs of an audience and to their reactions and feedback; projects credibility.

LOGICAL THINKING

Analyzes numerical data and all other sources of information, to break them into component parts, patterns and relationships; probes for further information or greater understanding of a problem; makes rational judgments from the available information and analysis; demonstrates an understanding of how one issue may be a part of a much larger system.