Reflection On Career Development Skills

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During the semester I have gained many experiences within this module to get to know myself better in accordance with professional criteria and I have acquired some skills to evaluate fact-based information like CV contents, cover letters and I also learnt to critically process presentations. I also had an insight into the factors which might influence my career development and the decisions I make. I have also experienced difficulties with individual course work, especially with research and the critical weighing of sources I found. But I believe that I have improved in several aspects integrated into Career Development Skills and I hope to adopt my new skills successfully in my studies, career and in my social life as well. In my studies …show more content…

The importance is to get an understanding of classes by which I am able to adopt principals in life. Partially this finding made me start doing a lot more research for my individual assignments. I believe that I am now heading into the right direction to use the knowledge I can get from class and from the textbooks effectively. I am also improving in managing my time and activities – which as I had discussed – is the most difficult thing in my life as a student. Because of pursuing my extracurricular passions I had a tendency to procrastinate the tasks given during the courses. I was in a logical fallacy with myself: I decided to not like my assignments for they take too much time before getting to know them. To some extent, however, procrastination had a stimulating effect on me. To quote one of my favourite cartoons, Calvin and Hobbes “Do you have any idea of your story yet? / No, I am waiting for inspiration. You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. / What mood is that? / Last minute panic.” Now this illustrates how I worked for a period of time, before I realised that it won’t pay up in the long run. So I took effort and try to discipline myself to prepare well before my assignments and I hope to be awarded for it. But now, as I reflect on my performance during this semester I see that I am capable of working under

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