Having discovered my interest in the editing and publishing profession while I was on exchange at the University of Melbourne, I started building my own professional profile on LinkedIn and have maintained contact with practitioners from the publishing industry in Melbourne and Hong Kong.
Upon returning to the University of Hong Kong, I was greatly inspired by the Career Exposure Project, thinking that it would be an eye-opening opportunity for me to take a glance at the publishing industry in Hong Kong. I had always positioned myself as a linguistic student with remarkable academic records and strong analytical abilities, which seemed to match the requirements for an editor. With much confidence and enthusiasm for this project, I immediately reached out for my contacts on LinkedIn after the first lecture, and successfully received an offer from Mr. Lau, Publishing Manager of Dictionaries at Oxford University Press (OUP), two days later. Aside from being amazed by the efficiency of my host, I believed that my advantage was rooted half a year ago when I first started building my LinkedIn profile and positioning myself as a university student seeking opportunities to enter the publishing industry. As the old saying goes, “opportunities favor prepared minds”. This seemed to confirm that I was on the right track of self-positioning: an early start to present myself in a more professional way has certainly helped me stand out among all other applicants of OUP.
My work-shadow experience at OUP embarked with a weekly group meeting of the Dictionary Publishing Team, during which I was allowed to obtain an overview of the ongoing projects. Positioning myself as a junior editor in the Dictionary Publishing Team, I became most fascinated by...
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...lowed me to reflect on how I should re-position myself before entering the editing profession. The focus of my re-positioning should be to develop my interpersonal communication skills in addition to analytical abilities, and to present my qualities as a team player and loyal worker in a confident yet humble way, instead of simply displaying my past achievements. My interest in becoming an editor remains strong, and my spirits remain high for obtaining a clearer vision of self-positioning from this experience. I must fully prepare myself by learning to understand the responsibilities of being an editor and to present myself properly in front of potential employers, before I try to dash into the industry. There is still a lot for me to learn, but with a determined mind, I will continue to be proactive and well-prepared when seeking career opportunities in the future.
Brandon Sanderson studied a lot about writing. At first he majored in biochemistry at Brigham Young University. However, When he was on a mission trip in Seoul, he relized that he wanted to write. After came back he changed his major to English. Then, he got a master’s degree in creative writing. He learned from professor David Farland. How to be a writer on business side. He volunteered as an editor on the Leading Edge: BYU’s science fiction and fantasy magazine. It was great experience for him, because he made many friends and became chief editor during his senior years. Then, Brandon Sanderson got master’s degree on creative writing at
The capability of a person varies from each and every one. Some people can grasp easily but for some it may take time to get information to the mind. the learning styles are divided on the abilities of a person, how he grasps, how he understands the subject, is he capable of listening style, doing style or writing or reading style. In an environment were technology and studies have great importance, the way how a person understands things are widely important. The complex manner in which, and conditions under which, learners most efficiently and most effectively perceive, process, store, and recall what they are attempting to learn (James & Gardner, 1995). There are poor learners, quick learners, and theoretical learners. There is no person who can’t learn anything, some might learn theories, some might learn through practices and some learn by seeing what the work is. Through the reflective analysis my passion for learning comes in through reflective style of learning. reflector style of learning is way of learning through reflecting others work in to our practice i.e., we carefully look on to what a professional learner does and get an idea of what he
In 2012 nearly 205,000 people were employed as a physical therapist in the United States. The average salary of a physical therapist in 2012 was $79,860 per year. The number of jobs is estimated to grow 36% from 2012-2022. This job of physical therapy involves many and very important tasks to fulfill the needs of their patients. It requires many different educational requirements and you must have strong people skills.
Life goes on as well as we moving on, in order to live a happy life, money, passion, happiness and the meaning of it are essential keys. Among thousands of jobs and over billions of people, having a career or achieving a job is not only important but also competitive. Therefore, deciding what you are going to become has always been the toughest decision in life. I am not talking about Mozart, who was born to play and compose music, or Cristiano Ronaldo who decided to pursue for his career as a football player at the age of 14. I am talking about me and my just-found-out-career in a couple hours earlier, Nursing.
Pearsall, Thomas E., Donald H. Cunningham, and Elizabeth O. Smith. How to Write for the World of Work. 6th Ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt, 2000.
As this course in writing, for public administrators, comes to its conclusion, I have read provided materials, researched additional references and written various journal entries and analysis papers on topics that included writing skills and real world communications. The writing skill assignments provided the most interesting points but surprisingly, it was simple proof reading that proved the skill I need to spend more time mastering. This self-assessment will focus on the improvements I have made, points I have found interesting and the goals I have set to continue to improve my writing and communication skills.
MyPlan is an online career planning and assessment tool that helps college students and professionals to identify their strengths and narrow down their career options. Found in MyPlan.com, the instrument helps users to: learn about careers and career options; assess their interests, personality, values and skills; identify what to major in; and learn about college rankings. MyPlan assessment tool has various career assessment tests including personality test, interest test, values test and skills test. Each of these tests can help students and professionals to make informed decisions about their education, careers and professional lives.
The first learning outcome in this course is to produce writing that demonstrated my ability to identify, describe, and analyze various occasions for writing, genres, conventions, and audiences in my discipline or profession from a rhetori...
My ultimate value is my family. My vision for my own self is to live happily with my family in the future. I love to spend my spare time with them. Hanging around with friends and family make me feel well. I love to play on computer. I also love to play with the magical numbers. I like surfing on the internet, exploring new things, reading articles related with health, life, and economic events such as the stock market, financial companies, investment corporations, etc. I think being a citizen of a country, we should somewhat at different aspects of life to better know how well or bad the economy of our country is experiencing. My goal is to become a businessperson. I believe doing business is an important way to improve the economy of a nation. I did a research on two different careers. However, they are sort of having a relation with each other. Both of them are in the business field – accounting and financial analyzing.
At the end of this class and this reflection period of these papers. I realised that I have become a better writer than I have ever been before, because I was finally able to take and recognize my mistakes in my papers. Which allowed me to to see where I needed to fix next to become the best writer I can be, which was shown to me during this time. Now with my new weapons of grammer, organizations, and MLA format I have a great foundation to propel my
During the course of the semester, all of the writing and research skills I developed helps to strengthen my self-confidence in many areas and it aids me in achieving my goals for the future. By developing more effective research approaches for finding and citing sources, I advanced from an inexperienced writer to a confident writer with the suitable knowledge to create effective essays to capture my audience. Having confidence in my abilities to use the skills I learned will help me to become a success in college. With more practice and valuation of my strengths and weaknesses, I can continue to improve and become an excellent communicator in the future.
According to the study of this course, I have learned many useful management skills and I feel like these skills will be applied to my future career development. When working on the self- assessment tests, I found myself fall into the category of the ISTJ personality types, which as illustrated by Myers Briggs, is the type of personality that is conscientious, considerate, and helpful. Personality traits such as honest, dutiful, practical and responsible are my strengths; personality traits such as stubborn, insensitive and poor communication skill are my weaknesses. Related to the knowledge I have learned in the course I believe both strengths and weakness will have influence to my future career development. In this reflection paper, I will demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses that may place the most influence on my way of success.
As I reflect and look at my career journey, I realize that I have not really had a career journey. I have held a few jobs; however, I have not had a job I would consider my career yet. Furthermore, I only worked for a couple of months in each of the jobs I had in the past. Currently, I do not have a job yet, and I realize that I am now 24 years of age and should be starting my way to my career. However, I have not looked into jobs in my career field because I feel as though I am not ready yet to start working in my field.
All college students should partake in career exploration project because it gives structure and direction. The result from an assessment identifies and prioritizes which careers will best suit an individual person or student. It does not necessarily mean they have to pick that particular job or career; it gives them more chooses to choose from. Career exploration is a life long journey that is emotionally, physically and mentally stress full. I say lifelong because as time goes on so does an individual’s views, abilities and skills. Career exploration is very helpful to a career, because it improves a person's ability to become informed of their interests, skills, values, abilities, aptitudes, weaknesses and strengths It helps in the guidance of career matters across the nation, job influence, growth, work hours opportunities to name a few. An individual needs to remember that when doing this career exploration project to keep in mind that money is only a temporary fix. In the beginning it may bring you joy and happiness but as time goes on it will not keep up personal enjoyment i...
The anchor is those elements of the self-image that people would not give up if they are forced to make a choice