Career Plan Building Activity: Competencies and Career Interests Profiler

Career Plan Building Activity: Competencies and Career Interests Profiler

From completing the Career Interests Profiler and the Career Plan Building Activity: Competencies I was able to gather great information on the career fields that might be of the most interest to me as well as where my strengths in competencies lie. In knowing and understanding my personal competencies I will be able to improve my critical thinking skills.

In order for a person to improve his or her critical thinking skills it is first necessary to understand critical thinking and what it means. This reflective reasoning about beliefs and actions makes it possible to take a situation, analyze it, and take from it what is necessary in order to form a clear and concise basis of meaning and interpret it as needed according to the situation. In knowing that I my highest strength in competencies is coping with pressure, it becomes easier for me to understand that no matter the situation I can reserve myself, use critical thinking, and ensure that I use this strength in order to ease others minds under pressure as well. This strength goes hand in hand with delivering results as I will be able to stay calm and take initiative, which is also a strength.

In order to evaluate an argument it is necessary for a person to use logic in their way of thinking. When logic is put into thinking it becomes critical thinking which involves knowing ones competencies. By knowing my competencies I can apply logic to my thinking and evaluate arguments successfully. This is done by using competency strengths such as coping with pressure and delivering results in order to break down a complex argument into something simpler and pull informal fallacies and make a deductive or inductive decision.