Assignment: Assessing Your Professional Skills and Knowledge

A self-assessment of your skills and knowledge is an important first step to determine your preparation to advance in your career and take on new responsibilities. To determine whether your professional skills are sufficient and well aligned with your identified career goals, inventory and assess your portfolio. The portfolio includes your major accomplishments and specific experiences you have gained through your degree program. You will adapt your portfolio to demonstrate your ability to meet the needs of targeted employers.

• Create a professional development plan detailing your professional skills, career goals, and a list of potential jobs based on this information. Within the document, include the following:

An introduction

• A list of five to ten professional skills developed during the BSCIS program and a description of how these skills will help you advance in your career
      a. Include at least one professional business or management process skill.
• A list of three to five factors that will influence the type of job you select
      a. For each selected factor, identify how it will influence the type of job you select.
• A description of your current career goals and how your experiences at Walden University have impacted those goals

THE TYPES OF JOBS THAT YOUR RESEARCH INDICATES BEST MATCH THE SKILLS, FACTORS, AND CAREER GOALS YOU IDENTIFIED
    A. A LIST OF FIVE CURRENTLY AVAILABLE JOBS WITH LINKS TO THE JOB POSTING THAT MATCH YOUR SKILLS, FACTORS, AND CAREER GOALS
    B. A BRIEF DISCUSSION OF HOW THE RESULTS OF YOUR JOB SEARCH COMPARE TO YOUR EXPECTATIONS 

Two or three skills or items in your portfolio that you think may impress prospective employers and why