Kaleidoscope Career Model

Work-life integration is a constant battle among many women in the United States; the demands in the household and in the workplace are increasing on a daily basis, more often than not leaving women out of the workplace. The article “A Framework for Promoting Women’s Career Intentionally and Work-Life Integration” gives us the women in the workplace, exposed. What young college women are being told and what actually happens when a family starts becoming an option. We are introduced to models in which young women can benefit from, for example the Kaleidoscope Career Model, created to explain the differences between the careers of men and women and how women can focus on three very important concepts such as, authenticity, balance, and change.

As women the KCM model helps women understand that there is a difference between men and women a difference we have no control over, a difference that as much as we would like for it not to exist it does and it always will. Authenticity is important, it’s important for women at all ages, in order for women to be successful in anything she must take the time to know herself. The ability to retain our identity and individuality despite the demands of the workplace all comes from the root of knowing your true self.
Another model we are introduced to is The Systems Theory Framework (STF) in which recursiveness, change over time, and chance make up an individual’s process of making a career decision. The STF can be applied in helping women recognize that we are prone to be influenced by outside forces, as women change is inevitable. Both integration models focus on providing women with the tools to identify their very own priorities. Women can use these tools throughout their lifetime and in the workplace without losing sight of their true self.
“The easiest way to avoid plagiarism,” a simple down to the point article retrieved from the Walden Library. This article is “where instructors and editors talk writing.” The article recognizes that the most common way of plagiarism is done accidentally; this is the result of poor note-taking and poor writing practice. The main focus is copy and paste, subsequently defining the importance that under no circumstances this should be done. Students tend to copy and paste what they plan to paraphrase later, a mistake in the making. It is highly recommended that students paraphrase as they go. This will ensure that everything students are retrieving is already written in their own words.