My Personal Development Project

Personal Reflection Paper

Through the process of completing the Career Development Project, I have learned a lot about myself. Specifically, I have learned a lot about my interests, my personality type, my values, and my strengths. I was not surprised to find that I have always valued family, security, tradition, helping others, personal safety, diversity, stability, work-life balance, honesty and integrity, and moral fulfillment. I was also not surprised that I ranked family, helping others, work-life balance, honesty and integrity, and moral fulfillment as my top five values. While it was a hard task in the moment to choose your top five values, I have come to appreciate and resonate with the values I have chosen. I realize that my top

My five top strengths were achiever, discipline, responsibility, positivity, and learner. I always try achieve and accomplish all tasks and goals. I need discipline, specially, routine and structure in my life to function and be effective. I am very responsible and do whatever I say I will do. Additionally, I am optimistic and look for the positive in any and every situation. Many people have told me that my blood group, B positive, matches my personality. Lastly, I love to learn. I wish I could be a student my entire

I have had many doubts on whether being a mental health counselor was the right career path for me and whether or not I would be good at it. This course and the various assessments and activities we did in class have cleared my doubts. Further, this course has taught me how to look for jobs in my field of interest and introduced me to resources I never knew existed, like O*NET OnLine and the Occupational Outlook Handbook. It has taught me what to look for in an occupation. This course has also taught me about the interviewing process, how to present my cover letter and curriculum vita to job sites, and salary negotiation. These resources will help me find a job after I graduate in May and allow me to delve deeper into career options that are perfect for me, especially my interests, personality type, values, and strengths. I now feel that I will truly wake up and be excited about the aspect of going into work because I know that my job the perfect match for me. This course forced me to finally do a personal inner career search that I had been avoiding forever, because I was afraid of where it would lead me. I am glad and grateful for the opportunity to finally engage in a personal career inner search, which has cleared my doubts and allowed me comfort in my future career decisions. More importantly, this course has helped me identify who I am, what I want to do in life, and how to do