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1. I need a one page personal professional development growth plan. It can be based on personal assessment of my strengths (it can be anything) and areas where I would like to improve, it can be as a student and future job applicant, or as a current worker. In the development plan, describe the kinds of training, courses, seminars, or other experiences that would make me a more attractive job applicant or more valuable employee. Then compare it to a coworker. What useful ideas did you get from this?

2. Also I need to develop a scenario question for a user support or help desk position that would measure whether a job applicant is a good problem solver. Start by brainstorming some ideas with coworkers, then select a scenario that is feasible for an interview, and finally refine the scenario question. Exchange your scenario question with another team and write a model response to it question.

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1. I need a one page personal professional development growth plan. It can be based on personal assessment of my strengths (it can be anything) and areas where I would like to improve, it can be as a student and future job applicant, or as a current worker. In the development plan, describe the kinds of training, courses, seminars, or other experiences that would make me a more attractive job applicant or more valuable employee. Then compare it to a coworker. What useful ideas did you get from this?

Hello, I will guide in answering this question:
Assume you are working and it is now your year end evaluation. You have to explain your professional development for the next year:

- first you would list your strengths:
i.e - excellent computer skills, good writing and grammar, good interpersonal skills, excellent at computing statistics, excellent powerpoint skills...

- then you would list areas where you think you need improvement:
i.e - you need to improve on a certain computer program, your writing skills need to be sharpened, you need to more detail oriented, you need to make less typos and spelling errors...

- the next part of your professional development would be how you can improve your weaknesses:
- you want to take a computer class, you plan on taking an English writing class, you signed up for 3 seminars in the next year, your goal is to slow down and work more conscientiously, you plan to double check your work, you are going to get up a buddy system where you collaborate in quality control...

You can finish the assessment by making suggestions on how to improve the way the department is run, and you could also ...

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