Dwayne Peterkin II

CNS 220 Final Project

Part 1: Personal Action Plan
If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it.
What you should be doing is getting started.
-Drew Houston, Founder/CEO of Dropbox
The purpose of this project is to integrate and mobilize your new skills, resources, experiences and knowledge into a plan
you can use to create meaningful action toward your personal and career-related goals. This final project, your Action
Plan, along with your Meta-Reflection, will allow you to consolidate your new competencies and understanding of
yourself, as well as options in the world of work that are relevant to you.
Checklist to complete this project:
Answer the following prompts and complete the action plan on the following pages. Please complete this
electronically by filling out this document.
Complete a career coaching appointment with a career coach in the OPCD to review your action plan for
feedback.
Write your meta-reflection based on the prompts provided after this action plan worksheet.
Please follow the prompts listed here and integrate 8-10 resources from our course as supporting material, evidence for
your plan, or new information that informs your future actions. You will start by reviewing your progress and citing the
experiences that have created impact and opportunity.
This project is a template you can use now and as your goals unfold, or shift in the future. Ive provided this blank
template for your Action Plan on Sakai and our ePortfolio website. Keep it and feel free to use it in the future.
First, begin by answering these questions for yourself. Be as complete as you can, using a sentences or two for each
prompt:
I enrolled in this course for this primary purpose or because:
When I started this class, I was considering this/these options in the world of work:
At the beginning of our course, these were my initial assumptions/thoughts about myself and the world of work
as it related to me
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2.
3.

Next, continue by considering the results of your self-assessment undertaken through our course. You may wish to review
the Self-Assessment section of your ePortfolio. Write a sentence or two to answer these prompts:
What are the key points you have learned about yourself as it relates to your current ideas related to career goals?
Which projects, experiences or readings provided this learning? List 3-5 key learnings and the rationale/or
sources for class that help clarify this self-assessment.
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4.
5.

What has been the most valuable piece of information you have learned about yourself as it relates to
opportunities of value to you? How did you learn this as part of our course?

Now, think about the exploration and research you have conducted and write a sentence or two to answer the following for
yourself. Again, you may wish to look at your Career Research and Exploration section of your ePortfolio.
How did you explore and research career-related opportunities and options? How would you summarize the
resources/experiences that have been most helpful?

What do you need to be doing now based on your class year at Wake Forest and the options you are currently
exploring? hint: take a look at the OPCD site (it lists activities by year and the explore careers tab here:
http://career.opcd.wfu.edu/explore-careers gives a timeline for specific career fields)

My list of key points and valuable personal learning is the following:

I have learned that I am Enterprising, Artistic, and Realistic

I would like to work in a management position

My plans for growth are:

Put myself in situations to gain work experience like interships

Options in the World of Work: Career Action Plan

Self-Assessment/Career Related Knowledge

Course Citation/Experiential Source

Strong inventory

I am andEAR

I want to work in the career field of public relations

Take the time to have resumes and cover letters reviewed

Career Exploration
OPCD

Short-Term Goals for the Next Thirty (30) Days

Goal 1: Find Internship
Action Step a. Make contact with Advancement
Department about job shadow
Action Step b. Find out what is entail in the job and
application process

Rationale/Source from Course or Exploration

1. make use of job shadow connections
1a. This would show interest and get the ball rolling into
the application process
1b. This allows me to find out information so I can make
sure this something I want to do

Goal 2: Apply for internship

2. the OPCD can help me make sure get all things in order for
my applications

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Action Step a. Schedule appointment with OPCD

Action Step b. Schedule interview

2a. this allows me to present myself as professional and

prepared
2b. I am able to get some better insight into how to cater my
resume to this specific position

Potential Obstacles to Completing Short-Term Goals

1. Writing Cover Letter
2.Writing Resume
3.Interview

Long-Term Goals for the Next Three

(3) Months
Goal 1: Take a course in using
Microsoft office
Action Step a. find out where classes
can be taken
Action Step b. decide to take it while
in school or at home

Goal 2: Improve typing ability

Action Step a. find classes or
learning tool
Action Step b. set practice schedule

Resources to Overcome Potential Obstacles

1. Using template on opcd website
2. using template on opcd website
3. use linked in learn about those interviewing me

Rationale/Source from Course or Exploration

1. These skills would make me more marketable
1a. ask opcd about potential knowledge of these classes
1b.
2. This would allow me to make myself more marketable so that I can be an
asset completing work in a timely fashion
2a. how companies look at resume
2b. this would help me make improvements

Potential Obstacles to Completing Long-Term Goals

Resources to Overcome Potential Obstacles

1 Finding out where to hold classes

2 Knowing what skills are helpful to have
3 Making my skills known

1 do research and ask opcd

2 conduct another informational interview
3Update my linkedin

Accountability Partner (with whom will you share this plan):

Doreen Collins

Part 2: Meta-Reflection
Looking back on the work that I have done in the course I can definitely say that I have
better understanding of the world of work and how to navigate it. The strong inventory gave me
good insight into my personality and the career genogram gave me a certain understanding into
career patterns in my family that have shaped me to date. I learned a lot about myself in this
class. I was able to pinpoint that I like a faster paced career type and seeing a project go start to
finish. I had an idea that I wanted to work in the field of public relations and that was cemented.
A big part of this decision being finalized. It is helpful to have my eportfolio because the results
of my strong inventory test are something that can definitely serve me well as I enter the working
world.

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My thinking was greatly changed on the day of my job shadow. It was one thing to learn
about networking and things of that nature, but when I finally got the chance to put a lot of the
things that we had been learning about into practice. It started with just going on the job shadow,
but I was able to put a lot of things into practice. I learned the importance of being
knowledgeable going into something like a job shadow. I made sure to look up the person I was
going to being following around for the day. This allowed me to carry on conversation more
easily and it also resulted in me being made aware of a potential internship opportunity. I then
had to be resourceful and use the services of the office of personal and career development to
help me prepare my cover letter and resume. All of the lessons I learned in class were put into
practice in this instance. I think this was very helpful. At the beginning of the course I did not
really know how to go about opportunities like this one. The course made me better understand
how to research and put things into practice. These are skills that will last me for the rest of my
life that I probably would not have developed without this class.