Major: Exercise Science
Career Opportunities: Personal trainer, strength coach, physical therapist, fitness instructor, chiropractor.
Qualifications, skills, and experience:
Most of these careers will require a degree of some type. The hardest careers to follow will probably be physical therapist and chiropractor because they require more hours of education then the other three. Chiropracting practice requires that I attend one of the private schools in the country because they do not offer their education through public universities or schools. Physical therapy is similar with the requirement of going to a physical therapy school but they are offered in public universities.
Personal trainer, strength coach, and fitness instructor can all be practiced with less than 2 years of education but if I wanted to earn more money or have a better name for myself I could attain more years of schooling to have better qualifications.
All of these careers will probably want me to have exceptional people skills, good body condition/ active lifestyle, and a passion for exercise. I would need these skills because I would interact with people daily and need to develop relations very quickly at an efficient rate.
Past experience in this field is very important to have because it would show that I had the passion for exercise or that I am a active personal willing to learn. Experience would include working at a gym, message school, participation in active clubs, or any jobs that help me interact with people.
My qualifications, skills, and experience:
I have lived a rather active lifestyle since I was a teenager and that has given me a lot of experience in this field to begin with. I try to stay active and participate in races, weightlifting competitions, and other activities to network and have fun. I am in my third year of college with my expected graduation date of 2011 for my 4 year degree in exercise science. This degree would give me a better chance at attending chiropracting or physical therapy school. My past job experience includes working at as a jet ski rentalist, lifeguard, and Smoothie King. These jobs all required me to interact with people on a daily basis and have good relations with them. These jobs were also active in nature, meaning I needed to be in good condition to perform well.
Position selected:
Given my past qualifications, skills, and experience I think a career that I am well suited for would be a personal trainer. I would pursue this career because I could work this job while still attending school and maybe pursue another career in the future. I have a few friends who are currently personal trainers and I think having these connections would also help me in finding a job a lot easier than the other choices. Personal training with also give me great experience in working with clients on a physical level. I would develop skills needed in future career choices. I think the best way I would go about pursuing this career would be to first get certified by one of the recognized fitness organizations for personal training and begin working on a decent resume and cover letter to start my job searching. I think my biggest concern of my resume would be to start networking a little better and gather more experience with clubs and activities.
Links:
http://www.txwesleyan.edu/exercisescience/CareersinExerciseScience.htm
http://www.acefitness.org/
http://www.acsm.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home_Page&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&CONTENTFILEID=98
http://www.udel.edu/HNES/car-opp.htm
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
Blog Assignment 4
To: T. Leoni, Manager, Personnel Department
From: Donald Pryzblo, Manager, Data Processing Department
Subject: INCORRECT PAYROLL CHECKS
I have been reviewing the “errors” in the computer files.
Contrary to what you insinuated in our meeting, the majority of these errors were made by your clerks. I do not feel that my people should be blamed for this. They are correctly copying the faulty time tickets that your clerks are preparing.
You and I discussed requiring my computer operators to perform the very time-consuming task of comparing their entries against the time sheets from which your clerks are miscopying.
My people do not have the time to correct the errors made by your people, and I will not hire additional help for such work.
I recommend that you tell your clerks to review their work carefully before giving it to the computer operators.
Revised
To: T. Leooni, Personnel Department
From: Donald Pryzblo, Data Processing Department
Subject: Payroll Check Miscalculations
After reviewing the computer files I believe that there may be errors with the initial time sheets for each employee.
The data being sent to my department seems to be incorrect and my main concern is to figure out how the time sheets are passing through the initial reviews and make it to my department. If the time sheets are copied correctly the problem should be eliminated.
We discussed having the operators compare their entries against the time sheets but I feel that would not solve the issue and end up wasting valuable company time. I also would not be able to afford the additional help required to run these comparisons.
To save time and money I was hoping that that time sheets could be reviewed more carefully before they are sent to the computer operators in order to prevent further complications.
In the revision I basically tried to take out all emotion and sound more professional. I feel Pryzblo sounded very unprofessional and that made the message very weak and that would have diverted any reader to become emotional as well. The message would basically fail to be sent. I also took out the capital letters in the subject because I felt they were unnecessary. I wanted to elminate dancing around the subject and get to the point very quickly. I also did not want to direct all the fault to the other department. I felt this would cause feelings of anger and did not contribute to solving the problem. I did, however, offer a solution in a way that would not threaten the reader.
I basically wanted to make the message less threatening and get the point across in a more professional way. I wanted to be able to pin point the problem in the time sheets without letting my anger or emotions get in the way of my message. All the points that Pryzblo wanted to discuss were still present but in a more calming way. Pryzblo, being a manager, should have never written such an unprofessional message because it made him and his department sound informal and made him look bad.
From: Donald Pryzblo, Manager, Data Processing Department
Subject: INCORRECT PAYROLL CHECKS
I have been reviewing the “errors” in the computer files.
Contrary to what you insinuated in our meeting, the majority of these errors were made by your clerks. I do not feel that my people should be blamed for this. They are correctly copying the faulty time tickets that your clerks are preparing.
You and I discussed requiring my computer operators to perform the very time-consuming task of comparing their entries against the time sheets from which your clerks are miscopying.
My people do not have the time to correct the errors made by your people, and I will not hire additional help for such work.
I recommend that you tell your clerks to review their work carefully before giving it to the computer operators.
Revised
To: T. Leooni, Personnel Department
From: Donald Pryzblo, Data Processing Department
Subject: Payroll Check Miscalculations
After reviewing the computer files I believe that there may be errors with the initial time sheets for each employee.
The data being sent to my department seems to be incorrect and my main concern is to figure out how the time sheets are passing through the initial reviews and make it to my department. If the time sheets are copied correctly the problem should be eliminated.
We discussed having the operators compare their entries against the time sheets but I feel that would not solve the issue and end up wasting valuable company time. I also would not be able to afford the additional help required to run these comparisons.
To save time and money I was hoping that that time sheets could be reviewed more carefully before they are sent to the computer operators in order to prevent further complications.
In the revision I basically tried to take out all emotion and sound more professional. I feel Pryzblo sounded very unprofessional and that made the message very weak and that would have diverted any reader to become emotional as well. The message would basically fail to be sent. I also took out the capital letters in the subject because I felt they were unnecessary. I wanted to elminate dancing around the subject and get to the point very quickly. I also did not want to direct all the fault to the other department. I felt this would cause feelings of anger and did not contribute to solving the problem. I did, however, offer a solution in a way that would not threaten the reader.
I basically wanted to make the message less threatening and get the point across in a more professional way. I wanted to be able to pin point the problem in the time sheets without letting my anger or emotions get in the way of my message. All the points that Pryzblo wanted to discuss were still present but in a more calming way. Pryzblo, being a manager, should have never written such an unprofessional message because it made him and his department sound informal and made him look bad.
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