Conclusion

My career goal is to become a optometrist or veterinarian (I am still deciding between these two career) and would need to have knowledge skills of biological science, mathematics, science, critical thinking, speaking,reading and writing. It will assist in solving current societal problem by as a person eyes tend to age, the eye is less able to focus on objects just a short distance away. Optometrists provide eye care to these people, treat vision problems and eye diseases. They use instruments, eye drops, and various observation to determine the health of the patients' eyes. They create a treatment plan, explain those treatment plans to patients and answer their questions. It will teach them about proper lighting, care of glasses and contact lenses, and general eye safety and health.

Throughout this class, I have learned about myself of my personality and what careers is best for me based on it. I learn that I value order and cherish the traditions of home, family and country . When there is a task to complete, I can be depended upon. I try my best to get it done and keep track of the time so that I won't spend too much time on it. I am very organized, including my desk, work space and personal environment, and I know where the items are located. Time management is very important to me and been/am using this skill in my daily life. The further on I go with my studies, the more I can be independent. I always balance myself between work, rest and play and set a time limit of each of them on how many hours should I spend time into these three areas. Team building is also important in our everyday life, especially when working at a job. Interactive exercises, team assessments, and group discussions helps develop a greater sense of cooperation and trust between team members. By doing these three activities, communication and collaboration skills within and between groups of people working together are improved. Learning to work together and act as a team may be enjoyable and a lot of fun. I have learned a lot about the many different types of careers and what is required to fulfill those careers as well as how to write a cover letter, resume, and be prepared before an actual interview.

Interview Strategy

To prepare for the interview I would go to the internet and research the company so that I can gain the information of the company by spending time on the company entire website to know whats there and what is required to work in the company. Then, I would google the company and google the person or people that I'm gonna interview with so that I can see recent articles about them or about the company such as issues coming up, big things they would expect me to know about in the interview that might have been covered in the press. I would go through a mock interview in the college campus, seek help/ advice from a career counselor, or practice my interview skills in front of anyone I know who has great interview skills as well as they are currently working in a company (friends, parents, relatives). I would wear a white long-sleeved shirt with a blue suit or a suit with a jacket, conservative heels (not too high heels), clean my fingernails and cut them if they are too long, style my hair for a professional look, use less makeup, no bare midriffs, no short skirts, and nothing skin tight. I would have to look professional and dress professionally, watch my language, and come prepared to explain how the position I'm interested in fits into the organization's goals and objectives.

I would answer the following interview questions by:
1)Name your three biggest strengths and weaknesses
Strengths: highlighting my strengths which are most in line with the company and position. If the company values leadership, then I would cite my leadership experience. If I'm in a technical field, I would state something along the lines of adapting to new technologies quickly. Most importantly, I can provide examples to show that what I mentioned is a strength. If I'm in sales and list persuasion skills as a strength, I can tell stories about getting touch customers to buy my goods.
Weaknesses: find something that won't hurt me as a candidate for the job and something I'm working to improve. I can state that I'm weak in a skill that's not required for the job but would benefit for the company. I can show that that I'm taking action towards improving it such as doing research or taking a course and cite examples of what I'm doing to improve. I would understand the question, be prepared, avoid the most common mistake, be clear and concise, immediately follow with good news, continue to be clear and concise, stop and wait, provide more weaknesses, follow-up with a strength, and analyze regularly. An example would be “ I sometimes over analyze my work products which can cause me to fall behind in other tasks. To avoid that, I set aside a specific amount of time for review. When that time is up, I move to the next task on my list of priorities.”
2)We have 24 candidates, why should we choose you?
I can give concrete examples of why my skills and accomplishments make me the best candidate for the job. I can take a few moments to compare the job description with my abilities, as well as mentioning my accomplishments in my other positions. I will be positive and state my interest in the company and the position. Make a short list of all my advantages and create a paragraph that would point out the positive aspects that I would bring to the new job position, make similarity/similarities of this job profile you are aiming for at the company to the previous job profile I had, draw the interviewer’s attention to my key skills and strengths, make my professional ambitions clear, and making sure that my answers don't focus too much about myself.

Academic & Career Goals

To achieve my academic and career goals I will need to complete a lower division course requirements in preparation for the major

The lower division course requirements include:
BIOL 5 Computer Literacy in Biology
CHEM 1A & General Chemistry CHEM 1A & General Chemistry I
CHEM 1B General Chemistry CHEM 1B General Chemistry II

CHEM 8 Organic Chemistry CHEM 12A & Organic Chemistry I
CHEM 12B Organic Chemistry II

CHEM 9 Organic Chemistry Lab

PHYS 2A Fundamentals of Physics PHYS 2A General Physics
PHYS 2B Fundamentals of Physics PHYS 2B General Physics

After I complete these requirements, I also need to include the course requirements for my major which are :
BIOL 1A Foundations of BIOSC 1A & General Biology -
Biodiversity Cells
BIOSC 1B General Biology -
Organisms
BIOL 1B Foundations of Cell
Biology & Physiology

BIOL 2 Animal Biology BIOSC 41 Principles of Animal Biology

BIOL 3 Cell Biology BIOSC 43 Principles of Cell and Molecular Biology

Math 10 Statistics

ENGL 1B Composition 2

My intended degree is Biological Science, B.A. and planning to transfer to San Jose State University

I need to take the lower division courses at least 39 semester or 58 quarter units in order to receive FULL OR PARTIAL CERTIFICATION PRIOR TO TRANSFER to San Jose State University. If I do not receive SJSU WITH A FULL OR PARTIAL CERTIFICATION OF GENERAL EDUCATION upon transfer, I may have to take additional lower division courses.

Eureka Assignment

I would like to pursue an optometrist. I just learned that an optometrist is different than an optician and an Ophthalmologist. These three occupations are often confused for they play similar roles but also perform different activities. An optometrist examines the patients eye to detect vision problems, disease and other abnormal conditions. They most likely prescribe eyeglasses and contact lenses and may also prescribe/use drugs to treat eye disorders. An optometrist goes through three processes to determine vision impairments, eye diseases, vision malfunctions, and other abnormalities: pre-testing station, the exam room, and the dispensary. First, they use the Auto-Refractor / Keratometer machine which makes some calculations to determine an approximation of patients prescription. Second, they would ask the patient to do various tests such as an entrance test, contact lens evaluation (only for people who wears contact lens), refraction test, and eye health evaluation/dilation. After going through all these tests, the optometrist is going to tell the patient what is good, what is bad, what he/she will need to improve, or is just fine (which means the vision is good and it stayed the same). Finally, they let the patient choose his/her frames for purchasing new eye glasses and new lens. The main purpose of this career is to help people protect and improve their eye vision as best as they can.
The abilities or skills required would be able to picture objects from sketches and drawing, learn and understand procedures, using words as well as numerical reasoning to communicate in person and on paper, have good eyesight, good coordination of hands and fingers, make decisions using data and facts and doing precise work with tools, instruments, or equipment. I would need knowledge of life sciences( which is the major for this career), be able to work with different types of people, and good analytical, communication, and clinical skills.
The courses that needs to be required for this occupation are mostly life sciences and optometry. Optometrists must complete a four year program in optometry. Some may require at least 2-4 years of experience. It also requires a bachelor's degree, including graduation from an optometry school, and must pass clinical state board examinations. The entry/low pay is about $6000, average pay is about $8000, top pay is $10000 & up so the salary is kinda low, but hopefully the salary can increase more.

Dream Job & Company

Dream Job:
I help customers manage, simplify, secure, and integrate their IT systems. I can offer network security and identity management that help businesses secure their information assets. I do control of hardware, power management, performance, multitasking, making updates, and other kinds of activities/tasks. As customers are adding new operating systems, devices, applications and other IT resources, demands on IT staff and costs are highly increasing. I can help make this increase manageable for the benefit of the customers and the IT staffs (the IT staffs already have limited resources).

Dream Company:
My dream company is Novell, which is a multinational software and services corporation. Novell is the industry of computer software and specializes in enterprise operating systems. Its product include network server operating systems that connect desktop computers to corporate networks, integrating directories, storage systems, printers, servers and databases. It can provide solutions for data centers, security and identity, resource management and desktop management. The primary focus of the Novell company is on developing open source software for enterprise clients.

Road Trip Nation

Watching Grant Golliher interview, he left his hometown, which is in Colorado at a farm, on a mule to seek adventure. He was easily influenced by his peers that led to doing things that are wrong, but just couldn't say no because he didn't want to be rejected. He had a tough childhood that his mother would be mentally ill and going through several depressions and as a result he himself would go through those same issues as well until he realized that we gonna be the one who says “I'm gonna face this thing and it's gonna stop in my generation”. What makes him to keep going forward is the dream of the adventure by making a living of what he enjoys doing which is moving cows around in the country, being a cowboy and training horses. He has learned lots of things about himself when working with horses such as that we have things that we need to work on personally and if we don't work on those personal work stuff then we'll never go forward in life. His passion is really training horses and then from years of training horses he found that he was training the horses but the truth is the horses were training him to be a better person. So the focus is gone from adventure to finding his passion which is horses and training horses and moved on it to people. Its people he wish running from that he ran away but really he was running for himself, he was running from his own problems.
I learned from this interview that our lives are always being challenged by our fears. Life is all about facing your fears. We are all afraid of something that says “I like to go there, but I'm afraid”. When you step out there, even though you're afraid, somethings gonna be there to hold you up and you'll be able to get through. You can't run from your own problems. You can go around and around but you can't get away from yourself. You have to face your fear (no matter how much it frightens you) as you process to overcome it later in the future. Most importantly is never never give up on your dreams.
His story has taught me to challenge myself to face my fear and while I do face it I can discover more about myself of who I really am. I can use what I learned if I don't know what to say or don't know the answer to a question and I just feel this pressure around me and it's just almost overwhelming, I need to just hang in there and it'll come. Eventually, the right words will come and that would be the answer. I can be afraid, but I also need to have faith.