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November 05, 2005
Learning Plan
mmm....it is always nice to have plan. However, plans are useless if redundant, and such is the case with the learning plan. There was nothing I had written that I did not already know. This was not one of those "journeys" where I "discovered myself" as I wrote my learning plan. I seriously doubt I will ever look back, 5 years from now, to re-evaluate my position in life in comparison to my learning plan. Nonetheless, while the learning plan fails to achieve its main objective as a guide, it does, however, give me a chance to become more fluent in my interviewing "vocabulary". I had written a few anecdotes in my learning plan, and such stories will undoubtedly prove useful during a job interview. The plan has helped me organize my thoughts--which is indeed what a plan is supposed to do, but it has not helped me establish or clarify my long term goals in any way. Thus, while the learning plan was ultimately useless to me as a tool for the future, it has become quite the boon for me in the status quo.
Posted by jxw115 at November 5, 2005 05:37 PM
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Although my experience with the Learning Plan has been slightly different than yours, I do share your belief in that the assignment has allowed me to organize my thoughts. As you said, through writing the plan I have organized many topics that are applicable to job interviews. Whether they are anecdotes that can be used to describe specific attributes of my personality or simply explanations of my past work experiences, the plan has been an unexpectedly good tool for organizing these thoughts. Looking back at it, I feel that even my informational interviews could have been more productive if I had formulated some of these thoughts prior to those encounters.
Also, I have structures many of my ideas about my attributes throughout this paper. It is often easy to talk about yourself but it can be difficult to do so in a humble way. The same sort of organization that you mentioned has therefore also helped me in describing myself without being too aggressive in the process.
Posted by: Artur Grabowski at November 5, 2005 11:08 PM