Career Beam Values and Vision

The vision of my ideal future is mainly to graduate college and use my strengths to help others when I become a lawyer. That is my ideal goal in life. The benefits of writing a vision statement are that it focuses on your goal in life. In other words, it paints a picture of what you’re trying to get to over large periods of time. There are, however, some challenges to writing a vision statement. If you only look ahead a couple years in your vision, your long time results will end badly.

Values are another important aspect of your career as they shape your career decisions. I believe my most important values of life are my strengths and experiences that allow me to communicate well with others. I believe it is important to be in a well working environment. I express my values on a daily basis during school. For example, in classes I try my best and focus on my studies to do the best that I can. I also work with others to improve my own knowledge of a certain subject. It is important to make friends in school so that if you were to miss a day of class you know someone who can help you.

There are even some organizations that share my values; one of those organizations is the Presidio Bank in the San Francisco Bay area. There values, similar to mine, focus on the environment and on teamwork. "Among our most important stakeholders are the communities where our customers and employees live and work. We have a vested interest in building economically healthy communities." quoted Presidio Bank as they described their work environments. "We stress teamwork in everything we do. While we certainly value individual creativity, we have found that team effort generally produces the best results. We cooperate for the betterment of the whole." quoted Presidio Bank describing their strive for teamwork and how cooperation is the best choice.

I believe working with these typical values are an essential part of a successful business. Teamwork and a good working environment are important to both employees and customers. For example, no one would wish to shop in a store with evenly priced merchandise if the store is highly unorganized and the environment is unsanitary.

Mentor program

When I first heard of the Mentor program we would be having on Thursday night I was excited, but a bit worried. The program was consisted of us meeting a mentor based on our specific careers and getting a hands on approach on what we would be expecting of that career and how they handle it. The idea of meeting executive businessmen and knowing that we merely college freshman; I wondered what would they think of us? As Thursday night came along, I sat there waiting for the session to begin as they mentors entered the room. At first, I could not even tell which was mine even though I had seen his picture. To tell you the truth, I was hoping he was absent; unfortunately, he was there waiting for us and ironically the last to be called. We rose from our seats as we proceeded to our mentors. David Jacobs was his name and from his profile, he worked for corporations that worked for important organizations such as the Secretary of Defense.
We proceeded to the classroom that we were assigned; Jacobs was very straightforward, he first asked for our names and basically what we were looking for in the business industry. I was frozen at first but when it was my time to speak I quietly said my name and my interest. As time passed, I was more intrigued by his words of how the business world really is. One thing I learned is that in the business world, there aren’t always second chances. You need to be strict and have your head in the game from the start; the smallest error could ruin a deal and result to financial losses.
Jacobs also told us of a contest that is dealt with at the end of the program, the student that participated most and is basically the best student to him would participate in a business dinner with a couple of his business colleagues in the students area of interest. This proposition intrigued me, not only would it enhance my aspects of the business world, but it would also provide me a visual of how executives react in their own environment. At the end of the session, I felt good about myself and the career I had chosen. I do tend to learn much at the end of this Mentor program. I feel that i will have a better understanding of the business world and what it takes to survive. Information such as this will prepare me for my field of stuy and what obstacles I will experience.