Thursday, September 25, 2008

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.

1 comment:

Loyola University COB 2012 said...

It sounds like you've got a sense of the Jesuit mission, and you will do well in your career as a leader in the community. Keep focused and continue developing your vision and understanding your values each day.