BUAD 2000 VIPS Worksheet Due 3/27/16 by 11:59 p.m. in the Blackboard Assignment Drop Box-- Late assignments are not accepted 44 Points Introduction The journey to a fulfilling career begins with self-assessment. In this assignment we will explore the four components of self-assessment: Values, Interests, Personal Qualities and Skills (VIPS for short). Self-identifying what our Values, Interests, Personal Qualities, and Skills are enables us to understand the “whys” behind our career decisions. Moreover, we are ultimately better prepared to respond to an employer’s questions about our motivation for pursuing a position within a given company, and why we believe we would be the best “fit” for the assignment. Effective resumes, job search correspondence, interview responses, or LinkedIn profiles cannot be composed/prepared without having a solid awareness of our values, interests, personal qualities, and skills. Grading Note In situations where more than 1 point is possible for this assignment, responses are evaluated using a scale of Needs Improvement, Acceptable, and Excellent. The scale will be 0 to 3 or 0 to 10. Task Using the BUAD 2000 VIPS Inventories located on pages 3 and 4, identify your top three Interests, Skills, Values, and Personal Qualities. List each of the top three below. (12 points) Interests Skills Values Personal Qualities 1 2 3 2. Select one from each category. In the space provided, compose a meaningful statement of how you became aware of the respective item. These statements may be composed like resume statements or in regular sentence structure. Consider the environment (work, service, with family or friends) and what you were doing when you became aware of it. (3 points for each of the four responses for a total of 12 points) Responses are evaluated on a scale of 0 to 3; 0 to 1 = Needs Improvement, 2 = Acceptable, 3 = Excellent. 1. Interest: replace this text and type your interest and explanation here 2. Skill: replace this text and type your skill and explanation here 3. Value: replace this text and type your value and explanation here 4. Personal Quality: replace this text and type your personal quality and explanation here 3. Now, select one of the four above, and compose a brief paragraph describing why you believe this particular interest, skill, value or personal quality would be desired by an employer. Approach this task like you were preparing for an interview. If an employer were to ask you to explain why your selected value, interest, personal quality, or skill is of benefit, what would you say? The more effort you apply to your response, the more you will learn about yourself and the way you will promote yourself to employers. (Use the space after the directions to compose your thoughts). Your response should be no fewer than five sentences, and no more than 10. (10 points) 0 to 4 = Needs Improvement, 5 to 9 = Acceptable, 10 = Excellent. Ten points are available for a ...

1. BUAD 2000 VIPS Worksheet
Due 3/27/16 by 11:59 p.m. in the Blackboard Assignment Drop
Box-- Late assignments are not accepted
44 Points
Introduction
The journey to a fulfilling career begins with self-assessment.
In this assignment we will explore the four components of self-
assessment: Values, Interests, Personal Qualities and Skills
(VIPS for short). Self-identifying what our Values, Interests,
Personal Qualities, and Skills are enables us to understand the
“whys” behind our career decisions. Moreover, we are
ultimately better prepared to respond to an employer’s questions
about our motivation for pursuing a position within a given
company, and why we believe we would be the best “fit” for the
assignment. Effective resumes, job search correspondence,
interview responses, or LinkedIn profiles cannot be
composed/prepared without having a solid awareness of our
values, interests, personal qualities, and skills.
Grading Note
In situations where more than 1 point is possible for this
assignment, responses are evaluated using a scale of Needs
Improvement, Acceptable, and Excellent. The scale will be 0 to
3 or 0 to 10.
Task
Using the BUAD 2000 VIPS Inventories located on pages 3 and
4, identify your top three Interests, Skills, Values, and Personal
Qualities. List each of the top three below. (12 points)
Interests
Skills
Values

2. Personal Qualities
1
2
3
2. Select one from each category. In the space provided,
compose a meaningful statement of how you became aware of
the respective item. These statements may be composed like
resume statements or in regular sentence structure. Consider
the environment (work, service, with family or friends) and
what you were doing when you became aware of it. (3 points for
each of the four responses for a total of 12 points) Responses
are evaluated on a scale of 0 to 3; 0 to 1 = Needs Improvement,
2 = Acceptable, 3 = Excellent.
1. Interest: replace this text and type your interest and
explanation here
2. Skill: replace this text and type your skill and explanation
here
3. Value: replace this text and type your value and explanation
here
4. Personal Quality: replace this text and type your personal
quality and explanation here

3. 3. Now, select one of the four above, and compose a brief
paragraph describing why you believe this particular interest,
skill, value or personal quality would be desired by an
employer. Approach this task like you were preparing for an
interview. If an employer were to ask you to explain why your
selected value, interest, personal quality, or skill is of benefit,
what would you say? The more effort you apply to your
response, the more you will learn about yourself and the way
you will promote yourself to employers. (Use the space after
the directions to compose your thoughts). Your response should
be no fewer than five sentences, and no more than 10. (10
points) 0 to 4 = Needs Improvement, 5 to 9 = Acceptable, 10 =
Excellent.
Ten points are available for appropriate spelling, grammar, and
mechanics.
Submit your completed assignment in the Blackboard
Assignment Drop Box by 11:59 p.m., Sunday, 3/27. Take and
save a screen shot of the successfully submitted screen to
validate completion and submission of the assignment. If there
is any question as to an assignment’s submission, you are
accountable for presenting the screen shot.
See the sample submission on Page 2.
Sample VIPS Submission (yours should look just like this,
except with black text color)
Task
Using the BUAD 2000 VIPS Inventories located on pages 3 and
4, identify your top three Interests, Skills, Values, and Personal
Qualities. List each of the top three below. (12 points)
Interests
Skills

4. Values
Personal Qualities
1
Weight training
Networking
Disciplined
Family
2
Presenting
Speaking
Energetic
Flexibility
3
Traveling
Coordination
Detail-oriented
Autonomy
2. Select one from each category. In the space provided,
compose a meaningful action statement or two of how you
became aware of the respective item. These statements may be
composed like resume statements or in regular sentence
structure. Consider the environment (work, service, with family
or friends) and what you were doing when you became aware of
it. (3 points for each of the four responses for a total of 12
points) Responses are evaluated on a scale of 0 to 3; 0 to 1 =
Needs Improvement, 2 = Acceptable, 3 = Excellent.
1. Interest: PresentingResearch and present regularly at regional
professional association conferences. Desire to collect
resources and then lecture on wellness at professional
association conferences.
2. Skill: Coordination Organized the largest ongoing, all-
inclusive, on-campus event at BGSU, New Student Orientation,
with collaboration and mutual respect for colleagues. This

5. experience, more than any, refined my coordination skill.
Around 7000 students and their support-givers would attend
summer events.
3. Value: Flexibility Employment requirements allow for
flexible scheduling and workflow which supports personal
commitments. Having been employed as a lecturer for nearly
12 years, I could not return to private sector employment as the
flexibility offered through teaching creates an ideal family
environment.
4. Personal Quality: Detail-orientedEstablished mostly through
Orientation role which required harnessing the capabilities of
virtually all on-campus departments. Continually used now
with managing coursework of more than 500 students a
semester.
3. Now, select one of the four above, and compose a brief
paragraph describing why you believe this particular interest,
skill, value or personal quality would be desired by an
employer. Approach this task like you were preparing for an
interview. If an employer were to ask you to explain why your
selected value, interest, personal quality, or skill is of benefit,
what would you say? The more effort you apply to your
response, the more you will learn about yourself and the way
you will promote yourself to employers. (Use the space after
the directions to compose your thoughts). Your response should
be no fewer than five sentences, and no more than 10. (10
points) 0 to 4 = Needs Improvement, 5 to 9 = Acceptable, 10 =
Excellent.
My ability to coordinate is one of the most valuable assets I can
bring to an employer. I know how to look at the “big picture,”
or the desired outcome, and identify each step that needs to be
taken in order to achieve the desired result. First, I identify the
tasks that need to be completed. Next, I research what people
or departments need to be involved. Then, I develop a timeline
by which all tasks need to be completed, taking into

6. consideration potential pitfalls that may occur. The end result
is a seamless event that is appreciated by those who are
impacted by its presentation. After an event or project is
completed, I conduct either personal or group feedback with the
constituents involved to ensure subsequent events are
continually improved upon.
1
Review the list of Interests below. Upon considering the list,
place a checkmark in the box preceding your top three interests.
Add your own if necessary.
BUAD 2000 Interests and Skills Inventories
Lists adapted from Powell, C.R. (2004). Career Planning
Strategies (5th ed.). Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing.
· Acting
· Analyzing numbers
· Art
· Athletics
· Building
· Calculating
· Communicating
· Competing
· Computing
· Constructing
· Coordinating
· Creating concepts

7. · Creating things
· Designing
· Evaluating
· Exercising
· Experimenting
· Fixing
· Gaming
· Helping others
· Installing
· Investing
· Leading
· Learning
· Listening
· Making money
· Managing
· Meeting people
· Negotiating
· Organizing
· Outdoor Activities
· Performing Arts
· Persuading
· Planning
· Playing
· Promoting
· Reading
· Relaxing
· Researching
· Selling
· Singing
· Shopping
· Socializing
· Solving problems
· Solving puzzles
· Speaking
· Sports
· Strategizing

8. · Teaching
· Technology
· Traveling
· Troubleshooting
· Using logic
· Volunteering
· Watching media
· Writing
·
·
·
Review the list of Skills below. Upon considering the list,
place a checkmark in the box preceding your top three skills.
Add your own if necessary.
· Accomplishing
· Accounting
· Acquiring
· Acting
· Analyzing
· Assembling
· Building things
· Calculating
· Classifying
· Competing
· Compiling
· Composing
· Computing
· Constructing
· Coordinating
· Counseling
· Creating

9. · Decision making
· Demonstrating
· Designing
· Dexterity
· Developing ideas
· Directing
· Discovering
· Editing
· Empathy
· Evaluating people
· Evaluating projects
· Examining
· Excelling
· Expediting
· Fashioning
· Following directions
· Foresight
· Implementing
· Informing
· Initiating
· Innovating
· Inspiring
· Instructing
· Investing
· Leading
· Lecturing
· Making things
· Managing
· Manipulating
· Merchandising
· Motivating
· Negotiating
· Number manipulation
· Operating
· Organizing
· Participating

10. · Persuading
· Planning
· Predicting
· Problem solving
· Programming
· Promoting
· Questioning
· Rapport building
· Reading
· Relating
· Researching
· Resolving conflicts
· Representing others
· Reviewing
· Selling
· Serving others
· Setting-up
· Speaking
· Structuring
· Supervising
· Synthesizing
· Systematizing
· Talking
· Teaching
· Testing
· Training
· Verbalizing
· Visualizing
· Working-mental
· Working-physical
· Working-ideas
· Working-things
· Writing
·
·
·

11. BUAD 2000 Values and Personal Qualities Inventories
Lists adapted from Powell, C.R. (2004). Career Planning
Strategies (5th ed.). Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing.
Consider the Values list. Place a checkmark in the box
preceding your top three. Add your own if necessary.
· Achievement
· Advancement
· Adventure
· Aesthetics
· Affluence
· Art
· Association
· Authority
· Autonomy
· Avocation
· Beauty
· Career
· Challenge
· Change
· Comfort
· Commitment
· Community
· Creativity
· Culture
· Dependence
· Diversity
· Education (advanced)
· Esteem
· Ethics
· Excellence
· Family
· Flexibility

12. · Food
· Friends
· Health
· Hobbies
· Home
· Honesty
· Importance
· Independence
· Intelligence
· Involvement
· Leadership
· Leisure
· Location
· Love
· Marriage
· Money
· Morality
· Music
· Objectivity
· Pace
· Personality
· Physical appearance
· Politics
· Possessions
· Precision
· Pressure
· Prestige
· Professional Development
· Quality
· Recognition
· Religion
· Rules
· Security
· Service
· Solitude
· Sports

13. · Stability
· Status
· Subjectivity
· Teamwork
· Technology
· Time
· Tradition
· Travel
· Truth
· Understanding
· Variety
· Wealth
· Work Ethic
·
·
·
Consider the Personal Qualities list. Place a checkmark in the
box preceding your top three. Add your own if necessary.
· Achiever
· Active
· Adaptable
· Aggressive
· Ambitious
· Analytical
· Animated
· Articulate
· Bold
· Bright
· Calm
· Caring
· Challenging
· Cheerful

14. · Clever
· Communicative
· Competent
· Competitive
· Confident
· Conforming
· Conscientious
· Controlled
· Cooperative
· Courteous
· Creative
· Decisive
· Dependable
· Determined
· Dignified
· Diplomatic
· Disciplined
· Driven
· Effervescent
· Efficient
· Enterprising
· Enthusiastic
· Expressive
· Extroverted
· Fair
· Flexible
· Friendly
· Generous
· Gentle
· Gregarious
· Hard-working
· Honest
· Honorable
· Humorous
· Imaginative
· Independent

15. · Innovative
· Inquisitive
· Inspiring
· Intellectual
· Introverted
· Intuitive
· Kind
· Knowledgeable
· Leader
· Logical
· Loyal
· Mature
· Methodical
· Meticulous
· Observant
· Optimistic
· Organized
· Patient
· Perceptive
· Perfectionist
· Personable
· Persuasive
· Pleasant
· Practical
· Progressive
· Punctual
· Quiet
· Rational
· Realistic
· Reasonable
· Relaxed
· Reliable
· Respectful
· Secure
· Self-confident
· Self-reliant

16. · Self-starter
· Sensitive
· Serious
· Shy
· Sincere
· Skilled
· Sociable
· Sophisticated
· Stable
· Supportive
· Systematic
· Tactful
· Tenacious
· Tolerant
· Tough
· Trustful
· Wise
· Writer
· Youthful
·
·
·
·
·
…
For the questions below, assume you are a network
administrator for a mid-sized company with 500 employees.
Your network consists of a Windows 2008 domain with
computers running Windows 7 Enterprise.
1. Company policy states that all passwords must be complex
and secure to reduce the likelihood of a successful password
attack. Using features and recommendations you’ve learned
from class this past week, describe how you would configure

17. your password policy to meet company policy and make the
network more secure.
2. You have a file server with 3 shared folders. One folder
contains home directories for all users of the organization, a
second folder contains general company information needed by
all employees, and the third shared folder contains proprietary
information only needed by the engineering team. Without
being given any additional information, how would you secure
each of the three folders (what permissions would you use?).
Please be sure to mention how you would specifically give
access to the users of the organization to these directories so
that it is organized and easy to manage.
3. Are there any other questions that you’d want answered
before you decide on your permissions?