About Me Information Personal Goals
Hello,
I am a Senior at Neuqua Valley High School. I am a member of the Spectrum Accounting and Finance Team. I have outstanding experience in business because of the classes I have taken at Neuqua. I have now taken Business Orientation, Finance, Accounting 1. I am currently enrolled in Virtual Enterprise International and Macroeconomics. I will soon be taking Microeconomics and Business Management. I will attend the University of Iowa in the fall of 2019. There, I plan to study Kinesiology and Nutrition. |
I hope to take my VEI experience into the real world. After I finish my education, I plan to get a job as a personal trainer. After gaining experience in that subject field, my long term goal is opening up a gym that is accepting and welcoming to anyone interested in fitness.
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Company Bio
Spectrum was founded in 2018 with hopes of simplifying party planning with innovative ideas. The party packages are a one-stop shop for all of your party planning needs. They include everything from decorations and entertainment to setup and cleanup services. Whether you are planning a sweet sixteen party or an employee promotion celebration, Spectrum will have the perfect party package. Spectrum strives to ensure that you can have a party with “All the Fun with None of the Stress”.
Collective Commitments for Spectrum
- Work together to create a safe and engaging work environment
- Create an experience for a customer they will not forget
- Use social media to network with other companies and have sales going through the roof
- Expand our company and grow using our previous years outcomes
- Be passionate about our product and company values
Career Readiness Dimensions
Leadership: A company cannot function without leadership. Spectrum is a company that is built on leadership, which is why our company is successful internally. With a properly lead company, work is more productive and done more precisely. With divided leadership, the company has more of a democratic style of decision making. Personally, I think my greatest roll in leadership in this company has come from my hard work on company documents. Specifically I am in charge of payroll with one other person. Below is an example of my work. I have provided a transaction of one week of payroll to the employees that my partner and I have performed. Spectrum pays biweekly paychecks, therefore I am constantly working on salaries. In addition, since some positions change, I make changes in salaries according to positions. In this skill, I would rank myself 8/10 because although I do demonstrate a great deal of leadership, I still have some work to do with coping and responding to other people's requests. In the future, I plan on growing and exercising my leadership skills in order to become a great employee. I have already started working on this skill, however there is always room to get better!
Professional: Professional accountability is significant because it assures responsibility within a company. Without accountability, a company will be unorganized. If a company is professional, work will be done by deadlines, employees will work better together, and people will overall get along better in the workplace. To me, I believe that I am very professional in the work place. Although this skill goes usually untaught, I picked it up from working in such a great environment. In addition I am a very mature person. I understand that when something needs to be done by a certain time, it will be done on time and done completely. I think that in every company, like Spectrum, there are people who don't finish work on time or do their work poorly. I believe that undisciplined workers don't need to be fired, just taught the right way to work. I take pride in having professional accountability and my goal is to help spread that pride to others. I would rate myself a 9/10 in this category because there is always room for improvement. I like to believe that this is one of my strongest categories in career dimensions. In the future I plan to work on my professional accountability through socializing less in the given work day. Below is an example of the work that I perform and is a part of my job. I was assigned to create a projected income statement for our company's business plan. This shows accountability because I finished the work given to me on time and completely.
Link to the Income Statement.
For the month of May, I believe my Professional skill in Career Readiness Dimensions, has truly matured. This month I mainly worked on setting up a company sales contract. I spent several weeks preparing our proposal to a district department chair. I think that through setting this up, and attempting to make our sales contract, I gained a lot of experience similar to a real company. The link to our Sales Contract is below. Overall, I think that I have improved my ability in this category. I would now rate myself 10/10 in this category because of that.
Sales Contract
Link to the Income Statement.
For the month of May, I believe my Professional skill in Career Readiness Dimensions, has truly matured. This month I mainly worked on setting up a company sales contract. I spent several weeks preparing our proposal to a district department chair. I think that through setting this up, and attempting to make our sales contract, I gained a lot of experience similar to a real company. The link to our Sales Contract is below. Overall, I think that I have improved my ability in this category. I would now rate myself 10/10 in this category because of that.
Sales Contract
Core Technology Skills: I would consider myself a technological person. I believe my technology skills have benefited the company in some way. I am very skilled with Microsoft Excel, Word, and specifically being organized in both. A great example of that from this month, is the updated Income statement that I worked on. With this task, I really focused on making sure my numbers were correct and that everything was easy to read and organized. Personally, I would rate myself an 8/10 in this category. I still see room for improvement and efficiency, however technological skills do come easy to me. In the future, I'd like to improve my efficiency skills in this category. I think that when I start to use these skills more, that I will be able to get things done faster and better. Below is the link to the new Income Statement. Recently, I have been trying to set up a pretend financial simulator on Investopedia.com, to keep my investment skills and knowledge up to date. The way the game works, is you are given a set amount of money, and you get to take that money and invest it into any real stock in the New York Stock Exchange. I learned about this game two years ago, when I took a finance class. At the moment, I am still trying to set it up the simulator because there have been some technical difficulties with their website, which have postponed my financial practice. The simulator should be up and running in about two weeks. Although I haven't actually started this game, I have already improved my technology skills just by my extensive attempts at entering this simulator. I would now give myself an 9/10 in my technology skills because I have noticed a significant increase in my efficiency with technology and problem solving skills. In the future, I think that I could still work on my other skills, such as, with spread sheets, to reach my full potential in this category.
Income statement
Income statement
Functional: I am very skilled in this category. I am up-to-date in general business dynamics, understand and know where and how to apply accounting and financial concepts to my work, and show strong quantitative ability for the company. Personally, I would rate myself a 9/10 because I still want to work on function specific skills, such as my Core Technology Skills in my other Business Dimension. Below I will include a screen shot of what I have researched to increase efficiency of our company on how we could save money on transporting our product, while doing it quickly and safely. In the future, I see room for improvement on more specific business dynamics and understanding so I can apply more knowledge to my work.
Here is my research
Here is my research