Option #2: Supporting Others in Creating a Career Plan

You should have reviewed the resources at the Career Center in Module 3. If you decided that you’re happy with where you are in your career after reviewing these resources, you can choose to complete a Portfolio Project in which you offer guidance to a colleague/family member for creating his or her own career plan.

For this option, you will write an 8-10 page paper. In this paper you will:

1. Describe the resources available in the Career Center.
2. Identify the person who you are supporting as he/she creates a career plan.
3. Have the person complete at least two of the resources on the Career Center > Finding a Jobsection of the Student Portal. 
4. Next, have the person complete two more of the tools in the Finding a job > Personal Career Evaluation section of the Student Portal. There are numerous external websites that you will be able to use.
5. Include the results of these tools at the end of your reflection.
6. Have the person reflect on his/her professional career assessing where he/she is and where he/she would like to be. You may have the person complete some of the assessments you completed throughout the course to assist in this exercise.
7. Using this reflection, have him/her identify three strengths that he/she brings to an organization as a leader.
8. Align his/her strengths with two of the following areas:

• Communication skills
• Effective management
• Decision making
• Problem solving
• Leadership

Describe his/her projected career path. Develop a plan for a leadership approach you believe will help the person achieve his/her career goals.

You must support your work with a minimum of five academic sources. You must support your work with a minimum of five academic sources from the CSU Global Library.  These sources should be in addition to course materials and should include peer-reviewed journals.  It is acceptable to write this paper using first-person referencing.

Follow APA format, according to CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements. Include a title page and reference page.

1. Start with All stars are bright. What 3 other propositions can you infer from this by means of the Square of Opposition?

2. Start with No tech giant is a conservative. What 3 other propositions can you infer from this by means of the Square of Opposition?

3. Start with Some (at least one) dog is vicious. What, if anything, can you infer from this by means of the Square of Opposition?

4. Start with It is false that some tiger is not tame. What, if anything, can you infer from this by means of the Square of Opposition?

5. What is the obversion of each of the following. Hint: Be careful about 5.4!

5.1 All stars are bright.

5.2 No tech giant is a conservative.

5.3 Some (at least one) dog is vicious.

5.4 It is false that some tiger is not tame.

6. What is the difference, and give an example of each, between contrary and subcontrary?

7. What is the difference, and give an example of each, between contrary and contradictory?

8. What is the valid conversion of each of the following. If it cannot be validly converted, just say “No valid conversion.”

8.1 All stars are bright.

8.2 No tech giant is a conservative.

8.3 Some (at least one) dog is vicious.

8.4 Some tigers is not tame.

9. What is the valid contraposition of each of the following. If it cannot be validly contraposited, just say “No valid contraposition.”

9.1 All stars are bright.

9.2 No tech giant is a conservative.

9.3 Some (at least one) dog is vicious.

9.4 Some tiger is not tame.

10. Assume for the sake of argument that this statement is true: All anarchists are extremists. Using the rules of the Square of Opposition, Obversion, Conversion, and Contraposition, perhaps by more than one different step, are the following statements True, False, or Undetermined? For extra credit, show how you can derive them if you think any one is True, or their contradictories if you think any one is False.

10.1 No anarchist is a non-extremist.

10.2 Some non-extremists are not non-anarchists.

10.3 No non-anarchists are non-extremists.

10.4 It is false that some non-extremists are not non-anarchists.

Here is an example of how to do a Venn Diagram for FERISON, an 3^rd Figure, EIO mood syllogism.An example is:

No Republican is in favor of Obamacare.

Some Republican is in favor of health care accounts.

Some person in favor of health care accounts is not in favor of Obamacare.

Notice how this syllogism fulfills all 6 rules.

1. It has a universal premise:No Republican is in favor of Obamacare.

2. It has an affirmative premise: Some Republican is in favor of health care accounts.

3. Since one of the premises is particular (Some Republican is in favor of health care accounts) it has a particular conclusion (Some person in favor of health care accounts is not in favor of Obamacare.).

4. Since one of the premises is negative (No Republican is in favor of Obamacare.) it has a negative conclusion (Some person in favor of health care accounts is not in favor of Obamacare.).

5. The middle term is distributed at least once. (No Republican is in favor of Obamacare.).

6. If either subject or predicate term is distributed in the conclusion, it must be distributed in its premise (“A person in favor of Obamacare” as predicate of a negative proposition is distributed in the conclusion, and it is also distributed, again as predicate of a negative proposition) in the premise (No Republican is in favor of Obamacare.).

I have an example in a Word doc above, done step by step.

First in use MS-Paint to draw 3 intersecting circles.The top one will be for the middle term Republican.

In doing a Venn diagram, you have to do the universal premise first, even if it is the minor premise.Here it is the major premise and has the form Emp.That means we have to “black out” all overlap between m and p (i.e. Republican and person in favor of Obamacare).

Next we have to do the other premise, in this case the minor premise.That means I need to put an X in any sector that is m and s (Some Republican is in favor of health savings accounts).To make it easier to read, I’ll erase the msp labels in that sector.

Finally we have to check to make sure that all the classes have a member.We just made it so for s and m.But how about p?Unfortunately there are 2 sectors —s p non-m and non-s p non-m – that could fill this need; and we have no grounds on which to decide whether it’s the one or the other or both.Some books would put an X on the line that makes the boundary between these two, s p non-m and non-s p non-m.But I prefer to leave them indeterminate.If there were only one sector with p available, we would put an X in it.That happens with some of the valid syllogism forms and is essential to show the conclusion.

In any case, as we have it above, the diagram does demonstrate the conclusion of Ferison: Some s is not p (Some person in favor of health savings accounts is not in favor of Obamacare.).

3. Write 4 original, valid syllogisms, one from each of the four figures.

Write 6 original, invalid syllogisms, each of which violates one of the six rules of valid syllogism. Identify the rule violated in each case.

EVALUATION OF PORTFOLIO BETA AND THE REQUIRED RETURN ON STOCK

The tendency of a stock’s price to move up and down with the market is reflected in its beta coefficient. Therefore, beta is a measure of an investment’s market risk, and is a key element of the CAPM. 

In this part of the project, you get financial information using Yahoo!Finance (found at http://finance.yahoo.com/ )

To find a company’s beta, enter the desired stock symbol and request a basic quote. Once you have the basic quote, select the “Key Statistics”. Scroll down this page to find the stock’s beta.

In your initial response to the topic you have to answer all 5 questions.

From Yahoo!Finance obtain a report on any two companies. The two companies are IBM and Hewlitt Packard.

1. What are the betas listed for these companies?

2. If you made an equal dollar investment in each stocks what would be the beta of your portfolio?

3. If you made 70% of dollar investment in stock A, and 30% of dollar investment in stock B, what would be the beta of your portfolio? Please show your work.

4. Apply the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) Security Market Line to estimate the required return on these two stocks. Assumptions and Data: Note that you will need the risk-free rate and the market risk premium. Assume a 5% market risk premium. To get the current yield on 10-year Treasury securities go to Finance!Yahoo’s (www.finance.yahoo.com) -click on Market Data – Bonds. You will use the current yield on 10-year Treasury securities as the risk-free rate to estimate the required rate of return on stocks. Please show your work.

5. Compare the required return on these stocks calculated using CAPM in question #4 against their historical return over the last 52 weeks, found in the Yahoo!Finance – Key Statistics. Is there a difference between these returns? Is this a problem? Why is there a difference?

Q: You are the production manager for a European-based firm that is considering outsourcing its manufacturing to a producer in China. You are asked by your firm’s CEO to prepare a report that outlines the benefits and drawbacks of this potential change. During your research, you find international trade theories that say protectionist actions restrict imports and harm a nation’s standard of living—an argument for free trade. Yet you know that free trade and global competition are driving firms such as your own to move production to cheaper locations abroad, thereby eliminating jobs in their home countries. Clearly, the gains and losses of free trade are not always distributed evenly across the population. As part of your report to the CEO, argue either for or against the need for measures that protect domestic production and, therefore, jobs at home. (2-3 pages, singled-spaced).

This week you were introduced to some common business related crimes. Your assignment for this week is to research a recent business crimes (not more than 3 years old) and select one as a topic for your assignment. Examples include, but are not limited to, hacking, Ponzi schemes, identity theft, etc. Explain how the crime is committed, list an example of the crime (an actual case), provide the applicable penalties if one is convicted of committing this crime, and prevention tips to keep people from becoming a victim of the crime.

Your paper will be 2-3 pages in length with proper APA citations (both in-text and full) to show where you received the source of your information about the crimes