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1. Smart Objectives

- Complete the 10 project activities and have the portfolio ready within a week of the due date.

- Take 1 leadership course and take on a project as a leader during the next 6 months.

- Create at least two job connections during the next 3 months of internship.

In this activity, what I did was to create three objectives that I consider important for my personal and work development. In this case, I took elements of my life that I consider that must be achieved and that I should already set as goals. First, I took as a starting point the realization of this project, which, although it may seem repetitive, is something that is important to me at this moment. On the other hand, I analyzed the personal factors that I consider that I must improve in order to be able to develop as a good student and professional. This activity impacted me in several ways, since I got to know more about my way of thinking and my preferences. To begin with, I can notice that I am a person who is interested in focusing on elements that are urgent or short term. That is to say, at the moment of setting the objective of this project, it strikes me to understand that I am attentive and interested in short-term moments. On the other hand, I am also struck by the way I think about myself, since I am aware and concerned about the capabilities I have and more than anything about how I should improve. It is a point of reflection how long it took me to think about these objectives, since I had to generate a critical analysis about my situation and how I really wanted to see myself in the future.

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https://xavierbaca98.wixsite.com/my-sitexavierbaca

2. Digital Portfolio

In this activity, I made a digital portfolio in order to understand and show who I am and what skills I have. In the portfolio, you can see the skills that I have developed the most and a description of why I have them that way. It is a personal exploration that will be a tool for others, since it will allow them to know me in a concise way. Within this activity are hidden between two and three years of personal exploration of my skills. Since the middle of my career I took the path of organizational psychology and in this field soft skills are taken into account a lot. Therefore, since that time I have been working on developing and discovering what my skills are. That is why, at the moment of doing this activity, I was very impressed to reflect on how long I have been doing this activity of knowing my skills and being able to present them to others. In addition, it impacted me because I am generating more confidence about what I can do and what I need to improve. I can take the phrase "I only know that I know nothing" as a point of reflection, because by doing this activity I not only know what skills I have, but in which I must improve and continue working.

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I am Xavier Baca, a psychology student at Universidad San Francisco de Quito. I have a passion for the application of the science of psychology in organizations. It is the way to potentiate the work through the study of the human being.

I am a person focused on the objectives, I like to work in a team and have several people with whom to create a real work team. At the moment as I study and work I have good time management and I manage to distribute my tasks within these two roles.

I do not like to leave things half way or still, I am proactive because I am interested in the work progress. It is important to be organized at work, so I tend to take the material, tasks and time in an organized way.

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- Proactive

- Organized

- Time management

- Teamwork

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I am Xavier Baca, a psychology student at Universidad San Francisco de Quito. I have a passion for the application of the science of psychology in organizations. It is the way to potentiate the work through the study of the human being.

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3. FLOW:

Flow is a state whereby a person is completely immersed in an activity in such a way that there is a balance between the difficulty of the task and his or her abilities. Therefore, in the week between October 18 and October 31 I managed to identify several activities that I was in the state of flow. First of all, on October 18 I was in the office at my internship and I was in an activity that made me feel in flow. That activity was during the organization of the Business Officer School, which is a training. In that organization, I lost track of time and was caught up in the activity. In the same way, I managed to feel this flow on October 22nd, in this case, it was during the development of excel documents on the attendance control of the bank's training. I managed to feel the same as the previous activity, I was very concentrated, I did not notice the time, and I worked fluently and with pleasure. In the following week, I had some moments that I was in a state of flow. This time it was during the consolidation of the results of the trainings. The activity went from tabulating data to entering the results.

This activity impacted me a lot because I got to know in which moments and doing which things I have more ease and pleasure in working. I was surprised that they are with jobs that require working with excel and generating databases. On the other hand, it is shocking to know that I feel flow with activities related to the management and organization of activities. That is, I learned that I like to manage and be active in projects.

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5. Resumé:

For this activity, I already had my resumé done, but I focused on being able to improve it and have it have the most important elements and with updated information. In the first place, I made an effort to make sure that the information is updated and according to the new experiences I have had. Secondly, what I did was to improve the presentation and design of the document so that it is consistent with my professional profile. That is why I decided to use more neutral colors that show seriousness. Next, I presented my resume to two people who are experts in this subject. The first person I showed was Andrea Peñaherrera, who is a professor in the internship program at USFQ. The recommendations she gave me was to look for homogeneity in the spaces between sentences, to distribute in a descending way the timeline of studies, experience and social responsibility.

The second person I showed was Eva Benitez, who is a professor of management principles, and what she indicated to me was that the form of the resume is fine. That it presents the correct information and with a design that is in accordance with the career. At the time of doing this activity, I was struck by the way in which the details of the resume affect the professional presentation of a person. In addition, it showed me that I like work that is organized and that demonstrates seriousness. That is to say, I am a person who is oriented to formal environments and quality work. On the other hand, I consider it important to reflect that I liked the process of creating the resume and studying its components. Therefore, it is a sign that I can be oriented to work in human resources processes such as personnel selection and recruitment.

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4. Time Audit:

In this activity, I focused on reviewing what I do during a week and collecting information about how I spend my time. That is why I took a notebook with me during the week of November 8 to November 14 to write down everything I did in each hour. From Monday to Friday you can find patterns of behavior, in this case from 8:30 to 3:30 I performed work activities. Among these were, delivering reports, making Excel documents, being present at meetings and other work activities. Always during these days between 12:30pm and 1:30pm I took an hour for lunch. After 3:30pm the activities varied depending on the day of the week. That is, as I am working and studying the activities I performed changed according to the demand of homework in that week. I could see that after 3:30 pm I did spend my time on my cell phone and resting. On average for the week I spent 2 and a half hours on the cell phone and 1 and a half hours on the road per day. To give a rating of my activities, the ones I spend in the office give me an average of 8 positive points, which indicates that I enjoy the time I spend working in the office. On the other hand, university activities give me 3 points, which indicates that I like to continue studying, but that I am already anxious to graduate. Among the rest activities, I get an average of 9 points, since I feel that rest time is important and that it brings me peace and tranquility.

Doing this activity impacted me a lot about what I do in my day to day life. I managed to understand that I do spend a lot of time on unhelpful activities such as being on the cell phone. Although, I was struck by the idea that if I am in the 7 hours of work if I dedicate all my attention to the tasks I am doing. That is, if I manage well in office hours and work organization. Taking this into account, I can reflect that I feel a lot of pleasure for what I am doing now and it is a great guide for me and what I would like to do in the future. On the other hand, it was striking the tidiness that I managed that week, that is, that I recognize an ability in which I can keep focused on other things while I manage to be aware of the time and other activities that I have to do.

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Ximena Montenegro – Jefe de Capacitación y Desarrollo

xmontenegro@solidario.fin.ec

I interviewed Ximena Montenegro because she is my boss and has worked for many years in management and human talent positions. I hope to understand what it is like to work in an office and how to grow in large companies. I was able to identify this contact because she is my boss during my internship. Therefore, it was a person-to-person contact.

The main thing I learned from the interview is three things. In the first place, is that one in the company must understand what career plan should be followed, therefore, train in the skills and knowledge that these positions require. On the other hand, we also discussed that in my context, the best way to continue in companies is to look for a job and then continue studying in order to have the experience. Finally, that the job of human talent management requires knowing a lot about the processes and knowing how to deal with people. The aspects that were not discussed in the interview but I could identify is that it is a job with high pressure, but that causes a lot of satisfaction. From what I observed, I could see a happiness when she told me what she has achieved. From what he told me, the interview made me feel confident and motivated to continue along the line of administration and human talent management. Therefore, I can conclude that after the interview I am interested in this line of work, because I find interesting the way in which processes and organization affect the lives of all employees.

This interview helped me a lot in understanding management and human resources jobs. What I liked is that the aspects of knowing how to manage human talent processes greatly affect human talent management. What I value about this type of work is the effect that human resources have on the business of companies. What I will continue to do is to work in various areas of human talent, in order to understand through experience what line of work to follow.

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Santiago Bermeo – Director Banco Solidario

sbermeo@solidario.fin.ec

I selected Santiago Bermeo for the interview because he is the director of Banco Solidario; the company where I do my internships, which allows me to have a very objective access to the functions of psychology and management. What I was hoping to learn in this interview was how companies are run, how an organization is set up and what attracts him as a professional to work in an organization like a bank. I was able to contact this person through my girlfriend, because he is her father and I was able to have a direct contact through a conversation at his home.

What I learned the most in this interview were the key concepts to have when working with more people. That is, that directing is about empowering the abilities of others towards the goals you have. On the other hand, I was very impressed by the fact that work should always be organized and focused on an objective. Working without an objective is just going to be a waste of time. It was important to see how the person expressed himself about management with a serious tone and that it is understandable because you have to be a good boss but you have to get things done. It makes me feel excited to meet someone who has the ability to be part of the board of directors and that makes me very curious about personnel management.

This interview really clarified my ideas about the administration and management of organizations. I clarified ideas and doubts about the complexity of the position, so it encourages me to guide my career plan. In order to continue clarifying my path, I will continue to have contact with my interviewee and I will solve more doubts I have about the positions related to business management and human talent.

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Juan Daniel – Professor USFQ

jtorresy@asig.com.ec

I conducted the interview with my professor of several classes of Organizational Psychology, because he is someone who knows a lot about the career I am interested in pursuing. What I am interested in learning from this interview is to know what are the variety of activities that an organizational consultant can do. I was able to contact Juan Daniel because I had classes with him this semester, so I asked him to meet me after class.

What I learned the most is that in consulting you can do many things. First of all, consulting can be done in personnel selection, organizational development, training, behavior and organization. Also, I think it is very important to comment that I learned the way a consultant can work, in relation to how to generate contact with clients, how to present projects and the structure that can be developed within consultancies. It is interesting to observe with the emotion that Juan talks about the consulting topics and that you can see the satisfaction of being able to teach others. Therefore, it leaves me with feelings of excitement and interest about the consulting processes.

Being able to talk to Juan allowed me to understand a lot of what work consultants do and in general what work is done in organizational psychology. I am very interested in consulting because it can cover all the areas that are handled in the area of human talent. What I will continue to work on to clarify my path is to research and take consulting courses to see if this is the path that interests me the most.

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Soledad Duque - Asistente de Nomina
sduque@solidario.fin.ec

I decided to interview Soledad Duque because she is a person who is working within Human Resources, but in an area related to numbers. Therefore, I was curious about this area of human talent. I hope to learn how payroll processes affect the area of human talent, what skills she considers that a person who works with numbers should have and what she finds interesting about her job. I was able to contact Soledad because she is a person who works within the Bank and that is where I am doing my internship. Therefore, the contact was direct and without the need to call or message because we have the opportunity to share the same work space.

The main thing I managed to learn is that one of the most important skills to be able to work with numbers is reasoning and organization. Without organization it will become an impossible task to work with so many numbers. On the other hand, payroll processes affect and are part of human talent, because salaries have the power to motivate, support and recognize workers for the work they do. I could observe that at the end of the month during the interview, there is some tension because the payroll processes at this time are when they take more intensity. My reaction to this interview and your answers are good, I find it very interesting to be able to control the payroll numbers, but it is not an area that catches my attention because of the little social contact that may exist.

Soledad's answers allowed me to understand a lot about her job and the way it works. This interview helped me to understand that although I like numbers and being part of a management process, I am not a person who is only interested in working with numbers, but who focuses on management and administration. On this element of human talent, I think it is important to train myself as a way to know all the processes related to human talent, but they are not the ones I would like to specialize in as a whole or just do payroll in the future.

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In the activity to develop new interests I took into account what activities I have already done and which ones I would consider that could contribute to the discovery of new skills and interests. The first activity I did was during my mid-semester vacation in Riobamba. I have not ridden a horse and in the house in Riobamba there are several horses, so one day with the help of other people I decided to go riding and it was a totally new experience. From this experience, I was able to learn that confidence and feeling secure helps others to trust you, in this case with the horse. On the other hand, I understood that I can follow orders and listen to others in moments when I don't feel totally comfortable.

The next activity is related to a sport that I have played before and that is tennis. In this case, the activity was to teach tennis to my girlfriend who had never played before. In this case, the activity contributed a lot to know myself better and that I can be a person with a lot of patience, because I didn't mind repeating things, communicating and following a process. In this case, the activity showed me that I can be a person with teaching and group management skills.

The third activity that was new to me also happened in Riobamba. This time I had the opportunity to make bread from scratch. This activity also helped me to understand that I have good skills to follow processes. It is ideal for me to understand this because it teaches me that I can follow elements in order and have the ability to continue supervising each step of the process.

The last activity was a great learning activity related to children. For one day I was babysitting and I managed to learn that I am not really interested in working with children. This teaching was very important because it made me understand the things that I don't even like to do.

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8.Editing Online Presence

The activity of editing my digital presence was very interesting because from the beginning I have preferred to keep my social networks very personal. Even among my contacts or friends I don't share much information. In this case, the activity was not complicated and focused on changing the settings of my networks and who can see my content. This was very useful for me to learn that people can know us a lot just by our publications. It is so shocking that we leave a lot of information that can be easily accessible to everyone. Therefore, this activity impacted me because it is important to keep information that is not positive for the work environment private so that it is not a negative factor.

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9.VIDEO

The video activity had an impact on me, because it allowed me to observe many mistakes and successes when answering the questions. What I did was to answer the following questions: 1) tell me a little about yourself, 2) What interests you about this job? What are your strengths, 3) what are your weaknesses, 4) how do you see yourself in 5 years, 5) tell me once you have shown a skill needed for the position, 6) how do you resolve conflicts?

Answering these questions and being able to watch the video impacted me because I consider that I have positive aspects, because I show evidence in my answers. Likewise, I can correct certain aspects such as speaking with more confidence. This activity is impactful because it was able to show me in a visual way how I act in a simulation. It is striking how observing yourself can provide a lot of feedback.

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10.Compare and Contrast 3 jobs.

This last activity was very important to me because it gave me the opportunity to learn different perspectives on psychology. This time I read about human resource management and there were concepts and information that caught my attention. I talked with a colleague at work about clinical psychology, because she has her practice and there are elements of psychology that are interesting but that do not call me to work on it. On the other hand, I talked with a person who focuses on psycho-pedagogy and therefore I managed to understand that I am not able to find a taste for the care of children.

This activity had a great impact on me, because it prepared me with a lot of information to know the types of work. Through this activity I was able to understand that what I am interested in is working in human resources management. That is, through the activity I had the opportunity to better understand the aspects of each job. This was an important factor for me to make the decision to pursue organizational psychology and look for the management of human talent.

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During the activities I have been able to learn a lot about the world in which I am interested in working. It is important to understand that organizational psychology has a lot to do with processes. What I learned about myself is that I have an interest in process activities and that they require managing others. On the other hand, I was able to learn that I dedicate a lot of time to my development as a professional and that I need to be more conscious about time off. Activities related to human talent, human resources management and similar activities get my attention and allow me to have a feeling of flow. The most important thing I learned is that I have a feeling of enjoyment and joy about the activities I am doing, therefore, I am in a positive position regarding my future.

The most impactful activities were the time audit, because it showed me important information about what I spend my time on. Therefore, it taught me a lot about my true interests. Likewise, the activity about collecting moments that I have been in flow, impacted me a lot when I realized that these moments were mostly when I was in the office. That is, I am managing to generate concentration and enjoyment for what I am doing. The activity of looking for new interests caught my attention and impacted me a lot. In this case, because I managed to understand my limits and that I am capable of pushing my abilities until I achieve the goals I set for myself. Finally, the interviews allowed me to understand a lot about the job market and that is why they had a great impact on me.

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After completing the activities I can consider that I am very sure that I want to pursue human talent management. I am interested in pursuing specializations that are in charge of managing human talent and that will allow me to reach positions where I can organize, plan and direct people. At this moment I am concluding my penultimate semester, I know the line of specialization that I would like to pursue, but I still need to consider what types of specialization I would like to pursue.

I still need to consider what type of specialization I would like to pursue. In other words, I am at the point where I need to choose the specialization program. I would like to develop and solve this as I go through my internships. In a few months I am interested in getting a new internship or continuing to work where I am. In this way, I continue to increase my experience to learn more about the labor market. On the other hand, in the next year I hope to graduate from college, combined with the experience I gain from work. Finally, in the next few years I hope to be enrolled in the specialization and in this way continue to generate connections with more professionals.