3-4 Project One: Personal and Professional Development Plan MGT 200 Personal reflection is very important. It allows for a deeper look into one's values and personal strengths and flaws. My personal core values are stability, close friends and family, empathy, and hard work. I also have a very protective nature. For me stability, friends and family are the most important of these values. Over the last 5 years my partner and I experienced multiple periods of instability where we feared we would lose the rough over our head. This has led to me valuing the stability I was given as a child and wanting to have that again. This has influenced my career choice as I have decided to pursue a career in cyber security. This is a stable and well-paying job which plays into my protective nature. With this career choice I hope to eventually become a cyber security consultant eventually. When I join a team, I usually take on the role of helper or have been second on the chain of command. I feel like having this experience will aid me in entering cyber security and eventually becoming a cyber security consultant. The fact that I'm used to being told the main issue that needs to be tackled and coming up with a solution myself will be a much-needed skill in this field. My lack of knowledge of cyber security specifics is one of the things that I need to work on the most before entering this field. I hope with both my remaining studies for my degree and after entering this field at entry level I will obtain this necessary knowledge. For me personally, I have a SMART goal I have been working on for a few years now. My goal is to get off disability and enter the cyber security field. My professional SMART goal is to get my bachelors in IT and enter the cyber security field. I am currently on disability due to mental health issues and a physical injury. For quite a few years I have been working to overcome the mental issues I suffer from. I know that it will not be cured but with the help of professionals I can learn to work around these issues. I was in an accident during my senior year in high school that resulted in a permanent injury to my knee. With cyber security being a desk job, my physical injury will not be an issue. I want to be able to work and provide for myself with out aid. With this in mind, both my personal and professional goals are very much intertwined. In order to achieve my goals, I am aiming to obtain both my goals I have a multi-step plan in place. The first thing I need to do is continue to work with my psychiatrist on my mental health. I have begun to seek out a knee specialist to see what can be done to help with the problems with my