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  • Essay / Deliberate Decision Process - 657

    Critical Thinking Worksheet• A position opens up in your department at work. You recommend a colleague and friend from another department to apply. You have consulted this person before on small projects, and they seem competent and responsible. In fact, you became friends through these professional contacts. Your friend appreciates your recommendation and sets up a meeting to ask you for more details about the work your department does. The meeting is productive and your friend takes notes to help you with the application process. Your friend stops by your office a few days later to thank you for your help because the application was long and detailed. She says some of the information she included in the application isn't entirely accurate. Some of his work experiences did not match the job requirements and needed to be reworded to better fit. Your friend thanks you again and says, “I hope we work together soon!” » Part A: Write down five questions you should ask yourself to help you think through the situation and determine a plan of action.1. Is she qualified enough for this position?2. Why didn't she tell the truth in her application?3. If I help him, how will it affect my work if someone finds out?4. What will it look like when my employer finds out I recommended her?5. What would happen if the employer decided to hire someone with more experience and knowledge? Part B: Questioning yourself, as you did in the exercise above, is a form critical thinking. This can, in turn, help you better understand the way you work. Write a 100-150 word answer to each of the following questions:• What were your aptitude results? My aptitude score is that like everyone else...... middle of paper ...... any piece of paper the information I have and base my decision on it..• How to understand this will it help you both in your academic life and in your workplace? Critical thinking is a deliberate process of deciding whether to accept, reject, or reserve judgment on a particular topic. idea. Sometimes it's hard to decide which direction I should take. Even though I know the decision may not be the right one, I know it can affect myself and the other party. My weakness is making the right decision when it concerns my family or friends, I know I want to help them in any way possible, but at what cost? My strength is that I use critical thinking most of the time and try to solve problems by analyzing every piece of information I have and base my decision on that. I hope that by using my critical thinking it will help me rationalize my decisions in academic and professional life..