Investing time to learn something in your profession makes you rich in your knowledge, if you are not then it will make you poor in your performance. You have to realize your potential, you must look beyond the end of yourself, realizing that where you end is most likely where you actually begin. While we are still young, we establish goals in life that are somehow easy to achieve. We dreamed of being a successful our parents dreamt for us but as we grow older, we realized that it is not just about getting paid, having stable job, and paying bills. We want to improve ourselves and we set achievable goals so that we can be competent on our chosen path. A professionally competent person has the professional knowledge, professional capacity, professional skills, and good work experience. The person must have certain personal qualities that are sharpened to make him fit in the job. Such a person must also be loyal to its workplace. In a crisis, high professional competence is an advantage to workers. Such employees would be able to keep their jobs or find new jobs elsewhere. To be professionally competent, one needs to plan the development of his competence. This will constitute the designation of the targets arising from those specific tasks. A person who does not have professional competence could acquire this in several ways. One of them is through learning from more competent staff and leaders. One should also be ready and willing to take on professional challenges to learn from mistakes and become professionally competent. Participating in ongoing projects is also helpful. One could also go for further studies to get more knowledge and acquire the necessary competencies.

By: Melanie Pincil|Teacher I|Balanga Elementary School|Balanga City, Bataan