SWOT Analysis for Personal Development and Career

SWOT ANALYSIS
ESSAY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
DISCUSSION .................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Career development is a process which carry various activities and these are in on-going
in nature. It refers to the management and planning of an individual career including training and
development and helps in providing new skills in order to pursue jobs at specified time
(Vondracek, Lerner and Schulenberg, 2019). It is directly linked with the goals and objectives
which is set by an individual in order to perform their job roles. This include various components
along with the development of a person like self-assessment, career development, goal setting,
skill training and performing. Moreover, this essay is based on the self assessment of personal
development skills and abilities and for this, SWOT analysis is performed which helps in
analysing various components of an individual. In addition to this, Personality Development Plan
is made in order to analyse and improve those skills in which shortage is identified and need to
be improved (Rubens and et. al., 2018).
DISCUSSION
Personal development is important for an individual because of this employees look more
confident and it helps in increasing the self-esteem and image of an individual. By considering
the SWOT analysis it is quite difficult to analyse own strengths and weaknesses for the personal
progress but it helps in learning new things and finding appropriate direction for career (Bull and
et. al., 2016). SWOT is an effective tool as it helps in analysing and improving the necessary
details for yourself. Overall, it helps in providing a picture of the merits and demerits an
individual has and its outcome is based on the reaction to the findings. While, conducting this, it
is important to think wisely and positively as it helps in overcoming the weaknesses and threats.
In order to become successful in the competitive world it is important to identify the strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities and threats as it helps in analysing the success factor for an individual.
It is important for an individual to having awareness of these four elements in order to achieve
competitive advantage. Moreover, it is helpful in focusing on those areas which need to be
improve and also find ways to overcome these lack areas. Therefore, SWOT analysis for
personal or career development is discussed as under:
Strengths: It is a factor which is useful in developing and enhancing the present skills in
order to bring them to next level. It is the factor which defines the strengths and depict what
differentiate me form other person or competitors like my image, behaviour and many more. It
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