Professional Portfolio: Career Development Plan, CV, and Skills Assessment

This professional portfolio focuses on career development plan, action plan worksheet, skills assessment, SWOT analysis, potential qualifications, career objectives, and current CV. It provides insights into creating a successful career path as a professional manager.

A Professional
Portfolio

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................................................3
PART 1.............................................................................................................................................4
Career Development Plan: ..........................................................................................................4
Action Plan Worksheet:...............................................................................................................4
Skills Assessment Worksheet: ....................................................................................................5
Swot Analysis: ............................................................................................................................5
Potential and Relevant Qualifications: .......................................................................................6
Career Objectives: ......................................................................................................................6
Examples where to look for relevant placements and job related information...........................7
PART 2.............................................................................................................................................8
Current CV..................................................................................................................................8
PART 3.............................................................................................................................................9
Reflection Log ............................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES...............................................................................................................................11
APPENDICES ..........................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
This report is based on a professional portfolio and creating a career development plan
that helps to identify potential skills and knowledge (Atanasoff, 2019). Professional portfolio is a
collection of those work they provide a true and clear picture of a particular candidate for a
specific job. The purpose of professional portfolio is created of relevant documents or
information regarding talents, skills and charts your business growth. It is necessary to chosen a
leading area like searching job opportunities and prepare a CV to a specific field for a particular
job. Various topics are covered in this report such as Potential skills and knowledge, Swot
analysis, Career objectives and Curriculum vitae.
PART 1
Career Development Plan:
The term career development plan is said to be that determine short and long term goals
for future period. It is a procedure to an individual plan of a person to achieve a goals and
objectives (Chandra, 2017). To develop a plan for career they assist the employees for achieving
a better goals and objectives in an enterprise. For students, career plan is like what they have
learned about yourself and what type of career plan they decide to discover various jobs. To
prepare a structured career development plan I have identify some potential skills and
knowledges for working in a firm as professional manager. For this, I have conducted a swot
analysis to determine my strength and weaknesses which help me to boost a upcoming
development plans.
Action Plan Worksheet:
Skills that need to be
developed
How I plan to do this Date I intended to achieve
this
Problem solving skills. By handling a difficult
situation and facing all
challenges (Fletcher, 2016)
01/01/22
Communication skills By interact various staff
member and employees
01/12/24
Decision making skills By acquiring positions like a 01/12/23

good employees.
Leadership skills By motivating their employee
to accomplish their objectives.
01/12/21
Administrative skills By working in a reputed firm
at least 6 years to improve my
skills and experience.
01/12/25
Skills Assessment Worksheet:
Potential skills:
For working as a professional manager in a reputed firm several skills are required should
be identified for these goals are as mentioned below:
 In this, I have the skills of working in a reputed firm is to coordinate with other members
of organisation such as employees, board of directors, managers and staffs.
 To work as a professional mangers, I need to have these skills such as decision making
process, communication and motivating the employees and many more (Lam, 2018). I
think it will also effects to increase my position in an enterprise.
 My aim to work as a professional manager in future period, which requires me to
influence a administrative skills for managing a business which include various skills
such as leadership skills, problem solving skills, decision making and communication
skills.
Swot Analysis:
It is a structure to identify internal and external environment of business. Swot analysis is
a framework to evaluate the firm competitive position and designed important planning. Based
on following table represents strength, weakness, opportunities and threats of my skills and
knowledge are as under:
Strength
 Leadership skills
 Communication skills
Weakness
 Issues in time management
 Lack of trust issues

 Innovative
 To identify decision making skills
 Teamwork
 Problem solving skills
 Lack of planning skills
Opportunities
 New career opportunities in other firm
 Facing new challenges and tasks
 Wide prospects of earning areas
 Duties and responsibilities are
increased
Threats
 Level of competition is high
 Different working conditions in other
firm
 Competitive working environment
Potential and Relevant Qualifications:
Having a certain aspect of potential and relevant qualification is also important to choose
a better career path (Masters, 2016). These qualifications are helpful to choose a path of my
career and I need to acquire certain qualifications. Various qualifications for choosing a better
career plan are as mentioned below:
 I have a BBA degree of graduation in banking and equity services.
 I have a MBA degree for further advancement as I aspire a work in reputed firm as a
professional manager.
 I m capable to work as manager because I have all the skills and experience that are
necessary for working in reputed firm with best degrees and facing all the challenges
which help me to face difficult situations.
Career Objectives:
To decide a carer objective which helps to utilise skills and knowledge to making a
important contribution for success of enterprise. In present, I have two career objectives one is
short term and other one is long term goal are as mentioned below:
Short term goal: To work in a reputed firm as a professional manager with great skills and
knowledge for handling management functions (Pagdin, and Hardy, 2017).
Long term goal: To set up a my company in England using SMART method:
Specific  My first objective is I want to be a professional

manger and looking more jobs in England.
 My second objective is to using my skills and
knowledge to support my plan.
Measurable  In this, I need to measure my progress so I will
continue my goals according to my objectives. For
professional manager it is important to measure long
term goal for achieve a long term objectives.
Achievable  I will looking for new opportunities in other
platforms so that my goals are achieved in a proper
manner.
 I will assured a job as a manger in reputed firm and
work for 7 years only to improve my experience and
skills to open my own firm.
Relevant  Some information are relevant in nature and
appropriate to a current time period. I have a degree
of graduation in banking and equity services for 2
years experience so it will help to reach me a better
position in England.
Time bound  The aim is to achieve my first goals in 4 years.
 My second goals are achieved within 10 years.
Examples where to look for relevant placements and jobs/job related information
Information related with job can be easily found by several types of online and offline
sources. In order to chosen my area of interest working for reputed firm as a professional
manager, following aspects are reasoned.
Internet: It provide a various information about a particular job that you are searched for.
Internet is a global wide network that are uses in many different ways (Pendharkar and Cusatis,
2018. In this, files are transferred searching various job profiles with different streams. I can use
internet information because it provides me direct information at different different enterprise.

Employment agencies: It is a organisation that helps for individual person to find out
various jobs. Agent are the third party that works between candidates and organisation. The main
purpose of this agency is to meet those customers who are required for the jobs. There are
multiple business who worked or act as an employment agent and if you get a job through this
agency, then you can become a employee in an employment agency. It is a private firm their
services are available may charged fees for both employee and worker.
Walk-ins or Write ins: The term walk in means an individual person can go to the
organisation without any invitation they can directly see through internet or any other job portals.
The term write ins means person who submit their resume or CV unrequested. Firm can choose
randomly applications to check their CV or resumes of candidates or either visiting the firm and
mailing CV on a firm mail id.
Advertisements: It is a medium where organisations or any other institution promote our
products or launching something through various sites like TV, newspaper etc. Some
organisations provide ads regarding various jobs through such as newspapers, media, job portals,
several job sites like naukri jobs, LinkedIn and many more.
Online job portals: The term job portals is a network based practical application which
help to user for find a best job with his preferred location and his same stream work profile. It is
a platform where candidate create profile and post your CV on this portals for searching job
vacancies. Some of the best portals like monster, LinkedIn, naukri jobs and many more.
PART 2
Current CV
Curriculum vitae represents a long process which include all skills, achievements in a proper
format. It should be precise, concise and up to date with educational qualifications for enterprise.
With response to job advertisement, I am presenting my updated CV as under.
Curriculum Vitae
Career Objective:
To work with a growing organisation as a professional manager so as to enhance my skills and
knowledge at different works.

Work Experience:
 Financial Analyst in Tesco for 2 years in UK.
 Manager assistant in Sainsbury for 4 years in UK.
Professional Skills:
 Good at decision making skills
 Team work
 Good communication skills
 Great at leadership skills
 Problem solving skills
Educational Qualifications:
 BBA degree in banking and equity services
 Post graduation in Finance
 Certificate in financial analyst in reputed firm
Declaration:
I hereby that all the above information and details are true with best of my knowledge.
Place: London Signature:
With respect to job advertisement, I would like to send my CV to this organisation
through email or posted on naukri jobs. The CV will be attached along with offer letter to the HR
in organisation.
PART 3
Reflection Log
DATE
Event/Activity
What did I do?
01/10/20
Listed me in
certification
course in banking
and equity
01/11/20 01/12/20
In this month,
practical sessions
are required.
01/01/21
Participate in
banking
competition
exams.

What was the
outcome?
What I have
learnt about
myself ?
What will I do
differently next
time?
services (Pfaff,
2016).
I am Pursuing
finance course.
I have learnt to
develop many
financial skills.
Transfer on with
my progress
system.
It can developed
research skills for
this.
I should need to
improve in my
research skills.
Several articles
related with
financial
problems while
task assignment.
To achieve
financial skills for
professional
manager.
lack of
accounting skills
and planning
skills.
I need to practice
for develop my
communication
skills.
Knowledgeable in
finance for a
particular time
period .
I should need to
improve my
accounting and
time management
skills.
I can completed
my work as soon
as possible so I
can utilise my
time in other
work.
CONCLUSION
As per the above information, it can be concluded that professional portfolio help me to
raising a career development plan has a inspirational and provide me to achieve a better goals
and objectives (Vouchilas and George, 2016). It is necessary to create portfolio regarding
appropriate jobs and to identify the potential skills and experience. In this report, several topics
are covered such as career development plan, action plan worksheet that needs to required
various skills like communication skills, decision making skills, problem solving and many
more. Swot analysis required to identify internal and external analysis. Career objectives are
covered in this report for short terms and long term goals. To prepared a updated CV with respect
to job advertisement. I hope to apply this knowledge in upcoming years which will be helpful for
your learning knowledge.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Atanasoff, G., 2019. Public Relations, Communications, Journalism and Politics: A
Comprehensive Professional Writing Portfolio.
Chandra, P., 2017. Investment analysis and portfolio management. McGraw-hill education.
Cox, S., 2019. Professional Practices Portfolio.
Fletcher, M., 2016. Constructing the Persuasive Portfolio: The Only Primer You’ll Ever Need.
Taylor & Francis.
Lam, R., 2018. Background of portfolio assessment. In Portfolio Assessment for the Teaching
and Learning of Writing (pp. 1-11). Springer, Singapore.
Masters, J., 2016. Ready? Action! Building a portfolio of evidence in teacher education. In
ePortfolios Australia Forum 2016: Connecting learning to the future (pp. 17-24).
Pagdin, I. and Hardy, M., 2017. Investment and Portfolio Management: A Practical Introduction.
Kogan Page Publishers.
Pendharkar, P. C. and Cusatis, P., 2018. Trading financial indices with reinforcement learning
agents. Expert Systems with Applications. 103. pp.1-13.
Pfaff, B., 2016. Financial risk modelling and portfolio optimization with R. John Wiley & Sons.
Stewart, S. D., Piros, C. D. and Heisler, J. C., 2019. Portfolio Management: Theory and
Practice. John Wiley & Sons.
Vouchilas, G. and George, G., 2016. Professional development portfolio: Perceptions of nutrition
and dietetics current students and recent graduates. Journal of Family & Consumer
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Yu, J. N., 2020. Research on Financial Portfolio Analysis in the New Era. In Journal of Physics:
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APPENDICES
Employment skill audit
Working with
others
Study Work Social Your examples of using this skill
Communication Yes Yes Yes Working with someone else is also a
skill that I had to used during at a
school time, at work, at social life
environment. In my study time, I had
to work with team leader where I
develop my team work skills,
communication skills while at work or
social life, I had to deal with clients
with show my financial skills were
required.
Leadership Yes No No
Problem Solving Yes Yes No
Teamwork Yes Yes Yes