Academic and Career Development

This report discusses the importance of academic and career development, including a critical review of employability, a detailed career plan, and reflective self-assessment. It also provides information on the current job market for graduates and the skills required for a supply chain analyst role at Tesco. The report concludes with a 10-year career plan based on the self-concept theory of career development.

Academic and career development.

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
1. Critical review of employability.........................................................................................3
2. Detailed career plan and reflective self-assessment...........................................................6
3. Result summary................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Career development usually refers to managing one career in an intra organizational or
inter organizational scenario. This involves training on new skills, moving to higher job
responsibilities for making a career changes within the same organization (Stipanovic,
Stringfield and Witherell, 2017). The present report is based on the career development as a
career plan job supply chain analyst at Tesco. The company is related with super market chain. A
report will evaluate employability for graduates by using career theory. This will also include
detailed career plan and reflective assessment with proper summary by using CV, cover letter
and another document.
MAIN BODY
1. Critical review of employability.
An employability is underpinned by multiple, often situational factors that are likely
which their range of interpretations of what being “employable means to individual and
employers. For instance, while some workers may consider the likelihood of securing job over
the course on their career action. This helps to make focus on their short-term goals and needs
for getting employability in effective manner. This helps to create more effectiveness for
graduate to gain proper and effective employment at workplace for securing their job within the
company. This creates more effectiveness for business and candidates career plans for manage
proper job opportunities. Academic and career development is highly helpful for managing
career job opportunity in an effective manner. Graduate employability means that the higher
education alumni have developed the proper capacity for obtaining and creating work. The
project has proper activity were nationally surveyed students, graduate employers, higher
education career development professional and educators.
Current marketplace for graduate employment opportunities:
The overview graduate employment market of UK is very positive with employment up
and unemployment down. The UK graduate labour market remains robust and by some measures
is as strong as it has been for a same time. Most of the people are looking for domiciled graduate
first degrees in the 2017. This was an increase of 4% from the 2013 levels but the well below the
2014 peak in the graduate numbers (Gordon and Steele, 2015). There are various students are
complete their graduation but still they are unemployed and seeks for employment at
marketplace. The graduate employment market changed recently with many of the country

attempting to increase participation in the higher education. The graduates have various
opportunities to get jobs and employment in retail industry (Lynch and Lungrin, 2018).
The current market is provided a various job opportunity for graduate to become a
successful employee in their future. After, completing graduation candidates have various
opportunity in retails sector which are deals in supermarket chain. Like: Tesco is the largest
supermarket chain in UK. This provides various graduate employment opportunities. This
creates more effectiveness for those candidates who became a successful employee. The
operation and management department is more significant because now days retail industry is
looks for supply chain management because supermarket have the biggest supply chain for
delivering products to their retail stores. In this industry, supply chain management is more
important and effective. Present days retail industry is looks for supply chain analyst for
eradicate problem and hurdles from supply chain. On the other side, improve their delivery
process in effective manner to creates more profit by delivering their products on time at stores.
Operation management and supply chain includes a broad area which covers both
manufacturing and service industry that involves various functions of sourcing, proper material
management, operation planning, logistics, retail demand forecasting, order taking and
fulfilments needs and wants of customer. After, completing graduation and higher education,
candidates have more opportunities in UK market for gaining profits and employment. The
current market of retail industry is looking for supply chain management and analyst who
manage supply chain in proper and effective manner.
Career development theory:
The career development is more important and effective for candidates and students
which is help to make proper and effective career selection. The understanding of career
development theory can be implemented step in determining a core values, strength, weaknesses
and desired path. This creates more effectiveness for students in order to select best and effective
career path. There are various theories which are helps to develop career or selecting the best
path for future growth in effective manner. This helps to create proper and effective role for a
business which is needed for managing proper requirement of retail industry and supply chain
management (Kodama and Huynh, 2017).
 Career metaphor: this is just a way of thinking to people how they think and strongly
worked with or not in the proper manner. Thus, depends on the literal meaning of the

world which constitute it but also conveys more than that meaning. Using metaphor in
the speech, can be influenced to others for sharing their picture of the world (Buzzetta,
Lenz and Kennelly, 2017). This has specific strength and weakness for works to manage
work and select path for career freely which is high apparently and inevitable.
 Self-concept theory of career development: this theory is developed by Super Donald for
effectively develop their career by using five major steps such as growth, exploration,
establishment, maintenance and decline. This creates more effectiveness for students to
develop their career in effective and proper manner.
◦ The growth stage is developed the attitudes, interests, needs and aptitudes associated
with self-concept. In this stage, students are understood their needs and wants with
the career and employment.
◦ After, the growth here is exploratory stage, occupational choices are narrowed and the
established the stage of development in an effective manner. In this stage, students
are select occupational of their choices which is based on narrowed.
◦ The establishment stage is characterized by work experiences. In this stage, that
creates more effectiveness for students to gain better experience with continuous
adjustment process for improve working situation.
◦ Decline: This stage is the last which is reduced work outputs and eventual retirement.
In this they think it is complete a work and its growth.
Through those theories and concepts are creates more effectiveness for developing career
path in effective and proper manner. Those are giving the highest contribution to build
employability and career choices such as global mind sets or for career choices. This creates
more effectiveness for the working and selecting the best career path in an effective manner. This
help increased the viewpoint of the most comprehensive development of career in positive
manner (Liao and Ji, 2015). This creates more effectiveness for people to manage their career
and academic development. With the help of this, students are highly able to manage works and
career path in retail industry. Theory of career development hardly and highly contribute for
increase employability in people to manage those in proper and effective manner. This
contribution is reflecting in positive manner. In students and people required to do hard research
on industry requirements. Research is providing a complete detailed information about which
sector have job opportunities and in which they have interest like supply chain management.

This management is very important and effective for creating proper growth of company (Roach
and Sauermann, 2017). For that retail sector is hardly looking for supply chain analyst for
manage their supply chain in proper manner by manage and deliver products and services to
other stores on the time.
2. Detailed career plan and reflective self-assessment.
Job description:
Job tittle Supply chain analyst
Name of company Tesco
Country United Kingdom
Purpose of job Assembling data
Analysing performance.
Identification of problems.
Preparing base line for cost savings.
Perform gap analysis and make suggestions for management to take
actions in order to fulfil the gap.
Developing recommendations.
Support to supply chain management and its operations.
Job requirement Organizational skills.
Computer skills.
Mathematical skills.
Interpersonal skills.
Problem solving skills.
Communication skills both oral and written.
Analytical skills.
Leadership skills.
Qualification requirements for supply chain management:
 Masters in supply chain management
 BA and Bsc certified form CIPD with higher grade.

Those are the skills which are highly required for student to become a successful supply
chain analyst. Those are very important for growth to graduate students. With the help of this
skill's management got the best analyst and happy with their works by creating more
effectiveness. This creates more effectiveness for students to select and create effective
employment path.
Reflective self-assessment of skills, knowledge and abilities:
There are various skills, ability and knowledge are required for supply chain analyst post
in Tesco. In this required a proper organizational skill, computer knowledge like excel and word
document, problem solving skills, good and attractive communication skills, analytical skills,
leadership skills and most important interpersonal skills. Those are very important skills for post
of supply chain analyst at Tesco. I have various skills and knowledge which helps me to learn
work process properly (Stead, Schultheiss and Oliver, 2016). But, some of the weakness are
created the biggest threats for me in the future. For the better understanding, here is use SWOT
analysis model for understand strength, weakness, opportunities and threats of myself in proper
and in effective manner. SWOT analysis are as follows:
Strength Weakness
 Communication both written and oral.
 Analytical and critical thinking.
 Dedicated and enthusiasm.
 Ability to learn from mistakes.
 Have a good organizational skill.
 Good computer knowledge.
 Lack of time management skill.
 Leadership skills.
 Less knowledge of other language.
 Lack of problem solving skills
 Lack of confidence for work.
Opportunities Threat
 Improve knowledge about retail
industry.
 Help to increase mathematical skills
and practical work by using
technology.
 Emergences of operational skills for
supply chain management.
 Threat form uses of technology.
 Threat from mathematical calculation
and other practical work.
 Threat of competition level for
becoming supply chain analyst.

 Increase skills and chances for
becoming successful supply chain
analyst.
The above SWOT analysis table is reflecting strength and weakness which can affected
to me at workplaces in negative manner. This impact to my performance as a supply chain
analyst. This knowledge and skills are completed by degree. During the graduation I have
learned those skills in that some of this weakness. This creates more effectiveness but here is
need to improve those weakness skills by using proper development theory in effective manner.
There are various job roles of supply chain analyst who are managed proper and effective role by
managing appropriate performance of work at Tesco. The roles of supply chain analyst are as
follows:
 To promote design, development and implementation of warehouse as well as logistics
solutions (Roberts and Hilty, eds., 2017).
 Recommendations for improvement to boost performance and reduce costs.
 Coordination with other professionals to implement changes and new systems.
 Collecting and analysing supply chain data.
Those are the main job roles and responsibilities of supply chain analyst at Tesco because
company have the biggest supply chain and its management is more important.
I have need to improve some skills and abilities by using proper guidance in order to achieve and
fulfil job requirements. Those are Lack of time management skill is the area of improvement
where I need to know about what work is on priority which is help to make schedule of work
Honey and Mumford learning style. This helps to make effective and valuable growth of me.
Other is leadership skill is another important skill which have need to developed by using Belbin
theory and democratic leadership skill. Belbin theory is help to understand a role of leader in a
team in effective manner. On the other leadership skills is also helps to make proper and
effective works by using views of others. This creates more effectiveness. In order to learn other
language can be use VARK learning theory. This help to learn by visual, aural, read or writing
and kinesthetic sensory in an effective manner. At the last, have lack of problem solving skill
which is important and effective for supply chain management, because in the supply chain
comes various problem which can affect to it negative manner. This is not appropriate for

company. For that here is logical reasoning strategy and approach. That is help to understand
proper what is the work and case or what is the proper solutions for solving those problems in
proper and effective manner. Also, have Lack of confidence for work in that required a
motivation and build a work personality inventory for work more.
Career plan for next 10 years by using Self-concept theory of career development:
This theory and model are helpful for develop career plan in effective manner. This
model is based on the belief the self-concept changes over time and develops as a result of
experience. This creates more effectiveness for work to build in an effective manner. This model
is developed by super and according to them self-concept changes over time and develops as a
result of experiences for career development for long time by growing properly. This covers five
stages which helps to properly the career plan and it’s in proper manner (Gould, 2017). Growth: this stage is development of self-concept attitudes, needs and general world of
work. In this stage, students are on starting at graduate position and career progression
position. Here they decide their sector where they really need to develop their career and
field select course and related subject. Exploration: at this stage, do hard work and tries for work in effective manner by using
more effectiveness. Here is collect all related knowledge and skills which are relates with
supply chain analyst. The skills are time management, communication, leadership,
critical thinking as well as analytical skills (Smith and Watson, 2016). Establishment: here, students established those skills in their job position or in the class
like training session. Through that they have knowledge how to work in organization by
using and analysis work properly by growth. This helps to increase skills and stabilisation
through work experience. This creates more effectiveness for work to manage that in
required and in proper manner. Maintenance: at this stage, students done various efforts for maintain proper work and its
effectiveness for work to maintain its. In this stage, students are continuous adjustment
processes to improve position. With the help of these students are completely ready for
manage skills by complete graduation and ready to get best job position at Tesco which is
supply chain management. Decline: at this stage students are got job by improving all of them fulfil the all job
requirements in the proper and effective manner by using appropriate job roles and

effectiveness in proper manner. This creates more effectiveness for work to manage and
need to do properly with proper implementation of their skill for post which is supply
chain analyst in an effective manner.
Conclusion and area for further development:
The above study it had been concluded that the growth and development of career is an
important and effective part of life. This creates more effectiveness for work at Tesco as a supply
chain analyst. This session has identified strengths and area of improvement which is
weaknesses. This helpful for me to develop more effectiveness for work to manage its growth
factors. There has mentioned various strength which Communication both written and oral,
Analytical and critical thinking, Dedicated and enthusiasm, Ability to learn from mistakes, Have
a good organizational skills and Good computer knowledge. Those are strength of me which
helped forget success but that creates more effectiveness (Chukwuedo and Ogbuanya, 2018).
With the help of strength, I am able to manage work effectively and implement work and its
strategy in proper manner. On the other side, at the against of strength have some weaknesses
which has affected to me at workplace in negative manner. Those weaknesses and area of
improvement are Lack of time management skill, Leadership skills, less knowledge of other
language, Lack of problem solving skills and Lack of confidence for work. Those weaknesses
are need to improvement for get success in effective manner. Those weaknesses can be improved
by using various theories which are helped to improved weaknesses properly. Those are need to
improve because those can be affecting my future performance at company. That are improved
by using theories and practices as well as within the 8 months.
3. Result summary.
Summary of toolkit key results and themes
VARK Reason for selecting this style for learn the best
other languages.
Honey and Mumford learning style This help to develop confidence.
Numerical reasoning This help to assess numerical reasoning and
mathematical problems.
Logical reasoning This help to increase problem solving skill.

Belbin theory This help to provide and understand role of
post.
Work personality inventory With the help of this work is managed
properly.
Verbal reasoning For learn various language.
Cover letter
xxxxx
London, United Kingdom, (020)xxxxxxxx, email address [e-mail]
XXX
United Kingdom,
RE: Supply chain analyst wanted
As a professional with history of directing team in the retail company toward excellence in
overreaching company goals I excited to submit the application for available supply chain
analyst position in your team.
I have developed my in depth knowledge about tracking the supplies of merchandise and
products overseeing the marketing strategies.
The educations foundations are completely commitment and leadership experience outlined on
the attached CV.
Thank you for reviewing this letter and the accompanying material.
Sincerely
xxx
xxxxx
London, United Kingdom, (020)xxxxxxxx, email address [e-mail]
Summary:

Complete graduation in field of supply chain analyst. Proactively able to identify ways to
reduce expenses.
Highlights:
 Process improvement
 Procurement strategy
 Forecasting
 Materials selection
 project management
Education:
BA/Bsc in filed supply chain analyst
Master of operation management
Career development plan template:
Skills need to be
improved
Activity Target Evaluation
Time
management
skill
Making schedule for
work in proper by
setting priority of
work.
3 months Taking feedback form
management and make
changes according to that.
Leadership skill By leading team and
giving direction to
others
2 months Discussed with other and
colleagues for work
properly.
Knowledge of
other language
Reading novels 5 months Talking with other and
discussed with international
clients.
Confidence for
work
Continuous practices
of work in front of
friends
6 months Taking feedbacks from
friends about performance.
Problem solving Solving case study by 5 months Giving solution for work

skills managing work. and solve case in proper
manner.
CONCLUSION
From the above study it had been concluded that the career development has important
for each and every people. This could help to maintain work easily and effectively. The report
had been covered by the various growth factors like importance of employability as well as
career development plan for manage it.

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