Academic Skills and PDP.

Academic Skills and
PDP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Concept of Personal and professional development....................................................................3
Understanding of the Short term goals........................................................................................3
Understanding of Medium-Term Objectives...............................................................................4
Understanding of the Long term goals........................................................................................4
The worth and significance of a personal development plan......................................................4
Techniques of Referencing..........................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
The personal and professional development of students is critical to their employability
skills. As a result, it is critical for his pupils to concentrate on a personal professional
development plan that will assist them in determining their future career path. It becomes vital
since it gives individuals with the greatest potential opportunity if they concentrate on improving
their abilities and knowledge (La Paro and King, 2019). It can be accomplished by creating a
various kinds of short-term, medium-term, and long-term plan which also includes the
objectives. This not only helps individual in self-development but also helps in future and career
development. This report mainly focuses on the relevance of short-, medium-, and long-term
professional ambitions of an individual in their career and its success.
MAIN BODY
Concept of Personal and professional development
Students should begin to understand the idea of personal and professional growth in order
to design a better career strategy for future perspective. Personal development is basically
defined as the acquisition of skills and information that are useful not only in one's present
profession but also helps in securing future employment by them. Individuals need personal
development since it increases their abilities and knowledge for present and future possibilities
for getting employed and develop skills required (Thorpe and Garside, 2017). Professional
development, on the other hand, is considered to be extremely significant for all the students
because it assists them in executing excellent practices in their present available employment
opportunity. It also helps students receive incentives and recognition by allowing them to put
their professional skills to work. They must do so by establishing short, medium, and long-term
objectives.
Understanding of the Short term goals
Short-term objectives are those that can be completed in very little time period, which is
less than a year. It is especially considered as very important for students since they may gain
valuable skills from it and also information for immediate use. In order to set short-term
objectives, students must first evaluate their weaknesses in order to create a plan of action for a
short amount of time. They can develop their abilities and knowledge with the support of short-
term training objectives and targets. The following are some short-term objectives: