Importance of Personal and Professional Development Plan

This study discusses the importance of personal and professional development plans, setting short, medium, and long term goals, and evaluating sources for reliability and relevance. It emphasizes the need for individuals to have a clear vision of their future and improve their skills through a personal development plan. The study also highlights the factors that affect the use of sources, such as the author, purpose, reliability, and relevance.

Academic skills and PDP

INTRODUCTION
The present study will define the importance of personal and professional development
plan along with short, medium and long term goals. Also, study will describe how author,
purpose, reliability and relevance affect the use of the sources and evaluate all the sources used
within a study.
TASK 1
Personal and professional development
Personal development plan (PDP) outline the goals, strength which an individual want to
attain in the specific area and examine the list of skills that can be improve through the plan. It
further helps to give a clear idea which individual want to accomplish in next few months.
Professional development plan assist an individual to reach the career aspiration.
Therefore, it is a plan which provides a framework that determine goals, resources and different
learning opportunities for growth. It also determine the progress toward a desired outcomes
(Atherton and et.al., 2021)
Presenting short term goals with examples
Short term goal are attain by individual within near future and such type of goals are
attained quickly (Avci, 2017). Such goals allow to stay on the track toward achieving ultimate
long term goals. For examples:
 To make a practice of morning routine
 Exercise daily
 Read a book
Value of medium term goals with examples
This goals takes little bit longer time as compared to short term goal and this are useful
because individuals can easily track the performance (King and Mendoza, 2021). With the help
of such goals, individual can manage their time in order to increase the skills. For example:
 To enhance the communication within 6 months
 Time management skills
 Increase the score of Biology by 50 within next 6 months

Examining long term goal with examples
Long term goals are such goals which an individual want to attain in near future and that
is why, it requires enough time and money (Lingam and Loeb, 2021). These score are important
for self-improvement and helps individual to be focused upon such goals. For example:
 To learn advance technology skills like Artificial intelligence
 Leadership skills
 Acquire new job
Importance of personal development plan
Through PDP, individual have a personal vision of future and that is why, it provides a
clear idea of what skills need to be improved (Jianu and et.al., 2021). Also, it enable individual to
learn something new and improve existing skills which helps to motivate the career progressions.
Skills need to
improve
Action Resources Tenure
Time management
skills
Make a priority list,
avoid multitasking,
took help of mentor
(Lambek, 2021).
Mentor, Online videos 3 months
Problem solving
abilities
Working in a team
and share views,
critically evaluate
views of other and
read books to share
own decision
Teams and books 1 month
TASK 2
Describing how author, purpose, reliability and relevance affect use of source
Evaluation of the sources is necessary because it is not necessary that all the sources
provide reliable information which is suitable for the study. That is why, user must critically

evaluate the appropriateness of all the types of information before relying on any information.
Such that with the help of author, user determine the name of author and whether they have
strong understandability to present the study (Taylor, 2021). Further, purpose reflects through the
title of the selected source which examine whether the defined source is appropriate to use. In
addition to this, reliability reflect from the published year because if the source is published
recently then it provide accurate findings related to study (Musmini, Indrayani and Sulindawati,
2020). Also, relevance indicates the chosen source is valid of the study or findings so that it
generate the valid outcomes.
TASK 3
Evaluation of eight sources
Source Author Purpose Reliability Relevance
1 Atherton, O.E.,
Grijalva, E.,
Roberts, B.W. and
Robins, R.W. are
the authors who
wrote the article
Through this,
scholar determine
the value of goals
and also provide
examples
It is reliable because
published latest and
provide authentic
results
It is relevant in
order to answer
the question of
long and medium
term goals.
2 Avci, E., is author
who is the top
researchers as well
The purpose of
choosing this
method is such that
it helps to examine
skills.
It is reliable which
can be identified
from its year of
publish i.e. 2020
The relevancy
reflect that it
helps to determine
the examples of
skills.
3 King, R.B. and
Mendoza, N.B.,
are the author
Through this
source, user
evaluate the short
term goal
It is recently publish
which reflect its
reliability
It is related
because it helps to
present example
of short term goal

4 Lingam, M. and
Loeb, A are the
author
The purpose is to
analyze the long
term goal
It is published last
year which entail its
reliability
Relevancy related
to identify the
long term goal
5 Jianu, E., Pîrvu,
R., Axinte, G.,
Toma, O.,
Cojocaru, A.V.
and Murtaza, F.
are the author of
an article
The purpose is to
determine the
importance PDP
within study
It is reliable because
the article provide
arguments that helps
to determine valid
result
It is related to the
study because
provide latest
information
related to study.
6 Lambek, M. is the
author
Purpose of
choosing is to
analyze the
importance of PDP
The adopted book is
reliable due to its
year of published
It is relevant to
the present study
in order to
examine
importance of
PDP
7 Taylor, C., is the
author of chosen a
book
Its aim is to
determine the
importance of
evaluation of
source
The chosen book
define range of
credible evidence that
reflect the reliability
It is relevant
because it assist to
answer the
question
8 Musmini, L.S.,
Indrayani, L. and
Sulindawati,
N.L.G.E are the
author
Aim is to evaluate
the sources
Provide in-depth
information related to
question
Assist to provide
complete detail
regarding
relevancy of a
study.

CONCLUSION
Throughout the above discussion it has been evaluated that with professional and
personal development goals, individual is able to reach their career. Also, with the help of short,
medium and long term goals, people set their target which can be attained through defined
manner. Further, evaluation of the sources must be performed before selecting source in order to
derive valid outcomes.

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