Applied Business Research: Personal Values, Skills, and Experience

Running head: APPLIED BUSINESS RESEARCH
APPLIED BUSINESS RESEARCH
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author note

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Task 1:
The five personal values that influence my life choice and decision are:
 Leadership
 Respect
 Accountability
 Excellence
 Integrity
Consideration of the values is vital because it affects and influences my actions and
attitudes towards a particular situation. According to the researcher Anana and Nique (2010) it is
important to know the personal values as it is essential in making decisions regarding your career
and can help and individual top understand whether something is correct for them or not.
Understanding my personal values will help me to work with the employees who will share the
same views as mine (Vuori, Toppinen-Tanner and Mutanen 2012).
The field which to intend to pursue are in the areas of Financial risk management,
auditing and compliance.
The five hard skills that I have developed during my undergraduate course are:
 Management and construction of the investment portfolios
 Preparation, analysis and interpretation of the financial reports
 Audit process
 Personal financial management
 Risk planning

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Task 2:
According to Harvey (2000), an individual who possess good communication skills are
seen by the employers as an indicator of future success. Preaching in churches, working with the
senior managers of ANZ bank and doing all types of presentations, all these experiences has
helped me to communicate effectively and professionally. During my tenure at ANZ, I used to
have regular meetings with the different managements and thus it was necessary for me to have
good communication skill (Bank 2014). Communicating effectively will help to reduce conflicts
and at the same time increases the effectiveness of the organization.
I was the risk manager of ANZ’s consumer mortgage division. I was given the
opportunity to handle a team of 15 risk officers as well as maintaing my administrative duties.
Effective time management, strategic planning and execution, prioritising the tasks was critical
so that my department can operate efficiently and effectively. Balancing all these things requires
a goof administrative and organizational skill.
In my undergraduate course and in the past employment, it was the standard requirement
for me to work as a part of the team. The Victoria University has a stream of different units
which is called professional Development, in which the students have to work cohesively and
collaboratively to manage and solve the business problems, developing business concepts and
engaging in the team related tasks. In ANZ my team have to work for reducing the risks in the
mortgage division. In both the fields I had to work collaboratively so that my team can provide
excellent results. Working in team can prove to be more effective and it can be more successful,
when the member’s objectives and the goals are aligned and the entire members have the same
attitude that “team’s success is my success”.