Aspiring to Succeed: Developing a 5-Step Career Development Plan

This report discusses the skills and attributes needed to develop a 5-step career development plan, including critical thinking, goal setting, and self-confidence. It also covers how to work towards the plan and why it's important for students. The report provides insights on personal development plans, communication skills, presentation skills, time management, and more.

Aspiring to Succeed
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Table of Contents
Introduction.....................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
Skills and attributes that is needed to develop 5 step development plan....................................3
Skills and traits required to develop career development plans are as follows :........................3
How you are going to work towards your 5-step aspiration development plan ........................4
Why an aspiration development plan is important.....................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References.......................................................................................................................................7
Books & Journals........................................................................................................................7
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Introduction
The greatest investment that a student make is not related to use of new technology and
high profile acquisition but it is to work on the own performance management. For the growth of
an student it is important to identify wide range of opportunities that are available for graduate in
jobs and skills which are needed for accomplish the graduate job roles (Guillard, 2021). This
report includes the skills and attributes that are needed to be developed trough the help of five
step development plan. On the other hand, how to work with development and plan and why it is
important for the student will be analyse to complete this report.
Main Body
Skills and attributes that is needed to develop 5 step development plan
Career development plan :
It is a plan use to give right direction to our career. It is helpful in enhancing the skills
and advancing the careers. Besides that, it helps in identifying what all actions one has to take on
everyday basis to get closer to their goals.
Skills and traits required to develop career development plans are as follows :
 Critical thinking : It is the ability to think clearly, rationally and logically before
concluding anything. It is helpful in understanding the links between ideas, beliefs and
facts. furthermore, it helps in identifying all kind of inconsistencies & errors and solve
the problems in a systematic way.
 Brainstorming : It is a technique used to generate maximum number of ideas of a
problem. It allows one to think freely and openly without the fear of getting judged. So,
this tool of generating ideas is used to reach out to a solution.
 Mastering the art of Goal setting : It is important to list down all the objectives and
goals on a piece of paper and categorize them as per their urgency. These goals are need
to be accurate, specific and time bound and have a detailed strategy for their completion.
This will be helpful to achieve the goals on time (Vitus, 2021).
 Self confidence : It is a person's belief or trust on their own abilities. It means one has
positive attitude about their decisions and workings which will ace their career.
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How you are going to work towards your 5-step aspiration development plan
In order to make a five step aspiration development plan is effective and helpful for the
students to make a long term view. To make effective completion of the plan, it is important to
analyse and manage the different perspective towards the work establishment. In order to make
an effective PDP, I try to analyse and manage the growth in different perspective which are able
to complete skills and models that are effective for the student (Mitchem, 2021).
Personal development plan
Skills needed to be
developed
How? What support or
resources are needed?
Target date
Communication skill For improving this
skill, I try to
communicate with my
peer members and
reflect my opinion in
different perspective
and growth. It is
further needed to be
analyse and manage to
accomplish the growth
for completing my
communication needs.
Books, online sources
and managing team
are the support that
helps to gain the skills.
Nearly 6 months
Presentation skills In order to develop my
presentation skill, I try
to work and achieve
efficiency in different
conceptual data and
present the formation
to gain presentation
skills.
For this, data sources,
presentation classes
and online journals
can be used as
effective sources.
In 1 year.
Time management This is needed to be For this, I try to Appropriately 1.5
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accomplished by
managing my
activities on time.
Furthermore, they are
able to provide wide
range of applicability
in more effective and
appropriate manner.
manage my all work in
schedule and achieve
all task in more
effective and
appropriate ways.
years.
With the help of above mention development plan, I try to analyse and manage my work
in an effective manner. Furthermore the students are able to developed their gaols in next 4 years
at the completion of graduation course. I try to manage my work on time and take admission in
other extra curriculum activities in more effective and appropriate ways to complete the data. I
try to gain different skills which are provide a support to develop my personality and helps in
managing my development plan over the 4 year degree courses.
Why an aspiration development plan is important
With the help of career development or aspiration plan, it is needed to complete an
effective and pursuing plan that can be accompanied in next 4 to 5 year plan. It is considered that
the use of career aspiration plan is not same as career goals (Rodriguez, 2021). The goals are
usually related to the short term objective. But with the help of aspiration development plan, a
student is able to identify their dreams and catch them in more effective and appropriate ways.
The five stages of the aspiration development plan are related to assessment, exploration,
preparation, implementation and effective decision making. It is consider that the with the help
of effective growth and make a skill full audit to measure the performance and make sure to
meet objectives with the help of motivating, accountability and direction to the company in an
effective and appropriate ways.
Setting goals which are effective for the growth in different channels to define the
purpose and make suitable challenges to define the concept. It is career aspiration for managing
simply to react rather than managing plan. It further provide the significant growth in managing
techniques and provide wide range of information to the personal career development plan.
These plan helps in managing and addressing the content with effective growth and publicity in
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managing personal and professional career plan. It further provide the wide range of possibilities
are effective for managing personal career development (SCHOLZ-HEERSPINK, 2021)
(Snyder, 2021). By setting goals in the company it is analysed that finding something for make a
balancing in between the work culture that will allow the company in more effective and
appropriate ways to achieve happiness. Manage the career activities for managing career
development plan.
The main purpose of a career development plan is needed to be manage and provide a
growth in addressing challenges and overcome the issues with the help of personal skills and
knowledge. It is used to manage and provide a significant growth in motivating a student and
provide wide range of applicability for managing a clear and concise statement. It further helps
in developing the target and formalize the steps for managing career development goals in an
effective and appropriate manner (Villa and et.al., 2021).
Conclusion
From the above report, it is analysed that the use of personal skills audit and development
of critically helps in managing the need of development in more effective and appropriate ways.
The use of different knowledge and practices are needed to be analyse and make an effective
growth in managing the technique to complete the task in more effective and appropriate ways.
The use of skill audit and aspiration development plan will help the company to make sure for
managing and analysing the techniques of using skills. Furthermore, the student would
understand the concepts to manage development plan over the next 4 years and analyse different
opportunities to achieve the significant growth while addressing skills development.
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References
Books & Journals
Guillard, J., 2021. Falling Short: The Bildungsroman and the Crisis of Self-Fashioning by
Aleksandar Stević. Studies in the Novel, 53(2), pp.203-204.
Mitchem, J.B., 2021, April. Getting Involved in Research in Colorectal Surgery. In Seminars in
Colon and Rectal Surgery (p. 100815). WB Saunders.
Rodriguez, Y., 2021. The Role of Institutional Agents on the Advancement of Women of Color
Superintendents (Doctoral dissertation, Saint Joseph's University).
SCHOLZ-HEERSPINK, M.Y.R.A., 2021. terminology, symbols and formulas is alienating, a
closer reading may prove downright offensive. All those hours spent weighing.
Something Understood: Studies in Anglo-Dutch Literary Translation, p.291.
Snyder, R.L., 2021. Compromised Men and Aspiring Women: The Fatality of Romance in James
M. Cain’s Depression-Era Novels. Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 63(4),
pp.359-380.
Villa, L.K., Ruth, A., Luchmun, R. and Cantú, E., 2021. Increasing Self-efficacy in Mentoring
Relationships for Aspiring Entrepreneurs in Community Colleges. Community College
Journal of Research and Practice, pp.1-19.
Vitus, K., 2021. Forming the capacity to aspire: young refugees’ narratives of family migration
and wellbeing. Journal of Youth Studies, pp.1-16.
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