Personal and Professional Development: Career Planning, SWOT Analysis, Ethical Awareness

Assessment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY................................................................................................................................3
Summary of scores from learning skills questionnaires on survey.......................................3
Career Planning -situations & Aspiration..............................................................................5
SWOT analysis:.......................................................................................................................5
Steps towards ideal situation................................................................................................6
Ethical awareness..................................................................................................................7
Development Plan.................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES.............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development can be referred to as the process which
involves individual and organisation engagement in a process of learning so that desired
goals can be achieved and challenges can be met. In order to grow professionally as well as
personally, it is important to develop the requisite skills so that planning, negotiating,
building networks and learning from the experiences can be made easily. It is important to
develop the skills by initially identifying the strength and weakness of an individual so that
lacunas can be identified and process can be initiated to fill the skill gaps. This report shall
cover the career planning, personal SWOT analysis, steps towards ideal situation, ethical
awareness and the development plan.
MAIN BODY
The aim of this project to establishing the current learning skills and abilities. To
develop as a person, we all need to classify our strength to support us overcome our
limitation. To design a smart goal deliberating that how you can improve your learning skills.
To review and consider your current and ideal circumstances and how it will be affecting on
your career. To understand how ethical issues so important for the accountant.
Summary of scores from learning skills questionnaires on survey
Survey Score/Max. Score%
e- Learning skills 15/25 60%
Information technology skills 38/45 84%
Numeracy skill 35/40 88%
Reading and Research 22/30 73%
Speaking and Listening 18/30 60%
Time management 27/30 90%
Writing 19/30 63%

The above survey result is showing my strength and weakness. According to the
result, my approach towards time management skill as per my observation is that I am really
good in managing my time. I always make plans to meet my deadline. Prearrangement
always benefits me to focus on my study. Managing the time is very essential in my life
because it helps me to structure my work in a way that let me achieve targets. I always reach
on time to my interviews before the time because by doing this, it helps me to make me feel
calm and also help me in preparing for the interview.
I am also good with my numeracy skills. I can do basic maths such as addition,
subtraction, multiply without using calculator. I can also interpret tables, graph, ratio,
percentage and proportions.
My result for technology skills shows that I got some knowledge about IT skills. I
have done a basic IT course that helped me to learn how to use Microsoft word, excel and
PowerPoint. This helped me to work more professionally, boosted my self-confidence and
made me an appreciated student to get a higher grade in my last project.
As well as I am also quite good at reading and research. I can read and understand
well. In my last project, I have done an online study and searched online for many solutions. I
am good at reading rather than writing because I used to research about things happening
around the world.
However, in my result, I got some weaknesses also. I am very weak in e- Learning
skills, speaking and listening, and writing skills. English is my second language so sometimes
I feel nervous to speak in front of everyone and give my opinion. Sometimes the way the
audience is looking at me make me think that I am speaking something wrong. On the other
hand, while I am speaking in front of everyone I used to forget words as to what I need to
speak next as my mind just goes blank in front of the large audience.
Occasionally, I feel difficulty in understanding English people' s accents because
the way they speak is different from us. During my written task, I found that I made mistake
in my grammar. I found it hard where I can use correct grammar and structure such as
punctuation and verbs. My main weakness is also writing task as I face difficulty as to how
to think about writing an introduction in the task because it is hard for me to figure out how
to correct the thesis from the whole project. It’s very hard to write introduction in opening
sentences so that the reader can get interest in my project.
I am struggling to complete the words while I am doing my project because I haven’t
got a good vocabulary. According to my e-Learning result, I got 60% which shows that I am
very weak to learn online. I understand the topic while I am reading online but sometimes it's