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Continuing Professional Development Report

   

Added on  2020-03-16

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Running Head: CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Name of the Student Name of the University Author Note

2CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTTable of ContentsIntroduction......................................................................................................................................3My Continuing Professional Development Report..........................................................................3My current and future aspirations................................................................................................3The way I formed career aspirations and the reason behind it....................................................4The strengths that will support my future career development...................................................4The weaknesses and areas which require development...............................................................5Key steps taken to support my career development....................................................................5Discuss barriers and enablers that I may experience...................................................................5Methods and models of career development...............................................................................6Learning from my career development plan and application of the same...................................8Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9References......................................................................................................................................10

3CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTIntroductionThis report is based on the Continuing Professional Development Report of a HRProfessional. Continuing Professional Development or CPD is mainly the process by which theknowledge, skills and experience if a person are tracked and documented. This report issometimes used in organizations as a part of their training and development program. TheContinuing Professional Development Program helps the person to manage his owndevelopments in a regular basis (Beetham and Sharpe 2013). This process helps the person torecord the experiences, review them and further reflect on what he has learnt. Careerdevelopment is important for the professional development of a person. This helps in ensuringthat the capabilities of the person are up to date with changing needs of the field, to enhance theskills and knowledge of the person, to ensure that the knowledge of the person is relevant to hisfield, he can contribute to his team in a meaningful manner (Boud and Hager 2012). Theprofessional development of a person is based on the Career development model.My Continuing Professional Development ReportI am hereby writing my Continuing Professional Development Report as an HRProfessional. This report will highlight my strengths and weaknesses. This will also highlight theareas in which improvement is required from my side. Further, this will help me to judge myown competencies and capabilities and enhance them as and when required. My current and future aspirationsI have worked as a Senior Executive Officer in the Federal Ministry of Commerce andIndustry, Nigeria from April 1993 to 2003. After this I have worked as a Recruitment Officer inC & S Movement Church from January 2003 to August 2011. Following this I have beenworking as a HR Coordinator in NHS London from September 2011 till date. At present I amworking in NHS London as a HR Coordinator. I act as the main point of contact for all issuesrelated HR. These include the grievances of the employees, disciplinary functions and manymore. My achievements include, reaching four out five targets related to revenue and I have alsogained a strong reputation for my ability to up-sell products and many more. My future career

4CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTaspirations include the abilities to excel in the field of HR activities. To enhance my skills so thatmy achievements are also enhanced. My future aspiration includes my aim to enhance myabilities in this field so that I can reach a whole new level of expertise and achieve the targetswhich I could not achieve earlier.The way I formed career aspirations and the reason behind itI have working in the field of Human Resource for a long time now. During this course oftime I have gained a lot experience and knowledge in this field. In the beginning of my career Ihad worked as a senior executive officer wherein I had the responsibility of implementingpolicies and procedures in the organization, supervising activities related to recruitment. Then Ihad worked as a training coordinator and had the responsibility of providing all HR relatedservices to the company which includes processing the staff records, focusing on the terms andconditions for the employees, trying to build effective relationships at work. I also performedtests of the software and hardware related to training programs (Al Ariss, Cascio and Paauwe2014). I have formed my career aspirations based on the career development model as discussedby, Patton and McMahon (2014) which states the five steps of career development. The steps areAssessment- where the I have assessed myself based on the job, Exploration- where I have checked upon the various options that I have, Preparation- where I have made a plan formy own development, Implementation- where I have executed the plan that I have made,Decision-making- where I evaluated the available options and taken my decisions accordingly.Therefore, I have formed my career aspirations based on this model of career development. The strengths that will support my future career developmentI have more than 10 years of expertise in HR related activities which includes manyfunctions like selection, recruitment, relationship with employees, formulation of HR policiesand also designing and delivering training and induction to new employees. I am capable ofidentifying the opportunities which can lead to growth and communicate the strategies and visionto the staff of the company and also to board level and senior level managers. These strengthshave helped me to work successfully in the three mentioned companies and in future this willhelp to further achieve my career goals and help me to reach a new level of expertise. I haveserved these companies as an HR professional in which I have performed multiple duties and

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