Career Action Plan and Self-Reflection

This report provides a personal analysis for a job vacancy as an HR Generalist at AT Global. It includes strengths, weaknesses, and strategies for improvement. Learn about career action plans, personal development, and career-related activities. Find a sample CV for a graduate-level position.

Career Action plan
and self-reflection

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Personal Analysis......................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
The report will consist of the personal analysis for the job vacancy at the AT Global for the
position of the HR Generalist for full-time in London. The analysis will include the strengths and
weakness of the applicant and the evidences for each of them. Career action plans for the weak
areas and development of the skills and the knowledge. The methods for the implementation of
the plan for moving forward in the company. A CV for the application of the graduate level
position in the AT Global. The HR skills required for the application of the vacancy are:
 Staff recruitment
 Retention
 Orientation and the onboarding
 HRIS technologies
 Performance management
 Organizational development
 HR policies and procedures
MAIN BODY
Personal Analysis
Communication skill
The HR generalist’s basic skill is the communication skill. Communication is considered
the most crucial skill for the human resource management because this skill helps in developing
the connection between the employer and the employees. The HR have to take stand for the
employees at the workplace and also act for the employer. For maintaining the balance between
both the employers and the employees the communication skill plays and important role. Along
with this the communication is necessary in spreading the information among the employees
under the workplace for the functioning. The HR generalist have to deal with answering the
issues and complaints of the employees and handling this is the role of the HR. This skill was
clear by the tasks completion at the university level (Favi, Germani and Marconi, 2017).
Proactivity
The HR generalist skill demand for he proactivity of the person at job. The proactivity
can be considered a personality trait more than a skill. This was identified during working at the
multinational company in London. Proactivity can be developed with time. The HR being the
mediator between the employer and the employees need to have this skill. This skill help the HR

to actively spot the areas of problem and resolve them before time. This also helps in preventing
the other problems from generating. The proactive human resource management is preferred
more than the reactive HRM. The proactive human resource help in the management of the core
tasks of the HR and in the alignment of the plans according to the business goals (Ohly and
Schmitt, 2017).
Teamwork
The skill that is impossible to avoid is the teamwork while thinking of the job roles of
HR. This skill was identified while working as a volunteer for a mental awareness campaign.
The HR is required to work with the managers and the employees, for that the management of
the activities in the organization is aligned so everyone is working efficiently. The HR have to
make the staff member of the organization to work together in order to get the work done and for
the development of the company (Sanyal and Hisam, 2018).
These skills are the strengths for the role of HR generalist in an organization. Some
weakness in the role of the HR generalist are:
HR reporting skills
The essential parts for the role of the HR generalist is the reporting skill. This is required
by the HR for being more analytically driven as well as oriented towards the work. This skill
involves the creation, reading and the interpretation of the information from different human
resource system for the HR report. This report helps the HR to make more effective policies and
evidence based decisions (Cassar and et.al, 2018).
Administrative expert
The role of HR as an administrative expert may have reduced due to the use of the
technologies and the increase use of digital HR but it is not ended completely. The HR is
required to engage in the issues like the employee absence, absence files, payroll and hiring and
firing of the employees.
Intercultural sensitivity
The HR generalist have to have the intercultural knowledge. The HR when working with
the employer and the employees of the different countries need to be aware of their culture
differences. This experience is gained while working at the multinational company in London.
Managing the tasks of the employees and the retention become easier when the HR is aware of
the intercultural difference along with the skill of language. The culture differences influence
the ways of hiring, retaining and promoting people. The communication style with the employers
of the other countries need to handle with the consideration that it is respectful and directs the
message the HR needs to convey to them. The slight mistake in the language skill can cause the
employers of the different country to get offend. Such kind are risks are the main issues that the
company need to avoid while deals important matters (Cojocariu and Boghian, 2020).
Career Action Plan
Personal development

For making the effective HR reports the HR needs to organize the information coming
from the different human resource systems. The developing organizational skill will help the HR
professional to save time by managing the records. The organizational skill will be helpful as:
Time management
Managing the payroll and the employment contracts are very time consuming. This can
be done with the organizational skill as the HR is responsible for the completion of the essentials
on time and accompanying with the relevant strategies.
Record management
The organizational skill will also help in the managing of the records like the documents
of the employees and their storing as well as retrieving (Gould, 2017).
Calendar management
The HR needs to be prepared for the important activities and meetings with the
employers and the employees along with the tasks that come with the responsibility. Managing a
good calendar will help the HR professional to great extent.
The organizational skill can be improved by:
 Using calendar management tools to remind the HR about the important meetings and
tasks, the notifications by the tools will avoid missing any important thing.
 Observing the time required by each task to be completed by the HR and assigning each
task a time limit to be completed in. this way the responsibilities are divided to specific
limit for the completion (Kofler and et.al, 2018).
 A to-do list can be made in the starting of the day to give a direction on what to do next
and what are the priorities. This will help in being more organized.
 The appropriate software can be used to keep all the important documents at one place.
For getting over the intercultural differences adaptability skill needs to be developed by the HR:
The changes that are unpredictable can disturb the functioning of the HR professional.
The adaptability skill will help in the:
Change management
The HR needs to understand when it’s time to change according to the needs of the
different countries and their culture (Al-Ali and et.al, 2017).
Enlarged thinking
The HR professional are responsible for the decision making process in the company.
Thus, the HR needs to understand what is required by the company to meet the needs of the
international company’s need.
Self-assessment and improvement

The HR can follow the self-assessment and improvement plans to be in the improving
phase so as to keep the functioning of the company modern and creative.
Adaptation skills can be developed by:
 Understanding the work and keep looking for the results for the estimation of change
required. The HR practices can be changed accordingly (Calvo-Mora, Domínguez-CC
and Criado, 2018).
 Keeping connection with the leaders of the companies in other companies and the current
organization can help the HR with solving the general issues and providing information
to be up to date.
 Communicating and casual discussion can help the HR to get the different point of views
to be taken into consideration.
Career related activities
The HR can learn the scope available of HR to move forward, there are variety of career
paths for the HR. the HR generalist can help the HR to identify the different roles and functions
to perform with the challenges that come with it. Different company offer different roles to the
HR in the HR generalist role the HR will become a suitable for the position of the managerial
role (Kelly and et.al, 2020). The ways that can help the HR to gain full exposure to the duties
are:
Shadow your peers
The shadowing of the peer will help the HR to get different roles to experience. Involving
in activities like the managing a team and talking with the benefits plan with the broker. Various
things can be learned by simply watching the working.
Experiment with new initiatives
The HR can work on the initiatives that give more exposure to the interested areas. Like
if the HR is interested in the employee engagement activities the then HR can do specific
improvement in the engagement practices. The HR will be provided with more of the work
related to the employment management if the improvements work (Bolli, 2017).
CV to apply for the graduate level position
Jacob Kelsch, HR generalist
[e-mail]
Linkedin.com/in/jacobkelsch
161-436-4452
Professional summary

Skilled for the employee engagement and training. Seeking to enter in the AT Global
Group. To energize the corporate culture at the company. To manage the performance
development and implementation of the program to gain the increased employee management.
Education
2011-2016 at ______ University
Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management
 Was excellent at the HRIS classes.
 Was involved in the consultancy services of nonprofit communities for the improvement
of HR management.
Skills
 Hard skills: HRIS, project management
 Soft skills: Communication, collaboration, leadership
Activities
Volunteered as a project manager
Coach little kids for the baseball leagues
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from the report that the applicant have the strengths and the
weakness, this is known by the personal analysis. The strengths such as the
communication skill, proactivity and teamwork can be used for filling of the vacancy at
the AT Global. The weakness such as HR reporting and intercultural sensitivity can be
improved by the implementation of the career action plans. The career action plans
involve the personal development and the career related activities for moving forward.
The CV is made available for applying for the graduated level position of the HR
Generalist.

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