Career Action Plan and Selfreflection

This document discusses the importance of developing a career action plan and self-reflection to improve skills and abilities. It includes self-analysis, an action plan, a CV, and a LinkedIn profile.

Career Action Plan and Self-
reflection

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Self-Analysis................................................................................................................................3
Action plan...................................................................................................................................4
CV (Curriculum Vitae)................................................................................................................6
LinkedIn Profile...........................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Career action plan play very excellent role in improving various abilities or skills of a
person. There is career action plan give opportunity to different people for identifying their
existing strengths and weaknesses. There are improvement of various abilities or skills is very
necessary task to a person for gaining high success in its personal life. Currently most people are
taking many productive steps for developing themselves by personality and professionalism wise
(Rowe, 2017). This report mainly includes self-analysis reflection to perfectly know own
strengths and weaknesses. On the other side, an effective action plan, CV and LinkedIn profile
also has been included in this report.
MAIN BODY
Self-Analysis
There are SWOT analytical tool has been used below for analysing my different
strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. This tool has perfectly showed that, which skills
I have well-developed and which skills I still needs to be developed or improved.
SWOT analysis
SWOT analysis is one of the major analytical tools which mainly uses by different
companies or businesses for analysing their various internal factors (Frunză, 2017). Basically,
SWOT term refers four major factors, like; strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. In
this situation, these four factors have been discussed below which can support me for analysing
my different internal factors.
 Strengths: Currently I have various well-developed skills and abilities which always
supports me in performing excellent within any place. There are well-developed
communication skills, time management skills, knowledge of management etc. some
major strengths.
 Weaknesses: I have some weaknesses too. For example; my decision-making abilities,
problem solving skills and people management skills are too weak. Recently I have taken

different actions towards improving these skills or abilities. I hope I will definitely
develop these un-developed skills and abilities.
 Opportunities: Currently I have great opportunity to develop my existing personality by
using different innovative personal development theories or models. On the other side,
there are various useful learning styles also available to me for absorbing knowledge and
information (Aranha, EB and Premanand, 2019). By absorbing various knowledge and
information, I will be able to develop my professional career.
 Threats: Many times, I take too much time for taking any decision, because my existing
decisions making skills are not much effective. So, because of poor decision-making
skills, many times I need to drop those opportunities which can affect my professional
career. In this is situation, impact of poor decision-making skills I the biggest threat to
me.
Action plan
There is an effective action plan has been attached below which will completely support
me to develop my different abilities or skills. This action plan can support me for gaining high
success in my career as well.
Skills and
Abilities
Activities Resources Time Period Evaluation
Decision making
abilities
I will read
different books
and journals,
articles, etc.
which has based
on decision-
making abilities.
By reading
different books
& journals, I can
easily develop
these skills.
There are books
& journals,
articles etc. are
major resources
to me. Basically,
in these books &
journals, many
experts have
shared their
great opinion on
‘how to develop
decision making
3 Months Time period of 3
months is
enough time to
me for
developing my
decision
abilities.

skills’ (Roskosa
and Stukalina,
2016). That’s
why these
resources will
play great role to
me.
Problem solving
skills
Problems
solving skills
also I highly
need to be
improved,
because problem
solving skills
always give
opportunity to
use for dealing
with different
problem within a
workplace. For
improving these
skills, I will
watch different
informative
videos on
internet.
There is internet,
personal
computer,
laptop, smart
phone etc. some
major resources
which can
contribute in
improving my
problem-solving
skills. Currently
on internet, there
are lots of
informative
videos also
available where
many experts
have share
different
effective ways to
develop problem
solving skills, in
which these
videos also will
6 Months There are six
months enough
to me for
developing these
skills. I will put
my huge effort
to develop
problem solving
skills.

support me.
People
management
skills
For improving
my people
management
skills, I will take
specific training
sessions and
read some
people
management
books and
magazines.
Basically, people
management
skills help in
properly
managing people
or employees
within a
company or
business. That’s
why I highly
need to be
develop these
skills.
I have required
to use different
resources like;
human resource
(trainer), books
and journals,
magazines etc.
There is mainly
trainer support
me for
improving these
skills, because a
trainer always
provide use
appropriate way
or methods to
systematically
manage people
within
workplace.
9 Months I have highly
required time
period of nine
months for
developing my
people
management
skills (Kwon and
Cho, 2017). I
will properly use
different
resources to
develop these
skills.
CV (Curriculum Vitae)
CV
NAME: Harry Taylor
Contact: [e-mail]

Personal Profile
I am a very self-motivated person. I am behaving very energetic in my workplace. I
always try to avoid those elements around me which can negatively impact my existing
performance. I am very excellent in time-keeping because of my extra-ordinary time-
management skills. I always like to complete different tasks on time.
Qualifications and experience:
 MBA
 Worked in two highly reputed hotels of the UK for 5 years
Hard skills:
 Hotel management understanding
 High knowledge of modern technology
 Excellent knowledge of hotel management software programs
 Work with latest technology for producing high quality standards in outputs.
Soft skills:
 Well-developed communication skills for effectively communicating with team
members
 Quick decision-making ability
 Excellent working potentialities
 Effective leadership skills
 Problem-solving ability
Hobbies and Interests
Photography and paining are some my major hobbies, because I can do photography
and painting freely also for anyone. On the other side, I like to watch different movies and TV
shows also in my free time. I especially like to watch those movies which can inspired me and
motivated me. There is cooking is another hobby, because I always get excited when someone
told for cooking. Like to play different games as well. Currently cricket is my one of the
favourite games. On the other side, I like to watch cricket also on television. Many times, I
like to do work in social welfare as well. For example; many times, I plant different trees in
my living area. I like to do activities which has based cleaning, because I like to live in neat
and clean area. These all are some major hobbies and interests.
Additional Information

 Currently focuses on developing writing skills
 Fluent speaker of English language
 Driving license
 Proper knowledge of computer
LinkedIn Profile
A LinkedIn profile will play excellent role for me to achieve an appropriate job in the
market. Currently people are taking lots of advantages through LinkedIn (Plomp and et.al.,
2016). Basically, nowadays LinkedIn is the best job searching website which has already given
many job opportunities to different people. Currently most people made their respective profile
on this website for getting that job which they really want to do. In this situation, I am also
highly responsible to made an attractive profile on LinkedIn. While making profile on this
website, I will need to fulfil things like; qualification, existing skills, education level, abilities,
hobbies, interest, area of knowledge. Generally, a LinkedIn profile is the second version of CV
where HR teams of different companies always visited online, in which HR team of a company
satisfied with our profile, then they contact use for personal interview or written example. That’s
why LinkedIn website may play great role in my career development. An attractive LinkedIn
profile has been attached below;
LinkedIn Profile
Name: Harry Taylor
Photo:
Headline and Summary
Hello, my name is Harry Taylor. I am a very self-motivated person. I am behaving very
energetic in my workplace. I always try to avoid those elements around me which can
negatively impact my existing performance. I am very excellent in time-keeping because of
my extra-ordinary time-management skills. I always like to complete different tasks on time.
Education
MBA
Skills
 Hotel management understanding
 Work with latest technology for producing high quality standards in outputs.

 Well-developed communication skills for effectively communicating with team
members
 Effective leadership skills
Groups
 London Business Network Group
 North West Business Network Group
Companies
 I have worked as a hotel manager in the London Hotel for 2 years
 I have worked as an assistant hotel manager in the Hilton hotel for 3 years
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded that there are developing career is not a small task to a person,
because every person always needs to conduct various activities or steps to develop its
professional career. Currently there are different innovate methods or ways available for a person
which can support in developing its various skills or abilities (Akkermans, Seibert and Mol,
2018). For example; SWOT analysis model and action plan etc. are some major methods to
people which supports in improving professionalism and personality. On the other side, there is
self-motivation is too necessary for gaining effective results in personal life. There are self-
motivated is highly required to achieve high success in personal career. By developing different
skills, abilities, area of knowledge etc. a person can easily make its career bright.

REFERENCES
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