Career Action Plan and Self-Reflection

This report outlines the importance of self-reflection and career action plan in personal and professional development. It discusses the skills and knowledge required for job opportunities in the transport industry and provides a step-by-step action plan to improve weaknesses. The report also includes a resume and LinkedIn profile creation.

Career Action Plan
and Self-Reflection

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Personal Analysis.............................................................................................................................1
Career Action Plan...........................................................................................................................4
Resume.............................................................................................................................................4
LinkedIn profile...............................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
Appendix..........................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
A Self-reflection outlines the person’s ability to adapt and eager to continually learn a new
aspect of the experience and its reason for their future development. An Action Plan is a process
that combines the information needed to achieve goals and objectives. The action plan contains
action measures and objectives and mechanisms to achieve these goals over a fixed budget
period. Self-reflection is an important action that permits a leader to develop themselves for the
future employability (Walker‐Donnelly, Scott and Cawthon, 2019). Therefore, following report
illuminates self-reflection through accessing the present skills, knowledge and experience. It
creates a wide range of individual comparisons and articulates a strong and weak point that is
currently required for my growth. The strong part will also expose my weaknesses or
underdeveloped areas. An action plan will also be made in view of the weaknesses, which in turn
require further development. In addition, resources and time required to improve those areas will
be discussed. Also report launching a resume and LinkedIn profile will also be created on this
page.
Personal Analysis
Personal analysis is a systematic way of assessing my current skills and abilities which
means identifying weaknesses and strengths and developing them for future development. My
current desire is to get job opportunity in a transport company either as a transport manager or
marketing executive.
Communication skills
Communication skills mean being able to communicate well, which is great for a person's
ability to convey facts to another person. Communication is the ideal way in a transport industry
Because there required a strong essence of the communication between the sender and receiver
party in which company dealing with. After a long while I have realised that the communication
skills are the dominant skills in the transport industry and one of the prominent job skill for a
marketing executive. To learn and enhance my communication skills, I went to seminars, where I
often interacted with friends when we were introduced to VIVA (Yoon and et. al., 2019). I am
confident in mining cooperation and communication skills, however I hope my communication
skills helped me achieve my career goals. Apart from having a year of professional marketing, I
hope that my communication skills will help me to get job in a transport industry company.
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Interpersonal skills:
In a large transport company one need to keep a strong connection with the peers and
this can be achieved with good interpersonal skills. There is always a very effective team in the
transport industry that transports its assets from one place to another and their qualities that
require strength, skill, calmness and flexibility. One of the biggest controversies is to create
communication so communication with people is necessary about goods and services whether set
or not.
Leadership:
In a transport company one need to keep motivating the employees and also keep inspiring the
both receiver carrier party. Therefore, I have realised that the transportation industry needed
leadership skills because it is important to speak to people consistently and be clear about goals
and objectives, value the contributions of employees and colleagues and increase their work-
related respect (Brenner, 2021). I have attended many mini-workshop and also went in many
seminar to know how to enhance a great leadership skill which can help me to have true follower
who will follow my direction of the vision.
Computer literacy:
No matter what department you were working every department have a computer
operator and also every executing need to have little knowledge about operating computer. I
have realised that the transport industry is a much needed requirement for any modern day
business and every sector are trying hard to utilise the benefits of Information & technology.
Several cases in these skills are needed to improve qualifications that are very helpful such as
computer operating. Therefore, I went to attend the computer course like Sap and Python along
with the knowledge of the MS office toolkit which has greater importance for indivudal personal
and professional growth development.
Decision making skills:
No matter what role you are working at, every executive whether it is marketing or sales need to
make certain decision on regular basis. Being a transport marketing manager one of the
promising skills must be able to make decisions and make the right decision. Because with self-
experience during mine internship I have found that there will always be situations where the
supply chain is adjusted as much as possible with the help of better decisions. It is the power to
make decisions that are often the most important in any administrative role and to make quick
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and effective decisions. Failure to make decisions is totally unacceptable (Maree, 2021).
Moreover, for a right decision making skills one need to have strong analytical skills that help
me to come to the true pros and consequences of the decision.
Forward thinking skills:
As the transport sector, as a manager, he or she must ensure that the ability to accurately
predict the various strength requirements and operational outcomes throughout the supply chain,
these capabilities allow for immediate and potentially hazardous, streamlined strategy and
problem-solving processes. Therefore, I have develop my forward thinking skills by making
quick strategic decisions and increase my thinking capability to think for a mile rather than of
short way.
Management information systems:
MIS is the rising technology in the every business and all businesses use this technology to store
and extract data and information. Management information systems are the centre of everything
they can but should not be put aside. While working in transport industry I should expect to be
on the writing list but instead of investing in analytical skills in order to be more effective in the
performance of the system (Hartung and Vess, 2019). I will join a training institute to gain the
complete insight about the use and worth of the MIS skills for my job requirement.
Strengths
 I have strong communication skills
which help me a lot in interpersonal
communication
 I have a good industrial experience
which I have developed during the on
job training and by undertaking the
internship at various transport
company
 In a recent period of time I have
strong MIS knowledge and can made
any entry with ease (McMahon and
Patton, 2019)
Weakness
 I have issue in managing the things in
right time due to lack of effective time
managing skills.
 I am over thinker person which often
impact my decision and imagination
skills and capability
 Leadership skills are not up to the
level in order to influence
performance of others.
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Career Action Plan
Career action plans are measured as personalized action plans goals and outline key steps in
the pursuit of these goals. Programs are created, stored, updated with those development
processes. The action plan is given below based on my weaknesses and underdeveloped skills.
Goals Actions/ what I will do? Timescale Outcome
Developing MIS
knowledge
Getting admission in a training institute
where I can learn the MIS and also
deciding to take internship programme
in the MIS to greater the practical
knowledge
12 months Effectively use every
entry of the MIS
system and
effectively used to
store and data and
reviewed them.
3 months
Improving
communication and
interpersonal skills
Watching the online video and also
attend the mini workshop and
seminars. Also make presentation on
the various topics in front of the tutor
(Ginevra and et, al., 2021).
4 months Enhanced my
communication
skills and
interpersonal skills.
Enhance computer
literacy
I will a computer training academy and
also watch various videos online to
greater the knowledge
5 months Developed computer
literacy on supreme
level.
To improve creative
and imagination skills
This help in gaining the forward
thinking skills by way of improving my
creative and thinking skills which help
in greater imagination skills that help
to think beyond the boundaries.
6 months I would become
forward thinking
person.
Resume
A CV is also known as a curriculum vitae, which is widely used in a document that promotes
skills and personal knowledge of individual.. See appendix
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LinkedIn profile
LinkedIn is a paid social media platform that attracts the user to create their own winning
page, product type and showcases the success and achievement experience for viewers. I created
a LinkedIn profile to share my information among the transport industry experts. See appendix
CONCLUSION
From the above research, it has been concluded that this report contains a brief summary of
job opportunities for a graduate and undergraduate student that outlines an essential skills,
knowledge, and experience required to get the dream job. Looking at the overview of the
existing technology available to students, familiarity and experience were made in the following
report. The strengths and weaknesses of a student found have been identified and tested. The
action plan is developed for the development of skills that are lacking in. A CV and a LinkedIn
profile have been created in this report. The main theme of this report is to present an overview
of the work by supporting the written presentation and the action plan that must be put in place to
improve future employment.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Brenner, A., 2021. FACULTY AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT IN ACADEMIC
PSYCHIATRY. Handbook of Psychiatric Education, p.94.
Ginevra, M.C.,and et, al., 2021. The role of career adaptability and future orientation on future
goals in refugees. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, pp.1-15.
Hartung, P.J. and Vess, L., 2019. Career construction for life design. Contemporary theories of
career development: International perspectives, pp.91-104.
Maree, J.G., 2021. Innovating and contextualising career counselling for young people during
the Covid-19 pandemic. South African Journal of Psychology, p.0081246321999507.
McMahon, M. and Patton, W., 2019. The Systems Theory Framework: A systems map for career
theory, research and practice. In International handbook of career guidance (pp. 97-114).
Springer, Cham.
Walker‐Donnelly, K., Scott, D.A. and Cawthon, T.W., 2019. Introduction: overview and
application of career development theories. New Directions for Student
Services, 2019(166), pp.9-17.
Yoon, H.J., and et. al., 2019. The effect of a career development programme based on the Hope-
Action Theory: Hope to Work for refugees in British Columbia. British Journal of
Guidance & Counselling, 47(1), pp.6-19.
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Appendix
CV
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LinkedIn profile
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