Career Action Plan Development

This assignment discusses the significance of a career action plan in helping individuals achieve their desired future goals. It involves evaluating one's overall personality, identifying strengths and weaknesses, and developing plans to overcome weaknesses. The assignment also touches on the importance of self-awareness and leadership in pursuing set personal goals. Various references are provided from books and journals that support the concept of career development and action planning.

Personal Analysis and
Career Action plan

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PERSONAL ANALYSIS................................................................................................................1
CAREER ACTION PLAN..............................................................................................................3
CV....................................................................................................................................................5
LinkedIn Profile ..............................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
For an individual the important part of life is his/her career. Once a person select the
stream and field of their education and qualification as per their professional and career
development, they next big step to make a career action plan to take of the plan for their career.
To develop a career action plan the first requirement after education qualification is development
and identification of personal skill, abilities, capabilities in both personal and professional
context. The present reports cover all the aspects defined above where I will analyse my
personal skills, knowledge and experiences to work at a position of administrator in a warehouse.
The areas of improvement and development will be identified along with conducting a self
SWOT analysis for the job of warehouse administrator.
Furthermore, in this direction a career action plan will be developed where I will identify
the requirements in personal development and improvement in carer related activities. For this
key skills, knowledge and profession experiences which will required to effectively conducting
the job a warehouse administrators will be identified which requires a further improvement.
Along with this the report includes a resume (CV) which will present all my personal and
professional skills and qualification and my achievements. Also a LinkedIn profile is prepared
to get much access to the opportunities available out there. In the last conclusion is written down
to present the synopsis of the whole reports and outlining my personal analysis result and career
action plan.
PERSONAL ANALYSIS
Current Skills, knowledge and experience:
I my classes I have developed certain skills over working under the professional and
corporate culture. This includes communication effectively with people and I have gained a
knowledge on how to deal with people under pressure when and convert a negative situation
into win win situation. I have been working on this skill form a long time as this is utter must
requirement for my profession where I need to deals with various people and work under adverse
conditions as well and handling the pressure is also there (Rubens and et.al., 2018). Also I have a
good knowledge over warehouse management as this was one of the major subject while
graduating and I have developed an insight over application of these knowledge in practical life.
Area of personal and professional development and their importance
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I am a over enthusiast person and an empathetic learner and this sometimes I end up in difficult
situation. I need to develop a control over this factor by which I can utilise my energy in right
direction and then use the same for developing my career (Carvalho, M and et.al 2018). In
regard to profession development I need to learn two essential things which are time
management and development a work life balance which eventually lead me to a happy and
satisfactory life. All these, is of key importance for my personal as well as professional life as
with effective and right utilisation of energy I can indulge in using my energy at right place.
Personal SWOT Analysis:
Strengths Areas for further development
My various personal dimensions are:
 I possess strong communication skills,
 I am keen learner and I have
developed a skill to work in team and
I have a ability to generate new ideas
and take own initiative which I have
shown in class we well as work place
(Clanchy and et.al., 2019).
 I am an empathetic learner.
 I respect others and take their opinions
into consideration, even though I don't
have a belief in them still I don't reject
them outright. With my experiences I
have developed a view point that a idea
can be good or bad for different
situations (Santilli Nota and
Hartung,2019). So one must consider
the idea and then evaluate the effects of
the same over a given task or in
project.
 I have capabilities to use all the
application of Microsoft and in those I
 To built in more confidence
 To develop positive thinking and
have optimistic approach.
 To gain more ranting for polishing
my professional skills
 To develop intellectual thinking
where by I can critically evaluate the
situation with a faster to pace to
reach correct decision quickly and on
time.
 Although I am punctual but I need to
develop my time management skills
 I need learn on organisation and
management of persona and
profession life balance (Kharadze and
Gulua, 2018).
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have a good command over Ms Excel.
Apart from this I have knowledge f
using SPSS and project manager as
well.
Opportunities Threats
With working as a administration of
warehouses I can work as warhorse
manger of leading organisation of nations as
well as in MNCs.
 Have a getting failed in my career.
 Non development in my personal
skills can lead to shrinking in my
career opportunities.
CAREER ACTION PLAN
Areas for
development
Resources
that I can
rely on?
What do I have
to do?
How will I
measure success?
Target date
for
completion?
How to develop
more confident
For this I
will enrol l in
a public
specking
programme
where
training over
confidante
boost up is
provided for
persona as
well as
professional
For this I will
engage in group
discussion session
over various topic
and present a
speech in from
the group
members (Maree,
2018). This will
enhance my
confidant of
talking in public
as well as putting
I will take
feedback from my
teacher and tutor
and my
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2019
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life
(Connand
et.al., 2018).
my thoughts
forward to the
people. This will
directly boost my
confidants as I
will learn to lead
a group with my
vies and opinion.
I to enhance
positive
thinking and
become more
optimistic
I will enrol
in mediation
and yoga
session for 6
months
where insight
into mu aura
and will
learn to cope
with difficult
situation
(Moores,
Holley and
Collen,
2018).
I want to
develop a positive
thinking as I with
a bit only of
pressure I get
negative thoughts.
And under work
pressure I tend to
get panic and
lose my
concentration as
well as interest in
the work in I am
doing.
I will try to work
under the pressure
by taking two
project of the
university
simultaneously,
by this I can
effectively
evaluate the
achievement I
have made so far
(Coghlan, 2019)
Also, will set
deadlines for each
task of the project
with allotting all
task a lesser time
which is usually
required to
enhance check the
ability to work in
time constrain.
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develop time
management
skills
will work on
this on my
own where I
will set a
time
schedule for
each of mu
task and try
to achieve
that in
allotted time.
work two or three
task at a time
effectively
(Bordelois,
Mustelier and
Zevallos, 2018). I
rather get clumpy
and this lead to
non
accomplishment
of neither of the
task. I have to
work upon this to
enhance m time
management
skills.
this criteria by
bifurcating the all
my task in small
responsibilities
and set
timescales.
Success is
measured through
achieving learning
objectives,
passing projects
and receiving
positive feedback
from lectures.
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Career action plan:
Short term Goals: ( to be achieved in next 12 months):
 To improve confidants and communication skill as a individual as well as professional.
 To achieve effective time management skills.
Long term goals ( 1.5-2 years from now)
 Ingratiation with software and networking
 To get a job as warehouse administrator
CV
LinkedIn Profile
CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be concluded that career plan can help an individual in
achieving desired goals and objectives. With the help of sound planning and thought view related
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to the future, one can get personally benefited in the long run. Personality assessment helps in
determining all the skill, capabilities and competency ability of an individual with the help of
which career action plan can be framed. While analysis the personality traits, an individual can
easily determine it weaknesses and mistakes which later on can be improved for the betterment
in future time period. The report has discussed about SWOT analysis method. With the help of
SWOT, an individual is able to determine all the strengths, opportunities, threats and weaknesses
associated with its career and personality.
By conducting SWOT analysis, it has been evaluated that I can perform in team and
group with full concentration, have strong communication skills and excellence in Microsoft. On
the other hand, negative thinking and lack of confidence are my weaknesses which has to be
overcome by considering best and suitable opportunities. With the help of career action plan, an
individual person can design the roadmap following of which can help in attainment of future
goals and objectives. The main aim of career action plan is to help a person in achieving some
desired future goals by formulating an effective and sound plans, policies and strategies. By
evaluating the over all personality, one can identify what are his main strengths and desires to
achieve in the future time period and what steps and plans he/she has to designed or developed
so as to accomplish future career goals in short time period. The action plan of career helps an
individual in describing all the steps which are necessary to be taken for pursuing set defined
personal goals.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Rubens, A. and et.al., 2018. Self-awareness and leadership: Developing an individual strategic
professional development plan in an MBA leadership course. The International Journal of
Management Education. 16(1). pp.1-13.
Clanchy, and et.al., 2019. Integrating a career development learning framework into work-
integrated learning practicum debrief sessions. In Augmenting Health and Social Care
Students’ Clinical Learning Experiences (pp. 307-330). Springer, Cham.
Kharadze, N. and Gulua, E., 2018. Personal Development Peculiarities on Gender Perspective in
Georgia. European Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, 3(3), pp.111-123.
Maree, J.G., 2018. Promoting career development in the early years of a person’s life through
self-and career construction counselling (using an integrated, qualitative+ quantitative
approach): a case study. Early Child Development and Care. 188(4). pp.437-451.
Coghlan, D., 2019. Doing action research in your own organization. SAGE Publications
Limited.
Bordelois, M.I., Mustelier, J.J.B. and Zevallos, I.V., 2018. The career self evaluation in
improving the quality of higher education. International journal of social sciences and
humanities. 2(1). pp.84-91.
Moores, L.K., Holley, A.B. and Collen, J.F., 2018. Working with a mentor: effective strategies
during fellowship and early career. Chest. 153(4). pp.799-804.
Conn, V.S. and et.al., 2018. Launching successful beginnings for early career faculty
researchers. Western journal of nursing research. 40(2). pp.153-174.
Santilli, S., Nota, L. and Hartung, P.J., 2019. Efficacy of a group career construction
intervention with early adolescent youth. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 111, pp.49-58.
Carvalho, M and et.al., 2018. Cognitive-Behavioral Coaching: Applications to Health and
Personal Development Contexts. EC Psychology and Psychiatry. 7(3). pp.119-129.
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