Career Action Plan and Self Reflection

The article discusses the importance of personal analysis, career action plan, and self-reflection in personal and professional growth. It highlights the skills and competencies required for the job of a product design manager, such as effective communication, flexibility, team working, and problem solving. The article also presents a career action plan to develop skills like ICTs, decision-making, research, and leadership. The appendix includes a CV with education, experience, and hobbies.

CAREER ACTION PLAN
AND SELF REFLECTION

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Personal analysis..........................................................................................................................3
Career action plan........................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
Appendix .........................................................................................................................................9
CV................................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Career action plan is defined as strategic and useful document that individuals utilized in
order to determine their career aims and describe key stages that are important to pursue those
goals in effective manner. The current assignment will explain the skills and competencies that
used to grab specific job opportunity and that is product design manager. The person who tent to
obtain this chance would have set of excellent skills such as effective communication. Lastly, the
report will justify a career action plan along with CV.
MAIN BODY
Personal analysis
In order to grow, individual person efforts in varied manner, which is quite important for
them to do so. The growth and success of their career whether it is personal or professional, is
depended on skills as strength or capability which they have or attempt to develop (Kurniawan,
2021). Unlike other, I also tend to grow professional and personally, for that set of excellent and
strategic competencies are required. Here, I want to present a general view of my current skills,
experience and knowledge that I will utilize to grab the best employment opportunity that
accessible in the job market.
I want to say that effective communication is my current and useful strength, because it
made me capable to interact with those people who do not feel comfortable at new places where
they reach to do a particular task. With the help of this skill I had gain success to make these
individuals comfortable, as I have power to communicate with all in influencing and effective
manner. Along with these advantages, I also gain more just because of using my strength in term
of building strong and trustworthy relationship with everyone. Communication power enable me
to increase the productivity level of other individuals as I clearly define the roles and
accountabilities to them, which allow them to perform accordingly. The best benefit that I have
gained by having and using communication skill is positive environment that I had created for
all, to work effectively and productively at same workplace where I am recently performing.
Another skill about that I want to describe is flexibility, which I also utilized to be
productive. This kind of capability enable everyone to perform effectively within any situation or
condition that bring challenges and issues for them. Most of the people in this world, use this key
feature in term of their ability, which allow them to overcome stress and adjust themselves
regarding changes that have been done for organizational as well as individual well-being. By

having a high extent of flexibility, I felt able to easily live a less hectic and stressful life, which
put positive impact on my performance related to personal and professional career.
Including above two, I also have few more skills, which I also seek to describe in quite
understanding manner. Team working skill is the most common competence that people in bulk
had and utilized to obtain desire outcomes. I also have this one, which enable me to obtain a lot
of advantages. For example, with the help of team work competence, I am capable to achieve
strategic aim and objective, in effective manner without making any major mistake. It helps to
make me happier, because I was able to perform with such talented, experienced and skilled
candidates who take interest to share their experience with everyone.
Problem solving is also included in list of skills that I have, and used to be productive
and effective forever. This skill provides many edge to me, in term of reducing stress level,
making workload duration less hectic, and creating positive working atmosphere, where
everyone performed in effective way. I am posing great knowledge about solving critical issues
that put negative impact on my as well as other work and lead to decrease productivity. I also
pose better understanding about team working and building activities that help to grow my
professional career in the future.
Above I had described skills that currently I have, now I also want to define some areas
where I tend to focus and develop to grow. For example, I am not posing excellent knowledge
about ICTs, decision-making, leadership and interpersonal skills, which in the future will
bring barriers in the context of my personal as well as employment growth. I want to grow and
get success, wherever I work as everyone aspect the same. I feel weak to gather essential and
valuable data about target market and current market trends, as I do not posses better knowledge
about research skill, which is one of the most important and required competence of employer
for role of product design manager. This competence along with those that I had is significant,
because without conducting depth investigation, I was unable to take further actions related to
products design in appropriate manner. Above discussed skills that I need to develop play vital
role in my growth. Each skill contribute to enhance my productivity level in the future and bring
several advantages. I want to develop all competencies and knowledge related to particular
concept, for which specific and effective approach is needed. In order to do so, I prefer to chose
career action plan as sufficient technique, through which development of skills, and
understanding is possible.

Career action plan
As skill development approach, career action plan is considered as dynamic planning
document that developed and managed by those individuals who tend to develop collection of
skills and also seek to reflect their increasing career development & learning. This plan is helpful
for everyone, because it may provide individuals chances to set their strategic aims, and specify
actions require achieving goals (Kilani, 2021). Here, the current career action plan is developing
on the basis of skills and areas that I want to develop, which is related to my personal as well as
particular career related activities that I will undertake to go forward.
Areas where
development is
needed
Actions to develop skills Resources Time-frame
ICTs I want to develop this skill,
which is important and
relevant for the employment
career that I had chosen as
Product design manager. The
best action that I will take to
develop this competence is
development sessions
provided by IT expert, who
posses excellent
understanding about
advanced technologies and
systems. I would join this
kind of session and become a
part of crucial procedure.
In term of key asset, I
will use internet,
which help to take
learning session and
become important part
of this activity.
3-6 Months
Decision-
making
I also want to develop this
skill along with above and
many more, because it drives
my attention towards taking
In term of resource, I
would take suggestion
from experience
holders who have this
1 month

better and useful action,
through which I would
finally obtain desire
outcomes. In order to
develop this capability I will
take situational analysis as
strategic action, which
enable me to determine and
examine reasons behind
environment that may create
issue.
skill and use to
achieve objectives and
common aim.
Research skill It is quite important for me
develop research skill as it
contribute to design those
products, which help to gain
the attention of organizations
customers and enhance their
satisfactory level. As
effective action, would
approach to skill
development programmes.
With the help of these
programmes I will
understand and learn the
ways related to research.
Internet, experience
holders, effective plan,
notepad, pen and
money are all
important resources
that I would utilize to
develop research skill.
1 month
Leadership
skill
I seek to work as product
design manager in well-
reputed company, and in
order to do that I need to
develop leadership
Discussion with
leaders, internet, books
related to effective
leadership and
management styles,
1 month 15 days

capability. I would take
action to read varied books
and novels and also analyse
practical work of a leader or
manager, by which they
obtain expected outcomes.
etc. are included in
category of those
resources that are
beneficial for me in
the future.
Interpersonal
skills
In addition to solid
collaboration skill, I need to
posses excellent
interpersonal competencies
to appropriately and
effectively influence and lead
individuals who work with
me. I would choose option of
acknowledging others
experience as an action to
develop this skill.
I would take
appropriate
suggestions from
experience persons
and approach to
practical things as well
as personal
observation.
2 months
CONCLUSION
During the process of completing this project, I had felt quite nervous, but after
determining the value of career action plan, I tend to utilize this useful source in term of skills
development method. From this study it has been identified that personal analysis has
contributed to determine key strengths and weakness of individuals. By identifying potential
weaknesses, and threats, person has developed an action plan through which they had effectively
and successfully developed lacking skills.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Edem, D.P., Dewodo, C. and Atiglah, P.B., 2020. ICT Skills, and Benefits of Teaching and
Learning Animal Science with Blended Learning at Colleges of Education in
Ghana. Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn). 14(2). pp.289-300.
Kilani, H., 2021. Engaging Youth in Their Careers. Canadian Journal of Career Development.
20(1). pp.58-63.
Kurniawan, H., 2021. The PINTER Learning Model to Enhance Higher Order Thinking and
Communication skill in Algebra. International Journal of Instruction. 14(3).
Mirzaei, F., Phang, F.A. and Kashefi, H., 2020. Comparing reflective teaching skills of
experienced and inexperienced physics teachers at different reflection
levels. International Journal of Physics & Chemistry Education. 12(1). pp.9-17.

Appendix
CV
Skills and knowledge-
 Effective collaboration skill
 Communication skill
 Decision making
 Problem solving
 Research skill
 ICTs competence
 Technology related knowledge
 Better understanding related to marketing laws
Education-
 MBA in field of marketing
Experience-
 2 years experience as product production manager
Hobbes-
 Books reading
 Bike riding
 Swimming