Career and Professional Practise

This document provides a comprehensive study material on Career and Professional Practise. It includes a comparative industry analysis, self-assessment, and career management. The document also discusses the information technology industry and the construction industry.

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Career and Professional Practise
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Table of Contents
Part 1: Comparative Industry Analysis – Global and Commercial Awareness...............................2
a) Comparison of two selected industries/sectors........................................................................2
Main Features..........................................................................................................................2
Recent Changes.......................................................................................................................4
Expected Future Trends...........................................................................................................6
b) Comparison of three key organisations in one industry/sector...............................................8
Part 2: Self Assessment...................................................................................................................9
a) Reflection on personality test, verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning results and skills audit
.....................................................................................................................................................9
b) Reflection on developmental network and cultural intelligence toolkits..............................10
c) My personal brand statement.................................................................................................11
Part 3: Career Management...........................................................................................................12
a) Reflect on how there is would manage there isr job searching efforts and strategy and
produce a SMART career plan..................................................................................................12
b) Reflection of Job application.................................................................................................13
c) Reflection on (mock) interview.............................................................................................14
Bibliography..................................................................................................................................15

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Part 1: Comparative Industry Analysis – Global and Commercial Awareness
a) Comparison of two selected industries/sectors
Two industries that would be put into comparison in this section for competitive industry
analysis would be the information technology industry and the construction industry.
Main Features
Information Technology Industry: The information technology industry is one of the
most exponentially evolving industries in the 21st century. It is an increasing high contribution
for the economic growth all over the world in every country it has been set up. From an
international perspective it can be said that this industry has become one of the largest pillar of
the economics in any country around the world and this is one of the fastest growing industries.
There are various classifications of the information technology industries which can be classified
with the theory of knowledge industries. Industry is more or less related to the increasingly
prominent scientific and technological development and therefore the information industry is
called a 3C industry in other countries. Computers, electronics and communication equipment
and high speed internet network belong to the hardware part of the information technology
industries, whereas on the other hand, the publishing of news and books, post and
telecommunication, advertising systems, integration, software development and others belong to
the software side of the information technology industry. Television and telephone have mostly
resulted in the increasing popularity of two computers and this was the first step in the
information industry in witnessing a social progress. It was during this time that internet
technology and developed rapidly and there was a quick advancement in portals, search engines
in instant messages. All the inventions related to the information acquisition stage and this form
the main features of Information Technology industry. The way by which they had been

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acquiring the market is increasingly becoming the primary feature of the entire industry.
Information Technology was closely related to the development of Science and Technology.
However, the salient features of Information Technology industry; hardware, software and brain
had mostly taken a turn towards the development of elemental information industry. The main
focus of the entire industry was on the people, who were mostly utilising the information
technology and were at the receiving end of the industry.
Construction Industry: The construction industry forms one of the most significant
roles in evolving the economy of any country. This is characterized by Extreme level of
competition and complex operations with conditions including higher risk factors as well as well
informed clients. Competitive bidding system within the construction industry is one of the
factors that are based on extreme lowest price but it's too much higher bargaining power to the
clients. There have been numerous definitions of the marketing feature of construction industry
and that has become one of the most important activities all over the world regarding the
business sectors in the contemporary industry structure and industry has a direct impact to this
feature. Construction industry is still under developed in misunderstood and in most cases the
practitioners have a perspective of you in the market from the benefits with scepticism. There are
certain characteristics of the construction industry that has made it difficult for the application of
series as well as the techniques in the conventional markets of service in industrial marketing in
construction industry. There have been various researches on believing the fact that the situation
in the construction industry and the consequences they have been facing Ali merchant from
different perspectives of the production system, flow management, construction technology,
knowledge management, innovation and comparison with other project based industries. The
products in the construction industry are complex, bulky and at the same time they have been

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extremely expensive which cannot be characterized earlier to the purchase. a systematic
identification of all the construction industry features have been the combination of the key terms
that has been related to the construction industry. The construction industry is highly fragmented
and multidisciplinary, dynamic and cyclical industry, complexity remains from the environment
and the clients, it is a project based business, the competitive bidding is based on the lower
prices, it is institutional and as professional buyers, conservative and traditional, limited number
of projects in progress simultaneously and is a crowded industry with various SMEs. The
industry is also immobile and has a various number of onsite productions, bulky and expensive,
hybrid of service and physical product that does not exist before purchasing, has only demand
created by clients for the projects, as a difficulty of product differentiation and variability of the
quality.
Recent Changes
Information Technology Industry: There has been a rapid increase of the information
industry and this is caused huge amount of change in both the industrial as well as employment
structure within the country. This is leads to a dramatic change in the quality of economic growth
in every country that the industry has been set up in. They have been issued resource triangle
within the process of the economic operations and as the industry is living with equal position for
both materials as well as energy. On the other hand that has been various technological
advancements that have been there in the information technological industry taken as the latest
trends. Mobile applications have become the latest trends in the information technology industry.
They have been now considered as the integral part of the digital strategy and therefore the
demand for mobile applications has been increasing around the globe in an exponential manner.
The entire idea of business applications, lifestyle applications, educational applications, on

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demand applications and others are easily available and in the era of Technology the mobile
application development has been improving each day. This has been affecting the economy of
every country resourcing the economic growth to Information and Technology. The
characteristics of Information Technology have impacted on the economy. It does not only
output the growth in economy but brings in direct economic growth and permeability which has
the potential of improving the traditional industries and their efficiency by enhancing the output
well remarkably reducing the cost of production, meanwhile integrating and promoting the
optimisation and up gradation of the traditional industries are transforming them into new
industries. This is the reason that plays a major role in the natural development of the economic
level of any country and the information industry of the said economy has mostly focused on the
academic attention. However, it can also be said that the development has been a long term
process the spot the neoclassical economists.
Construction Industry: The technological advancement in the latest time is the reason
that has created an impact in the construction industry. It has changed the face of the entire
global market. The information technology sector has impacted construction business in a large
way. Such that, the traditional way of handling the construction business has changed entirely,
and the changes that has occurred have been influenced by the rapid technological advancements
in the business world. Construction is an out and out nature of the business where land deals,
buildings, housing complexes other constructional issues are dealt with. The recent changes that
have been brought within the construction industry have been on under the influence of the
technological advancements. The independent oversight of the construction industry has been
influenced by the technological and economical developments. It is experiencing a palpable
positive mode of change ever since there have been changes in the government and the changes

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have been extremely affirmative. That have been recessionary precious and negative growth
within the industry but the current leadership of economic and technological film industry has
been leading to a positive development that attracts a higher level of investment. Nowadays
significant portion can be a marked as the investment expenditure which is not supposed to the
actual consumption. The government have been taking proper and effective measures in rising
the economy is on the scale that would draw millions of job seekers within the economy and
locally manufactured products are bagging much importance much more than what it could have
done earlier. government infrastructure spending more and more for bringing out the positive
economic development and the perfect environment for construction to thrive well adopting all
the technological advancements to ease out the operations within the industry. more and more
investments are leading to the smooth operations of the construction industry with the utilisation
of the information and technology.
Expected Future Trends
Information Technology Industry: The future changes that might affect the information
technology industry is regarding the security issues that industry is facing right now. The biggest
challenge in information technology is to secure the future. since the security problems can affect
negatively for the public as well as the private networks and it cannot be successfully addressed
right now as envisions are suspected at every point of time, it is necessary that a proper way to
find out a process that would ensure Total Security should be etched out. The machines involved
in information technology are not the problem but the people who are involved in every level of
the industry both inside and out. Working in a computer security and information technology
industry, a person can make out that security in many cases does not acknowledge in every level
of the industry. The biggest problem is not from outside but they tend to be from the inside

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which can both be innocent as well as malicious. Security is a too delicate issue that it does not
have to be a deliberate act of troubling the security but it can also be complete unintentional way
of handling the data and information that can cause security troubles. Therefore it can easily be
said that in future the thing that information technology industry would look out for the most is
assuring proper security to the data and information in every level for the system both inside and
out. This is the only way that further planning for future can be made. The various advantages of
the applications that are developing each day and advancing the technologies further cannot
acknowledge the security problems that the people have been facing overtime. Thus, in future the
only thing that the industry can take up is securing the ways by which data and information are
stored and transferred through the system.
Construction Industry: It is expected that the construction industry would go through
several changes in future. Every business industry has to go through several changes every time
and involved in a new way. The trends appear everywhere within the industry and from
technological advancement to having a stronger focus on the sustainability it makes sure that the
construction companies stay way ahead of the other industries in comparison and be absolutely
responsible in using the emerging trends in technology that would prepare the entire industry for
the future. There have been many examples in the past of future trends making construction
industry work much in a much easier way and much efficiently. Thus, there can be several
changes that impacts upon the construction industry in future. First and foremost there is
expected that more technological integration woodwork in pushing the main factors of the
construction industry. Recent advancements have resulted to the fact that Technology can be
specifically suited to the construction project and the use of drone and 3D printing would be
more than ever before. Both of these forms of Technology would be much accepted by the

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construction industry to make the operations with an industry safer and easier. BIM technology
is another advancement that has been providing a lot of benefits to the construction industry and
it is believed to be the future of project management in construction. Therefore it is also expected
that this technology would be used within the industry with enhanced collaboration in future as
well. The increase in prefabrication and modular construction project would also be involved in
near future as per speculations. Sustainability would be a factor that would be focused on much
more and it would not be a problem in making this an important factor for finding the best
product for completing a job. The managers will always look for sustainability through the
products that have been used for a project to have full focus on economical benefits, like the
living walls that would provide an area with fresh oxygen.
b) Comparison of three key organisations in one industry/sector
For this comparison the information technology industry is to be taken. This would
include the three key organisations of Dimagi, Inveneo and IICD would be considered.
Dimagi: Dimagi incorporation was a social enterprise found in 2002 that provided open
ICT solution for settings with low resources. It is performed use number of technical strategy,
system design, software development as well as what over 40 countries for ICT4D projects. It is
mainly produced all this with 18 peer-reviewed publications for the primary mobile health
perform that it produces called CommCare.
Inveneo: Inveneo is mostly a non-profit organisation working for the development of
ICT4Dev and provides for people with extreme low resources and thin client setup based on
reference design of ION 603 mini PC. It helps to setup a communication system for all the relief
work especially noticeable after the hurricane Katrina.

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IICD: This organisation has mostly been working on specialist works in ICT utilized as a
tool for development and is mostly a non-profit Foundation. It works much closer with the public
as well as private to non-profit partners. It brings about a wide range of stakeholders together for
formulating and implementing the ICT support and development policies as well as programs. It
helps the farmers with their market price information system and helps in the rural development
including economic and infrastructure development.
Part 2: Self Assessment
a) Reflection on personality test, verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning results and skills
audit
Personality test, verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning results and skills audit are the
assessment of human personality that is constructed through several methods and instruments.
The ways, by which personality test, verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning results and skills
audit are conducted, I believe that there are both advantages and disadvantages of the process.
the hiring decisions is exactly the right of a company and that should not be interfere with as
every organisation wants to built in award force with top quality human resource and for this
reason it has been increasingly moving forward to utilise advanced tools like personality test,
verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning results and skills audit for helping them in making
decisions regarding hiring the human resources. These are the assessment providing insight for
the important and intangible information that can be obtained about the current candidates
coming in for the interviews to help with building the top quality workforce for the organisation.
I have seen that this personality test, verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning results and skills
audit mostly bring about the intangible information about any person including their personality
or their values and the work preferences they have. I believe that all these information are

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extremely important for the human resource manager to gain an insight on the candidate and
credit their capabilities within the organisation for the position they would be involved in.
However, there are both advantages of the personality test, verbal reasoning, numerical
reasoning results and skills audit like obtaining the unique information and disadvantages like
time consuming factors of this personality test, verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning results and
skills auditing that can both need a job candidate to the frustration and the loss to other
companies as well. The way by which the personality test, verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning
results and skills audit has the ability to reduce the chances of enabling the wrong person for the
wrong job role, it can also fail to acknowledge this fact as candidates might often answer the
personality test, verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning results and skills audit with the help of
choosing the answers that are not honest enough but based on what day would believe that the
HR managers would like to hear.
b) Reflection on developmental network and cultural intelligence toolkits
As far as the development network and the cultural intelligence toolkits are involved in
the latest business era, I believe that in this diversity of the business industries and common
markets, it is required that the community organisation would like to ensure the fact that they are
representative and reflective enough of the communities that the servant as well as the programs
and services that day ensure are appropriate enough and relevant to the groups that would
represent that communities. I believe that it is a very vital role in our society that is played by the
community organisation tool kits and it makes a much better place for living in about the
communities. However I have also noticed the fact that there are many segments in the
population and development network and cultural intelligence tool kits that reflect as overworked
when it comes to volunteer the activities. There are many people coming from different cultural

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and linguistic backgrounds of diversified languages who would be unable to contribute to the
well-being of every community through the volunteerism or for real perceived barriers. I believe
that all the development network and cultural intelligence tool kits work for are enhancement of
cultural diversity and bring out the best within the diversified structure of the work force coming
from various linguistic and cultural backgrounds. It reframes the Code as a tool to increase the
accessibility and inclusiveness of Volunteer Programs, and it will lead to diverse and stronger
organizations that are responsive to newcomers, in particular, and the community at large. The
guide provides basic strategies for organizations at the beginning stages of better engaging,
integrating and reflecting the diversity of their communities.
Therefore involving the developmental network and cultural intelligence toolkit would
make sure that every person within an organisation would contribute equally to the decisions that
have been made within the organisation. Cultural difference can only be perceived as strength
rather than a weakness within the organisation. Therefore as far as my personal discretion is
concerned, I believe that the cultural intelligence toolkits and the development network make
sure that every person involved within an organisation contribute equally as per their cultural are
bringing and linguistic differences to reach a point within the decision making process that
enhances the way in which a problem is looked at.
c) My personal brand statement
With the development of all the activities that I have so far addressed, I would like to
share my personal brand statement as follows:
“My personal organisation would enhance the utilisation of latest technologies and
strategies to utilise the various assessment of personality is within the workforce and utilisation
of the cultural diversity for the betterment of decision making within the organisation.”

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I would not foresee the fact of cultural diversity and very personality of people within the
organisation as a disadvantage in reaching a decision. rather I would encourage these people
coming from various different backgrounds to make a unified decision based on all the factors of
enhancement of the decision that are taken within the organisation utilising the least amount of
resources. The different mindsets of people would not make problems within the organisation but
in a positive way it would make sure that a simple problem is viewed from different perspectives
altogether. I would make sure that the people having various personalities and personality traits
would view one problem from various perspectives and provide their insights for the problem
based on that particular perspective. They should ensure what the other person has not been able
to see within the problem. Therefore it can clearly be said that my personal organisation would
be eligible enough to utilise the cultural difference and very personality as a strength within the
organisation rather becoming an obstacle in the decision making process.
Part 3: Career Management
a) Reflect on how there is would manage there isr job searching efforts and strategy and
produce a SMART career plan
Finding a job is often built on the adage of what a person knows and what is countable.
There are various job searching techniques that has broader applications and can lead to success
for most of the cases. I believe that a person should always follow several methods for having the
best chances of landing on job. first and foremost day should create a personal development plan
for which they would account for the specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time specific
goals that would make sure that they reach there consistent aims. This is known as the SMART
technology personality development. First and foremost the specific goal that a person should
reach is enhancing their skills to meet the requirements of the job that a particular organisation

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has set for its job description. The measurable goals would be the awareness planning and
reflection that a person has on their own career to make sure the exact level of expertise that they
have to reach for the particular job. After this is achieved they would make sure to enhance their
skills through the attainable goals. It is not necessary that the person would reach a goal that is
extremely impossible to achieve, but it would be a nearer goal that would be somewhat attainable
to the person and at the same time would enhance the skill. this would only be relevant if the in
hand skill that the person has developed within then cell is closer to the job description and for
this I believe the person would also like to make sure if there enhancement within skills are
relevant to the job description. The most important factor of the entire SMART system is the
way by which they happened to make the entire enhancement of their own skill. This is the time
based goals that the person needs to setup according to a specific time. That means that the entire
enhancement that a person is making on their own development will skills should not be for such
a long time that it does not meet the requirement of the job. Mostly all the enhancement that a
person can make is ideally within 2 to 3 months after setting a goal.
b) Reflection of Job application
I believe that job application of a person should be based on 5 basic factors. These are
networking, getting temporary work, social show of skills, sending interest letters and searching
for job postings. Building up network that is strong and sizeable with group of friends, associates
of professionals can make it effective about hunting a job at the starting point in which it is lead
to a network for knowing that the job that you have been looking for enquiries about
opportunities. In the next set as soon as you make your network it would be effective that a
temporary job fields of the need of income and provides access to potential employers. there are
companies that evaluate a person's temporary working capability and assess them for permanent

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opportunities of all time jobs even if the employer is not looking for hiring right at the moment it
may be possible that you can get a recommendation on a referral to any company for the job if
you can perform well in the temporary work you do. The internet and social media tools can also
be utilised for having a new platform of personal branding and job searching. if Facebook can be
used properly as a social media tool it can make sure that you are able to build and maintain a
personal and professional network and it can also be utilised to showcase the professional side of
yourself instead how you party on weekends. Interest letters can also be sent to express the
interest of potential employers at a company rather than simply response into a specific job
posting. in addition to that job postings can also be look for in the most common way that people
often look for jobs. But with the help of networking I would easily say that people would find
more help in wanted listings for internet job boards where 2nd leading jobs source at 4 other
leading source at right Management service.
c) Reflection on (mock) interview
A mock interview helps in practicing the interview which is a simulation of an actual job
interview. It can help you with the opportunity of practicing in interview as well as receiver
feedback for the same. I am also noticed that a typical mock interview for a practice job
interview that is conducted through a career counsellor with professional expertise can make sure
that a person is able to answer difficult questions that is often not witnessed in the real interviews
as well as developed strategies to appear for the interview and improve the communication skills
as well as reduce the level of stress before actually appearing for a job interview. For this a
person can also perform a semi structured interview format while appearing for a mock interview
rather than simply asking a formal list of question to a person in a one to one communication
format.

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