Career Development: Setting Goals and Identifying Strengths and Weaknesses

This article discusses the importance of setting work-related goals and identifying personal strengths and weaknesses for career development. It includes a reflection on personal experiences and an action plan for improving time management, public speaking, and technical numerical skills. The article also provides references for further reading.

Career Development
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TABLE OF CONTENT
Work related goals.......................................................................................................................3
Goals -..........................................................................................................................................3
Reflection on personal strengths and weaknesses - ....................................................................3
Strengths - ...................................................................................................................................3
Weaknesses - ...............................................................................................................................4
Conclusion -.................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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Work related goals
Goals -
I want to work in retail sector in marketing field and for getting employment opportunity, I have
set some goals that I want to achieve such as:
 To improve public speaking and presentation skill.
 To become better time manager.
 To improve relations for growing social media presence.
Reflection on personal strengths and weaknesses -
Strengths -
I want to accomplish all these above discussed goals in a timely manner so that I can get
marketing related job opportunity. For this purpose, I want to identify strengths and weaknesses
that I possess as on this basis, I can prepare an action plan (Tawanwongsri and Phenwan, 2019).
With the help of Gibbs reflective model, I can self-evaluate and can share my feelings such as:
Description: I want to share my experience of university where I was given some projects
to complete within 1 week. Along with this, I found that I am good in relation making and
communication skill. With the ability of communicating, I found easier in improving relations
and it helped me out in completing my tasks with refreshed mood.
Feelings: In regard to my experience, I can say that time management skill plays a vital
role as it makes us feel refreshed and boost our confidence. When we do not complete given task
in a timely manner then it makes us frustrated and depressed. Performing marketing role is not
an easy task as I will need to focus on improving this skill so that I can help my company out in
accomplishing goals.
Evaluation: While studying in university, we were asked to self-analysis and on the basis
of self-analysis, I found that I am good in communication and research and development skill. In
regard to these skills, I can say that communication skill is vital for becoming successful in any
profession as it improves our relations with others. Research and development skill also enables
marketers in collecting relevant information on which basis they can accomplish their goals. I
also identified that my writing skills and positive behaviour skills are my main strength. With
positive attitude and behaviour, I can improve relations with others. It can boost my confidence
and can encourage me for learning new things in an effective manner.
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Analysis: On the basis of evaluation, I can say that having an improved communication,
negotiation and problem solving play an important role as all these skills improve our
performance in personal and professional lives.
Weaknesses -
During the project completion, I came to know that I am lacking behind in time
management skill. I completed project with quality but due to poor time management skill, I
faced some problems in submitting project within 1 week.
I have also found that I am not good in public speaking and improvising relationship for
growth skill as I became nervous when I am asked to speak in front of audience or number of
customers. So, I need to focus on improving this skill.
I identified some areas where I am lacking behind and want to improve for getting an
employment opportunity in desired field such as: technical numerical and public speaking (Li
and Peng, 2018). When I was asked to participate in group task then I became nervous and came
to know that I have fear of speaking in front of large number of people. This skill affected my
presentation skill so, on the basis of this, I can say that I need to improve presentation and public
speaking skill.
Conclusion -
On the basis of above analysis, it has been summarised that working as a marketing
assistant, we need to be a good communicator and decision maker so that we can collect accurate
information related to market and customers as well.
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Action plan: I have identified some areas where I need to improve and I believe that personal
development plan is one of the best and effective tool for improving strengths such as:
Skills need to be
improved
Activities/tools Timeframe
Time management Drop box and rescue time are considered as an
effective tool for improving time management skill.
Other than using this tool, I will need to make a
time-table by prioritising task and decreasing
procrastination (Tanaka, Okamoto and Koide, 2018).
Approximate 1-2
months
Public speaking It is a practical skill and for improving this skill, I
will need to encourage myself for participating in
group tasks and seminars as well.
Within 2-3
months
Technical or
numerical
For increasing this skill, I will need to take online
classes and will need to practice.
Approximate 1-2
months
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Li, A. and Peng, T., 2018. Observing" Myself" in the Video: Fostering Reflective Practice in
Oral Presentation Training. Advances in Language and Literary Studies. 9(3). pp.138-144.
Tanaka, M., Okamoto, R. and Koide, K., 2018. Relationship between Reflective Practice Skills
and Volume of Writing in a Reflective Journal. Health. 10(3). pp.283-288.
Tawanwongsri, W. and Phenwan, T., 2019. Reflective and feedback performances on Thai
medical students’ patient history-taking skills. BMC medical education. 19(1). pp.1-8.
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