Professional Development : Career Development Skills and Opportunities

Professional Development
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4/5/2020
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Professional Development 1
Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Gibbs reflective cycle.................................................................................................................2
Description.............................................................................................................................2
Feelings..................................................................................................................................3
Evaluation..............................................................................................................................3
Analysis..................................................................................................................................4
Conclusion..............................................................................................................................5
Action plan.............................................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
The purpose of this reflective essay is to identify the career development skills and
opportunities, which may be identified and justified through past experience. Reflective
practice is one of the best ways to express the experience in order to gain learning from it.
Considering the academic placement applications, from my past experience I would reflect
the development plan that will be helpful for placement applications while considering one of
the popular reflective models that is Gibbs reflective cycle. These models present six stages
for the conversion of experience into learning and eventually providing an action plan after
the learning. Therefore this reflective essay will include reflecting personal development for
the academic year (Mann, 2017).
Gibbs reflective cycle
The five stages that could be used as a model for my personal development plan and passed
reflection include
Description
My past role as an Application Engineer at Tespa India Pvt, has reflected various learning
and provided an experience with various ups and downs. My eventual career plan includes
being a project administrator in one of the top corporate companies in the automation
industry. The past experience has reflected various strengths and weaknesses, which could be
assessed using one of the self-assessment tools. (University, 2018). In my role as an
Application Engineer at Tespa India Pvt, Ltd, I have been responsible for integrating the
automated manufacturing systems, which when coupled with my enthusiasm and dedication
to robot programming and servicing, has helped the business to next level.

Professional Development 3
Feelings
After a successful completion of an undergraduate program in India in the field of
engineering, as I initially was going to work with an organisation. My interest in words the
automation industry was quite high where the key to work would be interaction skills, strong
communication skills and teamwork. Initially, I was not sure if I would be able to effectively
accomplish my role as an application engineer. However, as the experience initiated I started
feeling confident and tends to learn various skills and competencies through work experience
in India. From the experience, I was able to understand how important communication is
when you are working within a team. Moreover, coordination, Corporation, and teamwork
are very much important in this industry and especially in an attempt to complete the project
with effectiveness (Tillema, 2000).
Evaluation
Considering the overall experience of Application Engineer, reflected various positive and
negative aspects. Considering swot analysis as one of the self-assessment tools, it can be
evaluated that my key strength that was identified from the experience was critical thinking
skills were effectively used and applied while preparing for the activities. Communication
skills are another major strength that I identified through this experience as I was comfortably
able to communicate within the team and make them understand with the right interpretation.
The position appeals to be as it combines our interaction skills and teamwork with strong
communication as a trail.
However,, some of the weakness that was identified while contributing to this experience is
the inability to motivate team members appropriately and wrong use of leadership style.
Leadership skills are one of the aspects which tend to be important in work experience and
while working with a team, however,, due to lack of experience in the first place I was not