Planning Your Career in Business

This article discusses career planning in business, including personal development, curriculum vitae, SWOT analysis, skills development plan, and job portals. It also includes a detailed curriculum vitae and a SWOT analysis. The article provides tips on how to develop management skills, enhance decision-making skills, and learn about business operations. The long-term career goal is to become a professional manager in the hotel or restaurant industry.

Planning Your Career
In Business

Table of Contents
SECTION A.....................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................3
SECTION B.....................................................................................................................................4
Personal statement.......................................................................................................................4
Detailed Curriculum Vitae...........................................................................................................5
SWOT Analysis...........................................................................................................................8
Skills development plan...............................................................................................................8
Skill development action plan....................................................................................................11
Analysis of resource to support my PPD...................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................18
Books and Journals....................................................................................................................18
Appendix....................................................................................................................................19

SECTION A
INTRODUCTION
Career management is collection of structured planning and contains active choice to
professional career (Burland, 2021). It includes the term such as career planning, development on
personal or organisational level. Career planning is the process of identifying our own skills,
talents, values and interest into a possible job requirement or to existing job. Deciding the career
plan helps in motivation factor and removes the hurdles in between. Planning for career is major
and curious step which defines the direction of professional life individual will have. This term
involves the self evaluation, exploring the different aspects of career options and analysing the
way to follow right track. This career planning helps in figuring out about the professional path
to follow and can help in avoiding the time wastage to enter suitable profile. Through the career
formation process, individual can take proper trainings and educational qualifications that would
help in their career. With this planning, individual feel more confident about their career growth
that has been made before on the basis of tier skills and interest.
Personal development is combination of activities that help in developing the capabilities
and competencies of human behaviour and improves the chances of employment in future. This
term consists of self motivation, desire or willingness to more improvement (Cirtita-Buzoianu,
Cojocariu and Mares, 2020). There are various types of job opportunities available in the market
by large organisation and medium as well in UK. Personal development and career development
is must factor to grab these job opportunities in market and make them differentiate from others.
Curriculum Vitae is short document contains the information regarding the person's
career, qualifications, and education. This is document is necessary for the job placement and for
the job applicants to apply for specific position. This report includes the well specified personal
statement in support of work experience in organisation Pizza Express based in UK. This report
also includes the self analysis with the help of swot and development plan to be needed after
analysing my weaknesses and threats. It also evaluates the goals for my persona development
with support of resources to my PPD. At last it have explain the benefits of various job portals
available in UK country.
Before I have worked as waiter assistant at Mattia Diner, Castleford, England for
duration of 11 months in the year 2017 to 2018. After that I have worked as personal shopper in

Ocado CFC, Hatfield for two year march 2019 to 2021. Then I have been working in Pizza
Express company from 2022 to present on a designation of Manager on duty.
Now I am looking for the post of professional restaurant manager with the abilities of
leading team and with motive of improving the customer services of company. While searching
for specified job, some portals recommends me about the hiring of hotel general manager in
Britannia Hotels UK from the Caterer job portal (Lejeune, Beausaert and Raemdonck, 2021).
Britannia hotels is the group of 61 hotels across country and have head quarters in Hale,
Greater Manchester, England. Britannia hotels were founded in the year 1976 by Alex Langsam,
he was the largest shareholder and the CEO of these hotel lines.
This hotel is famous and well established and despite of COVID 19 situation company
still manages to survive and expand his business to national level with 60 plus franchises. It also
provides the best growth opportunities to its employees and that is the main reason I have chose
this hotel for my future job.
My career objective is to get a professional manager job in hotel from which I can use my
skills and knowledge to create meaning to the business and could lead a large number of
employees under my supervision.
SECTION B
Personal statement
As working in Pizza Express on designation of Manager on duty has many
responsibilities such as developing weekly key performance indicator targets, motivating staff
members and giving incentives to members to make them achieve target set. ,and skills
requirement such as self motivation, own abilities and knowledge (de Macedo, 2020). There are
number of skills and capabilities that I have developed and beneficial for my professional
growth. At this work place my skills helps me in good communication strategies and help in
creating strong relationship between customers and executives of company. This improves the
effective customer service to their clients and according to their need. At this post in Pizza
Express helps me in regular assessing, updating and make improvements in their customer
policies for developing the hotel industry (Guo, Wang and Wang, 2021). This will also includes
the monitoring employees and their performance to make relevant changes in strategies. With the

post of Manager on duty it was my responsibility to set the targets and communicate the
priorities set to other staff and ensures the success.
Before I have also a work experience as waiter for two years and after that I applied for the
manager job in restaurant. In applying for this job, my experience as waiter had important role to
play in getting job of manager at Pizza Express. There are number of skills such as
communication, problem solving skill in my own helps in improving my personality and so
effective to attract customers towards the company. In between the process of developing
capabilities which help in increasing my personality. I have main goal of having my own
restaurant in UK.
I have applied for this job because of my hotel management experience before. Now I have
applied for the post of general manager at Britannia hotels and in past I have experience of
restaurant manager (Holtschlag and et. al., 2020). With the help of generic skill such as
communication team working, problem solving and digital technology at my job designation.
With these concepts of hotel management I have gained the knowledge and understanding
regarding to perform the tasks and responsibilities related to that post. Personally I have various
skills and good competency level which makes me more effective and efficient in this field. And
I like to interact with different kind of people and customers regarding their need and
expectations from the hotel or restaurant and make relevant changes accordingly.
Being an adult, I have many expectations from my professional career life and want to achieve
some most desirable designation such as manager or general manager in hotel industry. One of
the main reason behind this objective is that I have experience much experience in this industry.
Other one was my communication skill that help in attracting and convincing large number or
people at same time and that will be much beneficial for any hotel or restaurant in current times
(Huang and Chen, 2018). My personality is of developing more and more skills to gain
knowledge about the work culture in high standard hotels and make me more competent among
other in job market.
I have every skills and capabilities that is required by each hotel managers to make them
successful and who can achieve their goals with more concentration and efficiency.
Detailed Curriculum Vitae
CURRICULUM VITAE

ABC
Restaurant Manager
[e-mail]
Personal Profile
I have to build my career in professional manager post at hotel or restaurant in which I can
show my skills to build, lead and improve the customer experience in the growth of company.
My goal is learn new skills and techniques which are benficial for my own growth as
professional. This will also helped me in opening my own restaurant in UK. I would more focus
on my personal as well as professional growth development. My Interpersonal and leadership
skills will help me giving my best efforts towards achieving organisational goal.
Education
Schooling from Fairfield School.
Under graduation from Bath spa University.
Post Graduation from Degree in Management by Romania college.
Experience
March 2022 to Current
Manager On Duty Pizza Express , St Albans , Uk
• Generated strategic weekly Key Performance Indicator (KPI) targets,
motivating and incentivise staff to continually achieve and exceed
expectation.
• Employed outstanding communication and relationship-building
abilities to lead by example in providing first-class customer care.
• Regularly assessed, updated and improved existing policy,
embedding knowledge of current industry developments.
• Closely monitored company finances, regularly reviewing budgets
to succeed against spending targets.
• Established strategic monthly sales goals, communicating priorities
to staff and closely tracking progress to ensure success.
• Monitored staff performance, continually seeking ways to improve

team delivery for optimised financial success.
• Developed long-term training strategies for new and existing
employees across multiple departments.
• Supervised, defined and delegated tasks to employees, driving
efficiency to meet key productivity targets.
March 2019 to March 2021
Personal Shopper Ocado CFC, Hatfield, England
• Chose top-quality items to fulfils customer orders.
• Worked quickly to pack orders in an efficient way and minimise
damage or shifting of products.
• Observed customer behaviours to identify security threats and
escalate concerns to supervisors.
• Delivered high-calibre staff induction and training.
• Maintained excellent standards of service through impeccable
attention to detail.
• Carried out essential to improve day-to-day operations.
November 2017 to August 2018
Waiter Assistant Mattia Diner , Castleford, England
• Added new merchandise to checkout lane shelves and kept displayed products neat and
orderly.
• Assessed customer needs and responded appropriately to questions.
• Provided customers with payment information and processed credit card payments and cash
transactions.
• Bagged up purchased items properly to prevent delicate products from breakage.
• Maintained clean, tidy and organised checkout areas.
• Helped customers find specific products, answering questions and offering advice.
• Trained new team members in cash register operation, stock
procedures and customer service.
• Proactively helped waiters with various tasks when requested,
completing in a timely and efficient manner.
• Arranged alternative selections for guests with food allergies,

intolerances, or special diets.
• Resolved customer complaints promptly, escalating larger
operational concerns to management.
Most proud of with the achievement of Best employee of the year
To bring more business for Restaurant through providing better quality services to customers
Language
English, Romania, Spanish and Italy.
Skills
Payment processing
Product expertise
Customer service
Excellent verbal communication
Staff mentoring
Up selling and cross-selling
Cash management
Hobbies
 Sports
 Travelling
 Movies
 Reading
SWOT Analysis
SWOT analysis refers to the planning or strategic management techniques used to identify the
key strengths, weaknesses, threat and opportunities related to the business and competition
available in the business environment. This model help organisation to get more aware about the
factors innovated in decision making strategy of company. Here's the SWOT analysis explained -
Strength Weaknesses
 Team work - My strength is I feel
comfortable while working with team,
 Confusion - I my not an effective
planner, I does not have vision to plan

hence I can make team efforts. With
this, I have an effective communication
skills and able to manage my time
properly.
for long term. I can organise my work
properly because I am unable to
prioritize my work properly though
which I misses my deadlines.
Opportunity Threat
 Growth factor - I have an opportunity
to make growth in my current job as I
am containing good experience over
their.
 Decision making skills - I am poor at
decision making skills. I does not take
effective decision due to which I can
lack behind in my career.
Skills development plan
Short term career goals
Short term career
goals
Steps required to
attain those goals Available resources Time taken
To develop time
management skills
I will go through the
online course though
which I will try to
find out the strategies
through which I am
able to manage my
time easily.
The resources
required by me to
develop time
management skills
evaluation of best
online course which
is available at
affordable price.
The time required by
me to transform in
time management
skills is minimum 10
months.

To enhance decision
making skills
For developing
effective decision
making skills I will
take help of my
teachers, who will
guide my in showing
the correct direction
which can be adopted
by me for my bright
future.
I will concern my
weaknesses or threat
with my teachers.
The teacher will
analyse my problem
and will provide me
effective solution
though which I will
be able to overcome
from my weaknesses.
The time required by
me to enhance my
decision making
skills is 6 months.
Medium term career goals
Medium term
career goals
Steps required to
attain those goals Available resources Time taken
To learn about
operations of
businesses.
I will go through all
the books and case
studies of businesses.
This is how I will able
to learn the hurdles
which might occurred
in business operations.
Further the solutions
to overcome from
those problems.
I required books of
famous writer and
their journals. With
the help of those
books I will be able
to study the things
which are essential to
learn operations of
businesses.
The time required by
me to learn business
operations strategies
is 2 years.

Management skills Management skills
comprises of
combination of certain
skills. I will take time
of evaluate my current
status for that skills. I
will try to develop
those skills with the
help of my teachers,
friends and owner of
small business
ventures.
I will take help of my
teachers and contact
owner of small
business unit who can
give advice to me
upon the challenges
and overcoming
solutions of
businesses.
The time required by
me to enhance my
management skills is
25 months.
Long term career goals
Long term career
goals
Steps required to
attain those goals Available resources Time taken
To open new
business unit and
perform research.
I will make evaluation
and research of place
and type of business I
want to start. Then, I
will avail funds from
different sources.
I will share my
business idea to
experienced person
and take feedback
from them. With this
I will try to contact
sources through
which I can collect
funds.
The time required by
me start my own
venture is 5 years.

Skill development action plan
SMART OBJECTIVE
1 Specific – My specific goal is to achieve the highest or top most position in the
restaurant and further I am able to open my own business venture.
2 Measurable – I will measure my past performance with my current performance
in order to measure the changes that have arise within myself. With this, I have set
the benchmark so that is standard for me, it will also help me in measuring my
performance (Holm, 2019).
3 Attainable – I will take expert advise in order to get guidance so that I can move
on correct path. With this, I will take help of my teachers who will guide me
through out my journey.
4 Relevant – As I want to open my own restaurant so when I will be able to achieve
the highest position I will become experienced. This experience is crucial for me
for starting my business unit.
5 Time bound – The time taken by me to achieve my goal is around 5 years.
Analysis of resource to support my PPD
Resource Name
Indeed
Resource Logo

Analysis
Indeed
Indeed is an search engine for job, as its operations are spread across the
world. The organisation was founded in 2004 with the objective of provide
largest job to job seekers (Bakogianni, 2019). The founder of company was
Paul Forster having its headquarter in Texas, U.S. The employees can
directly apply for the job which they want to avail by uploading their
resume.
Advantages of Indeed
 It is easy to search job on Indeed with the help of relevant keywords
or titles (Howard, 2022).
 All kind of jobs such as internship, part- time, full- time are
available .
 Once the resume of candidate is uploaded it become easy to apply
for job.
 The candidates get daily notifications of relevant job on their
emails.
 The platform is mobile friendly, with this its mobile application is
also available.
Disadvantages of Indeed
 Due to continuous posting of job it creates high competition.

 The job which are posted for free looses its visibility and is
available down at the time of searching it.
How Indeed helps in review career development goals?
Use of Indeed platform for searching job is easy with this it is free to avail
its facilities. I feel easy to apply job over indeed as just I have to upload my
resume for the job which suits my profession.
Harvard
Reference
Bakogianni, A., 2019. Performing Grief: Mourning Does Indeed Become
Electra.
Howard, S., 2022. A Sermon Preached to the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery Company in Boston. DigiCat.
Resource Name
Monster Worldwide
Resource Logo

Analysis
Monster
Monster is also job search engine such as Indeed, this platform was
founded in 1999 by Jeff Taylor having its headquarter in Weston, U.S. The
job seeker can search the appropriate job which is free of cost and the
organisation which have posted the job will screen candidates resume
(Romanyshyn, 2019).
Advantages of Monster
 The platform is free for the one job seekers.
 Jobs for the candidates who belong to entry level to executive or
manager level is available (Tucker, 2022).
 The employers get the option of Pay per performance.
 The candidates are even able to generate free resume through this
platform.
 The candidates can access this application through mobile also.
Disadvantages of Monster
 The search filers of Monster is less than other platforms.
 Some of the job available over Monster does not comprises of
salaries.
 The customer rating of this platform is average.
How Monster helps in review career development goals?
I am able to get job with the help of Monster. The job which is being posted

I am able to easily apply for it. It is easy for me to apply and get the job
which is want.
Harvard
Reference
Romanyshyn, R.D., 2019. Victor Frankenstein, The monster and the shadows of
technology: The Frankenstein prophecies. Routledge.
Tucker, E., 2022. The Lake Lieberman Monster. North American Monsters: A
Contemporary Legend Casebook, p.154.
Resource Name
LinkedIn
Resource Logo
Analysis
LinkedIn
The LinkedIn is an online platform which is employment oriented. An
individual is able to make professional connections with other professional
connections (Dwyer, 2019). The job seekers can send their resume to the
employers. The company was founded in 2003 by Reid Hoffman and Eric.

The job seekers as well as job posters both are benefited with the help of
this platform. An individual is capable to making professional connections
and build relationships.
Advantages of LinkedIn
 With the help of LinkedIn an individual is able to build professional
connections (Sultanova, 2021).
 The brand promotion could be made with the help of LinkedIn.
 An individual is able to build or develop their skills with the help of
LinkedIn.
 The employment opportunity is being generated over LinkedIn.
 Its easy to find job and to apply in LinkedIn.
Disadvantages of LinkedIn
 The personal information of individual is being lost over LinkedIn.
 The individual who have filled completed the profile have higher
chance to get response as compare to one who have left it
incomplete.
 A large number of Spam messages is being circulated over
LinkedIn.
 In order to build an effective profile it required lot of time and
efforts.
 Some of the premium services of LinkedIn can be availed by
purchasing it, which is quite expensive.
How LinkedIn helps in review career development goals?
With the help of LinkedIn I am able to grab more opportunities for
generating jobs. I will be able to make professional connections with the
employers of popular restaurant. Further I will take there help to learn more
skills.

Harvard
Reference
Dwyer, A., 2019. Leveraging LinkedIn for increased leads and
referrals. REIQ Journal, (May 2019), p.42.
Sultanova, D., 2021. A linkedin content plan for a cleantech startup
Annea, Portugal (Doctoral dissertation).
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Books and Journals
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de Macedo, J.B., 2020. Curriculum Vitae and Publication Record (No. wp634). Universidade
Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics.
Guo, W., Wang, L. and Wang, N., 2021. Research on the impact of career management fit on
career success. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 59(2). pp.279-304.
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