Planning Your Career in Business: Personal Portfolio, CV, Company Overview, Personal Statements, SWOT

This report discusses career planning in business, including creating a personal portfolio, CV, and personal statements. It also provides an overview of Microsoft Corporation and includes a personal SWOT analysis. The report is divided into three sections: personal portfolio, company overview, and personal SWOT.

Planning Your
Career in Business

Contents
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Section-A ........................................................................................................................................1
Personal Portfolio.........................................................................................................................1
Company Overview.....................................................................................................................2
Section B..........................................................................................................................................3
Personal Statements ........................................................................................................................3
Curriculum Vitae.........................................................................................................................3
Section-C..........................................................................................................................................7
Personal SWOT...........................................................................................................................7
Action plan ..................................................................................................................................8
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
References......................................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Career planning is a process which helps to identifying the what was the strength and
weaknesses of the person to identify the batter job. It is related to knowing its skills, talent,
values and interests to translate this thing into a possible careers and this things are matching
with the careerer goals (Lee, Shim and Yoo 2022). Skills play a crucial role to encourage the
person to doing Something creative and innovative which is beneficial for career and personal
growth. To develop their skills they wants to focus and update their knowledge which give future
benefits, along with they need to doing some important courses which helps them to update their
CV and get batter job. In this report it make the personnel portfolio of an individual to get batter
job and this reports is divided into three sections (Blasko, Pokropek, and Sikora,2018). First
sections explain what portfolio contains and second section describe what things they include in
CV and last sections is related to the personal SWOT and make actions plan of those things
which they need to improvement.
MAIN BODY
Section-A
Personal Portfolio
Personal Portfolio is related to compilations of materials like educations, qualifications,
skills, hobbies, training, experiences and many more. It helps to insight their personality and
working ethics which is beneficial for getting the right job, this portfolio support the individual
to showcase their experience and work or demonstrate their skills which is necessary for any job
role they want (Bradbury and Galloway, 2021). Although it support the individual to get the right
job which is beneficial for their career growth, along with personal portfolio contains peroneal
details, qualification, job experience, skills, hobbies, certification, career summary, biographical
information and many more this which is necessary for the job role. This personal portfolio is
used during the time of job search and helps to showcase their work or experience to the manger
of the company. When we give interview in any company, so we take CV as a documents which
helps to applying for the job and give brief descriptions of the Carrera experience and highlights
my skills and knowledge, it allows the people to summarize their experiences sand skills.
Because HR manger are not having enough time to read or ask their personal details, so CV

helps in to summarize all things which they require of the job. Effective CV helps to create the
good impression in interview and it include things which are given below:
 Profile- It helps to describe the statements which highlight their main attributes and
provide confident to stand out in public (Iwu and Patrick, 2021). They showcase the few
relevant achievements and skills which is necessary to expressing their career motive.
Along with CV is made according to what sector they choses and its cover all those
things which is require of this job.
 Contact details- it contain name of person. Contact details, home addresses, Email
address , date of birth but it is not necessary, because it is irrelevant and useless for
applying for the job.
 Educations- It mentions all previous education or professions qualifications degree
which they do and what marks they get and where they start and which year they
complete, all this things are necessary to mention on it (Li, 2020).
 Work experiences- It contains list of their work experiences and what things they learn
in this jobs and they also include the name of the company, how long they were in
company, their responsibility, job title and many more.
 Skills and achievements- In this section it mentions their achievements what they get in
school and collages, along with they can mentions what courses they do and write skill
list which is related for the job, along with they mention what types of m the know it
helps to attract the company manger.
 Interest- It mentions their hobbies and interest which they we like to doing in free time
and what other things which helps to get the good job, it is relevant because they support
to provide complete pictures of who they are (Teoli, Sanvictores and An, 2019).
CV is very essential documents it helps to showcase yourself to an employer and it included all
important things which is require in this job and also give relevant details (Calicchio, 2020).
Company Overview
Microsoft Corporations a leading developer personal- computer software company,
which was found in 1975 and Bill Gates and Paul G. Allen are two boyhood friends from Seattle
are the founder of this company (Issayev, Masalimova and Magzumova, 2018). Microsoft
Corporations is an American multinational technology corporations which produces Computer
software, consumer electronic, personal computers and many products. The main Headquarter

was in Redmond campus which is located in Redmond Washington, United State. It is the best
known software products company which provide Windows lines of operating systems.
Microsoft company ranked No. 21 in 2020 Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States
corporations and it was the world largest software maker by the revenue as 2016, it is the one of
the Big five American information technology companies, along side the Google, Amazon,
Apple and Meta. Along with Bill gates is count on 5 top richest men in the world. The main
brand is Windows, Office, Skype, Visual Studio, Dynamics, Xbox, Surface, along with the
worldwide area they served. The 221,000 of workers are working is this company and total
assets of this company is US$364.8 Billion and subsidiaries is GitHub, LinkedIn, Metastatic,
Nuance Communication, Skype Technologies, Xandr and further more (Cao, 2022).
Section B
Personal Statements
Microsoft software company is my first choose, because it is the most reputed and well
known brand it provide many career opportunities for millions of applicants and its is the famous
for high standard and high- quality work in challenging project, and that is the biggest reason I
want to work in this company. Thousand of applicants are applied for this job but only few
people get a chance to start their career it well established company. Get the job in Microsoft
company is dream for me. I give interview and interview was tough, so firstly I make my CV
more effective which helps me to highlights my skills and I doing proper research that what
skills they require or what types of questions I prepare for this job and all this things I mention in
my resume. I Prepare myself to get this job and gain experiences and develop my skills to get the
job in most reputed company and now I am ready to face challenges and ready to committed to
constitute my career growth in full time basis job. I am enough capable to get this job , because I
have good experiences, I am good in communication skills. Good in listening and organisation
skills, effective team leader I mange my team work in my pervious jobs and done timely Along
with I have ability to establish the positive environment and manage the professional relationship
with my colleges and customers (Cho, 2020). Along with I am good in both academic and
profession skills and my typing speed is also good and strong analytical skills which proves that I
am good in interpret data and many more skills and all this things I mentions my resume. I have
good working experiences in I doing job in Shindler company as a manger and second I work

Dostavki Anglia company as office assistant I learn list of skills in this place, I also doing job in
Concierage Five stat hotel as manager and I also doing job as a sales manger because of this
working experience I am able of handle the tough situation and give my hundred percent to this
company top achieve their target.
Curriculum Vitae
Name – Lyuben
Phone number – 264840XXX
E-mail- [e-mail]
Address -abc
Personal statement
I am hard working and not afraid to face challenges, I have tidy presentation although proven
record and ability for working as a part of a professional team. I am highly driven with firm
knowledge of business and reception management, well versed in organising all of the body
activities which helps to facilitate smooth running of an office. I am Passionate about
delivering consistently giving high standards of service, thrive on working burden and consider
customer care and understanding to be an infinite priority at all times. Recognised for
expertness, able to communicate effectively, confidently deal with problems and achieve my
goals and use own initiatory to overcome the ambitious situations.
Career objectives-
I want to see myself as a Front office manger in next five years and I sued my work
experiences with the various level of management positions to develop my skills and
knowledge, I wished I build my career and get good job where I use my long term working
experiences skills and knowledge on order to gain a business managements degree. Now I am
ready to take on new challenges and am fully pledged to continuing my career as a full-time
basis job.

Key skills and competencies
• Excellent communication, listening and organisational skills;
• Good Team player - knowledge to establish the positive and professional relationships
between the colleagues, clients and management team
• Strongly focussed on delivering exceptional customer experiences
•Powerful numerate/analytical skills which proven the ability to interpret data;
•Tending the detail and organized approach to problem solving and data processing;
• Good typing skills and telephone manner;
• Good time management, initiative and ability to work under pressure;
• Very good understanding of business management, accountancy, sales and invoicing,
financial and business practices;
• Technical and IT skills – expert in using Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, Windows, email
correspondence;
•Superior attention in details;
•Optimistic and proactive personality;
Education, CPD and additional qualifications
 I completed my 12th from back home ( 2007-2008)
 I studied Bulgarian Philology for 4 year (2008-2012)
 Perusing foundation degree from Bath SPA university
• Level 2 Honour in Bookkeeping and Accounts – Kensington and Chelsea College 2014
• I done Professional English course from- London College of Business and Finance 2009
• Diploma of Completed Secondary Education (CSE Equivalent) - Bulgaria 2006
Language
• Bulgarian language – Native/First language
• Good level of verbal and written English language
 French language
Work experience

Currently I am working in Shindler company as a junior lift engineer
My General responsibilities:
•Handling the facilities, maintenance and repairs
•Appraisal and placing PPE order
• Carry out the habitant meeting- create a plan prior of the meeting
• Audit of Health and Safety checks
• Maintain the record of all important certificates and making sure they are up to date
• Check a Monthly Infection Prevention
• Daily Machines check
• Update software of computer
•Add new staff members to the company’s system, carry out and providing them with an ID
badge, locker and a letter box
• Daily accumulation and sorting the post
Career Break: Maternity Leave, Time off for Dependents (December 2016 – July 2020)
I focused on my strength for raising my children and a period of personal development – I
accompanied college and utilised my language skills to developed my personal hobbies,
knowledge and interests like travelling, cooking, yoga and sports.
Office Assistant– Dostavki LTD, London, London Bridge (July 2017 – December 2018)
My General responsibilities:
• Working as a office assistant role and checking primary accountable for integrated general
management reception duties as well as I covering the range of other business-related to my
duties;
 I mailing and filling the correspondence
 Preparing payrolls
 Placing orders and answering the calls
 Sorts and distributes incoming mail
 Meering the notes and form among the other documents
 Doing denouements corrections

•Interacting with the customers and vendors and ensuring that provide effective and efficient
reception service is provided at all times;
• Answering the phone calls; amusive calls as appropriate and taking messages, ensuring
accuracy of detail and prompt proper delivery;
• Dealing with the clients and solve the queries and requests
• Managing computerised database system;
• Overseeing work performance and staff time sheets, ensuring all details are accurate;
• Liaising with suppliers, accepting orders and materials, collecting signed proof of deliveries;
• Carrying out weekly stock control checks, ordering stationery and equipment;
• Managing petty cash and receipts
Shift to Hotel manager–Concierge hotel, Greater London
(Oct 20018 – April 2019)
Throughout the course of my employment with Concierge five star hotel, I demonstrate the
visionary leadership and superior performance in gathering targets, team and hospitality
management. My main duty is consisted of working in front line, leadership role, being
preponderantly, providing information for guest enquires, handling different customers
bookings like theatre, restaurants, transport, responsible for overseeing all work operations and
delivering the outstanding customer service,supervising the team and ensuring that work is
done smoothly running in the restaurant. Along with I dealing telephones calls and email
requests. Guest greeting and room allocations or sells- consultant in electronic device shop.
Sells consultant in Electronic device shop, Bulgaria
( Oct 2019 to 2020)
Job responsibility
 Sells the good and services to the customers
 Solve the query of the clients
 Manage documents
 Doing Book- Keeping

Section-C
Personal SWOT
Strength
 Effective communication- I am good
in communication and I can make new
friends or communicate people without
any hesitations. Along with I have good
convincing power.
 High capacity to analyses- I am good
in observing the things and I analyse
that work done properly and thing
check in detailed, so that I can able to
find the solutions.
 Effective presentation skills- I am
good in presentation skills, I make
creative and innovative presentation in
my project reports.
 Multi- tusker- I have a capability to
mange multiple work effectively and
complete on time.
Weaknesses
 Face difficulty in Time management-
I am not good in time management,
sometime I face difficulty to manage
my work on time.
 Not good in team management- I am
not able to perform good in grouping
activity, because mostly I done my
work individually and this thing impact
my working performance.
 Difficulty to visualize- I am not more
capable to visualize my potential.
 Inpatient- This is my biggest weakness
I have not patience and this things
sometime create problem which impact
negative on my performance.
Opportunities
 Foreign degree- I complete my
educations in London, so it is good for
my career growth.
 Relevant knowledge- Now I have
enough knowledge about my filed and I
am capable enough to get able job.
 Good network- I done many jobs, so I
have good network which support me
Threats
 Huge computation- Now a days
computations is increasing in the
market, because of this high- number of
well qualified company are not able to
compete in the market.
 Advance technology- I am not good
enough in technology work, so its is the
biggest threat for me to find good job.

to get bater job and also support the
company to achieve their target.
 Face problem to find a job- During
the pandemic time many people lose
their jobs and many people face
difficulty to getting the job because of
cost- cuts.
Action plan
If I want to improve my weakness, then I need to formulated the smart objectives in such way
 I am impatient, because of this face lots of problem and this thing impact my work
performance to, I want to improve this weaknesses to build my skills and knowledge, so
I try to work on this I start medications and yoga to control this and also make proper
time table to manage my work and it takes 6 to 8 months duration (Dzau, McNutt and
Ramakrishnan, 2019).
 I am not good in team work I face difficulty to doing my work in grouping activity,but I
need to work on this otherwise it impact my performance and I am not abele to get batter
job in my career. I start taking part in grouping activity to improve this weakness and
start analysis myself, along with ask my team members that what things I need to
improve, so that I take necessary step to improve this it takes 3 to 4 month durations
(EkengAmuchi and Akpama, 2021).
Skills requiring
to improve
Reason for
improvement
Steps to improve Ways to measure
success
Duration
Inpatient Because of this
weakness I face
difficulty to
manage my work
and I am not able
to perform well
which is not good
I start yoga and
mediations to
improve this and
also make proper
table to observe
myself that how
much I improve
I ask my parents
and colleagues to
take review how
much I improve
myself.
6 to 8 months

for my career myself.
Team
management
I like done my
work individual ,
because of this I
face problem to
perform my work
in grouping
activities, that
why I miss many
opportunities.
I start joining
grouping
activities, so that
I improve my
skills and also
start working on
it.
I ask my team
meats and lead
leader what is my
performance.
3 to 4 months

Conclusion
In this report it makes career planning report which support the person to get the job.
Skills play a important role to develop their career. CV is essential documents which helps the
Person to highlight and showcase their skills and achievements which is require to get batter job.
Along with personal developments is beneficial for the future growth, it provided many
opportunities which assist to biol the Carrera. In this report it explain those company overview
where they want to doing job and to get the job in those company they need to make proper CV
for an interview, although it also doing the personal SWOT to analyse herself and make action
plan to improve this weaknesses.

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