Planning Your Career in Business: Portfolio, Personal Statement, CV, SWOT Analysis

Planning Your Career
in Business

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
SECTION A.....................................................................................................................................1
What the portfolio contains and the reason for both the personal statement and the CV...........1
Overview of the chosen organization and peculiar interests in working in such a place...........2
SECTION B.....................................................................................................................................3
Personal statement.......................................................................................................................3
A detailed CV that has been carefully designed to fit purpose ..................................................4
SECTION C.....................................................................................................................................5
Self-assessment reflecting skill gaps (SWOT Analysis inclusive).............................................5
Action plan tailored towards your skill development.................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
References:.....................................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Skills and knowledge of an individual plays an important role in their personal and
professional development and these skills and knowledge can be gained through the academic
learning or education along with working experience. It is found as essential for an individual to
constantly work on their skills to upgrade them and use them to perform the organisational
operations in an effective and efficient manner. Business is defined as the collection of all those
activities which are being performed for the purpose of earning profit. In order to develop the
career in business in an effective and efficient manner, the individual is required to develop
several skills and gain experience which are found as essential for the performance of all
activities of business (AlMarwani, 2020). This report is based on the development of career of an
individual in the business. Majorly it include portfolio of individual which involve several
components such as SWOT analysis, CV, personal analysis and many more.
SECTION A
What the portfolio contains and the reason for both the personal statement and the CV
A portfolio is defined as the collection of several materials which basically explains the
skills, beliefs, education, training, experience, qualification of individual and many more. The
major purpose of preparation of portfolio is to provide an insight into the personality along with
the work ethics as well. An effective portfolio help the individual in presenting their skills,
qualification, leaning and knowledge in front of the employer in most understandable manner.
The portfolio of an individual involve several component as it is defined as the collection of
materials stating about the several skills and knowledge about them. The portfolio which is going
to be prepared in this report also include various elements which include statement of originality,
work philosophy, career goals and CV (Almutairi and et. al., 2022). Statement of originality
section include the explanation related to the work or task. This section majorly involve all the
tasks and functions which are being performed by the individual while working on the specific
role or profile. The section of work philosophy is defined as the description of the beliefs related
to the individual. It is also known as the personal analysis as it describe the entire skills,
knowledge and learning of the individual. Along with this, it also state the beliefs of individual
related to the industry in which the individual is planning to develop their career. The next
component of personal portfolio is career goals which are developed by the individual in
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attaining the goals in the next upcoming years. CV is found as the other essential component of
personal portfolio of individual. CV of an individual involve the overview of the entire skills and
work experience of an individual.
The main reason behind the preparation of personal statement is to gaining the clarity
along with focusing on the creation of pathway to where the individual is going. It is found as
crucial step for an individual to evaluate and understand the strengths, weakness, transferable
skills, interest, priorities, passion and values of themselves before starting the search of job or
starting any business (Andani, Nugraha and Supena, 2019). While preparing personal statement,
several of individuals undertake psychometric tests, create their own desirables and essentials,
analyse transferable skills and many more. It help in analysing the skills and beliefs of individual
related to the particular job role or the specific field in which the individual want to develop their
career.
CV is defined as the detailed document which highlight the history of an individual
related to their professionalism along with the academics as well. Basically, it involve the
detailed information related to the work experience, education, achievements and projects,
qualifications, skills, projects and many more. The major reason behind the preparation of CV is
to present the summarise the academics, personal and professional achievements for the purpose
of stimulate the hiring manager while applying for any new job opportunity. The portfolio of an
individual majorly involve CV with the objective of communicating with the recruiter related to
any particular job which also provide logical career path to the individual which result in the
development of career of individual in an effective and efficient manner.
Overview of the chosen organization and peculiar interests in working in such a place
The chosen organisation for this report is Tesco Plc which is a British multinational
groceries and general merchandise retailer having headquarter in Welwyn Garden City,
Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom. This company is found as the third largest retailer
company in the world. It is a multinational company which is performing their business
operations with more than 345000 colleagues (Tesco Plc, 2022). The major aim of the
management of Tesco is to provide the daily use items at affordable prices long with offering the
sustainable and healthy food to their customers in order to making the life of customers more
easy and better quality as well (Borg, 2021).
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