Planning Your Career in Business: Personal Statement, CV, and Skills Development Action Plan

This professional portfolio comprises a personal statement, completed application for a volunteer/work experience placement with a relevant C.V. and a skills development action plan. It includes a brief introduction, personal statement, CV, self-assessment, and a conclusion.

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A professional portfolio comprising a personal statement, completed
application for a volunteer/work experience placement with a relevant C.V.
and a skills development action plan.
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Section A:
- A brief introduction to indicate what the portfolio contains and the reason for both the
personal statement and the CV that will be presented.
- You may also want to consider writing a short overview of the chosen organization in a bid
to justify your peculiar interests in working in such a place.
1. Introduction
1.1 Overview of the chosen Organisation
Section B:
- Personal statement in support of your application for a volunteer/work experience
placement in any organization of your choice.
- A detailed CV that has been carefully designed to fit purpose.
2.0 Personal Statement to support your application
2.1 Detailed CV
Section C:
- Self-assessment reflecting skill gaps (SWOT Analysis inclusive)
- Action plan tailored towards your skill development (reflecting SMART objectives)
3.0 A personal SWOT analysis
3.1 Personal Skill Audit
3.2 SMART objectives for skill development (short-term, medium/long-term
career objectives)
Professional Development Plan and training
4 Conclusion
5 References (Harvard System only)

Section A:
1. Introduction
Professional portfolio plays an important role to getting the right job, it is related to
collection of work and other documents which helps to highlights their abilities to the
company manger, it can be created in both ways digital and physical format. Portfolio is used
a s resume when we apply for the job or any present interview. Portfolio is the collection of
documents which helps to contain the different topics as per the person experiences, it is
beneficial for an individual to find those area of the job conducted by the company (Carrer
and Bruzzone, 2021). I am interested in Sales manger job role within the Sainsbury company,
the main factor which attracted me is which is I mentioned in my job role is my and mic
background, I complete my graduation from sales specialization and I want to get or perform
the job within the Sainsbury company and their brand image is also higher and it is beneficial
for my professional growth. Career planning is the continuous self- evaluation and planning
process which helps to give the strong career path, it is the process helps to understating the
oneself and setting the career goals and assist to revising the skills and searching the right
career options. Career planning is the steps- wise process which enables me to focus on
where I need to be my life professionally with the short- term goal and the long- term goals in
the place, it can assist the plan for the journey in their professional life. Self- assessment is
necessary to understand the one’s capabilities and drawbacks. It helps me to provide various
career options which should be explored in details to find my abilities and provide me various
opportunities which is provided by as a career options. It includes the continuous learning
and improvement to build the career growth which I chosen. A good career planning supports
me as a personal growth in life in their professional career which also assist me to grow
personally. The career planning process is beneficial to aspect for me as a career development
but I need to follow this step to choose the batter career plan such as self- assessment.
Research on Carrere and opportunities, Set the career objectives, learn and improve skills,
preparation of CV, job search, revise the Career goals. If I want to make a proper portfolio for
my interview, so I need to focus on those things. A professional portfolio comprising a
personal statement, completed application for a volunteer/work experience placement with a
relevant C.V. and a skills development action plan.
 Firstly, I need to choose a domain in this domain it helps me to reflect me which include title
of my website, my name, my professional field.

 Second is pick a template, this template is like a foundation of their structure and support to
establish the identify of my personal identify, it includes all aspects of their site like as
colures, fonts and overall layout and design.
 Include documents and work samples after making the frame work of my professional
portfolio, so I need to mention this thing like homepage, work sample, about sections,
resume and contact information
 Fourth is design my site I need to make creative and innovative site which helps me to make
my portfolio unique.
 Last is Review before my professional goes live, I need to take a review for my friends,
family.
1.1 Justification
Sainsbury is a multinational retail company which was establish in 1869 by John James
and Mary Ann Sainsbury and its British’s longest standing major food retailing chain, it is the
largest operators of supermarkets in the United Kingdom. It provides good quality of
products and services to the customers, along with the also focus on working environment of
the company, they try to satisfied the needs of customers and employees. Along with it is the
popular international brand which helps to give batter career options and gain my knowledge
and develop my skills which is beneficial for career growth (Carrer, 2021).
.
Section B:
2. Personal Statement
I am students of higher educations and recently I am perusing MBA from Cambridge
University and I choose Marketing as a major and Human resources (HR) as a minor. I have
different kinds of strength which support me to get better job opportunity like I am good in
communication and time managements, I am multitasks and many others. I working as an
intern within the relate industry and gained sufficient knowledge and skills about the
corporate environments within the company. I am not afraid to face problem, I always try to
learn something new which helps to developed myself and I know as an intern this is the last
opportunity for me to doing effective learning or if I do some mistake, then they teach me
again learn new things and gain knowledge for my effective upcoming career, in this filed I

learn effective skills without take g any burden or delaines, because beyond my academic
careers. I want to start professional careers where no will guide or teach me how to do work
or employability skills. I am good in academic skills I always participate in extracurricular
actives to gain my knowledge and learn something new. I am interested to apply the job of
Sales manager within the Simsbury company, because it the most top international reputed
company which is good for my career start. I can offer my sincerity, efforts, time and hard
work for my company growth, if I selected for my favorite job role. I give my hundred
percent to achieve my company goals. Actually my career growth is divided into three
categories such as short- term goals, medium – term goals, long- term goals. Short- term
goals are related to those goals which can I accomplished within the one year, like short- term
goal is score good marks in academic professions, and win debate competitions which is
conducted in this years. Medium- term goals are those goals which is going to accomplish
within the upcoming two- three years. My Medium goal is start my job in reputed company
as a sales manager, second I want to learn new courses which helps in personal
developments. On the other hand, long- term goals are those goals which need more than 3
years to accomplish (Francine, 2020). My long- term goals are start my own business after 5
years and launch my new product in the market.
My main reason to applying this job role is that if I start my career sin repeated company, so
it gives me high salary and good expenses which support me to achieve my personal and
professional goals. Along with this company offer me many various benefits for the excising
employees. Second reason is I reviews the working environment of this company and I find
great review they provide many faculties to their employees to satisfied their needs. There are
many positive review about the company which attracted me to apply for this job role. In
context of experiences I done internship and 2-year job experience in Marks and Spencer
company, I learn lots of thing in this company, I manage accounts on daily basis, daily
checks product quality, check sale data monthly and this thing helps me to accomplish my
goals. Actually there are the many reasons that company manger selects me, firstly is I have
strong communications skills I can handle tough sustains which is good for the sales manager
(Hamann, 2019). Along with I am good I dictions making and I have enough expenses and
knowledge. to get this job. I give my hundred percent to this job to achieves their goals.
Although I have good leadership quality I can manage many team works in previous job
experience and complete my project on time, I always provide solutions of specific problems
which will support the company to mitigate it properly, so that I will not carte the problem in
productivity again in future.

2.1 CV
Curriculum vitae is a like a short summary of an individual's career, experiences, and skills.
The individual is mandatory to send the copy of their CV to the company which take interview as an
application document for the vacant job role, it helps to highlights their skills and expertness to the
company manger so that they it will consider the CV and get to recognise that whether they are
beneficial for the offered job role or not.
Name- Joey Bing
Contact number- xxxxx8222
email- Joey [e-mail]
linkedin linkedIn.com/joeybing
Objective- My main motive is I start my professional career with most reputed job
within big brand and reputed company and I am highly experiences and passionate for
my work. I am experts in people managements and sales marketing and operations who
execute the high work and quality standards.
Specialization area of work- Sales Marketing.
Skill highlights-
 Good Communication skill
 Strong in decision making skill
 Problem solving skill
 Management skill
 Time management skill
 Team management skill.
Experience-
 Doing Internship for 3 months
within Marks and Spencer as an
assistant Sales manager. Worked
from 02/03/2022 to 05/06/2022.
 I also do Part time job as a
marketing executive within
Amazon. Worked from 2018-2020.
 I work in Nadler Victoria (WCG
Group) 2 years
Achievements (Professional career)-
 Certificate of best sales manager intern for the mid-year internship from Marks
and Spencer.
 Certificate of participation in sales marketing assembly conducted at
international level.

 Awarded for the best part time employee to manage promotional activities of
Amazon.
 Certificate of Business Analytics
 Certificate of sales marketing
Achievements (Academic career)-
 Awarded for the top team leader for additional activities at Regent college.
 Awarded for the full attendance student.
 Rewarded with trophy for winning at debate competition.
 Awarded in writing computations
 Rewarded in Sketching competition.
Education
 MBA (Marketing) from IBS university- year 2020- 2022
 Bachelor of data management from IBS university
 Bachelor degree of business management from regent college- year 2016- 2019.
Language Hobbies
 English
 Spanish
 Germany
 Chinese
 Sketching
 Photography
 Reading
 Cooking

Section C:
3.0 SWOT ANALYSIS
SWOT analysis is an important factor which helps to self – analyzing and observes their
strength, weaknesses of an individual as well a they provide, may opportunity in my career and
threats to defend, My Personal SWOT analysis are given below:
Strengths
Good in Problem Solving- I am good at
problem solving skill, because of this skill I
can manage my work efficiently and
efficiently, which is good for my career
growth (Harris, Barnum and Lam, 2018).
Good in Communication skills- I am not
feel shy to talk with stranger I can able to do
effective communication without any
hesitations, I make new friends easily.
 Good leadership quality- I am also
good at leadership skill, I manage
many team project in my school and
college and I can easily manage a
team and influence them to achieve
their target properly.

Weaknesses-
 Nervous in Crowd- I become nervous in
front of heavy crowd, actually I have
stage fear but I know I can manage my
work, something this create difficulty to
manage my work, due to stage fear.
 Lack of managements skills- I am not
good in managing the things, sometime I
face problem to manage multiple work I
am also lacking behind in time
management skill.
 Lack of patience- I am not have enough
patience, many time I panic is tough
situations which shows in my working
environments.
Opportunities-
 Online class- Online classes are
support me to enhance my knowledge
and weak skills and change them into
strengthen skills. Online class helps
to analyse myself and developed my
skills which is beneficial for my job.
 Internships and part time jobs-
This thing support me to learn new
things and gain my knowledge and
Threats-
 Competition will increase- -
Competition is existing at every phase of
my academic as well as professional life
which create barriers for me and it will
not allow me to achieve my personal and
professional goals.
 Pandemic time- COVID pandemic is
also one of the major threat because due
to government restrictions I have to join

experience which impact positive for
my performance, a good way of
opportunity to learn employability
skills effectively.
 Advance Technology- this is the
biggest opportunity for me if I am
doing any online courses or any
technical course, so it helps me build
my carrier in future.
online classes and at online classes I am
able to doing my study constantly,
because of this sometime I am not able to
ask my doubt.
 Lack of Job opportunity- Because of
Pandemic many people loses their jobs
and jobs opportunity is less, because of
this I also face problem to find right job
to start my career of gain experiences
(OUYANG, 2019.
3.1 PERSONAL SKILL AUDIT (Gap analysis)
Personal Skill Audit
List of
Knowledge
Ratin
g
List of Skill Ratin
g
List of
Behaviour
Rating
Sales
marketing
5 Communication
skills
4 Good 3
Business
analysis
3 Presentation
skill
5 Excellent 4
Management 4 Listening skill 4 Satisfying 5
Rating should be Between 1 – 5. Where 1 is the lowest and 5 is the highest.
3.2 SMART OBJECTIVES
Short- term Plan – It usually take one year to accomplish the plan

Medium term Plan- It usually take two to three years’ time to accomplish the plan
Long- term Plan- It usually take five to ten-year time to accomplish the plan.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN AND TRAINING
Skills Required for
Professional
Development
Training /
Method
Duration
(Short- term
plan)
How they relate to employability
I want to
achieve goods
marks in
academic
performance
I make time
table,
because I
want to
manage my
time
properly and
I give proper
time for all
subjects
equally and
focus to
more upon
those
subjects
which is I
am not good
enough from
my point of
view.
1 month This thing helps me to get better
job and support me to provide
many opportunities in my future
carriers (Perosa, Newton and Carrer,
2021).
To take part is It is essential 1 week If I win this debate computations,

debate
computations
and win this
competitions
for me to
update
myself and
gain my
knowledge,
is start
practising to
improve
myself and
collect
information
which
support me
to win this
debate
computation.
so that I am able to write in my
resume to highlight my skills,
along with I am able to perform
well in tough situations.
Improve
listening skills
I start
reading
books and
listening to
podcasts and
practising
critical
thinking, so
as to
improve the
ability to
listen
3 months Effective listening skill support
me to get better job and I am able
to stop miscommunication and
doing effective communications
(Plan, Sagarra, 2020).

effectively
which can
improve the
reacting
capabilities.
Being more
socially active
I start
interacting
with new
people, so
that I am
able to
communicate
new people
and build my
confident.
4 months This helps me to communicate
with new people and convince the
other people which I need ion my
carriers.
Medium term plan
Skills Required for
Professional
Development
Training /
Method
Duration
(medium-term
plan)
How they relate to employability
Doing job is
reputed company
I need to
start
develop
my skills
and
knowledge
to get the
job in
1 year It helps me to build my
experience

reputed
company,
so that I
am able to
perform
well.
Start learning
new courses
I start
searching
some online
and offline
courses,
which is
demanding
in the
market,
along with I
also ask my
teachers
that what
course is
beneficial
for me.
2 years It is beneficial for me to develop
my knowledge and perform well
in my project work which is
assigns my the mangers
Learning
language
I take
classes to
learn new
languages
and also
start
2 years Learning new language support
me to get batter opportunity to
career growth

watching
videos and
reading
books to
work on this
I want to
become
successful and
respected sales
manager within
the Sainsbury
company
I start get
knowledge
related to
my field,
along with,
also try to
get I
formation
of those
company
that what
skills they
need for the
job role.
1 years It helps to build my career
experiences and achieve the
company objectives (Shodiyeva,
2019).
Long- term plan
Skills Required for
Professional
Development
Training /
Method
Duration
(Long term
plan)
How they relate to employability
Start new
business
I start
analysing
the market
conditions
3 years It helps to make to a batter plan
and take batter decisions.

to set my
business
and discuss
or review
for the
business
planner
which is
good
knowledge
related to
new start
up
business.
Along with
I also
analysis
that what
types of
busies was
in demand.
Lunch new
product
Firstly I
collect the
information
which is
related to
the
customers
2 years It helps to build my creativity and
start thinking innovate which is
beneficial for my work (Sidebotham,
Baird and Gamble, 2018).
.

taste and
preferences,
so that I can
make my
product
according
to the
customers’
needs and
earn profit
Start investing I start
investing in
fixed assets
and stock
market earn
some many
for future
5 years It helps to learn who I invest my
money in right way and make
proper budget
Purchase a new
personal
property
To achieve
this goals I
need to
save my
money and
utilized my
many in
right way,
along with I
need to
doing
6 years It helps me to make a proper plan
which support me to get benefits
in uncertain situations.

proper
research
that what
type of
property I
need to
purchase
for my
future
benefits

4 Conclusion
In this report it makes the carrier plan which support to getting the right career job which is
beneficial for satisfied their personal and professional needs. Along with Professional portfolio is
beneficial to showcase of promote yourself to, if any person going for the interview, so they need to
ensure that they make effective resume to highlight their skills to manager of the company. Because
manager is not having much time which read all this things, so effective resume plays an important
role of promote yourself. In this report it chooses the company and give an overview and explain
why they want to doing a job in this company or what skills they have or whey the company manger
chose them. Along with they do Personal SWOT analysis to doing self- assessment and make action
plan of this weakness, although it makes short- term, medium-term and long- term plan.

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