Career Prospects in Finance: Personal SWOT Analysis and Progression Opportunities

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ......................................................................................................................................3
Personal SWOT Analysis- ..........................................................................................................3
Career Prospects..........................................................................................................................4
Progression Opportunities...........................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION ...................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES ....................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Money is an important part of human life for carrying out day to day activities and for the
completion individual needs. It is also an essential part of a business for operating its day to day
activities, money which is used in managing actions of a company is known as business finance.
For purchasing assets, investment, paying off liabilities or various other functions, money is prime
nee of a business(AN,and MIKHAYLOV, 2021). Finance is used by organisation for bringing new
technologies to make the functions easy and smooth, it also helps business to handle future
incidents which cannot be predicted without interrupting management. Finance is majorly classified
into four parts- personal finance for satisfying the individual needs and wants, corporate finance in
companies for funding its activities, public finance which is related to intervention of government
bodies or public. Business can obtain funds from sources like debt and equity. This report is the
discussion on career in the area of finance in corporate sector, SWOT analysis has also done for
evaluating the inner potential to follow my career in this sector. It also discusses about the
progression field in the field of finance and barrier or challenges in this path.
MAIN BODY
Many job possibilities are available in the field of finance and if any student want to get these jobs
various courses, qualifications are required in this field. Making career in finance will give better
way of earning, helps in balancing the way of life, etc., it also give me the constant opportunity to
increase my level of education or knowledge because I will able to learn new things everyday in
this region. It will improve my thinking ability and makes me more innovative and will provide me
job security(Clement, and Silvernagel, 2019). Several other multinational companies also provide
several benefits or incentives to their employees from this profession like various types of insurance
plans, retirement plans and various others perks. So, my decision of starting my career journey in
financial sector will be successful in many ways but I need to find out about my skills in which I am
good, weak and things which could be threat or opportunities. For this I did personal SWOT which
is given below-