Career View Point: Personal Analysis and Career Action Plan for Store Manager Position

This report provides a personal analysis of competencies, experience, and knowledge for the store manager position. It also includes a career action plan to improve areas that need growth and a CV format.

CAREER VIEW POINT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
PERSONAL ANALYSIS................................................................................................................3
General review of current competencies, experience, and knowledge........................................3
CAREER ACTION PLAN..............................................................................................................5
Identifying and improving areas that need to grow personally or professionally........................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................9
APPENDIX ...................................................................................................................................10
CV..............................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Career view point is considered as key perspective of human or individual person related
to pattern of employment and academic experience, through which they learn something new and
develop skill. The current assignment will be based on specific job opportunity and that is store
manager. It will explain personal analysis, that covers brief description about areas do individual
lack evidence in, where they need further evidence in their applications and where they feel weak
in overall process. Furthermore, the study will also define career action plan based on
development areas with key points or elements such as time frame, approaches in the context of
area development and more. Lastly, the report will specify CV format to apply for store manager.
MAIN BODY
PERSONAL ANALYSIS
General review of current competencies, experience, and knowledge
Personal analysis is usually defined as process of analysing own skills and effectiveness
that they might be had or not (Yu, 2020). This procedure may contribute to provide individuals a
basic review of their competencies, understanding and experiences related to varied things that
put positive impact on their career growth as well as success. With this process, I had gain varied
benefits in bulk in term of collecting information about competencies that I have and also about
major & essential skills that I do not had.
I want to share my personal experience and knowledge that I have. For example, I am
posing better understanding about team work and leading a group of people, because I have
leadership skill that I will utilize while working as a store manager. It is one of those
competencies that play significant role in growth and unpredicted success of a person (Ali, and
Anwar, 2021). With the help of this competence I would take benefit of managing the
performance of diverse workforce at workplace among which each candidate able to achieve
strategic aims of company, which is quite beneficial and essential for them to do so. I will utilize
my knowledge about leadership in work area, for purpose of enhancing performance of each
employee and boosting their morale, which is not that easy for any person or professional to do
that because it required a lot of efforts, time and good relation with people.
By referring to personal analysis, I want to share information about my another skill and
that is effective communication. This competence along with above one, also provide benefit in
the context of my career progress whether it is related to personal or professional (Soekardi,

Indrawati and Erni, 2020). With communication skill I would take approach to interact with
others in effective manner who are working for organization and effort to reach desire outcomes.
In the recent time, within job market, and business world, employers expects from new joining to
have set of skills among which effective communication is the main, as it enable individuals to
build trustworthy relation with everyone while working at same workplace. It may give them
power to deal with varied challenges effectively and appropriately with better interaction that
always make them proud.
Along with skills, I am also posing better comprehending about conceptual skills as key
knowledge area that made me capable to gain employment benefit as grabbing position of store
manager in Sainsbury's. It is one of those abilities that permit an individual person to
appropriately comprehend critical scenarios and develop creative solutions that help to solve
each complex situation in effective manner (Petermann and Zacher, 2020). I want to work and
start my professional career as a store manager, where I will utilize this skill along with above
two. It can be said that individuals expect and consider a manager with conceptual skill as
strategic manager because of their competencies, and capabilities to strategize about potential
and strategic solutions.
I also want to share information about my weaknesses that put negative impact on my
chosen job profession. For instance, I am not posing knowledge about multi-tasking,
organizational and motivation skills as well as understanding about technical competence,
that I would utilize further. I have lack evidence in all these areas, and tend to require further
evidences in my applications.
I feel weak in application of solutions related to advance technologies, which is quite
important for me to solve and apply each solution appropriately. Along with this, I also not posse
understanding about performing different tasks on time as multi-tasking person. It can be said
that multi-tasking is one of the best personalities that varied people have and used to achieve
desire aims and objectives, whether it is related to professional or personal context. I want to
develop motivation skills, because while performing role as a store manager in supermarket in
need that. It gives me power to retain and acquire talented employees who are able to achieve
common goals and develop strategies to enhance customer satisfaction level.

CAREER ACTION PLAN
Identifying and improving areas that need to grow personally or professionally
In today's competitive environment within job market, individual person are facing varied
challenges in term of developing those skills and knowledge that employers expect from them to
have, which is important for them as well as a company for which they work harder (MOTLEY
and MCMULLIN, 2020). Individuals just because of unexpected demand may drive their
attention toward choosing and using key methods of skills development (Popescu, 2021). Here,
in case of developing skills, career action plan is taken into consideration. It is one of those
effective and strategic plans that learners or developers attempt to utilize for purpose of
determining career aims and describing steps that are necessary to pursue each goal. This
essential document encompasses varied forms of elements such as smart aim, resources that I
will utilize to move the specific or all areas of development forward and last but not the least
timeline that would compete these in.
Development areas Approaches that I
would use to develop
areas
Success criteria Time scales
Organizational skills For purpose of
developing the chosen
area, I would take
approach to utilize the
best resource and that
is time management,
collaboration and aim
setting competences. It
is one of those
effectivenesses that I
would utilize to gain
the benefit of
developing
organizational skill.
By analysing the
effectiveness of my
decision and solutions
that I made to
overcome the negative
impact of any factor
whether it is internal
or external. With the
help of this practice I
will gain information
about development of
current area that in
return contribute to my
professional career
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success.
Motivation skill I want to develop this
area as well, and due
to that I will recognize
great work, read case
studies of successful
leaders and enhance
collaborative practices.
With the help of these
key approaches I
would gain benefit of
developing
motivational skill and
get better
understanding about
how to encourage
candidates.
By analysing the
performance and
productivity level of
each candidate whom I
will provide strategic
directions and
suggestions. The
performance and
commitment level of
individuals will give
me chance to measure
how I will utilize my
motivation skill, either
it is good in the
context of everyone or
not.
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Technical skill The best approach that
I will utilize to
develop ICTs skill is
training as specific
time duration course
work, where
experience holders
accessible to teach and
provide lesson about
developing
understanding about
technical or
technology based
By analysing my
performance with
advanced technologies
with I will perform
and attempt to
complete my task on
time without making
any mistake. When I
will solve any
common technical
issue, it will give me
an opportunity to
aware myself about
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knowledge.
Development of this
skill will enhance my
performance and add
value in my CV that
aid to gain the
attention of employer
or recruiters of retail
industry.
effectiveness of
developing that area.
Multi-tasking Along with above
three, I also tend to
develop this
competence as well,
by using specific
resource and approach
such as scheduling and
prioritizing work. It is
fact that while tacking
multiple concepts or
tasks at once, one of
the first thing I will do
it to create a list,
among that each
activity that I will plan
to conduct mention
clearly.
By measuring the
success of activities
and actions that I
would take to
accomplish different
task according to plan.
I will measure my
success in varied terms
along with above one.
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CONCLUSION
From above analysis, it has been concluded that personal analysis has enhanced the
performance level and improved the productivity as well as efficiency of individuals in term of

assuring person that they have those skills that utilize to gain current employment opportunities.
With the help of this method, they have collected information about weak areas where further
improvement is needed. Furthermore, by summing up above discussion, it has been summarized
that career action plan has contributed to boost the morale and confidence level of individual
student or learner as it has driven their attention toward overcome the impact of weaknesses.

REFERENCES
Book and Journals
Ali, B.J. and Anwar, G., 2021. Strategic leadership effectiveness and its influence on
organizational effectiveness. International Journal of Electrical, Electronics and
Computers. 6(2).
MOTLEY, R.J. and MCMULLIN, A., 2020. Developing Your Professional Career Plan: The
key to a fulfilling career is to know what's important to you--from your mission,
identity, and direction to family, fun, and finances--and then pursue that. Family
Practice Management. 27(4).
Petermann, M.K. and Zacher, H., 2020. Agility in the workplace: Conceptual analysis,
contributing factors, and practical examples. Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
13(4). pp.599-609.
Popescu, S.N., 2021. A counseling model of career guidance for youth. Revista de Științe ale
Educației. 43(1). pp.63-84.
Soekardi, A., Indrawati, R. and Erni, N., 2020. The influence of communication skill toward
employee performance in radiology installation unit of hospital. Management and
entrepreneurship: trends of development. 4(14). pp.31-42.
Yu, R.P., 2020. Personal and activity bases personality desocialization warnings. Перспективы
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APPENDIX
CV
Name- Jill Morgan
Email- [e-mail]
Contact number- 2125550105
Address- 12, B high street
Skills and knowledges-
 Effective communication
 Team building
 Leadership skill
 Motivation
 Technical knowledge or skill
 Conceptual skill
 Organizational competence
 Decision making.
 Build customer relationship
Education-
 Bachelors degree
 MBA
Interest-
 Music
 Swimming
 Collaboration
 Team work
Qualities-
 Risk taking
 Creativeness