Relevance of an Ideal Job and its Key Requirements

This report discusses the relevance of an ideal job and how individuals can benefit from discussing key requirements. It explores job descriptions, person specifications, and resources for seeking employment. The ideal job discussed is working as a marketing manager in a renowned organization.

CW 2 – Portfolio
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Executive summary
Report discusses about what is the overall relevance of a ideal job and how can a person
benefit from discussing about the key requirements of their ideal job. Ideal job is something that
a person is willing to do after they have completed their academic graduation and they are
willing to start their career prospects with a new job role. Present report is job description and its
role that can help in achievement of exact job positions by an individual. There is also discussion
of the different professional skills that is required by person while a candidate is using a job
description for applying a particular role. The person specification, another tool that can help in
understanding the specific requirements of individual for a particular job role. Further there is a
very important role of account key process that can be used by individual for ideal job role with
help of many different sources that have been developed for finding employment and these are
indeed, LinkedIn, glass door career fairs that can help individual in searching for the ideal job
position.
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Table of Contents
Executive summary..........................................................................................................................2
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
My ideal job.....................................................................................................................................5
Resources that can help me when seeking employment..................................................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................11
REFERENCE.................................................................................................................................12
Appendix A: Job description.........................................................................................................13
Appendix B: Person description....................................................................................................13
Appendix C: Power point slides....................................................................................................14
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Introduction
In the present report I am going to discuss about the ideas of that is every student is willing
to get after completion of their academic courses. Ideal job is something that is related with the
overall key requirements of a job that a person is willing to perform in future that is associated
with their job roles and responsibilities (Nouf-Latif, Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist and Markström,
2019). In present report there will be discussion about the ideal job that I am willing to pursue in
future and description of the help of a job description and a person specification that can help in
define the criteria that is required to demonstrate the overall skills that a person according to the
present skills so that skill that can be identified. There are three major sources that can be
identified when a person is seeking employment and are related with overall advantages and
disadvantages as every source is having some of the benefits but again it has some demerits
associated with it. So detail evaluation is made of all search sources to understand the search
sources in identifying the ideal job by individual.
My ideal job
My ideal job is to work as a marketing manager in very renowned organisation. The major
reason why I am so interested in this profile is because I possess high influential communication
skills and I am always willing to meet new people and communicate with them so that I can
know about them and this can help me in performing my job responsibilities in a more effective
manner (Zhou and Hu, 2019). I have always been fascinated by approach that is objective based
and goal based and for a marketing manager this approach is very helpful in understanding and
meeting the overall targets that have been assigned by the higher authorities.
Another most important reason because of which I am willing to start my job help of this
marketing profile is that marketing is a field that is offering quite large number of opportunities
in coming future and it can help in Planning my overall strategies of my future plan regarding
my career in a more positive and effective manner. With the changing times organisations will
need more competent marketing managers who can help them in achievement of high sales
because at the end it is all about increasing sales revenue so that high profitability can be
achieved by a particular organisation with the help of their customers. This has led to generation
of more job opportunities in the field of Marketing department in the organisation because it is
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the marketing department that is solely responsible for the purpose of generating leads for
organisation and helping them in approaching the prospective customers and actually turning
them into a real customer (Swaminathan, 2019).
I have always wished to get associated with a renowned organisation that can help me a decent
remuneration according to the contribution that I am making towards their organisation. For this
I have always wished to work with big retail organisation such as Tesco that is one of the biggest
retailers in United Kingdom and this has been a major reason why I am willing to work as a
marketing manager for this organisation. I believe that Tesco can provide me the exact exposure
for which I am looking right now and can give me correct direction to work according to my
present level of knowledge and skills that I process. The retail sector has been growing very fast
in the dynamic environment and because of many changes taking place in the Macro
environment this sector has not been affected much in a negative manner as they have already
established themselves and are able to deal with all the uncertainty and risk that are being
flourishing in the external market (Cohen, Sauermann and Stephan, 2018). So, I feel that I can
help Tesco in achievement of high says that is most important requirement in the present context
for any retail organisation by working as a marketing manager in the marketing department and
this is my ideal job role for coming future of time.
Job description:
Job description is basically a document that helps in determining the exact roles and
responsibilities that is compulsory required to be present in an individual in order to perform a
particular job that has been assigned to them in an organisation.
There are many graduate employment opportunities in future but in the field of marketing I feel
that there are tremendous growth opportunities that can help in achievement of high productivity
by an individual.
The job description of marketing manager is always different as there is not a particular
responsibility but it involves a combination that consists of different rules and activities together
that combine the job responsibilities of marketing manager (Rohr, 2016). Such as, in initial
stages the responsibility is to make Strategies and plans relating to promotion of products and
services of organisation. Such plans have to be according to the preferences of target base of
customers that is being targeted by the company.
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Thinking about the future that is a period of 4 years after I will be completing my
graduation I can only make forecast and plants according to the present economic growth that is
taking place in United Kingdom and that is that the sectors that is going to grow very fast is most
importantly the retail sectors as the purchasing power of people is increasing and this has led to
increase in growth opportunities in the sectors.
The changes that are taking place in the economic environment and with specially many
reforms such as brexit has affected the industries of UK up to a great extent and it has lead to
decline in lot of opportunities in other sectors apart from the retail sector. So according to me
presently I feel that for future role and present role the most important opportunity is in the
marketing sector that can help in individual as well as organisational growing simultaneously at
the same time.
Person specification:
Person specification is basically a blueprint that is consisting of selection and recruitment
process it is drafted very carefully as 10 must be according to the vision of a candidate suitable
for a person, person specification is statement that consists of characteristics and different
qualifications of employees that has to be performed according to the person task in a more
satisfactory manner derived from the overall analysis of a person and is a very important tool
used in case of selection and recruitment process in every organisation.
A person specification is used for describing the overall personal attributes that a result in a
potential employer it is sometimes very similar to person description but is more specific
(Specification, 2016). There are certain specific attributes such as skills knowledge experience
qualification and some personal attributes that are compulsorily required in a candidate for
performing certain person duties. The specifications are derived from overall person description
and are foundation for the process of recruitment. Person specification is very helpful for all the
Potential implications in understanding overall requirements of a person and then self selecting.
For the post of a marketing manager, major responsibility of marketing managers is to build up
a strategic relationships with their existing customer base and all other associated stakeholder
such as Agencies and different vendors who can help in associated with long term and providing
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cost-effectiveness and a high percentage of profit in overall sales revenue that is been generated
by organisation.
The contemporary marketing manager must have all the skills that are required to make people
persuade buying a product and services these are some of the necessary skills along with
communication and convincing skills that have to be compulsorily present in a individual to be a
marketing manager. I strongly feel that in case of future marketing managers must require a very
strong analytical perspective and strong knowledge base that can help them in increasing the
advertising of products on different social media and online platform that have completely
transform the way marketing managers used to perform their person roles. Further the capability
is related with leadership skills and digital prospective of Thinking are some of the ideal
requirements that I feel possessed by me coming according to my assigned duties of marketing
managers in case of for which I will be working for and this will help me in reducing the skill
gaps that is standardized & required in the person profile of ma marketing manager and I posses
as a competent individual (Ressia, 2016).
Resources that can help me when seeking employment
There are some of the important resources available both on offline and online platform that
can help me in utilization of my present competence and according to it I can identify different
suitable person opportunity these most important three crucial sources are discussed below:
1) LinkedIn:
It is one of the largest networks that has grown on case of e-commerce platforms and
used for professionals and made by professionals. It is basically a platform where opinions can
be exchanged for building up of strengthening relationships with all the professional people who
are related with interested profile of a particular individual. It helps in providing individual to
create their own profile in relation with the qualities competence skills knowledge and other
qualification that they possess. According to that for the person opportunities and interested
requirements are also mentioned in this profile. It helps in various organizations, human resource
managers and employer’s world looking for such individuals can approach according to skill
requirements of a particular person profile that is mentioned on LinkedIn.
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2) Face book:
Facebook is a growing social media platform that has growth in all these years as people
are able to make and establish strong connections with each other and able to exchange their
opinion, thoughts, views, creativity and innovative ideas on Facebook as a social media network.
This is a platform that has been developed by many organizations to use as a to inform the about
different vacancies that are prevailing in their organizations many pages have been developed
and people who are interested can apply for search relevant person profiles if they are interested.
Further social media profiles different person seekers can create the professional profiles
employee in understanding the abilities to perform certain specific task. Facebook as a social
media platform has played a very important role in satisfying the needs of both person seekers
and employers. It helps in meeting the gaps of organization vacancies and unemployment
position of some individuals there can be some specific solution that can be achieve with the help
of Facebook for satisfying the person requirements.
3) Indeed:
It is a platform that is used by an employee for posting different vacancies that are
prevailing in a organization according to different rows it can have different person seekers to
identify search person roles that are suitable for them and further apply. They can help in to
determine a suitable match according to requirement of a particular person. India is a very
effective platform where people who are looking for some person opportunities can create their
profile and companies are posting about their vacancies. Person can explain in detail about their
person requirements according to their specific qualifications, knowledge base, potential and
skills that they possess. According to that specific recruitment and selection procedure can be
done by companies based on people applying on such indeed platforms. Further, those
applications that are totally incompetent are rejected at the initial level and those who are person
profile have to go through for the person interview round according to the Human Resource
Department of that particular organization.
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Conclusion
From the above discussed points, it can be said that job description and person specification
are two key requirements that are very helpful for a person in understanding the major job that
can help in achievement of higher growth. When a person is able to understand the ideal
requirements of their job then it helps in understanding associated responsibilities regarding their
job and then achieve such job role by achievement of specific job role there are many different
sources that can be used for the purpose of identification of areas from where ideal job can be
performed such as LinkedIn, indeed and Facebook.
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REFERENCE
Books and Journals
Cohen, W.M., Sauermann, H. and Stephan, P., 2018. Not in the job description: The commercial
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Economic Research.
Nouf-Latif, F., Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, H. and Markström, U., 2019. Narratives of ideal and
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Work Research, 9(2), pp.104-117.
Ressia, S., 2016. Person specification. In Encyclopedia of Human Resource Management.
Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.
Rohr, S.L., 2016. Harnessing the power of the job description. Human Resource Management
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Specification, P., 2016. Person Specification. Performance Improvement, 7313, p.2FTE.
Swaminathan, M., 2019. Steve Jobs and The Value of Interventional Imagers. Journal of the
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Zhou, M. and Hu, T., 2019. Jobs Found Through Social Contacts: Puzzling Coexistence of
Higher Job Satisfaction and Higher Quitting Intentions. The Sociological
Quarterly, 60(1), pp.116-137.
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Appendix A: Job description
Sample Job description for a Marketing Manager
Appendix B: Person description
Sample person specification for post of a senior marketing manager
Person Specification
 Post: Marketing manager
 Department: Marketing Administration
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 Key: This shows what is required as an evidence for post while going through the
process of recruitment :
(A): Application form, (I) : Interview, (R) : Role
Attributes Essential Desirable
Qualification &
Experience
 Graduation with
specialisation in marketing
 Min. One year experience in
field of marketing
 Experience of performing
marketing activities for in a
office environment
 Having intermediate level
certificate in marketing
Skills or
Abilities
 Effective Communication
skills and Interpersonal skills
 Experience of leading a team
of minimum 100 people at a
time
 Computer software skills
such as excel, outlook etc.
 Experience conducting
marketing campaigns.
 Analysis & a detailed
assessment of all anticipated
risk
 Ability to convince
prospective customers
 Development of timely
innovative and creative ideas.
Appendix C: Power point slides
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