Developing Skills for Career Growth: An Individual Report

This report discusses the skills developed during a project, skill gaps to be developed, and how to use learning in future career. It also includes a job description and an action plan. The report concludes that it is important to analyze strengths and weaknesses and improve upon the latter. The level of confidence increases with the development of skills. The report cites various books and journals as references.

Individual Report

Table of Contents
Introduction..............................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................3
TASK 1......................................................................................................................................3
Which skills have you developed and/or enhanced as a result of the project?...........................3
What do you know now that you didn’t know at the start of the process?.................................3
To what extent has your level of confidence improved?...............................................................4
How could you use your learning in your future career?.............................................................4
Task 2........................................................................................................................................6
identify the three skills gaps which are required to be developed...............................................6
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................9

Introduction
In today world the skills are essentially important for achieving the success and
reaching the higher level of position in the organisation. There are the significant amount of
skills which are learned while doing the project with the team and working in a team project
gave the confidence and as well increased and enhanced my skills set there are the significant
amount to skills which assist in solving any of the problems occur in professional or in the
personal world. This skills set will boost my cv and the carer regardless of my degree this
kills will be used for the lifetime. I will be using all the skills in a constructive and effective
manner . there are the numerous skills which has been discussed below.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
Which skills have you developed and/or enhanced as a result of the project?
There are the numerous skills which I learned during the project I gained knowledge
about distinctive things few skills are mentioned :
Problem solving skills : it is the most essential and important skill while working with the
team as the numerous problems can occur and make the path difficult so these skills are
essentially important and crucial for solving any sort of queries or the problem. Further to
solve the conflict and making the harmonious and balanced and peaceful bond with the team
members. Due to this and able to solve all the issue which has assists in solving all the
queries and this has promoted the creativity and team bonding as well coming with the new
and innovative ideas .
Communication: I also gained the knowledge how I can share the thoughts and ideas in a
constructive manner. Which increase and enhanced my efficiency level. This helped in
expressing my thoughts to my team members moreover this skills gave me confidence to
interact with my team members and sharing my ideas without facing any sort of problem
which will hamper my work .
What do you know now that you didn’t know at the start of the process?

I didn’t knew many of things how to bond with the team and share my thoughts as well
about the project in depth I didn’t know about the team management and this also the skills
which I learned which will definitely help me in career growth , moreover I was not aware
about many other skills such as time management I did not know how to manage my time
significant and in constructive manner before starting the project whereas with the starting of
a project I was aware about many skills from managing the time , solving the conflict and
other issues which occurs.
To what extent has your level of confidence improved?
My confidence got boosted and it shows the improvement as the encompassing the
knowledge surely gave me the confidence inside me as well as the skills gained also lead to
the boost in confidence and the skills strength enhanced my confidence moreover the
working in team made me confident around people in terms of sharing my thought and ideas
without hesitation as well as the skills which I learn has given me the boost and inherited the
self-confidence for my future use . the level of confidence has raised after the project and
significantly my skill set has given me the great amount of strength. The level also got raised
by leaving my comfort zone which I left and achieve the high level of confidence as the
confidence boosting method was tough but fruitful in the end as by leaving my comfort and
area where I was super confident has helped me in making the effective and constructive
decision and the level of confidence reached in higher level . as well working with the team
helped me in achieving the confident and applying strategies which will boost my skills and it
gave me the inner satisfaction and I was able to make the position in the team and my
confidence let me to do many things which will help my team as well it helped and assisted
me induvial .
How could you use your learning in your future career?
I can use this learning in the multiple ways whether it is professionally or personally
whereas the skills I gained will help me in professional world and make my path smoother
and easier to work while this will give me the sense of confidence towards my work however
the team management skills will boost the strength and it will make me adaptable to any sort
of situation while working with team and I also learned how to work in the team . while the
other skills such as solving the problems has the impact on my booth the world because the
solving skills will help me in solving all the issues and queries which will occur in person and

professional life moreover the conflict arrangement or the conflict resolving between two
people assist me in thinking very rationally and not coming up with any answer which are not
logical as the things which I learned to solve the conflict between two people and thinking
very critically and rationally without being bias sop this skill set will not only help in the
organisation but also in the personal world as the problems and issues keep occurring using
this skills will surely makes the task easier to do understand and do without facing any other
problems . while on the contrary the most significant and useful and well as the most
essential skill which I gained is the time management this skill helped in managing the time
very constructively and effectively without wasting my time in unnecessary or the less
important things .
CV
NAME: John Thomas
ADDRESS: 567 park street London united kingdom
EDUCATION QUALIFIACTION: Master in human resources
UNIVERSITY: Arden university
SUMMARY: I am pursuing the master in the human resource from the Arden university
through this I learned the numerous and specific skill and gained the significant amount of
skills set which will help me in achieving the success in any organisation . I also gained the
insight knowledge and structural and effective deepness about many other skills which will
overall will help in achieving the success and reaching the heights in the career . I have
worked in team which boosted my confidence and gave me the knowledge about many
things and experience for working with the team and other colleagues in the organisation
or with any other association.
INTERNSHIP: I worked in Tesco for the three months and worked on the project which
encompassed and involved the team members and collectively we completed the project .
I also worked in morrisons which gave me the insight and indepthness about the human
resources and interact with many people and used my skill of managing the time
effectively and constructively.

Task 2
identify the three skills gaps which are required to be developed
It is very important for an individual to develop various kind of skill in order to be
effective and efficient while working within the any kind of project. The learning and
development of na individual plays an important role in developing the skills. At the time of
the academic learning and completion of the project it is important that an individual is able
to develop the various kind of skills gaps. The skill gap is the various strategies and the
weakness of an individual which need to be improved so that the individual is able to achieve
the goals and objectives. The various skill gaps are discussed below:
 Team management skills= this is the most important skill which is required to dve
developed in order to be effective and efficient while working for the development of
an individual. During my project based research I was able to manage my team but
this is the skill where I need improvement. There was the skill gaps which I able to
recognise at the time of the completion of the project is that I was not able to become
a proper team management because at times I was rude to my team members. So, it is
very important that an individual is able to develop the team management skill where
there is a lot of task which need to be reperformed. This plays a major role for an
individual in developing an effective ways in order to manage the team and complete
the task in the effective way.
 Analytical skills- this is the skill which is related to the analytical part of solving the
issues and thinking in the different way. It is very important for individual to improve
over the analytical skill which is required at every point of time in the further studies
and development. This was the skill gap which was able to identify where there were
issues and it is essential that analytical skill plays a major role in completion of any
project whether in academic or further in the career development .
 Decision making skills- This is the skill which is related to making the right deciion
for any situation or circumstances. It ism very important that this skill is developed in
order to be effective and efficient. This skill plays a major role in being the productive
for an individual. This was the skill gap which was found where an individual is not
able to make an effective decisions in the situation. It is very important to develop
decision making skill in order to develop the career of an individual. Where an
individual is able to make an effective decisions.

Action plan
Skills Why need to be
developed
How it will be
developed
Time frame
Team management
skills
This is the skill which
need to be developed
in order to be effective
and efficient so that an
individual is able to
develop this skill to
complete the project in
the effective way.
This skill can be
develop where I can
focus on the various
ways such as
managing the team in
my academic learning
and completing the
task within the tea,m.
2 months
Analytical skills This is the skill which
need to be developed
in order to be
analysing the different
perspective in an
effective and efficient
way
This is the skill which
I can develop by
performing the
different task within
the effective way. I
can develop this skill
mu performing the
task in the creative
way and completing
the courses.
3 months
Decision making
skills
This is the skill which
need ot be developed
in order to make an
effective decision in
the different
circumstances.
This is the skill which
I can develop in the
various ways as I can
cake the decision.
4 months
Job description
Job Title – Business consultant

Purpose and Scope
the main purpose of hiring as a business consultant is to provide with the solutions to our
customers so that we can develop a brand image and serve best to our clients.
Job Location – Welwyn Garden
Position – Human Resource Manager
Reports to – Regional Manager
Responsible for:
 Receiving of applications and scrutiny of potential applicants.
 Conduct interview of the shortlisted applicants.
 Performing all the formalities from joining till relieving of an employee.
 Responsible for employee’s payroll
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that there are various types of skill which
has individual is able to develop at the time of the project in order to gain the competitive
advantage. There are various types of learning where the individual is able to focus from the
project. It is very important for an individual to analyse the strength and weakens and
improve over the weakness. The level of confidence which has been created at the time of
project is that an individual is able to increase the confidence of performing the task in the
effective manner. There is the various aspect which need to be considered by the individual in
order to be effective and efficient while working for the project. It is very important to have a
career action plan so that an individual is able to develop the skills in the effective and
efficient way.

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