Foundation Degree in Business & Management Personal Pitch

The report discusses the importance of personal pitch for graduates and how to develop key competencies, career prospects, and progression opportunities in Foundation Degree in Business & Management. It includes a SWOT analysis, career action plan, and potential progression activities. The report also highlights the importance of future training and development to mitigate gaps and convert them into strengths.

Personal Pitch

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Key Competencies..................................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
Career Prospects.....................................................................................................................3
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
Progression Opportunities......................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
References:.......................................................................................................................................6
Books and Journals.................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Personal pitch is recognised as an overview of an individual the represents of concise summary
related to the experience and skills as a candidate (Pinxten and et. al., 2017). For graduate it is
very important to develop personal pitch in order to gain employment for the eminent career and
future progression as a graduate employee thereby addressing the key competencies. Foreign
graduate employee to meet the requirements related to the job specification and person
specification it is very important to gain the effective work-related skills that will help an
employee to seek better future job opportunities. In order to seek the post graduation it is very
important for an individual to suitably analyse the strengths and weaknesses and skills which will
contribute in the future progression thereby developing short term, medium term and long term
goals as a graduate. The present report will deliver presentation related to make a competency a
conducting a SWOT analysis further in the report the career prospects which will specify the
career pathway for the above competency using the short term medium term and long term goals
as a graduate. At last the report will highlight the progression opportunities justifying the
potential progression activities that will help in the end of the studies as a graduate.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
Key Competencies
Personal audit using SWOT Analysis
Strengths Weaknesses
 I have graduation degree in science
background from the top university.
 I have attained merit in my graduation
subject (Klinkhammer and
Schemmann, 2018).
 I have top ranker in my class during my
graduation.
 I have done extra certificate and
diploma courses in the particular
 I have no prior job experience.
 I have poor practical knowledge in my
graduation subjects.
 I have poor habit of getting late to my
work.
 I have low communication skills.
 I have poor presentation skills during
the work meetings and also have lack
of confidence to present myself
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subject during my graduation.
 I have outstanding technical skills and
computer science skills.
 I am highly motivated and determined
towards my duties and responsibilities.
effectively.
 I have lack of problem solving and
decision making skills.
 I have low leadership skills (Jager,
2020).
Opportunities Threats
 I have opportunity to develop my
leadership skills as they are important
for my job as a graduate.
 I have an opportunity to gain the
working experience for the future
career and development.
 The work from home concept is the
opportunity for me to gain the working
experience by staying at home.
 I have an opportunity to gain practical
knowledge of my studied subject by
doing job.
 My lack of communication skills are
threat for me as it will abide me to
interact with my co workers and also
keep me away from upcoming
opportunities for career growth.
 Not punctual for my work is threat for
me as this will bring bad impact to my
performance and also keep me resist to
attain the goals timely.
 The peers with the better skill sets are
the threat to me as this might not make
to selected in the job of my choice.
Impact of gaps
According to the above SWOT analysis my weaknesses and gaps in skills, attributes, and attitude
will overall impact my work related life and also my imminent career progression and future
access to post-graduate employment. As I have no prior experience this might keep me away
from the job profile and vacancy that requires experience candidates (Tung, Tang and King,
2018). My poor practical knowledge can impact my interview and also my work performance in
working area because due to this there will be low productivity. My low communication and
presentation skills can badly impact my profile as in working environment these two skills are
highly important to communicate with clients, sub ordinates, fellow members and customers. My
lack of problem solving and decision making skills are also bad for my career growth as this will
puzzle me in decision making related to my life goals, career progression and also for my
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decisions related to my post graduate employment. Hence the gaps in my skills, qualities,
attributes have bad impact on my resume for a job as a graduate.
Future training and development
In order to mitigate the gaps and convert them into strengths it is very important for me to enrol
myself into future training and development sessions. Model to develop and enhance my skills
qualities experience it is very important for me to be part of training and development for my
future career progression and to gain best job opportunities (Tian and (Chen, 2020). In order to
increase my communication and presentation skills it is essential for me to enrol myself into
communication and presentation skills learning classes as this will help me to understand the key
points required for making good presentation so that I did not like ok in meeting clients
requirement in my presentation and also able to gain their trust and loyalty thereby by becoming
more confident while presenting among other people in the meetings. It is very important for me
to be a part of training and development session where my lack of problem solving and decision
making skills can be mitigated as it is very essential for me to take appropriate decisions by
planning course of action. For me future training and development is highly essential in order to
mitigate the capsule that is not reflect to my career as a thread thereby keeping me on track of
continuous learning.
TASK 2
Career Prospects
Career Action Plan
What is my goal? How will I do it? Why is it important? When will I do
it by?
My short term goal is
to improve my
communication skills.
To improve my
communication skills I
will interact with more
people in my classes
during the graduation
and in work with my sub
ordinates. I will also take
communication learning
classes for gain
As a graduate it very
important for me to have
excellent communication
skills as for job search it
is very essential to give
interview for which
communication skills are
must and also in working
area I will be requiring to
interact with my
colleagues.
2 months
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confidence while
communicating with
others (Han and et. al.,
2021)
.
My medium term goal
is to improve my
practical knowledge
of my graduation
subjects.
To improve and enhance
my practical knowledge
for my graduation I will
participating in training
and development
sessions where I will be
given practical task to
utilise my knowledge of
subjects in my
graduation which will
improve my critical
thinking skills to as I will
be identifying what
known as I will be
required to complete the
task in a practical
manner.
The current business
environment as a job
seeker it is not enough
for me to only have a
theoretical knowledge
therefore it is very
important to improve the
practical knowledge and
to understand how my
knowledge is
implemented in the
practical work during my
job. Therefore it is very
essential for me to
improve my practical
understanding related to
my subjects in my
graduation (Tang, 2017).
1 year
My long term goal is
to gain work
experience.
In order to gain work
experience I will enhance
my skills and capabilities
and build my resume
thereby applying for
teacher job role in the
various recognised and
My long term goal to
gain the work experience
in the top well recognised
firm because it is
important for me so that I
can gain the career
progression and the
5 years
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renowned companies. I
will also work on my
interview skills so that I
can clear the interview
process to get the job
there by gaining the
work experience. I will
work hard in my job to
gain outstanding
experience (Wilson-
Daily, Feliu-Torruella
and Romero Serra,
2021).
opportunities for
postgraduate
employment. Also the
work experience provides
me with lots of
knowledge skills key
competencies that can be
utilised in another job
role.
TASK 3
Progression Opportunities
The justification of some of the potential progression activities and their associated potential
barrier in progression that I pursued to gain career growth and development and further to attain
post graduate employment are:
Gaining the leadership and management skills highly important for my future career as it will
help me in planning and managing the teams during the job can also help me to develop myself
with appropriate leadership style thereby making me responsible and accountable to manage the
various working activities for potential growth and career progression but it also contains some
progression barriers lack of encouragement and support of higher authorities and lack of
promotions and development opportunities which hinders my progression activities in a
significant manner (Zheng and et. al., 2021).
 For my career progression I have increased my I engagement towards academic and
practice based learning in order to attain the practical knowledge related to my subjects
which will help me to gain more experience understanding about the theoretical
knowledge thereby making me move towards opportunities where I can utilise both
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practical and theoretical knowledge of subjects but I face barriers towards my career
progression such as lack of training and development ineligible training and lack of
finance.
I am increasing my skill set in a specific subject area there by assessing and observing the factors
that are required for enhancing of the skills in the specialist subject area which will required
teaching material and resources coaching and mentoring but I am facing the progression barrier
because of the and relevant teaching methods and strategies of the teachers and also training is
also inadequate (Kelly, 2017).
CONCLUSION
It is concluded from the above report that it is very important for an individual to gain skills
that will provide an individual to attain and develop professional career as a graduate. Therefore
it is very important to analysing key competencies that will help in recognising the shortcomings
which will be overcome using the opportunity and the strengths and to create the current path
which will direct towards the long term goals of achieving the good position in the work related
life. Hence, therefore is very important for a person to appropriately justify the potential
activities for the progress in the professional and the professional development and to analyse a
career development opportunity for graduate in the study sector.
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References:
Books and Journals
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post-traumatic osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage.
Jager, A., 2020. 2.‘Bunglers’ and ‘duds’: the painters listed in Doeck’s and Meijeringh’s
inventories and their career prospects. In The Mass Market for History Paintings in
Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam (pp. 73-102). Amsterdam University Press.
Kelly, S., 2017. Personal branding for entrepreneurial journalists and creative professionals.
Taylor & Francis.
Klinkhammer, D. and Schemmann, M., 2018. User-generated Student Course Evaluations:(How)
Can Key Competencies become Systematic Evaluation Parameters. Trends and Issues in
Canadian Adult Education. International Yearbook of Adult Education, pp.107-122.
Pinxten, M and et. al., 2017. Approaches to the identification of STEM key competencies in
European University systems. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual SEFI Conference (pp.
389-397). SEFI.
Tang, B.L., 2017. Could sirtuin activities modify ALS onset and progression?. Cellular and
molecular neurobiology. 37(7). pp.1147-1160.
Tian, F.F. and Chen, L., 2020. Higher Education and Career Prospects in China. Palgrave
Macmillan.
Tung, V.W.S., Tang, M.F.C. and King, B.E.M., 2018. Tourism industry career prospects and the
business environment: E vidence from C anada and M acau. International Journal of
Tourism Research. 20(4). pp.518-525.
Wilson-Daily, A.E., Feliu-Torruella, M. and Romero Serra, M., 2021. Key competencies:
developing an instrument for assessing trainee teachers’ understanding and
views. Teacher Development, pp.1-16.
Zheng, Q and et. al., 2021. DLX6-AS1 is a potential biomarker and therapeutic target in cancer
initiation and progression. Clinica Chimica Acta.
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