Managing and developing careers PDF

Running head: MANAGING AND DEVELOPING CAREERS
Managing and developing careers
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MANAGING AND DEVELOPING CAREERS
Contents
Evaluation of significance............................................................................................................................2
Reconstructing the experience....................................................................................................................2
Analysis........................................................................................................................................................3
Lessons learnt..............................................................................................................................................4
Applications.................................................................................................................................................4
References...................................................................................................................................................5
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MANAGING AND DEVELOPING CAREERS
Evaluation of significance
The relative value and the experience that I had from the first employability event where a career
advice session was conducted by Daniel Merza at Western Sydney University Paramatta campus
helped me understand my career opportunities and made me brainstorm the various potential
aspects related to my future career. I participated in a quiz which made me interpret my thinking
and self awareness through identification of my needs and wants in career aspirations and results
which I desired to attained. From another event where career advice was presented from
Rohilesh Singh the experience and relative value that I gained was to understand my skills that
were significant for employment. The events helped me reflect on self awareness, my needs,
desires, strengths and weakness giving me a clear picture in mind for my career path and the
approach I intend to take to reach to my goal (Tomlinson 2017). These events gave me a deeper
insight into my own self, towards my career goal and helped me built confidence and inspiration
to take a positive and well structured action based on thoughtful decisions.
Reconstructing the experience
The salient point that I had experienced from first event was learning about myself i.e. I gained
self awareness that included identifying areas where I am strong and good as well as recognising
the weak areas which I needed to work upon for improvement so that I could enhance my
employability skills. I learnt that concept of self awareness is quite vital to give clarity to ideas
and direction to thoughts as it my own realisation of needs and desires helped me understand my
individual characteristics, my own strong points and weakness as well as qualities that could
support my employability goals and areas that I needed to improve (Nimmi and Zakkariya 2016).
Overall in first event I got to identify myself and I realised that I am good in interacting with
people as during the event I made some new contacts as well as learnt about my deeper insights
on what goals I aspire in future. Moreover the self evaluation activity helped me understand my
practical knowhow on employable scenario and helped me rate myself on personal skills,
communication, technical and soft skills, reasoning and management etc which broadly helped
me understand my capabilities and attributes. Also I was given feedback on this activity which
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