Managing People and Careers

This homework assignment focuses on managing people and careers, covering topics like effective communication, leadership, and professional development. It includes a cover letter, reflections on group work, problem-solving strategies, and interview preparation techniques. The assignment also provides a comprehensive list of references for further research.

Managing People and
Careers

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COVER LETTER
John Dickson
2414. Carols Hills
London, United Kingdom
15 August 2018
MNP DEF
Merchandise Administration Assistant
Arcadia Group
London, UK
Hello
I have affiliated my curriculum vitae in response to the internal posting. I would like to
express my curiosity in the post as a Merchandise Administration Assistant. From this post,
I will able to supply an existing opportunity to me to use my ability which I possess. I am
very dedicated to my work. I have front line, corporate and operational skills. This post will
render me an amazing opportunity to me. For this post, I am a strong candidate for
Merchandise Administration Assistant job. I have the best communication skills that are
very important for the job.
From my attached Resume or Curriculum vitae, you can see that I have recently completed
my degree of Masters in Business Administration. In masters, knowledge and skills I have
developed makes me a powerful and most suitable nominee for this job.
As mentioned in your job posting that you are offering job for Merchandise Administration
Assistant. Addition to all this, I have served many multinational companies during my
internship and I took training for more than 6 months in Hilton Hotel. My passion for the job
creates interest for this post. Besides this, I also have knowledge and interest on executing a
dissertation in front line management and its operations.
I am very assured that I can take the required level of skilfulness with me to your company
as well as I can serve the best services to your customers and make them fully satisfied.
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Satisfied customers leads the great success to your company. Satisfied customers lead to
great success to your company. I am involved in wider company decision making activity
that includes policy and purchasing decision. I have capabilities and abilities to provide
administrative support to the merchandising team, providing necessary support to
Merchandising Assistant Manager, Merchandiser and Senior Merchandiser. I am also expert
in planning and developing merchandising strategies.
I am also working as Merchandise Administration Assistant at Fafetch at present. Leading a
team of five staff at Fafetch that is online retail company in clothing. You can take my
report from Fafetch company that how I worked there.
Obligations:
 Keeping up to date with the current in cell phone technology
 Consumer services
 Cash Handling
 Attaining phone calls
 Entire management of office activities
For your precious time and attention, Thank You so much. I come forward to meet you for
discussing my curriculum vitae for Merchandise Administration Assistant.
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1. State the work you want to do for us?
There are many explanations because of which I have enthusiasm for the employment
opportunity of becoming a Merchandiser Administration Assistant at Arcadia. As a matter of
first importance, I am having unmistakable fascination in activity administration work since
the time I was taking degree in the significant territory. This can be broke down frame the
way that I have picked an examination point in light of activity of administration for
achieving my goals and objectives in effective manner. Likewise, I have every one of the
necessities that are asked in the activity detail. These aptitudes and information will without a
doubt help me in functioning according to the necessities and requests of company. Further,
the element which is putting forth the activity is exceedingly successful and acknowledges
inventive thoughts taken for the business. This will give me an extraordinary open door in
substantiating myself. The post of Merchandiser Administration Assistant focused on the
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viability of inventive thoughts brought by the workers in the bleeding edge and
administration tasks. Henceforth, along with these lines, I can accomplish my profession
objectives in a brief time-frame by basically actualizing the thoughts.
2. Reflection on a time you worked in a grouping to accomplish a goal. What is the
result and reflect it on what is done?
I believed in trust that gathering work is an exceptional instrument that help me to
achieve my desire goal and objectives in a powerful way and a specified time span. I have
found different highlights of this sort of work when I had arranged my thesis. Being the
manager of the group, I was substantially nearer to the reality about the significance of
gathering working. I feel that there are different advantages that were snatched as a piece of
group which cannot be achieved exclusively. We initially made an arrangement with various
exercises for achieving the task like inventory valuation. These isolated trips were later
allocated to various colleagues relying upon their aptitudes and capacities. This has aid in
acquiring every one of the area of plot with the most extreme flawlessness. Furthermore, a
period restrict was set with each assignment so the piece of work can be finished in an
undertake time span. Therefore, we have finished the work on time with solid information.
Moreover, being manager of the group, I have kept up a solid workplace altogether.
Likewise, an abnormal state of correspondence was there in between the individuals.
3. State us about a time when you analysed a new plan of attack to solve an issue.
What is the result?
My past workplace helped me in gaining effective knowledge and understanding of
managing various work based activities and issues. I additionally learnt numerous
methodologies with the assistance of which I can resolve various issues. Furthermore, the
primary approach which I learnt is to resist the urge to panic when any issue has been arrived.
This is extremely hard to resist the urge to panic while we are confronting any issue and we
can without much of a stretch get freeze. I dignified this way to faith in myself and my skills
to manage the issues. At one time during my work or task there in my past job I faced critical
circumstance and I was unable to get myself out from that circumstances. Thus, I choose to
resist the urge to panic and afterwards endeavour to discover the answer for that issue. It was
then exceptionally basic for me not to freeze in that circumstance and trust in my capacity
that I can take every necessary step. This assist me to develop effective skills which would be
helpful for me in my forthcoming course of study of work and in addition, the results were as
expected.
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4. State a time when you had to manage a number of different priorities and
complete a number of tasks in a short amount of time. (State the result)
In the past, one of my associates were on leave and afterwards, I have to deal with the
entire work in office. In the beginning, I was particularly stressed over how I will have the
capacity to deal with all the work and would I have the capacity to finish all the assignments
on time. There were distinctive sorts of needs which I was having and I likewise couldn't
designate them to others as they were vital. Thus, I by one means or another sorted out and
figure out how to appoint that piece of my work which was not that much vital and other
could undoubtedly do that work. Arranging and after that sorting out the distributed work in
the neighbourhood government will be critical as they will deal with numerous kinds of
issues and accomplishing the target of nearby government. So I could meet every one of my
due dates by settling on fast choice of designating the simple errand and keeping the needs at
my end. This will likewise guarantee the proficient utilization of assets which are accessible
with them and afterwards settle on a choice about how to assign the asset in that manner
which will help the organization is accomplished its goal.
5. Reflection of the project you worked on that needed you to stimulate others in
your own opinion of view (What is the result and what do you do?)
I was the manager of organisation so there are a portion of the characteristics of the
manager which they should be taken after and afterwards convince others to do nature of
piece of work on period of time. The skill of the person or the learner of organisation will
identity enlisted in the nearby country of England legislature to speak with each of the
unrivalled and individuals on the job with them and it is known as ingratiation
communication. As this is the skill of the individual or person to communicate to other
individual with full assurance which will propel them to adjust the hypothesis or thought
which the transmitter will attempt to pass on. The occupation and work of a manager in
bunch is especially lucid with the measure of inspiration which they are giving to their
specialists. They have to inspire and prepare the representative that how might they have the
capacity to achieve their set objective. I realized that communication plays a vital role within
organisation so for developing project or anything, it required good communication skill in
employees. The work assist them with gaining understanding into Merchandiser
Administration Assistant, functional conveyance and embodied administration of the board
and this program will be intended to help the administration student through acquisition and
advancement.
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3.
Name- John Dickson
Address- 2414. Carols Hills
London, United Kingdom
15 August 2018.
Email- johndickson25@gmailcom
Mobile Number- 34586765
Personal Profile- I wish to work as a Merchandise Administration Assistant in Arcadia
Group. I find myself very existed to work in Arcadia Group. This is very beneficial for me
to work in Arcadia group as it is very fast growing company in UK. I have capabilities and
abilities to provide administrative support to the merchandising team, providing necessary
support to merchandising Assistant manager, Merchandiser and Senior merchandiser. I am
also very expert in planning and developing merchandising strategies. I also want to have
professional competencies in retail sector by being expert in the field of corporate manager,
operational manager and front line manager. I am the type of person who get a kick out of
going above and beyond the call of duty and has the proven leadership skills along with
effective communication skill. Right now, I am going to look for opportunities to build my
career with company that has flexible, healthy and friendly working environment where I
can lean, develop and thrive.
Career History
Merchandise Administration Assistant at Fafetch Jan 2016- Present.
Responsible for shaping the retail strategy within business, ensuring that plans works and
taking decision on matters relating to day to day retail operation.
Duties:
 Planning and making strategies for mechanising strategy with the company's other
activities.
 Increasing the department’s sales by developing retailer engagement and maximising
profit margins.
 Managing the performance of individual Retail area.
 Ensuring the retail store operating in the selected region to achieve set income, net
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profit and client service mark.
 Ensuring that performance issues of staff are self-addressed and solved in a suitable
and timely mode.
 Ensure that team leaders and employees of the company have all the instruments
they need to get their jobs done properly.
Professional Skills Management
 Customer care Approach is boosted within the company by rapidly investigating
cases of poor client care.
 Motivated and high performing team can be built by effectual style and approaches
of leadership.
 Open constructive feedbacks and always listening carefully to what employees have
to say about organisation.
 Super organised.
Personal
 I am open mined person.
 I have ability to see the big picture and not matter how complicated things get.
 Super communication skills.
 Develop good working relationship with colleagues and other manger.
 I have good learning capacity.
 I also have team working skills.
 I also have management skills, I can organise meeting, seminars etc.
 I have good listening skills.
 I also possess a good listening skills.
 Have a good command in English.
Educations and Qualification
 Bachelors of Commerce
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 University- MBA(E-commerce)
 High School- CPS
 Certified computer education
 Certified in Orientation Programmes
 Languages learn Java.
Other
 National basketball player (2 times)
 Winner in interstate Debate competition.
 Participated in curricular activities.
 Blog Writer/ Content Writer
4.
Reflection
 For the job vacancy of Administration Assistant at Arcadia group I have undertaken
some seminar interviews.
 To prepare for a job role, one needs to go through an interview process. I am aware
about the job process as I have given it before as well.
 After that, to prepare for the interview, I have practised so many questions and there
answers which are generally asked during the interview and to prepare it in a better
way, I wrote down all the questions on flashcard and picked them randomly.
 This preparation helped me in knowing about my weaknesses and strengths.
 Practice with flashcard helped me in assisting about answering questions coming in
any order.
 In an interview, giving correct answers is not the only thing one should prepare for,
that is why I have equally focused on my body language, eye contact and postures.
 Further, to know my performance, I have given the chance of recruiting me to my
friends and family members so that I can know my presentation and performance
before going for the interview.
 All the activities of interview preparation in front of family and friends were
performed in a separate space.
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 To feel the real interview procedure, I have prepared for it seriously and practised it
more so that I can covert my weaknesses into my strengths.
 I believe that this hard work and practice will help me in the interview process for the
job position of Administration Assistant at Arcadia group.
 By learning I have experienced many things while preparing for the interview like I
got complete knowledge of the company as I have done good research on the
company.
5.
Refection
 The seminar of interview of Merchandising Administration Assistant post of Arcadia
helped me in developing my intelligence in the field of computer program, innovative
skills and leadership. Now, I am more capable of doing work in a professional
manner.
 I have experienced many things while preparing for the interview like I got complete
knowledge of the company as I have done good research on the company.
 I took so many steps for presenting myself in an effective manner. Along with this, I
have maintained good relations with others so that I can develop more knowledge
while interacting with others.
 In order to work in an effective manner, assessment training program has helped me a
lot and with this training program, I have developed the skills that are essential for
Merchandising Administration Assistant post.
 Working in team together with the candidates helped me in knowing how to work
with others in a corporative manner. The seminar of interview of Merchandising
Administration Assistant post of Arcadia is very helpful in order to develop the
competence so that I can work in an expertise manner.
 With on the job in the Arcadia Group in am capable to develop my development in
the pursuing spheres like corporate work, Front line manager and operation manager.
This all helped me in developing team in a professional manner.
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