Managing People and Career

This document discusses the importance of managing people and career in the professional world. It includes topics such as cover letters, job applications, CVs, and reflective accounts. The content is relevant for students studying management or anyone interested in career development. No specific course code, course name, or college/university is mentioned.

Managing People and
Career

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
An appropriately targeted cover letter.........................................................................................3
Appropriately targeted competency-based job application answers to supplied questions........5
An appropriately targeted CV.....................................................................................................7
Reflective account.....................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
An individual's career is a long term deal which goes on for many years till the person
has the capabilities and will to work efficiently in their respective professions and industry. The
beginning of ones career in their early age involves multiple skills, learnings and most
importantly professional documents which reflects his or her abilities (Baluku and et. al., 2018).
The report consist of such documents such as a cover letter, job application questions and a
Curriculum Vitae (CV). At last a reflective statement is given too presenting the understanding
and learning of the presenter of the report. All these professional documents are developed for a
Accounts Executive professional and for the job vacancy of Accounts Executive in Arcadia
Group a retailing company which is located in London, United Kingdom and dealing in retail
sector by making sale of clothing, accessories and shoes.
MAIN BODY
An appropriately targeted cover letter
500
COVER LETTER
POC Road, London, UK
(222)-747-47365
[e-mail]
0123456
ABC
27th August, 2020
XYZ
Director, Human Resource,
Arcadia Group Ltd.
London, United Kingdom
JOB TITLE: Accounts Executive
Dear Sir or Madam,
This is my potential opportunity to express my interest towards the vacant position of
Accounts Executive at Arcadia Group Ltd. I got the information about the vacancy through a
news paper advertisement which was posted on official website of company on 1st August

2020. as per my knowledge I possesses skills required for the post of accounts executive in
Arcadia Group Ltd. and have high level of confidence and faith in myself that will be very
successful in fulfilling my job responsibilities. For acing and becoming successful in the area
of accounts, a professional requires to have appropriate analytical skills so as to complete the
roles and tasks related to the job in most efficient manner and in given time frame. Thus, I can
say that I have the abilities to attend all the tasks related to my job role and fulfill my duty as
expected. I have good knowledge of the subject and have potential accountancy skills
developed through my academic leanings and practice which helps me in working in all related
areas of accounts and finance. I also ace in developing effective communication with others
that enable me in creating and maintaining lucrative relationship with clients and my
subordinates which automatically renders potential results to company in attaining the goals
and making customers satisfied.
I am a keen learners which keeps me motivated and curious for learning more about other
aspects of business as well such as I have great interest in sales and marketing activities and
which is a value added service which in can render to the group. As an accounts professional
my analytical abilities are efficient but I do have good research skills which is supported by my
analytical power enabling me in assessing the market trends and make better action plans and
suggestions. Moreover, my interpersonal skills which makes me employable are efficient too
assisting me in developing better relationships with other in organization and maintaining and
contributing to positive environment in workplace. I have experience in the field as I have
undergone to a internship of 10 months under an expert within a program in London. During
my internship my main job was to be on the counter and look over all the membership related
details and finances about existing and new members accounts. My effective communication
skills and my knowledge enable me to be creative while performing my duties. I was praised
by my seniors for my good work. I am highly interested in the position of accounts executive
at Arcadia Group Ltd. and strongly believe that my internship experience, skills and
knowledge in accountancy makes me suitable for the job position of Accounts Executive at
company. I hereby attached my Curriculum Vitae and answers to five questions asked in order
to complete job application process. I look forward to hear from you.
Thank you for your consideration and time.
Yours sincerely,

Miss ABC
Appropriately targeted competency-based job application answers to supplied questions
Why do you want to work for us?
Arcadia group is a well established brand that is leading in retailing sector. I think it will
be a best opportunity for me to working with such a big and great organisation. I think I have the
potential to apply my skills as well as capabilities to perform the activities and operations of
company which will help me in both personal and professional development. My skills and
knowledge are matching with the requirements of company that will be a great asset for business
growth. It is a famed organisation that is providing training sessions to its staff members which
will assist me to upgrade my skills, knowledge level and capabilities in an efficient and effective
manner. It is analysed by me that organisation is offering equal opportunity to all its workers to
showcase their talent and ideas that contribute my efforts and ideas towards attainment of
objectives and desired goals in a timely manner. I have an experience in account sector and a
string knowledge about work ethics that assist me in implementing and managing all activities in
an accurate and appropriate manner as well. This company has a healthy and positive working
environment that will assist me in working with full potential and put efforts towards
achievement of organisational objectives. This all are the main reason to work such a great
organisation.
Tell us about a time you worked in a group to achieve an objective (what did you do and
what was the outcome?)
There are several activities and tasks where I have performed and worked in a team.
According to me, working in a team help in enhancement of skill and competencies due to
which a person can gain better opportunities in coming future. In my previous internship
programme, we have allotted a task that involve 9 team members. For conducting all the
activities and complete task on time period, we are scheduled a meeting first. In the meeting, all
the team members were given their ideas and suggestion so that implementation of task and
achievement of objectives will take place timely and successfully. This meting was assisted in
developing the morale of team members high that in turn has positive impact on the
implementation of activities. By the help of such meeting, every team member are clear with
their roles and duties that helped in carried out activities in a systematic manner without any

confusion and issues as everyone has the idea how they work and want they require to be done.
We all contributed our efforts and applied our skills and knowledge so that common goal is
achieve on time. By the assistance of team effort and working, we were able to finish task in a
timely and appropriate manner that will help us in gaining better opportunities in coming future.
Tell us about a time when you identified a new approach to solve a problem. (what did you
do and what was the outcome?)
In market while working like others I have had numerous instances and situations where I
had to be creative and adopt unorthodox approach to solving a problem and mitigate effects of a
challenge for which I had to find a new modified way of doing things. One of the biggest
challenges that I faced was that of tracking and aligning my working pace with my team
members. I was a part of a team of 20 people working in the internship program. It was a
complexed situation for me as was just an inter who had no past experience and have put first
steps towards my career. Therefore, I was sure that is need to prove myself here and for which
best was to use my capabilities in practical scenario and make best use of all the learnings I
gathered from my academic classes. I pushed my boundaries and made myself comfortable by
making relations with other interns in my team and in other team as well. In the beginning I was
nervous and things were difficult for me but I improvised and get pass of my nervousness which
enable me in gaining better experience as was collecting all the knowledge and learning from all
my superiors in the position and work by observing every possible learning form them and their
experiences.
Tell us about a time when you had to manage a number of different priorities and complete
a number of tasks in a short amount of time (what did you do and what was the outcome?)
Working for a company on a responsible position is a huge task involving serious of short
and long term duties. There are many times when I required to multitask in order to be efficient
and for completing the assigned role on different priorities. In my previous internship I worked
over multiple project even one two or three projects in similar time period which required me to
work with my full potentials and to keep everything managed by myself. In such situation I
learnt and evolved as got the taste of market and professional world. I was given tasks with
different priorities which were mostly short term which put me in panic situation but through
guidance of my superior that is my team leader or my mentor during the internship I managed
my work potentially and completed all assigned tasks in their respective priorities. These

multitasking situations allowed me to gain knowledge about myself and my capabilities of
stretching my boundaries. I developed a strategy for temporary basis which is of prioritising my
tasks and then putting efforts in them for completing them in the given time.
sTell us about a project you worked on that required you to persuade others to your point
of view (what did you do and what was the outcome?)
The experience is related to time of my academic learning as I was assigned a team
project with my fellow classmates. This was an academic project which was related with
analytical evaluation of financial and statistical data of a renowned organisation. The aim of the
project was to gain in depth knowledge about the financial information and decisions made by
company in order to deal with multiple situations and to know the efficiency of their plans. We
were 8 members in the team and I was chosen to the leader of our group. I was very keen for the
project and to lead my group properly by making appropriate ideas and strategies for working
to complete this project and along with this I involved every members contribution by engaging
them in developing action plans and promoting their ideas and innovative opinions. We have to
present a presentation of our findings in front of teachers as well as other student in class. As a
result of this team work where I persuade my point of view leads to achievement of 1st position
in class amongst other teams.
An appropriately targeted CV
CURRICULUM VITAE (CV)
General Information
Name- ABC
Address- POC Road, London, UK
Contact no.- (222)-747-47365
Email ID- [e-mail]
CAREER OBJECTIVE:
My career objective is to work in a renowned organisation in which in can improvise my skills
at the time of working for the firm and completing my tasks potentially. My aim is to face all
challenging situations along with exploring growth opportunities to advance my career in the
field.

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:
Exceptionally hard working and knowledgeable Account Executive with a good revenue
generation and customer service records in previous company. Effective multitasker who
enables to complete accounts projects with complete accuracy and cost efficiency according to
priorities of projects and matching with deadlines.
EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS :
Educational
Qualification
School / College University Grades
M.Com XYZ College London University A
B.Com XYZ College London University B++
Secondary
Education
GFH school of
London
Recognised Board A+
High School
Education
GFH school of
London
Recognised Board A
WORK EXPERIENCE:
10 Months internship in reputed organisation.
Key responsibilities
 Analysing financials of company and developing appropriate accounts at the year end.
 Create lucrative relationship with clients.
 Respond to queries of customers and resolve their issues with factual information and
data.
 Provide value added services to clients with exciting sales presentations. Communicate the information regarding products and services in an effective way.
Key achievements

 Multitasker
 Keen learner
 Praised and recommended by seniors for higher position due to my efficient
performance.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION:
Won a trophy as a best performer in a project during internship amongst other interns and
managers.
INTERESTS:
 Music
 Cooking
 Making Artefact
 Reading Novels
COMPUTER PROFICIENCY:
 MS Excel
 MS PowerPoint
 MS Word
 HTM
 SAP
SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
 Innovative and Creative skills
 Potential analytical abilities
 Team working
 Quick learner
 Adaptable to challenging environment
 Self Motivated
 Effective writing and communication skills
 Good problem solving and decision making skills
TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE:

 Accountancy
 Audit
 Taxation
 Sales and Marketing
PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Father's name: PQR
Mother's name: MNO
Nationality: British
Date of birth- 15st June, 1998
NATURAL ABILITIES:
 Self motivated
 Driven and energetic
 Competitive nature
 Friendly and interactive nature
DECLARATION:
I hereby declare that the entire information disclosed above is true and real to my
knowledge and all certificates are issued by recognized board/college/university.
Reflective account
“How business ready I am right now” is utterly dependent upon my self evaluation and
reflection for which Gibb's Reflective Learning Cycle is used. This is the most commonly used
and famous model of reflection which is adopted by individuals for reflecting upon their own
experiences and knowledge. I am also using this model to reflect on my experience, learning and
self evaluation over the factor that if I am business ready or not in current scenario.
From my past experience in my 10 months internship I have learnt numerous things about
the professional world and market about how its works and about few tactics which are used for
dealing with emergency and complexed situations. I have actually gained enormous amount of
knowledgeable facts and practices which are necessary for a professional to hole and which
made me felt more important.

The whole experience of my internship was great I had multiple learning and exploring
options through which is extended my boundaries and explored all the opportunities which
rendered me an appropriate learning about my self that I am a multitasker. The situations which
is faced in my internship period was complexed but with unbounded support of my superiors I
improvised and grown.
Therefore, for the whole experience I have learnt that I am a potential accounts executive
who is ready to work in more complexed and difficult environment and which is why I applied
for the vacant job role in Arcadia Group Ltd for the position of accounts executive. I always
wanted to work in a renowned company and I feel that this is the opportunities which will enable
me to reach my higher goals and move further in my career.
Thus, as conclusion it is clear that I am ready for business and to enter into a typical
professional environment where I will be performing tasks rendered to me by the superiors while
handling huge projects and working up to company's expectations.

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