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Preparing for Success: Self Development
and Responsibility
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Table of content
Contents
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................3
SELECTION OF DOCUMENTS.......................................................................................................5
1. Reading log:................................................................................................................................5
2- C.V...............................................................................................................................................7
3-Cover letter...................................................................................................................................8
4-Personal Development Plan- PDP..........................................................................................10
5- Research skills: QUESTIONERE...........................................................................................11
6- Research skills: INTERVIEW QUESTIONS.........................................................................13
7- Group Presentation..................................................................................................................14
8- Team Work................................................................................................................................14
10-Leadership...............................................................................................................................18
11- Communication skills.............................................................................................................18
12-LinkedIn....................................................................................................................................19
Summary explaining choices of portfolio contents..............................................................................20
References...........................................................................................................................................21
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INTRODUCTION
I am currently studying at Business Management at London of School
Commence & IT and working at Sainsbury`s as an online shopper. Skilled on
leadership, communication, adaptability, listening, patience, learning and imaginative
thinking. The course of Business Management prepares me for career through giving
me skills, experience and knowledge to succeed. At university, preparing for success
is termed as an interactive web learning tool for students that are preparing
themselves for higher studies or employment. Preparing for success is start of
academic journey of a learner in which a portfolio is prepared with the help of mini
project workshop. It is responsibility of a student to prepare themselves for success
in the same manner they plan to attain their career goals. With this, a student
prepares their mind and spirit for professional life so to turn it into a successful
reality. Mini project workshops are project based courses that are organised for cost
effective and learning fundamentals by applying theoretical concepts in effective
manner. In development of my employability, mini project workshops contribute by
helping me in distinct manner, such as forming groups, gaining insights about group
behaviour, learning in depth with minimum time, thinking about projects and
integrating with guides together with outside agencies. They provide a student an
opportunity for expanding skill sets, knowledge base addition to wider learning
experiences. Moreover, mini project workshop contributes in development of
employment of an individual because it provides an edge over recruitment for
carrying out practices harder with the purpose of ensuring good career. Present mini
project workshop entails portfolio of documents which highlight professional
achievements of mine. It enhances management skills of a student, boost their
earnings, guide them in learning new strategies, develop insights from like-minded
professionals and share new knowledge.
This Portfolio includes a variety of documents to highlight my professional
achievements in a cohesive manner in electronic format. I am encouraged to
consider an electronic format because it offers the distinct advantages of portability,
connectivity and accessibility. Portfolio of document comprises of 12 elements that
are Reading Log, C.V., Cover letter, Personal Development Plan - PDP, Research
skills - Questioner, Research skills - Interview, Group presentation, Team work,
Ethnical Issues - Informed consent, Leadership, Communication skills and LinkedIn.
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All these are prepared by me so to compile my academic working with other
evidences that are assembled to evaluate quality and achievements of academic
coursework. in developing my employment, portfolio of documents showcases my
talents along with abilities.
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SELECTION OF DOCUMENTS
1. Reading log:
Reading log is termed as a diary or journal that lets a student or individual to
record their redaing practices. For a student at University, reading log assist in
practicing rereading books that improves fluency and involves use of log strengthens
comprehension which is fun activity (Lerche and Kiel, 2018). For me, reading logs
remind for reading and encourage to record all the thngs that I have read. With this, I
focused on book titles which I have read so to keep up my good work. In order to
improve my reading skills I tried to read books and articles regularly and the table
below is a summary of my reading log.
Date Title Minute Explanation
12/01/22 Night 30 At the Austerlitz train station Moishe the
beadle little town in Transylvania where
he spent most of his childhood, met him
in 1941 two ghettos were created in
summit they arrive at camp
24/02/22 Holes 60 The start of the novel is about a boy
named Stanley who was arrested for a
crime he didn’t commit. He was sent to
Camp Green Lake. Once there was a
lake but during the years it changed into
a dry wasteland with dangerous
animals. There the boys must dig a hole
every day under inhumane conditions to
build their character.
16/03/22 Merchant of
Venice
45 Antonio is worried. His friends started
creating hypothesis about his sadness:
worried about his ships/merchandise.
But he had a feeling of melancholy he
can’t seem to explain. Bassanio is
Antonio’s friend and need money to
impress Portia.
01/04/ 22 To Kill a 55 It is the book that explore moral nature
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Mockingbir
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of human beings including whether
people are essentiallyu evil or good. It is
a story about a girl which is named as
Scout who along with her brother Jem
atempts to understand along with relate
to their father, Atticus, who is
professional lawyer but charged with
defending a black men falsely accused
of enraging a white woman. The case
stuck with Lee who further drew
inspirations for her experiences
belonging to childhood.
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2- C.V
I learned to create a C.V to provide information to the employer about my education
and skills, this helped me to apply for many jobs (Snowman and Kucharska, 2020).
PETRONELA RADEANU
KEY SKILLS:
 Cash handling and till work
 Excellent teamwork
 Flexibility and able to adjust to different task and requests as needed
 Ability to be friendly and polite, even when under pressure
 Confidence in giving advice and information
 Strong customer focus
 I am independent and resilient person
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
2014-Present: Sainsbury’s Online shopper
I currently work at Sainsbury’s as an online shopper.
Date:2014-Present
Employer: Sainsbury’s
Role: Online shopper
Duties:
 Collecting customer’s shopping to a high standard quality
 Accurately packed and picked high-volume orders in fast-paced
environments, enabling prompt dispatch
 Order picked using hand-held scanners with speed and
precision
2009-2013:
I spent 5 years as a sales assistant with ‘’BAGEL HOUSE’’ Acester Ventures.
During that time, I enjoyed the challenge of serving and working with our
customers. I strived to always be highly confident in giving advice and information
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by making sure I kept up to date with my role and the processes needed to deliver
a professional service. You will find me to be a fast learner and of a cheerful
nature always willing to go the extra mile to get the job done.
Date: 2009 – 2013
Employer: Acester Ventures (Bagel House)
Role: Sales Assistant
Duties:
 Serving customers and making sandwich
 Managing the till and cash handling
 Stock management
 Ad-hoc duties as required
 Always Working within Health & Safety regulations
EDUCATION:
2021-Present:
I started studying Business Management at London School of Commerce & IT -
London
2004: Finish commerce school
HOBBIES & INTEREST:
Enjoy travelling and spend time with friends and family. Also meeting new people
and learning about their cultures.
I often having interest in learning new skills and meeting new people.
References on Request
3-Cover letter
In order to support my C.V, I created a cover letter for the jobs that I applied and
emailed it to the recruiter (Horowitz, Wu and Kachnic, 2021).
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PETRONELA RADEANU
377A Green Lanes, Palmers Green, N13 4TY
ASDA
All Street
YY1 1ZZ
RE: ASDA-Store Assistant
14/05/2022
Dear Sir/Madam,
Please find attached my CV for the application of Petronela Radeanu of Store
Assistant position in ASDA.
I am writing to you to submit my application as Store Assistant position at ASDA,
which I saw advertised on the LinkedIn website. I am very excited about this
opportunity, as I believe I am an ideal candidate for your company.
I enjoy working in retail with customers and feel that I have got excellent
customer service skills and pick up new things quickly.
I am experienced in operating a till, I have worked in different departments and
enjoy learning new products and ways of operating.
I am intimately familiar with the needs of customers, and I have developed
excellent listing and communication skills. This has helped me to consistently
exceed sales targets, which has earned me recognition from my employer on
several occasions.
I am a car owner so I would like to travel to work by car, so I don’t have to rely on
public transport.
Should you be interested in my skills, please do not hesitate to contact me and
I will more than happy to answer and enquiries that you may have.
Thank you for reading my letter and CV and I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Petronela Radeanu
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4-Personal Development Plan- PDP
Personal development plan is an action plan which is used by an individual for
identification of goals as well as what they want to attain in future (Liedtka, Hold and
Eldridge, 2021). With this, I as a student is able to outline the strengths that I already
have and what I need to develop for reaching my career goals together with
improving my weaknesses that I think I may have. By using an effective personal
development plan, I can plan career change and build my current skills. Moreover, I
might also learn something that are new for me as well as attain new heights for my
career. In aspect to an employed person, PDP helps in having a well thought out
objective that aim for addition to work towards which can keep me motivated on
progression of career. My personal development plan that I prepared at University is
as follows:
Skills based
development
objectives
Activities for
achieving the
objective
Resources
required to
achieve the
objectives
Target
date
Interim
date for
reviewing
progress
To improve
communication
skill
 To become
mindful about
minor details in
content.
 Practising
completeness
together with
clarity in
delivery of
messages.
 Practicing
paraphrasing.
 Listening well
as well as
avoiding
Blogs about
communication,
YouTube
tutorials, Online
courses and
books.
June 05,
2022
June 15,
2022
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interruptions.
To enhance
management
skill
 Strengthening
my decision
making.
 Cultivating
self-
awareness.
 Establishing
regular check-
ins.
 Complete
management
training.
Ebooks,
webinars and
online courses.
June 10,
2022
June 20,
2020
To develop
technological
skill
 Reading
technical
books.
 Taking online
courses for
coding.
 Hang out with
geeks.
Technical
magazines,
online tutorials
and Software
Guild.
June 15,
2022
June 30,
2022
5- Research skills: QUESTIONERE
This module helped me to be creative and create a questionnaire to collect data for
my research (Murtonen and Balloo, 2019).
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6- Research skills: INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
In order to run research for my presentation, I needed an interview question to
collect data from students. The following are the questions:
1) What motivates you to take part of this course?
2) What are your greatest strengths and weaknesses?
3) Tell me about a big project you had to plan for school or work?
4) What do you expect from other in a team environment?
5) How comfortable are you speaking in a large group situation?
6) Where do you see yourself four years from now?
7) Can you describe a time when you contributed in a team to complete a class
project?
8) What do you enjoy most about your education?
9) What academic achievements do you hope to succeed by the time you
graduate?
10)How have you improved you communication with your classmates and
teacher?
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7- Group Presentation
Group presentation serve purpose of seeking out addition to report
information for a text which is valuable to class discussions. It is significant
component of academic addition to business projects. Group presentation is
important for me as student as it help in learning ways to speak in front of others. A
student in group presentation assist in learning ways for preparing materials related
to public presentation along with practice that improves speakingf abilities (Fort,
2019). At same time, for an employee at multinational company, effective gropu
presentation ensures that an individual communicate right things to team members.
With this, I am able to avoid miscommunication addition to enhance effectiveness
with team of Sainsbury`s. while studying in the University, I had a group presentation
on the topic of “How to be an effective student”. In this, I learned to break complex
tasks into steps and parts, challenge assumptions, plan and manage time,
brainstorm more ideas and refine understanding with the help of discussion and
explanation.
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8- Team Work
Teamwork is a collaborate effort that is undertaken by group of set of
individuals for achieving common goals as well as completing a task effectively and
efficiently (Vogler and Et. Al., 2018). It teaches essential social together with
communication skills including effective speaking, listening and hence forth. In my
university, I complete one of my project with team work wherein I learn ways for
listening leaders along with coaches for performing individual roles, I as a student in
team working learnt about how to listen to others for functioning effectively and
grabing more opportunitis for career growth. While carrying out team work for
completing an assignment, use of Tuckman’s team development theory helped me
and others to develop insight that team develops ability and maturity, establishes
relationship as well as changes in leadership style occurs to more collaboartive
manner.
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9-Ethical issues:Informed consent
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10-Leadership
Leadership entails an ability of a person for leading, encouraging, influencing
together with guiding others for completing of specific working or achieving a goal. It
is vital functioning that direct resources for achieving goals as well as improved
efficiency (Putri, Mirzania and Hartanto, 2020). For me learning about leadership
provided a clarity of purpose addition to guide for realising particular objective. With
effective leadership skill, I am able to bring best competences among team members
together with motivate them for working collectively for achieving shared goal. As a
student, leadership skills is significant for me to know ways for better organising a
team addition to work with stronger together with weaker points. Moreover, while
working in an organisation, leadership can assist me to prevent burnout of any
human resource due to effective delegation of roles. It strengthens good relations
and motivates a person with huge influences in order to cope with dynamic situations
or events. A leader who explodes in rage along with screams to teammates generate
negative work environment that leads to unproductive results.
11- Communication skills
Communication skill is the capability of a person that is used when giving
along with receiving variant types of information. In competitive world,
communication skill helps students to adapt with growing age together with
concentrate on key aspects. With effective communication skill, an individual
achieves success in personal and professional life. For instance, it helps them to
have better participation addition to contributions. it is learnt by me that
communication skill is significant for a learner as it persuades them for perceiving
surroundings that boosts their level of confidence ad morale that limits their stress.
Moreover, for me, without well-developed communication skill, I might run risk of
falling behind my classmates or becoming emotionally overwhelmed as well as
withdrawn at university. My academic success depends on my communication skill
as it is an art that always keep room for learning, growing addition to developing my
talent. At workplace, it increases job satisfaction, foster engagement, guide in
handling conflict, builds better relationship and develop trustworthy relationship
among superiors and subordinates.
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12-LinkedIn
I found the linked in a good of making connection with other people in my field.I was
also able to apply for some jobs with the help of this application.
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Summary explaining choices of portfolio contents
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