Career Viewpoint: Personal Analysis and Career Action Plan

The report covers personal analysis and career action plan for a makeup artist and starting a beauty salon business. It includes SWOT analysis, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The plan helps to develop skills like time management, patience, mentorship, and marketing. It provides a personal development plan with activities, resources, success criteria, and timeframe.

MG410 Career Viewpoint
CW2

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
PERSONAL ANALYSIS................................................................................................................3
CAREER ACTION PLAN..............................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Career Viewpoint is a process with the help of which the individual able to identify and set
goals and search job based on their own skills. The present report will cover the personal
analysis as well as the career action plan. Through personal analysis the individual can analyse
its strengthen and weakest skills. With the help of personal analysis using SWOT model, I will
analyse my own strengthen skill and also identify the skills or area where I am lacking. After
identifying the area, I will further prepare a career action plan which indicate the SMART action
I will take in order to improve those weakest areas. The job opportunities identified from the
CW1 is makeup artist which help me to achieve long term goal or career of starting my own
Beauty Salon Business (Al-Baldawi and et.al., 2021). Makeup artists is a job opportunity I have
identified which will help me to gain experience on this field and further help me to start my own
business in future. The list of skills and expertise that I have identified to achieve my career and
start my business includes dedication, hardworking, effective communication, time management,
financial management, marketing and mentorship skills.
PERSONAL ANALYSIS
In order to achieve my career in staring my own Beauty Salon business and currently do my job
well as a makeup artist I need to various personal as well as business skills. This includes
effective communication, time management, mentorship, hardworking etc. In order to identify
and analysis my own skills and the area where I am lacking, I need to use the SWOT model. My
personal analysis as per SWOT model is as follows:
Strength:
 Effective communication
 Hardworking
 Dedication
 Financial Management
Weakness:
 Time management
 Patience
 Marketing skills
 Mentorship and leadership skills
Opportunity:
 Customer service
 Delegation
 Active listening
Threat:
 Accounting

On the basis of above table, my strength, weakness, opportunity and threat for becoming a
makeup artist and in future starting my own business is as follows:
Strength: My biggest strength is my effective communication and hardworking skills. I
have the ability to communicate my thought and ideas with other in full confidence. From my
childhood I always be a hard worker the impact of which I always get highest marks in the class.
Hence, in my point of view, these skills will help me to start my own beauty salon business and
currently gain experience in employment as a makeup artist. Further, the dedication and financial
management is also my strengthen skill because during my college I have learned basic finance
via joining finance related course (Issayev, Masalimova and Magzumova, 2018). I know with my
high dedication power I will gain experience in salon very quickly and will also start my
business as soon as possible as it is my ultimate career goal.
Weakness: From my personal analysis, I have also identified that there are various skills
which is my weakest but is significant part of makeup artist employment and salon business.
This is basically including time management, patience, marketing as well as leadership or
mentorship skills. But I have realised that this are those skills which I not only need my in
current employment as makeup artist but these skills will also help me in starting and running my
Beauty salon business easily. This are basically some of the areas where I am lacking and which
I need to develop in myself as soon as possible in order to achieve my targets and guide my team
in future. For example, because of the poor learning strategy, I always find difficult to complete
the tasks on time that why this area is weakest area of mine.
Opportunity: In addition, I have also visualised from the personal swot analysis that
there are also some of the skills which are opportunity for me to develop in myself with the help
of which I can became a great makeup artist and start my own business. These skills are active
listening, customer service and delegation (Teoli, Sanvictores and An, 2019). Basically, I will
not develop these skills in myself currently as it does not affect my current employment as a
makeup artist but I will definitely develop and learn it in future or within 2 or 3 years.
Threat: There are also skills which is basically threat for me as I have no interest on it and I
really don’t like it. This is accounting skills. I have reviewed that the accounting skills will not
affect my current employment as there is no relation between makeup artist and accounting

skills. However, I have also analysed that the accounting skill is the major part of business
operation but as I am not like this or have less interest in learning it, I will hire an accounting
expert for my salon business in future (Mikhaylova, Nikitaeva and Kokodey, 2020).
CAREER ACTION PLAN
Personal development plan
Skills / Areas Activities need
to be undertaken
Resources
required
Evidence or
success criteria
Timeframe
Time
management
skill
In order to
develop time
management
skill and learn
this skill, I need
to set target,
prepare
schedule,
monitor it
regularly and
rewarding
myself for every
successful task
completion
within the set
timeframe
(Cordova, 2022).
The resources I
need to develop
or learn time
management
skills is time
tracker to set
time limit for
tasks and
monitor it
properly. Also, I
need different
purchase
different gift
items that I will
reward myself
for task
completion on
time. For this I
need money or
funds.
The evidence or
success criteria
through which I
will measure
whether I have
successfully
completed this
skill in myself or
not is feedback
from my friends,
conducting time-
based
examination and
completing it
within the time.
Further, if am
able to read a
book within four
days that I will
assure that I have
achieved time
management skill.
The timeframe I will
require to complete
this skill is 3 months.
Patience This is also one The resource I The success I will develop this

of the most
significant skills
which I need to
develop. In order
to develop this
skill in myself, I
will do regular
exercise and
meditation (Grit,
2019).
need in order to
develop patience
through exercise
and mediation is
exercise mate,
equipment,
peace place or
garden. For some
of the resources,
I also need
financial
resources to
purchase the
mate and
equipment
related to
exercise.
criteria to
measure the
successful
development of
this skill in
myself is
harmony, calm. It
means when I
able to listen
people carefully
and do not get
angry with
anyone wrong
action or word, I
will realize that I
have successfully
developed
patience in
myself.
skill in myself within
the timeframe of 2
months.
Mentorship or
leadership
In order to
develop this
skill, I need to
make a plan,
build patience,
start taking part
in group
activities. It
means I will take
part in group
assignments and
also became the
The resources I
required to
develop this skill
is paper and pen
in which I make
a plan.
I will take
feedback from my
friends, classmate
and family
regarding this
skill in order to
measure the
success of
leadership or
mentorship skills
(Rad, 2019).
I will develop this
skill in 6 months.

leader of my
team in order to
learn about how
to guide team
member. In case
if I will not
become leader of
my team then I
will review or
actively listen
my group leader
and analyse how
they will lead or
guide a team.
Marketing
skills
In order to learn
marketing skill
and strategies, I
need to join an
online course of
marketing
management.
For this I need
financial
resources and a
smart tab on
which I will join
online course
watch daily
lecture in order
to develop
marketing skills
(Bukharina,
2018).
The success
criteria of this
skills are
feedback from my
tutor, my
performance
during or after
course, test marks
etc. This are some
of the measures
thorough which I
will analyse or
measure whether
I have
successfully
learned marketing
skills or not.
The timeframe of this
skill is 6 months

CONCLUSION
After summing up the above information, I am able to identify my strongest as well as
weakest area or skill. The area where I am lacking will be developed by me on myself with the
help of career action plan I have created above. The overall assignment has helped me to
understand the benefits of self-reflection and identifying own weakest area. This assignment has
enhanced my morale and confidence level and also helps me to known that time management,
patience, mentorship and marketing skills or area is my weakest area which I have to develop in
myself if I want to successfully gain experience as a makeup artist. This assignment has also
helped me to know the opportunities I have in my career of starting own beauty salon business.
The personal development plan has been stated the activities or action I need to take to develop
skills, the resources I need, success criteria as well as the timescale I need to develop this skill.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
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