Personal and Professional Development: Career Development Plan, CV, Cover Letter, Achievements, and Improvements

Personal and
Professional
Development

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
PART 1............................................................................................................................................3
Career Development Plan...........................................................................................................3
Action plan worksheet.................................................................................................................4
Skills assessment worksheet.......................................................................................................4
Career options and relevant qualifications needed......................................................................5
Jobs and Placement search..........................................................................................................5
Part 2 ...............................................................................................................................................5
Curriculum Vitae.........................................................................................................................5
Cover Letter................................................................................................................................6
Part 3................................................................................................................................................6
Current Achievements.................................................................................................................6
Improvements..............................................................................................................................7
Identify how to move forward in career development................................................................7
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development aims at helping individuals to manage their own
growth and learnings throughout their career. It is very important for all the individuals to
continuously engage themselves in learning so that the skills and knowledge is retained and up to
date (Dikilitaş and Yaylı, 2018). This also helps in ensuring that the work done by any individual
is legal, safe and effective. This report contains a plan for career development focused on the
potential skills and the qualifications needed. It also contains options for the placement and how
to find them. This report contains a CV Relating to the career ambitions along with a cover letter
for applying to the job posts for specific position. This report will also reflect on current
achievements, identification of improvements and how to develop skills to improvements.
MAIN BODY
PART 1
Career Development Plan
Any plan made for the development of career by an individual is known as a career
development plan. The said plan is made by following the “5-Step Career Development Model”
The steps are as follows:
Illustration 1: Simons, 2021