Personal and Professional Development

Personal and
Professional
development

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
Self reflection and importance.....................................................................................................3
Academic skills............................................................................................................................4
Personal skills..............................................................................................................................5
Career based goals.......................................................................................................................5
SWOT analysis............................................................................................................................6
Personal development plan..........................................................................................................8
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
References......................................................................................................................................11

Introduction
Reflection is the way of analysing personal experience and ideas which describes the
reaction of an individual. It consists of sharing personal experience and skills by describing our
self in front of others. Here, the person who did reflection work of their file must know about
them self very clearly and able to examine whatever he understood from the given task
(Tepavicharova and Dikova, 2019). In simple words reflection is basically a narration of
personal experience. Personal developments are that area where an individual wants to improve
their personality first then other things later. By learning some personal development skills an
individual can grow their personality. On the other hand professional skills are those skills which
are required to perform a job or finding and selecting for dream job. These types of skills further
help an individual to perform better in their professional area. Skill development is very
compulsory in an individual’s life. A consistent group of skills is not enough for getting good
jobs. In today’s era everyone is working to develop their personal as well as professional skills
due to the change in trends and environments. It is important to walk with trends and convert
skills to match the recent trend in market. Therefore, it is important to develop personal and
professional skills on timely basis (Anjum, 2020). This report covers self reflection and its
importance, academic and personal skills and their importance, career based goals, SWOT
analysis and personal development plan.
Main Body
Self reflection and importance
I am a high school learner student perusing my graduation from MBA (HR). I am
interested in HR field and wanted to become HR manager in highly reputed company. I have
learned many HR skills at my high schools like communication skill, decision making skill,
solving grievances skills and many others which are essential to become a HR manager. Beside,
all this skills I am lacking behind in some other essential HR skills like time management skill,
analysing environment and few more. All this mentioned skills which are my strengths as well as
weakness are all important for me to get my dream job. Hence, I have to develop my known
skills and learn my weak skills as soon as possible because after few months I am going to enter
in corporate world where at initial I have to give interviews and fought for vacant job positions. I
can only win this battle of selection by showing my perfection of skills. I have few personal

goals like getting a high reputed HR job, buying a house and went for a world tour. All my
personal goals are important to keep me positive and happy for a longer period of time. My first
personal goal is to get HR job which I can only achieve by learning and developing my HR skills
and adopting the opportunities of getting the jobs. My second personal goal is to buy my own
house which will be fulfilled after completion of my first goal. When I get high reputed job, it is
obvious that I will get good salary. Hence, I can achieve my second goal by saving money from
my salary and buy house when I become stable from financial conditions. My last personal goal
is to have world tour which I want to achieve after buying my own house. I wanted to convert
this goal as long term goal and wanted to achieve this goal after 15 years from now. To achieve
this goal, I supposed to have enough money in my hand to travel different places and spend lot of
time there. For having enough money, I need to develop my professional skills.
Academic skills
Academic skills are those skills which are learned by an individual at their higher
schools and which help them in many ways (Kohli, 2019). I have learned many academic skills
like communication skill, decision making skill and etc. For communication skill, my teacher
supposed to teach me the ways of vocabulary improvement. I was interactive at my school time
with my friends, teammates and even with teachers too. I have learned that speaking on a given
topic does not mean that you are giving good communication skills. There are many other factors
which impact upon communication skills like listening. It is essential to listen what carefully
what your team want to convey the message. It is also important to use correct facts and figures
to speak on a particular topic. For true facts I supposed to learn newspapers and watch business
news everyday for a fix period of time. The only issue which I have face in learning this skill is
that my nervousness. I got nervous in front of a large group of people. I need to improve this
weakness by taking participation in speech and debate completions which is help in front of
whole school. This will help me to gain confidence and reduces my nervousness. I have also
learnt decision making skill as an academic skill be reading and understanding case studies and
articles of business world. Solving the questions of case studies will help me that how I can
develop my decision making skill be observing the situation, understanding it and taking
corrective measures to solve the issue. Both of my above mentioned academic skills will further
help me to get job.