Importance of Personal Branding and Curriculum Vitae in Career Development through Higher Education

ORIENTATION FOR
SUCCESS IN HIGHER
EDUCATION

Contents
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INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Career development is long process chosen by an individual to make a successful and
ideal lifestyle. It is developed by putting a lot of efforts in building up self-skills that is utilised in
the path of career (Walker‐Donnelly, Scott and Cawthon, 2019). An individual while developing
their own career must gain knowledge in particular fields that interest them. It must be fully
planned but before that there must be self-analysing their strengths and weakness rather going
through the path that do not interests them or have no idea about the path. The skills and
knowledge must match their abilities to seek out more opportunities in advance and may change
to another as per suitability (McWhirter and McWha-Hermann, 2021). Higher education is part
of career development as it boosts an energy to learn new things in an individual, by this they
could choose their career on the basis of their favoured field and in which they are best at. The
outline of this essay will be further discussed on the importance of career development perusing
higher education for employability ( Lee and Lee, 2018). The essay is based on following topics
of personal branding, enhancing the Curriculum Vitae of their importance and few tips to
enhance these for better employment opportunities. Skills will be assessed by selecting any two
and reflecting the self-experience accordingly by also focusing on how it would be implied in the
career development.
MAIN BODY
In the recent era, the individuals are looking for a well settled life. Today, the students in
the college itself are deciding their goal and according to which they pursue their higher studies.
Higher studies are the major step to reach to the desired goal (Vondracek, Lerner and
Schulenberg, 2019). Another career developing method that involves are two of them which are
personal branding and curriculum vitae.
The personal branding means in creating a special identity of a person that is compared with a
brand. It ensures that to develop a self-skill that can result as the world would start to know you.
The audience are always looking for an extra ordinary individual that as uniqueness among
others as the skills are quite different from others. Branding not only depicts in relation with the
marketing but also mainly focuses on being a different you. Personal branding is a significant
part of in the process of career making as the people when in need of any person, the identity of a
person is something that the recruiter first gets attracted to. The person’s identity tells a lot about
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