Personal Development in Professional Settings

PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT IN
PROFESSIONAL
SETTINGS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Section 1: Career Goals...............................................................................................................3
Section 2: Personal SWOT analysis............................................................................................4
Section 3: Gaps within my skills, knowledge and experience in order to successfully achieve
my career goal..............................................................................................................................5
Section 4: SMART objectives in order to achieve career goals..................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Personal development is a unique way for people to evaluate their qualities, talent, skills
in order to consider one's goals in life to realize and enhance their potentiality. There are mainly
three aspects which defines the personal development in better way i.e. improving self
awareness, building own identity and development of talent (Holloway, 2017).
This report will highlight the concept of career choices along with its SWOT analysis in
order to explain gaps in skills, experiences and knowledge.
MAIN BODY
Section 1: Career Goals
Career choice is a difficult task in order to balance personal talent or characteristics with
societal constraints in a way to implement in career decisions over time. There are variety of
career choices and options available which includes Agriculture, food and natural resources,
Architecture, Arts and communication, Business management, Education and training, Finance,
Government administration, Health science, Hospitality sector, Human services, Information
technology, Law, Manufacturing, marketing and many more (Teoh, 2017). But as per my
characteristics and interest I would like to prefer my career development in either Management
and administration, Finance and the last one is Journalism and broadcasting.
The reason I would like to grow my career in Management and administration as
according to me I am fantastic at communicating, motivating, organizing planning, problem
solving and mentoring others which are the primary and foremost characteristics within the
candidate to handle the management within an organization efficiently.
Another opportunity for me is that I would like to grow my career in finance field as
well, as I am wonderful at analysing scenarios and draw suitable conclusions according to the
conditions. I have good analytical abilities along with complete and prolonged knowledge of IT
software which helps in developing complete evaluation of situations.
The last option for me that I would prefer in order to develop my career is Journalism
and broadcasting as I feel that I have compelling manner and the ability to draw information
from other people, clear and professional broadcasting voice, good and efficient writing skills,
able to analyse the story and the way it should be present in front of everyone and the last one
is excellent reporting skills (El Zubeir, 2021).