Personal and Professional Development

Personal and professional development
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Table of Contents
PART 1............................................................................................................................................3
Identify 3 career goals and select preferred options....................................................................3
PART 2............................................................................................................................................3
Identify and explain your strength, weakness, opportunity and threats......................................3
PART 3............................................................................................................................................4
Explain any gaps in skills and knowledge you want to address to achieve goals......................4
Options available to bridge gap between current situation and career........................................4
Personal development plan..........................................................................................................5
PART 4............................................................................................................................................6
Identify 3 steps that are SMART.................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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PART 1
Identify 3 career goals and select preferred options
In recent times, there are many career options and choices available for an individual to chose
from. These career options depends on skills and knowledge possessed by individual and what
are his or her aspirations. Similarly, i also have a 3 career choices to be choose from. They are
defined as below : (Bukharina, 2018)
Teacher – it is my first career option in which i want to become a teacher. This is because i am
having interest in teaching students. Also, my hobby is to give tuition to other people. thus, i can
develop interest in this field and become a good professor or teacher in any field.
Doctor – this is my second career goal to become a doctor. I want to save lives of people and
provide them health care services. Moreover, there lie many fields in which i can become a
doctor like dentist, psychiatrist, cardiologist etc. Moreover, i want to serve people by helping
them.
General Manager – it is my last career aspiration. In this i want to become a GM of large
organisation. Here, i want to handle and manage team of 50-100 people. i like to manage people
and my interest is in doing it.
From above i selected goal of becoming a GM. This is because i think that skills and
knowledge possessed by me is relevant for this career. Also, i will be easily able to become GM
and apply these skills in it. So, with that i can attain company goals and objectives. Besides that,
i will get vast opportunity for growth in this career and a handsome salary as well. I do not want
to become doctor or teacher because it requires high skills and knowledge in it. (Dacillo, 2018)
PART 2
Identify and explain your strength, weakness, opportunity and threats
In order to analyse my current skills and qualities i did a SWOT analysis. It can be very
effective as it analysis the areas of personal development. It is equally useful regarding
evaluating as a part regarding career discussions. Personal swot analysis focus on own goals as
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