Personal Development and Transferable Skills for Career Growth

This portfolio emphasizes the significance of personal learning and development in an individual's career growth. It covers different approaches to inculcate personal learning and development, transferable skills, leadership skills, and interpersonal skills. It also includes an action plan and a curriculum vitae.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Required skills at the time of academic skills, personal life and the workplace.........................5
Action plan...................................................................................................................................5
Curriculum vitae (CV)................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Personal development refers to those tasks which helps an individual in its overall development
and improves his quality of work in its regular life. Personal development is a life long process in
the life of an individual. The portfolio identifies the significance of personal learning and
development in a person’s career. Henceforth, the main emphasize of this portfolio will be on
different approaches to inculcate personal learning and development in an individual. The
portfolio will lay emphasizes on personal development learning log including transferable skills,
leadership skills and interpersonal skills. Under this portfolio, an action plan has also been
created.
MAIN BODY
Personal learning and development
Personal development is the process which provide assistance in accomplishing the goal of life in
effective as well as efficient manner. with the assistance of the personal learning and
development programme I have ability to improve my quality of work, add more values in my
skills in order to lead the better career path. I have adequate sources to develop the skill for
instance education, for proper guidance teacher, mentors , family, self help which strengthen my
skills. nowadays it is playing essential role in day by day as it add more values in the skills and
knowledge in our life (Beenen, Pichler, Livingston, and Riggio, 2021 ). When I attend the lecture
I determine that the personal development programme increase the potential in context to
develop the ability relater to employability. The speaker provide guidance to me and clarify my
career path which need to be smooth and successful for the better future. Along with that I
identify that I can acquire the opportunity to become more skilful as well as enhance my
personality. This process of learning and development is beneficial for the long period of time
and improve my employability skills for the better future. It play vital role in operating the
forthcoming challenges in proper or valid style. Beside all of this I personally acquire the
possibility of determining my own strength and weakness by which I make improvement and
modification in my lifestyle (Bottomley, and Willie Burgess,2018). Also, I can clarify the area of
improvement which help me in increasing my confidence and deliver ability to take more
challenges as well as capability to lead the candidate or workers in the future.
I personally believe that I am confidence enough to represent myself and the organisation in the
market or in front of the audience. I have the capability to complete my task on time with proper

systematic form which will assigned to me for the particular period of time. Beside this I am self-
motivated person who is enthusiastic to acquire more knowledge and have faith in delivering the
ethical values (Butina, 2018). Moreover, I have the capability to operate or manage work-life
together or keep balance between professional as well as personal life. As I am critical thinker so
I am able to make fast decision for the employees and for welfare of the organisation.
simultaneously I find difficulty in solving the problems of the employees and the members of
organisation who is facing the difficulty within the company. Moreover, I have the habit of
making too much research which I considered as my weakness because too much researching on
something create confusion and divert the mind from the task. it is very important to keep your
mind stable at workplace in order to play the best job role (Choi, Slaubaugh, and Tian, 2021).
Due to this researching process some time I consume extra time in delivering the perfect data. As
the time is precious t is important to deliver the data on time in international companies.
Transferable skills
The skills I have develop at the time of attending lecture and working on the learning and
personal development programme. Through delivering more strength to skill will help in
improving the resume and I am able to elaborate or expand my CV to attract the attention of the
interview in order to grab the better opportunity poor the future (Immanuel, Sankar, Saravanan,
and Jose, 2021.). My transferable skills are mentioned in a such manner which is as followed as:
Leadership skill: I determined that I can become the good leader because I am the confident
personality who will not hesitate in monitoring and controlling the employees of the
organisation. therefore, the manger or the leader is to enhance the performance of the employees
by motivating them toward the same goal of the organisation (Koprowska, 2020). I have ability
to cooperate and coordinate with the members of the organisation or the other people.
Time management: it is essential element in which the task supposed to complete on time. I
develop the time management skill in more effective manner it is the most required skills of the
organisation as well as interviews because if you are not able meet the deadline in allotted time
then there is no sense of giving hard efforts at workplace.
Learning skill: by my personal observation, I observe that I can acquire the knowledge or the
information rapidly as I am having the capability of learning things fast . it also give assistance in
delivering the effective service in a given time period (Moldoveanu, and Narayandas, 2019.). It

will provide the opportunity to gain the success rapidly as nowadays the new operation are
lunching in the market every day.
Creativity: through the various curriculum activity I performed in the academic time I learn the
creative ideas of completing task which bring creativity at workplace as well. Along with that it
enhance the performance of the company along with my personal growth (Mukhiddinova,
Sodiqova, and Jurayeva, 2021). Through the creative ides I will able to satisfy the employees and
provide the positive culture to the different kinds of people which is essential to get success.
After developing all these skills, I aim to secure the job of human resources manager who can
operate the function of the organisation. also, hire and fire the employees of the organization for
further benefits. Therefore, the position of hr manager in the future will be the best career path
for me according to all the skills I have mentioned above.
Required skills at the time of academic skills, personal life and the workplace.
For the better career path, I need to work some skills of mine and remove all the barrier which I
can face in the future. with the assistance of this I will improve my skills so I will able to work
with all the employability skills within the workplace (Owen, 2020). Beside this I can
accomplish my future goals in appropriate manner. At the time of the academic skills, personal
and workplace it is essential to fulfil the requirement of the skills which is need to improve in
effective way . Problem solving is one of the skills which need to improve for my better career
path . problem solving is the major issue at the workplace as the hr manager is responsible for
solving the problem of the employees as well as consumer if I am not able to solve this problem
then I will not able to accomplish my future goal in adequate way (van der Vleuten, van den
Eertwegh, and Giroldi, 2019). if I improve this skill of problem solving I am able to satisfy the
employees and enhance their performance for the better productivity of the organisation. Another
issue is too much researching which need to improve for the personal development and better
career path. This is the biggest weakness of my because it will create misunderstanding
sometime as I got confuses because of analysing too much data available on the internet provide
different information at particular topic. The researching process consist of various information,
collection of the data and various analysation . in order to improve this skill, I need to make
research in my spare time rather then doing research on working hours (Zaghloul, 2018) .
furthermore, it will increase the level of my confidence and provide assistance in briefing the
employees in perfect manner which will be productive for the organization.

Action plan
What do I want
to learn?
What support
and resources
will I need?
What do I have
to do?
How will I
measure
success?
Target date for
review?
Problem-solving
skills
Reasoning
question, develop
interpersonal
skills
I have to solve
all the reasoning
question which
include problem
solving question,
related to group
discussion
By examine the
answers of the
case study or the
reasoning
questions
It will required at
least 1 month to
complete this
course
Researching
process
Online
researching and
analytical skills
I will look the
relevant data on
the internet with
the assistance of
analytical skills
I will measure
the time I
consume in
researching the
actual data
before and after
development
process
In oerrder to
avoid the habit of
too much
researching it
will took 2 weeks
Curriculum vitae (CV)
ROBERT MORGAN
PHONE: [phone]
Date of birth- 20th December 1998
Email: [e-mail]

Address: 147 Great Portland street, London
SUMMARY
An enthusiastic individual person seeking to learn new things in context to that prefer to explore
different places. I am flexible regarding my work, hardworking, cooperative as well as
coordinative. I am having the ethical values, positive thinking along with positive mind. Beside
this capability to take challenges and responsibility individually. Adopting new skills and the
knowledge is my core strength. I am quite enthusiastic regarding my work and willing to acquire
new experience while I grow and learn.
Career objective
To secure work with an organisation that offer a reliable positive climate to learn and actualize
new advance for the improvement of the association and myself. Along with that the company
offer opportunity to grow and enhance my employability.
Hobbies
 In spare time prefer to read the magazines.
 Dancing and singing.
 Playing various sports like soft Ball, basketball, cricket etc.
 Passionate for travelling
Skills
 Able to meet the projects on time with all the responsibility and in systematic manner.
 Ability to deliver the creative ideas as having the critical thinking skills.
 Confident enough to organised and deliver the presentation in appropriate manner.
 Work with Coordination and cooperation with the member is core strength.
 Have capability to lead the people and provide right direction to the candidates.
 Proficiency in MS office tools and web search tool.
 Strong understanding of principles of business administration and their practical usage.

 Dedicated and hard-working personnel positive attitude and extremely responsible
leadership qualities.
 Capable of working in high paced, dynamic environment with co-operation.
Education
Completed Bachelor of Business administration from the university of London.
Pursuing master in business administration from the university of oxford.
Completed education from the Stewart Bilingual school.
Certification
Certified participate in attending the human resources conclave which is organised by Tesco plc.
Ltd.
Certified participate as the active citizen of the nation
Certified in the quiz competition for holding first position in the tournament.
Certified course in information technology for the market and certification in leading technology.
Academic project
 Encrypted dissertation on “ Berger Paint” in my final year. Covered topics as-
1. Emerging challenges in paint industry
2. SWOT analysis
3. Quality procedures
4. Competitive study on market shares
Completed theory project on Human resources cycle
 Encrypted dissertation on “ Tesco plc. Ltd” in my second year. Covered topic as-
1. emerging challenges in international market
2. PESTEL analysation
3. Marketing competitiveness
Theory project on business process of the organisation
CONCLUSION
From the above portfolio, it can be concluded that personal development skills can prove to be a
very important factor in order to achieve heights in an individual’s career path. The above stated
skills which include leadership skill can help a person in a managerial position to make
important decisions. Further, it can be stated that Personal development skills like

communication skills, adaptability, transferable skills, interpersonal skills help an individual in
gaining confidence and encourages them in achieving greater heights. It provides a vision in the
eyes of an individual to hustle for a better future.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Beenen, G., Pichler, S., Livingston, B. and Riggio, R., 2021. The Good Manager: Development
and Validation of the Managerial Interpersonal Skills Scale. Frontiers in
Psychology, 12, p.515.
Bottomley, K. and Willie Burgess, S., 2018. Changing generations in today's workforce:
Leadership skills for Millennials. Employment relations today, 44(4), pp.5-9.
Butina, M., 2018. Professional and personal development: professionalism, leadership, and
effective communication skills. American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science.
Choi, S., Slaubaugh, M. and Tian, X., 2021. Integrating learning interpersonal skills through
team-based learning (TBL) in a management course. Journal of Education for
Business, 96(8), pp.498-509.
Immanuel, G., Sankar, G., Saravanan, V. and Jose, M., 2021. Significance of interpersonal skills
and english language teaching. Materials Today: Proceedings.
Koprowska, J., 2020. Communication and interpersonal skills in social work. Sage.
Moldoveanu, M. and Narayandas, D., 2019. The future of leadership development. Harvard
business review, 97(2), pp.40-48.
Mukhiddinova, D.M., Sodiqova, S.T. and Jurayeva, Z.S., 2021. Developing effective
communication skills. Oriental renaissance: Innovative, educational, natural and social
sciences, 1(5), pp.966-972.
Owen, J., 2020. The Leadership Skills Handbook: 100 Essential Skills You Need to be a Leader.
Kogan Page Publishers.
van der Vleuten, C., van den Eertwegh, V. and Giroldi, E., 2019. Assessment of communication
skills. Patient education and counseling, 102(11), pp.2110-2113.
Wilkie, V., Lynch, M., Waters, M. and Mehay, R., 2021. Growing Tomorrow's Leaders Today–
leadership skills. In The Essential Handbook for GP Training and Education (pp. 503-
514). CRC Press.
Zacher, H., Rudolph, C.W., Todorovic, T. and Ammann, D., 2019. Academic career
development: A review and research agenda. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 110,
pp.357-373.
Zaghloul, H.S., 2018. Using creative educational drama to enhance self-development skills for
the students at university level. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science
and Applications, 9(4), pp.71-77.
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