Personal Pitch: SWOT Analysis for Career Development

This report includes a personal audit of skills with SWOT analysis, career action plan, and progression opportunities. It assesses the effectiveness of work-related skills in meeting job requirements and highlights career development opportunities for graduates within the study sector.

Personal Pitch

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................4
Key competencies: Personal audit of skills with SWOT analysis..........................................4
Career prospect.....................................................................................................................11
Career Action Plan...............................................................................................................11
Progression opportunities.....................................................................................................13
Conclusion ....................................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Introducing oneself sets out the platform for professional conversation whether at the beginning
of an interview, networking event or with a colleague. Personal elevator pitch is one of the
significant tool used by people to make introductions concise, clear and effective (Kilian and et.

al., 2021). The aim of personal pitch is to address someone with 3-5 key message that we want
them to remember about ourself. The objective of the report is to assess the effectiveness of work
related skills in meeting the job requirements of self and person specifications related with the
job profile an individual is seeking after pot graduation with the help of SWOT analysis.
Furthermore, the report also highlights the career development opportunities for graduates within
the study sector.
Main Body
Key competencies: Personal audit of skills with SWOT analysis
This tool will enable me to assess the hurdles, areas of improvements, skills and competencies
that will add value in my career path, and what measures to be taken to meet the goals and
objectives set. Below mentioned is the SWOT analysis for graduate employment towards career
progression and development (Muradás-Taylor, 2021).

For graduate employment this skills will enable me to express my self better and respond to the
interviewee's questions effectively. Good communication skills assist in understanding the job
role, maintain healthy relationship with peers and working in a professional manner (Mahipala
and Parnichkun, 2021). Communication skills builds confidence and ability to listen effectively
which is attribute of good communicator. Time management skills: While pursuing graduation I have developed good time
management skills which will help me avoiding procrastination at workplace and delivering
work on time as per their level of priority. Setting time limits for tasks and allocating these task
on priority scale always keeps me updated and completion of work on time. Decision making skills: Another key competency is good decision making ability on the
basis of facts and figures rather than making decisions by being emotional and judgemental This
skill will allow me decide and take on better opportunities in future for career development and

future progression . Apart from this good decision making skill will help me in resolving
business issue in a effective and analytical manner.

 Sensitive or self critical: My sensitive and low tolerance behaviour will affect my
tolerance ability at workplace with criticism and harsh attitude of superiors and C level
executives. Being sensitive at workplace act as one of the biggest obstacle at workplace
as things seems to be negative and unfavourable. Additionally comparing my self with
the progression and achievements of others brings self criticism, low self esteem and

morale. All these factors will affect my work productivity and confidence (Shin, Oh and
Shin, 2020).
 Attempt to take too much responsibilities that result in stress: I consider my self too
much responsible and make efforts to take too much responsibilities on self which
sometimes leads to stress and skipping important work and tasks. I should always try to
take limited responsibilities so that each duty is completed within stipulated time limit
and proper work management with ease and comfort without any stress.

 Internship under renowned chartered accountant : While getting certification in
accounting and taxation I got chance to work with a well established chartered accountant
firm where I leant and applied my knowledge for six months. This internship will help
me getting employment in relevant stream and industry.
 Readiness for learning: One of the significant advantage for my career development and
future progression is that my ability to always ready and keen to learn new things.
Learning is something that should be continued forever because it not only open up the
new career paths but also enhance one’s wisdom and expertise.

 Rise in technology: technological advancements and innovations taking place in the
business environment has reduced the demand for workforce and everything from
education to business is becoming tech oriented and experts in delivering online services
(Illner, Sovka and Rusz, 2020). Unstable economic and political conditions.: Another threat for my career development
is unprecedented events like pandemic, political strife and unattractive economic
conditions impede the organizations to make expansion and establish their business
which in turn leads to the low demand of job over supply.
Impact of skills gaps for future access

From the above analysis I have revealed that lack of confidence will affect my further
pots graduation studies as I am planning to pursue masters in financial management. Confidence
helps in shaping positive behaviour of an individual and assists in acquiring knowledge and
further learning. Apart from this lack of confidence will affect my ability to take initiate at
workplace and study institute along with impeding me to become social. Having positive and
healthy relation both in education and workplace contribute towards building network. Another
skill gap is self critical and low tolerance behaviour which will affect my learning ability. People
makes mistakes and receive criticism, my sensitive behaviour will not accept the criticism and I
can not look at the positive side of making improvement in work and learning. Furthermore, with
sensitive and low tolerance behaviour, I will not be bale to work under pressure and receive
command from superiors as they maintain little harsh and rigid attitude.
Future Training and Development

For increasing my tolerance ability and accept criticism I have to look up for the positive side of
the criticism and take opportunity to learn from them. Accepting the behaviour of faculty
members and employers along with good listening ability will enable me to accept criticism and
strengthen my sensitive behaviour (Hopkins and et. al., 2021). Additionally, in order to reduce
the load of responsibility one of the best practice is to accept the work that is within my potential
to complete it and as per the areas of interest.
This will help me in reducing the stress by mitigating amount of responsibility and
contribute towards bringing specialization, productivity and quality in the work done. And lastly,
to build a confidence one of the significant practice is to seek feedback and recommendations for
the performance or outcome delivered. I feel motivated and confident when I receive feedback
for the work done as positive feedback will bring consistency in quality standards and
commitment towards work. Whereas, any negative feedback will tell me where do I fall aback
and where do I need to do improvement that keeps me focused in developing skills for better
performance.

Career prospect
Career Action Plan
ICT Skills will enable me to conduct my post graduation via online platforms as due to COVID
learning is imparted online. Additionally, ICT skills will open up a new career path for me as
businesses are looking for a tech savvy talent.
My medium term goal is to enhance my interpersonal skills.
These skills encompasses several other skills which is concerned with exchange of information
between two people. By practising empathy, having positive attitude and with self awareness
I can enhance my negotiation, team work, decision making and conflict resolution skills.
Additionally, getting insight from recent management practices opted by leaders, managers
and entrepreneurs will help in developing these skills.
By developing this skill I will be able to work effectively at workplace and acquire learning from
educational institute. Interpersonal skills are significant for interacting with people and that in
turn act as a basis for building good networking.

This goal could only be attained while working in some of the prestigious financial institutions
and acquire relevant knowledge and skills so that I can prosper and grow in this field with my
expertise and experience. This goals is also attainable by getting enrolled in some advanced or
certified courses (Shin, Oh and Shin, 2020). Financial management lies at the core heart of any
organisation, therefore, this goal will enable me to get better opportunities in financial sector and
hold prominent position in MNCs.

Progression opportunities
This set back has been removed with the help of proper guidance, training and development
provided by my superiors and peers (Shan and et. al., 2021). My mentors taught me how to deal
with criticism and consider it positive approach and opportunity for my personal development.
While learning and making efforts towards improving this skills I faced difficulty at initial stage
as my rigid and complex behaviour proved to be big hurdle in that progress. Apart from this, I
also learned to priorities my responsibilities and work in effectively manner. Prior developing
this trait I was open to each job responsibilities which was assigned to me which lead to stress
and poor management of work. With the proper learning on how to accept responsibilities and
say “no” at workplace helped me at prioritizing work duties and responsibilities. I got confused
initially which work to accept and which one to leave but with the guidance and support of my
manager I learned to accept work responsibilities as per my potential and job specialization

Conclusion
Personal SWOT analysis gives an insight about one's strengths and weakness that affects the
career and personal development journey in future. Furthermore, it has also been observed that
having clear and objective career goals help the person in attending his career action goals and
objectives with an appropriate strategy.

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