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This personal portfolio covers personal development abilities to analyse the career development tools and resources. It includes personal statement, CV, SWOT analysis, short/medium term career objectives, and analysis of resources to support personal and professional development.

Personal portfolio

Table of Contents
SECTION - A INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW OF THE PORTFOLIO.............................3
SECTION – B – PERSONAL STATEMENT................................................................................4
SECTION – B - C.V........................................................................................................................5
SECTION C: ACTION PLAN: PERSONAL SWOT ANALYSIS................................................8
SECTION C: ACTION PLAN: SHORT/MEDIUM TERM CAREER OBJECTIVES..................8
SECTION C: ACTION PLAN: SMART GOALS FOR MY PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT. . .10
SECTION C: ACTION PLAN: ANALYSIS OF RESOURCES TO SUPPORT MY PPD.........11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

SECTION - A INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW OF THE PORTFOLIO
Skills in an individual reflect the behaviour and aspects of the personal skills. Skills plays
an important role in the life of any person as per to their abilities and capabilities. The
fundamental objective of this report is to know the significance of personal abilities. For
accomplishing higher development and success their abilities that plays effective role in person's
life. The report covers personal development abilities to analyse the career development tools
and as well as resources. An individual can enhance their personal skills with the support of
journal, workshops and any other event in an effective and as well as efficient sort of manner. I
recently attend several term of mini work shop and by which I learn many versatility things from
them that it will support me in creating my personal and as well as my professional skills for my
career developments. First of all I have learn from workshop is creating personal development
plan that supported me in knowing what abilities I have and from where I will enhance such
abilities. I apply such sort of my personal life and prepare my personal development plan. After
it, I learn about SWOT analysis and I execute this in my personal life that supported me in
knowing what strength, weaknesses, opportunities and as well as threats that I have. From this
mini project workshop that I learned about the time management skills that supported me in
enhancing my career development skills. I prepare my weekly plan that will enhance my life
style and I have measured that as a person I maintain my skills that plays effective role in my
life. By creating such sort of the abilities that supported me in performing varied term of work
and task on time that will maximise my effectiveness and efficiency. From this section I learned
about the significance of communication skills and abilities that plays in our life that defined my
aspects that communication skills will effectively communicate with other individuals and
efficiently transfer my feeling to another individuals. The portfolio supported me in creating my
communication skills chart that will effectively determining the most efficient abilities. By the
support of this report, I learned about the social and valuable aspects that supports me in creating
my potential personality and also supported me in knowing that what sort of actions and
activities are bad for society.

SECTION – B – PERSONAL STATEMENT
By this portfolio I have learned about each and every skills that plays an essential term of
role for my career advancement. By creating such sort of skills in which I am capable to get my
desirable job. After this section, the following term that I have learned about creating CV and
which I have measured that creating an efficient CV is very essential for me as it exist in me and
it will enhance my skills effective. Also by such sort of skill it will also help me to impress my
Human Resource (HR) of the business of management. After creating my skills I prepared for
my CV that supports me in getting my desirable job. All such sort of skills that supported me in
creating my social and valuable awareness and my roles. By applying SWOT on my personal life
to enhance my career development sections which I have analysed that I have various sort of
strength that I will use for enhancing my career development and enhancement. By attending
varied term of seminars, work – shops, webinars and as well as lecture that will help me in
managing my social and ethical course of awareness due to which I re – organised my roles and
responsibilities towards my future career in an effective and as well as efficient manner. On the
other hand, by attending such sort of lecture guide that I learned about what is good and what is
bad aspect in creating my social and valuable awareness towards my roles and responsibilities in
the business for enhancement of my career. Due to which I am also a part of society and its my
responsibility to make sure that my work or actions will not have an impact on any other
individuals. Then after it, I have learned about writing skills like summarising, editing of text,
data analysing, making a table of content and so on that enhance my writing skills and offers me
a manner that how I will write and that will also supports me in better understanding. After this, I
have learned about employability skills that are also effective to me for my furthermore skill in
an effective and efficient manner. By having effective term of the skills and abilities in the
person it will be easy for the person to get their desirable job in their field of the sector. Skills
and abilities plays essential part in the life of a person that termed to be an activity an method of
a person. Skills within a person is the sense of knowledge of services to perform something. For
accommodating the higher term of growth and accommodation of the skills will plays an
essential role in their life. There are personal development skills and as well as abilities. A
person can advance their personal skills by the support of periodical plans and seminars. Growth
is all about getting new skills and knowledge. It will also relates to the development that linked
with the circulating manner in the business of the management. In this report the respect field

will relates to the career and further development of a person. Personalised and as well as
professional development is also important for intensifying a person by varied term of actions
that manages the skills that increase their level of state of mind and develop of affluent terms. It
is a lifelong procedure that can be attained the aim of a person to evaluate skills for further
development of the skills and capabilities. Development and growth of the skills will maintain by
the person in terms of the management. The professional development is the procedure of
enhancing and maximising skills and abilities of the knowledge of faculty by measuring the
education and training chances in the business to follows the way of performance with other
section of the division.
SECTION – B - C.V.
C.V.
NAME - ABC
ADDRESS - XYZ sector, 123, London, UNITED KINGDOM
CONTACT DETAILS -
Mobile number - xxxxxxx567
Email I'd - [e-mail]
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY -
 It involve highly encouraged young professional with worthy academic record and
passion to accomplish higher term of development in the managerial sector of the
industry.
 By having accommodating and excellent term of the grade at GCSE level of the maths,
English and as well as Science as with their active engagement in the amount of values
and as well as ethical sections. I want to pursue my career in the field of the finance
sector that are accomplished by me to develop my career in the sector of the managerial
divisions..
EDUCATION (Name and year of Institution attended) -
 MBA in commercial enterprise of the management
 Data reasoning
 Digital marketing certificate

CORE QUALIFICATIONS -
 Time management abilities
 Team management abilities
 Communication abilities
 Mathematical aptitude
 Good knowledge of the managerial sections
WORK EXPERIENCE -
I worked as a junior accountant in the restaurants and maintain all the cash onflow and
inflow of the restaurants in the business of the management.
REFERENCES -
Available according to the request of the person
JOB SPECIFICATION
Job title - Marketing manager
Reporting to - Branch Manager
Job description - To advertise the goods and facilities of consumers and influencing higher
number of consumers in the business.
Duties and Obligations -
 Know the requirements of the consumers
 Attend group meeting
 Advised tactics
 Resort the quarries
 Communicating the message as effectively and as well as efficiently Performing work with confidentiality
Qualifications:
 Excellent consumer handling abilities in management
 Created organisational and Interpersonal abilities
 Understanding of managerial situations.
 Problem solving skills

 High school diploma or equal degree
PERSONAL SPECIFICATION
Significant Skills:
 Good Communication Skills both verbal and written
 Coordinating ability
 Multi-tasking ability
 Persuading ability Knowledge of promotional activities and tools
Required Skills:
 Flexible and understanding
 Good knowledge of human skills
 Should possess confidentiality
 Should be patient
JOB ADVERTISEMENT
We are HIRING!!
Marketing manager
It is a chances for qualified and as well as capable person to work with the management and
being a part of our family. The vacancy is for full time workers.
As working would be 6 days a week and extra work will be get rewarded. Suitable training and
growth would be offered to the workers after joining, Last date for applying is 30th January,
2022.
Pay and Benefits
 Salary and incentives pay
as per to the London
Living
 25 Days of annual year
Contact us today
The interested workers can drop their CV to 555, Dark Red
Sector, or can mail it to [e-mail]

of courses
Notes for interview
The question for the manner of the workers are as follows -
Q1. What are the duties and obligations of marketing manager to influence the consumers?
Q2. How to develop good impact in the mind set of the consumers?
Q3. Tell your regular term of the plan and programmes?
Q4. Explain your task at last jobs?
Q5. How do you maintain with stress and work pressure in the business of the management?
SECTION C: ACTION PLAN: PERSONAL SWOT ANALYSIS
Strengths Weaknesses
 I am a self motivated person and it is
crucial for developing more skills (Ray,
2020).
 I am lacking in time management a
skill which reduces my learning
process.
Opportunities Threats
 I have an opportunity to become a
marketing manager as I am good at
convincing skills.
 Competition is increasing which
provided me a threat as I need to work
on my skills as well as knowledge.
SECTION C: ACTION PLAN: SHORT/MEDIUM TERM CAREER
OBJECTIVES
Short term Career objectives
Goals or skills Steps necessary to
achieve these
objectives
Resources required Estimate date to
achieve the objective
Building a morning
routine
In order to develop
this routine, I need to
set alarm and trying to
For the purpose of
building morning
routine it is necessary
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strike on wake up at
early morning
(Korbutiak and et.al.,
2021).
to have a alarm clock,
mobile, etc.
Explore something
new every day
In order to explore
something new every
day, it is important for
me to develop a skill
i.e. taking interest in
new things without
any hesitation.
It requires gadgets
and applications such
as laptop, computer,
mobile phone, etc.
with Internet sources
that provide me
information (Turner,
2018).
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Attending personality
development seminar
It is necessary for me
to attend a personality
development seminar
for at least two days
in a month.
It requires new
websites which helps
me to provide
notification when ever
any personal
development will be
conduct nearby me.
25/2/2022
Medium term career objectives
Goals or skills Steps necessary to
achieve these
objectives
Resources required Estimate date to
achieve the objective
Achieving a good
score in quarterly
exams
For the purpose of
achieving good school
in quarterly exams, it
is very important for
me to start learning
from today in my
subject area (Silvius
It requires me all the
materials such as
books, online papers,
test papers, etc.
25/4/2022

and Marnewick,
2022).
Build effective
communication skills
In order to build
effective
communication skills,
I need to do a daily
practice in front of the
mirror by starting
with a topic.
It requires me a
mirror, recording of
my daily practice, etc.
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Time management
skills
Time management
skills can be improved
with the help of
making schedules
every day and then
perform a work by
matching with
standard time.
It requires me a clock
or a mobile phone
which help me to
remind a schedule.
20/4/2022
SECTION C: ACTION PLAN: SMART GOALS FOR MY PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT
Serial number SMART Objective
1 I am going for taking online courses of communication skills. It is the course
of three months and that's why I will take a three month course which helps
me to improve my communication skills.
2 I am taking a training program which includes a marathon of one month that
helps me to build a morning routine.
3 I have a target to raise my overall GPA in this quarterly exam.
4 I will get more and more knowledge of marketing field with the help of
taking classes regularly.
5 I am driving more free trial sign ups by increasing the click on social media

ads in the end of this year.
SECTION C: ACTION PLAN: ANALYSIS OF RESOURCES TO SUPPORT
MY PPD
Monster worldwide
Name of
tool/source
Use the FSB Personal development plan
Screenshot of
logo
Analysis What is this tool/resource?
Monster worldwide is defined as a platform which is used for the purpose of
Global online employment solutions (Stettina and et.al., 2018). It provides
career management, employment recruitment and talent management
capability solutions to all those people who are the job seekers as well as
employers.
What are its advantages?
 It provides free services to job hopefuls
 It also provides facility where job seekers can post their resumes on
website.
What are its disadvantages?
 It is found that monster worldwide is lack in the area of non software
resumes.
 It is also found that the database is not big enough as compared to
other competitors.
How will this tool help you review reassess your career development

goals?
This tool is very helpful for career development goals as an individual is
able to achieve a job according to their interest and needs. An individual is
able to manage their career as this site is providing courier management
services also. It is also very helpful in order to manage talent.
Harvard
reference
LinkedIn Learning
Name of
tool/source
Use the FSB Personal development plan
Screenshot of
logo
Analysis What is this tool/resource?
LinkedIn is found to be the most popular application which used by
industries as well as job seekers (Edith Nielsen and Skaarup, 2021). The
main purpose of using LinkedIn profile is to build connections in industry. It
is found to be an excellent platform which helps to strengthen and develop a
brand and also increase the visibility of an individual in the front of
organisations.
What are its advantages?
 It is very helpful in order to stay in touch with colleagues.
 It is an in valuable tool for job searches and it is also found a great
way to stay up to date with the news of industry.
What are its disadvantages?
 It is identified that there is a risk of Identity theft in the LinkedIn
profile.

 It is also found that there is a incomplete profile challenge in
LinkedIn profile as well as time consuming also.
How will this tool help you review reassess your career development
goals?
With the help of LinkedIn profile, students are able to increase the visibility
in front of the reputed organisation which is really help for career
development goals and objectives. For example, if I want to get a job in
Tesco then with the help of making a LinkedIn profile I will get time to time
notifications through this application.
Harvard
reference
Indeed
Name of
tool/source
Use the FSB Personal development plan
Screenshot of
logo
Analysis What is this tool/resource?
Indeed is an app which is used to search a job and browsing for the
companies positions in which a student is interested (Trindade and et.al.,
2020). It is found that indeed is the world's most popular job board that it
helps and individual to find their dream job into one site.
What are its advantages?
 Indeed is the most popular site in terms of jobs and that's why
students are able to search their jobs easily.
 Employers can also post openings directly in the platform.
What are its disadvantages?

 It is identified that indeed is a no-frills job site.
 The layout and navigation of indeed is not as much as aesthetically
pleasing as compared to other sites.
How will this tool help you review reassess your career development
goals?
For the purpose of career development goals, students can start their journey
from the side as it is found that indeed is a legitimate website which is
extremely good for resumes. This tool is very helpful for the purpose of
career as it provides a platform where students are able to achieve their
dream jobs easily. In addition to this, it is also identified that it an individual
is able to understand the needs and requirements of organisation and make
their action plan accordingly (Medini and et.al., 2020). LinkedIn is one of
the famous site which connected many organisations. It includes small as
well as large organisation which can be used by students easily in order to
get a job.
Harvard
reference
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from the above discussion that personal development is playing an
important role in the success and growth of an individual. So it is crucial for an individual to
focus on the personal development program. This report covered personal statement and
curriculum vitae which is really helpful for showing personal qualities and skills of an
individual. This report also covered SWOT analysis and short term medium term career
objectives that helps to analyse the abilities and weak areas. It also covered SMART goals for
the development of an individual and the supporter resources which is necessary for the purpose
of personal development plan.

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