Planning for Professional Career

Running head: PLANNING FOR PROFESSIONAL CAREER
Planning for Professional Career
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PLANNING FOR PROFESSIONAL CAREER
Self-Assessment
Introduction
Understanding our personal goals, values, interests, personal attributes,
attitudes and skills is known as self-awareness. It involves honest reflection and self-
exploration. In this part of the assignment, I shall be describing about my personal
attributes and skills highlighting my strengths and weaknesses, being a student
pursuing Bachelor degree of information for determining whether I am suitable for
the job of Graduate Developer.
Self-reflection exercises
The self-assessment exercises were comprised of the skill tests and
personality tests. These exercises made me feel well-prepared and helped me in
feeling more self-confident at the time of assessment. Through this self-assessment I
enabled my employers to know who I am and what I can bring to their organisations.
I am completely aware of the fact that my personal values, my value of profession as
well as my social status have a great influence on building a professional helping
relationships in between me and my work practices. In this entire process, I found
one thing very surprising. This self-assessment has enabled me to critically identify
my strengths and weaknesses and I feel a positive change within me now. Until
today, I was unaware of my weaknesses and I never thought of them in this way. But
today, I do and I have understood that in order to excel in my professional career, I
need to overcome the weakness of mine and foster my strengths. I have realised a
change in myself to overcome this weakness.
Personal Attributes and employability skills
As far as my personal attributes are concerned, I want to mention that of my
skills and attributes of self-reliance, creativity, flexibility and adaptability. I am very
creative. I love making eye-catching presentations and easy to handle
documentations. With the same, I am very flexible and always have the willingness
and ability to respond to positive changes readily within the organisation. I never say
things like “It’s not my job” like things whenever I am asked to make on new
assignments or new work. Even in during my project, the things that my team
members failed in doing, were done by me. I never afraid of taking responsibilities
and always willingly take the responsibility of anything if it is within my expertise. I
have identified my employability skills. I have found that I have a good
communication and problem solving skills. Through various stages in my life, I
have been given the task of public speaking and speaking with new members in my
society. Whether it is in inter-school competition or in community program or in my
part time job that I am doing being a second year student, I have always been
successful in ensuring thorough communication. I do believe that communication is
undoubtedly one of the most important skills to possess in contemporary scenario.
Being able to communicate effectively and in clear manner in our environment and
comfort zone do seems challenging sometime but it increases rapidly in different
culture. Globalisation is something that is completely unavoidable in today’s world
and this has made effective communication in the face of cultural diversity important
than ever before. I am good with working with other and improving my own learning.
Moreover, I have the potential of speaking confidently about my business. I have
always listened what others want to convey to me and I have always considered
their suggestions and advices respectfully. I am also good at problem solving and I
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can say this because of the fact that I have always been in the advisor and problem
solver during my school and university years. I was the one to solve the conflicts
among my peers as well. I always think before reacting and never show
aggressiveness. This is why, I am good at handling conflicts sportingly. Hence, I can
assure that if I am given the job of being the Graduate Developer, I shall be
effectively playing my role and would assist the escalated support team with all the
technical supports for resolving the customer issues in proper and timely manner.
Furthermore, my other key skills include the team working skill. I always
work towards knowing more. I do believe that there are things that I am not good
enough. Like, for example, I usually suffer from low motivation for leading a team of
huge members. Once, during my graduation years, I was given a team project. The
team was quite big of 8 members. Since, my academic career was good, I was in the
good books of most of my professors. Hence, they made me the team leader. I faced
many challenges in leading the team effectively and managing them and our project.
Different members had different opinions and they wanted to handle the work in their
own different way. Finally, I let my team members finish their allocated work in the
way they want and I just ensured that they meet the deadline and accuracy and
deliver the desired results. Along with that, I personally believe that I can become an
effective leader as well. I have good leadership skill and I ensure that my team
follows all the standard processes that are required for maintaining the accuracy and
quality of the work. While taking any decision, I do not usually take them for my
people, rather I allow them to make their own. I always inspire my team members to
make the best decision that would surely to be fruitful for our entire team and the
best one for all the concerned. Therefore, I believe that I am a good decision maker
as well. Furthermore, it is also to note that I always pay much attention to minute
details of everything and thereafter, take the necessary decisions. I never take any
step quickly in a single go.
Identified Strengths
To my viewpoint, I would like to mention that there are several strengths of
mine that I believe, help me in being an effective employee in the workplace. One of
the most significant of them is that of having a good verbal and written
communication skills. I believe that for running a successful business, one needs
to communicate effectively with the peers, the staffs as well as the management. I
helps in avoiding the misunderstandings which could influence the workplace
productivity, efficiency and workplace morale. I had my own freelance graphic
designing business that went on good for a total of 3 years. I am also a web designer
and have designed more than six websites for several events and companies. I had
to interact with many international clients as well. I never even acquired any negative
review from any of my clients. I am very good at managing and conducting meetings
and presenting verbal presentations. Through various stages in my life, I have been
given the task of public speaking and speaking with new members in my society.
Also, I am very good at making conversations in between employees. As I have
already mentioned that I have always been good at communicating and meeting with
new members. I am very jolly natured and have the potential to get jell up with
people very easily. I speak clear and ensure that the electronic messages that I send
are not vague in any way. With the same, my other strengths include being effective
listener, determined and team working. I would also like to mention that I am
always clear on my goals and I ensure that same at my place of work as well as I
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