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This article discusses planning a career in business, including conducting a personal SWOT analysis, making an action plan for developing skills, and creating a CV. It also includes a sample CV and a SMART goal for improving communication skills. The subject is business, and the course code and college/university are not mentioned.

Your
Career
in
Business

Table of Contents
Section – 1........................................................................................................................................3
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Section-2..........................................................................................................................................4
Describing my personal statement portfolio in detailed manner.....................................................4
CV (Curriculum Vitae)....................................................................................................................6
Conducting my personal SWOT analysis........................................................................................7
Making action plan for developing skills with support of SMART objectives and PDP plan........9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

Section – 1
Introduction
The main aim of creating this portfolio is to present my knowledge and skills in order to get my
desired job role of operation manager in a well known or famous global management
consultancy which is McKinsey and company. Job portfolio of mine will include my overall
personal statement which is helpful in presenting my different skills and all the knowledge and
also experience that I gained during my past life. I will make sure that and take proper steps in
order to keep my application of the job role to stand out from other candidates to get preference
among the job recruiters (Atiemo and et. al., 2020). Also for getting the attraction of the HR
managers which will perform recruiting process it is important to include my Curriculum Vitae
(CV) which will be designed according to the needs which are required for the job role in
McKinsey and company. I will also perform my personal SWOT Analysis to analyse my
strengths or strong points and weaknesses or weak points t properly know myself and my
capabilities. After that I will focus on making a personal action plan for myself for working on
my existing skills and improve them or develop them whichever is required for the desired job
role. I will undertake the proper structure of personal development plan so that skills can be
improved within the specified deadline (Bass, 2019).
All the activities related to making of my CV and personal statement will benefit me to
know about my skills as well as abilities which will help in my future. By making my skills more
reliable and better for the job role of operation manager, I get a privilege of standing out from
crowd which will make me a perfect choice for the relevant job role. If the CV made is
originative and cover essential content then it can benefit me to carry the questioner to select me
in proper mode.
I have chosen McKinsey and company to work in that organisation at the post of
operation manager. The firm is one of the biggest and well known company globally in the field
of management consulting. Company was founded in the year 1926 by James O. McKinsey
which is a professor of university of Chicago. Company provides different professional services
to the government, companies, other businesses (Dimitrova and et. Al, 2020). The company
holds the position as third largest strategy consulting company by revenue and also company is
one of the biggest and oldest company present in the economy. The main focus of the company

is to meet the financial as well as operational needs of the client organisation in order to help
them to grow in future. The another advantage of choosing this company as company have an
excellent environment for mastering professional development and learn new things as well with
best class growth opportunities by taking access of unlimited E – learning courses offered by the
company (Entwistle, 2020). This will help me to improve my professionals as well as academic
skills in the future also with best facilities and mentors. Also there are many perks of working in
the company a sit gives different incentives and facilities such as comprehensive medical cover,
Annual performance related bonus, best in class benefits and much more. Along with this, the
healthy operative culture ,competing salary as well as positive work-life scale are the other
factors that actuated me to apply in this organization (Stanton and Stanton, 2020).
Section-2
Describing my personal statement portfolio in detailed manner
Introduction about myself
My name is John and I am from London, UK. I am a person with strong interpersonal
skills and good creativity. I love to solve problems and find a creative solution to solve that
problem. Not only for a specific problem I just love to give opinionated ideas or opinions also on
any matter (Sharif, Ahmad and Sarwar, 2019). Also for that I want to know the reasons and I just
become curious for it. I have many interests in the fields such as finance, operations, marketing
and other but I am very much interested in management and operational field which drives me to
get on the promotions and take me on other higher posts. Some of my hobbies are travelling,
listening music, and playing badminton. Along with that I love to cook food and always tries to
make new dishes and love to take feedback from others. My aim in the life is to become a well
known personality whose details are available on google search. Also I want to grow in the field
of management operations in the business. I am an open minded person and adapts the changes
quickly according to the changes in the surroundings of business which will be very helpful for
me to impress my interviewers (Fiala, 2021).
Education
I have passed my school from EIFA International school London. After that I have done
by graduation from a well known institute in London. Later on I took admission in MBA in the
field of operation management from London School of Business which is one of the best college

all over the world. MBA degree helped me to gain a brief knowledge about the business
terminologies and models. Along with this, it has also enabled me to improve my professional as
well as academic skills such as communication skills, problem solving skills and decision
making skills by participating in the various type of projects as well as case studies. I am very
much confident to pass my process of selection from McKinsey company. For that I also have
developed relevant skills and knowledge which are required to cope up with complex business
environment challenges by applying my knowledge along with the research. I also took part in
many projects as a leader during my time at the London School of Business. This will also give
me a great advantage to enhance my leadership skills.
Work experience
I have worked in the field of business management and also operation management for
more than five years I have acquired the relevant knowledge and gained different types of skills
which are required for the job position of operation manager while working on many
international as well as national projects in the past company. I have a great experience in
dealing with the customers as I have worked in Genpact company for 2 years. Due to this job I
have worked on listening skills and created a ability to satisfy my clients as well as customers .
Also this helped me to improve my problem solving skills which are important to develop for
any job in any company. Apart from above, I have experience as an Assistant Operation
Manager of 3 years in the Marks & Spencer. Experience from this job will greatly help me in my
future jobs or personal work. Due to this I can perform more effectively with a great efficiency in
my future job roles and even in the McKinsey & company. This is because I have strong
knowledge and cognitive content to work with various operational management tools like
Enterprise resource planning systems, Customer Relationship Software along with the six sigma
tool. All of this will make me capable of working as an operation manager in the McKinsey &
Company. Another important skill that I have learned from my past experience is quick decision
making according to the situation which will be more beneficial for the company. My superiors
always gave me credit for my good decisions making in the different projects.

Conclusion
It can be concluded from the above personal statement and work experience that both of these
makes me suitable candidate for the job role of operation manager in McKinsey and company.
The knowledge I have gained and acquired different required skills as an customer care
executive in Genpact company and assistant operation manager in Marks & Spencer will can
assist me to give greater performance and maintain a healthy environment in the future
organisation. After analysing, I can say that I will satisfy all the requirements which are needed
in order to work as an operation manger in McKinsey and company as I am capable of moulding
myself according to the new environment and adapt new skills and changing trends quickly
because of my curiousness to learn new things and finding out solutions of the outcomes or
situations. This will also help me to acquire or improve my professional skills. With the help of
my decision making skills will assist me to make proper decision which will help in the welfare
of the organisation.
CV (Curriculum Vitae)
Curriculum vitae
Name - ABC
Address - XYZ, London Street,
London, England
DOB -XX-XX-XXXX
Nationality-British
Summary
Self made person with strong interpersonal skills and excellent skills in managing the staff and
their work. Ability to communicate effectively will help to retain the loyalty of the workers. I
am a person who adapts to the changes in the environment and trends. I always seek to
improve my attainment and find opportunities directing to greater growth and improvement.
Skills
 I have excellent quick decision making skills.
 I have acquired strong leadership skills.
 I also have better customer service skills along with the problem solving skills.

Accomplishments
I have successfully completed more than 10 international projects and more than 20 national
projects. For that I also received best employee of the year award in my previous company to
give my excellent performance for completing the tasks in more efficient manner.
Experience
12/2017- 1/2021: I have done duty as Assistant operation manager in the Tesco organisation.
10/2014- 11/2016 : I have worked as the Customer care executive in Genpact company.
Education
2012: Masters in Business Administration from London business school.
2008: Bachelors in Business Administration from London business school.
Hobbies and Interest-Reading, writing articles, travelling and playing musical instruments.
Declaration
The mentioned information is true to my knowledge and faith
Date- XX-XX-XXXX.
The SWOT Analysis application can be used as a tool to analyse the external and the internal
behaviour of an organisation or an individual. The SWOT Analysis will give the individual to
analyse where the individual is performing good and where the individual is lagging.
Conducting my personal SWOT analysis
The usage of SWOT analysis way can assist me to analyse my internal capabilities
and weaknesses. In add-on to this, it tin also change me to know in which ability I
am missing which can negatively outcome my professional presentation in future.
Strength
 The best part about me is that I catch
things so nicely and then focus on those
things to make them the routine. The
support that my seniors gives is also
important and based on their tutorial I
perform things accordingly.
Weakness
 From my past experience I have
noticed that attitude is the things that I
cannot deal with and in few
organisations that I have worked in
past have the situation of my attitude
behaviour and they want me to change

 I have also experienced that I am good
in decision making and absorb things so
well in order to make my place
anywhere and I am also good in with
adjusting anywhere in the organisation
and people's and work with them so
easily (Owusu and et. al., 2018).
that and I do not want to happen that
again. From this I also got slower
promotion and that do not grow myself
that much.
 I also have a weak memory power
which distract me so much and do not
make me to focus on myself. I also
need to do the work again and again to
make that habit of mine in muscle
power and when it fix on my muscle
power then I get things clear.
 I am a Slow learner and things can
distract me easily wherever I work
Opportunity
 Different platform or the software that I
am working upon can develop my skills
and knowledge and that can give me the
experience to work upon my ability ans
improve myself and perform better in
the operation role manager.
 I can improve myself in the field of
different offline participation and self
improvement program to develop the
skill where I am lagging upon and that
help to become effective and efficient
(Nemeh, Hasan and Hazir, 2022).
Threats
 The growth in the contest even can
become threat to me for assure
successful choice in McKinsey
company as the organisation of
talented and multi-lingual activity paid
are increasing day to day. This can go
difficult for me to efficaciously stand
out from the crew.
The some other threat which can
happen can be collect to establish of
new study idea and latest computer
technologies which can unit me to re-
skill those new technologies which are
crucial for me to act duties incidental
with work director in proper manner.

Making action plan for developing skills with support of SMART objectives and PDP plan
SMART Goal:
In order to improve my skills, I will develop the suitable action plan which will be
constructed on the basis of satisfying element of SMART objective. The following table shows
the suitability of my action plan by setting SMART goals which are :
Skills to
improve
Specific Measurable Achievable Relevant Time-bound
Communicati
on skills
To achieve the
goal I will take
part in different
personality
classes and
seminars which
will help me to
improve my
communication
skills. I will
actively take
part in the group
conversations
and convey my
opinions and
ideas in front of
the mentors
without any
hesitation (Kim,
2020).
To measure
my
performance I
will compare
my current
performance
with my past
performance
to know about
my level of
performance.
By involving
in team
related
practices I can
evaluate my
experience.
I can achieve
my target by
taking part in
many
communicatio
n
enhancement
program
available in
the market
which will
help me to
achieve my
target in
effective
manner.
This goal is
relevant as the
improvement
in
communicatio
n skills will
allow to give
better
impression to
my
interviewer
which can
increase my
opportunity to
get selected.
Apart from
this, I can also
use this skill in
improving my
relationship
For achieving
my
communicatio
n skills it will
take 3
months.

with family as
well as society
members.
Computer
skills
My specific
objective is to
enrol into a
good computer
training centre
where I can
learn and
improve my
computer skills
which will be so
much useful for
me in my future
jobs as most of
the companies
use latest
technology and
software to
increase
efficiency. For
this, I will lay
care on gaining
working
knowledge of
operating
Microsoft
application
software's and
other operation
In order to
measure my
skills I will
take different
projects
which are
done on
computer and
I will take
many tests
and practical
to analyse my
performance.
This will help
me to know
my current
performance
of using
computer
skills.
Through this,
I can
effectively
improve my
performance
by knowing
the weakness
in timely
This goal is
attainable as
there are
many new
computer
training
centres that
has opened
recently in
London. In
addition to
this, I can also
take online
computer
skills by just
sitting at
home with
laptop. This
will benefit
me to learn
relevant
technological
skills in
convenient
and also cost
effective
manner.
It is important
to achieve this
goal as it is it
can help me to
make a good
impression on
my
interviewers
and help me to
stand out from
the pool of
candidates and
will increase
my chances of
selection.
Moreover, it
will also
support me to
perform my
operation
management
job in the
impressive
way
(Martindale,
2020).
For achieving
these
computer
skills I have
to need
almost 6
months time.

related skills.
.
manner.
Critical
thinking skills
This goal will
be specific as I
will improve my
thinking skills
by involving in
the different
seminars related
to different
cause such as
social business
and other. Due
to this I will be
forced to think
related to a
specific topic or
cause by
keeping in mind
both positive
and negative
sides of the
relevant topic.
After that I can
solve puzzles
and brain
boosting games
to enhance my
critical thinking
In order to
measure my
performance I
can give
multiple
critical
reasoning test
and then I can
evaluate my
performance
through the
results of
these tests.
Also I can
take part in
various group
discussions
and activities
which will
help me to
develop new
ideas.
This objective
will be
achievable as
there are
many options
through which
I can improve
my critical
thinking
skills. By
playing chess
and other
mind games I
can enhance
my critical
thinking skills
in an effective
manner
(Lovingood,
2021).
The
improvement
of critical
thinking skills
will be critical
for me as this
can assist me
to make
improved
business
judgement in
my future
professional
occupation. It
will also aid
me to create
business
reports in such
a way that can
be critically
identified and
can make
suitable
judgements.
In order to
improve my
critical
thinking
skills, I will
need 5
months.

skills.
Conclusion
From the above report this can be concluded that a portfolio important role in ones life as
this document helps individuals to collect all their academic knowledges and professional skills
at one place in a brief manner to make it easy for a professional to explain their knowledges and
skills in a better presentable way as well as also for the employer to assess their employees they
are hiring. This report was a brief discussion that was made on personal statement portfolio, with
a CV that was given in this report. Furthermore in this report, personal SWOT analysis with an
effective action plan to overcome discussed weaknesses was also discussed.

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