Planning For Success

This assignment discusses the importance of planning for a successful career and finding an ideal job. It covers topics such as job descriptions, individual specifications, and resources for job search. The chosen ideal job is working as a sales manager. The resources recommended for job search are LinkedIn, Twitter, and Indeed.

Planning For Success

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MY IDEAL JOB..............................................................................................................................1
What would be the ideal job?.................................................................................................1
Why I am interested in this sort of job?.................................................................................2
Where you would like to work and why?...............................................................................2
JOB DESCRIPTION.......................................................................................................................3
INDIVIDUAL SPECIFICATION...................................................................................................4
RESOURCES THAT CAN BE ACCESSED TO want MY IDEAL ROLE..................................5
LinkedIn.................................................................................................................................5
Twitter....................................................................................................................................6
Indeed.....................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Being a graduate, it is highly essential to a individual to gain information of the area and
the career which one wants to adopt after the completion of degree course at the college campus.
The reason lying behind the same is that this would offer the individual with an opportunity to
work upon growing information of these career from the initial level of pursuing graduation at
college. This would make it less stressful and hectic to the individual to select the career after the
completion of the degree course. This assignment has the motive for depiction of information of
the perfect and most ideal job which I aim to execute in the upcoming time period. This also
counts that the resources and their ways which can be accessed by me to find the job in the
desired and the appropriate as well as ideal domain. The position chosen by me would be
analysed by gaining a profound deep insight into it along with the reasons underlying behind its
selection. Further, it comprises the job description, individual specification and resources needed
to get a job in this domain. In this context, the ideal job that has been chosen by me and
evaluated within the project is recognized to be working as a sales manager and managing a team
of corporate under me.
MY IDEAL JOB
What would be the ideal job?
It is crucial to an individual to select an ideal job in which they want to be employed post
the completion of their graduation degree course. This would offer assistance to them in planning
to the ideal job well in advance and gaining information about the field. As a outcome of this, an
individual is capable to carry out work in the ideal job in an effective manner as per the
expectations as well as requirements of the company. In this context, I have analysed that
presently I do no have sound information of the ideal job which I want to pursue in future course
of time. I can state that I have tried internships within the confines of some organisations but
amongst all of them, I have realised that I possess likelihood towards management of team as the
ideal job to me. In this context, the search and selection of an ideal job by me would reach to the
conclusion that I want to work as a manager within any company. Further, as my educational
background is sales area, I would like to work as sales manager within any reputed and top
company.
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Why I am interested in this sort of job?
As per my opinion, I can say that I have the skills that are essential to management of
individuals within groups. After the completion of graduation degree course, I would put my
hand at acquisition of these information gain which can offer assistance to me in unleashing my
true potential at ideal job which is to work as a sales manager. This would render help to me in
ensuring that I have good information of the area that I want to enter, or, in other words, my ideal
job. Further, I am so interested in working as a sales manager as sales is the area which has been
intriguing me since the begin of my graduation. I have always been attracted to the big numbers
that are associated with sales domain, in terms of the revenues or profits gained by the
companies operating in the respective field. This would no be wrong to say that my ability and
competences effectively complement the ones needed to accomplishing the roles and
responsibilities linked to this job role. As that firm work in a area in which I hold interest rather
than being employed in the one whereby I have no likelihood and I have to operate against my
interest and intent.
Where you would like to work and why?
I intend to work within the confines of a reputed company operating in the boundaries of
London, UK. I want to work within this city only as this city being the capital of London is home
to a large number of companies. These corporations have infinite number of opportunities
available to graduates as well as experienced individuals who intend to work within a reputed
company having extensive brand name and value within global market place. Looking upon the
employment opportunities available within this city, I have chosen London as the place of work.
This location would offer assistance to me in securing place within a top and reputed company as
a sales manager heading my very own sales team and managing them. As a outcome of this, I
would be capable to grow my professional career within a top company which has an excellent
opportunity available to the position of sales manager. This would offer help to me in
experiencing individually as well as professional growth, besides that facilitating elevation of my
career in the long run. However, after the elapse of some years, I would like to move back to my
very own native country and work there. I would begin my very own trade there by applying the
knowledge, learning and experienced gained in the academic as well as corporate context.
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JOB DESCRIPTION
A job description or in other terms JD can be defined that it is basically a document
containing the elements of tasks, roles and duties that the candidate has to perform at the time of
working at a specific position within the confines of the . This contains the project reporting
manager to the respective position along with the credentials in terms of acknowledging various
aspects, skills and ability, information or experiences needed to be possess by an individual.
Also, it offers disclaimer about the salary range, working conditions and so on.. In this context,
the job description to a Sales Manager in a company is given beneath:-
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Role Sales Manager
Project reporting
to
Human Resource
Contract type Full Time and Permanent.
Salary £73,000 per annum
Qualifications and
ability
 Degree in Sales Field
 Experience in the area of sales within any industry
 Managerial background
 Leadership skills
 Tactical skills
 Persuasion
 Creative thinking
 Innovation
 Time Management
Responsibilities  Management of managerial sales through the growth of trade plan
encompassing sales, revenues together with expense controls.
 Fulfilment of predefined sales goals and objectives.
 Stipulation of individual sales target within the team to the
members.
 Track sales goals and project reporting of all the outcomes.
 Guiding and supervising the sales team to make them achieve the
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goals.
 Providing or arranging training to the sales team.
 Growth of ability and information base of sales team by way of
counselling, encouragement and imparting essential information
related to the products and services of the company.
 Promotion of the managerial offerings
 Determination of target market to the company and its context with
the managerial offerings to ensure fulfilment of their needs and
demands.
 Increment and advancements in strategy of salary through which
the revenues and profits of the company can be inflated.
INDIVIDUAL SPECIFICATION
This is a document comprising an overview of the individually attribute desired within an
individual (Baker, 2016). These features are comprises of skills, experience, information base,
qualifications and so on.. These are needed by an individual to performing the roles and
responsibilities linked to the job role in an effective manner. The individual
INDIVIDUAL SPECIFICATION
Name:
E-Mail:
Contact:
Objective: To showcase my ability and information base within a reputed company to take the
company to new heights.
Qualification:
Class University/ Board Grade Passing Year
12th XYZ School 85% 2018
Graduation ABC College 75% Pursuing
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Experience:
Internship in XYZ Retail Company as Customer Service Assistant
Internship in PQRS Logistics Firm as Manager
Internship in DEF Ltd. as Sales Executive
Individualal Skills:
 Persuasion
 Tactical skills
 Problem Solving
 Time Management
 Leadership
 Communication
Declaration:
I hereby declare that the desclaimer furnished above is apt and true as per my knowledge.
RESOURCES THAT CAN BE ACCESSED TO want MY IDEAL ROLE
There are numerous resources available to an individual to access to the purpose of
getting a job. In this context, it has been found that these stands tend to offer individualnel with
the opportunity to get a job which complements the ability and information base possessed by
them (Boyle and et. al., 2019). These stands comprise expressive desclaimer about the job role
which is vacant within the confines of the company so that the interested candidates can apply to
the same. In this context, discussion over some of the most obviously retrieved stages to seeking
ideal job to an individual is done below:-
LinkedIn
This can be found as a social networking stand which emphasizes over facilitation of
networking taking place between professionals working or seeking job within same or different
industry (Jefkins, 2018). This is recognised as the first stand that was setup to the purpose of
providing individuals help in the tom of obtaining jobs. Hereby, people can create their profiles
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over this stand and put disclaimer about their ability and experience to gain the attention of
companies.
Twitter
This is a social networking and news website or application that is used by individuals,
groups and entities for delivering short messages in the tom of tweets (Gurden, 2016). This
channel is used by a large number of companies to the purpose of contacting potential
candidates. However, this social networking stand that is exposed to risk of fake employment
offer and frauds done by people in the name of reputed companies.
Indeed
This stand was setup in the tom of a job listing board to competition with evolving job
boards. This is found as an application whereby companies post about the job vacancies in order
to gain the attention of prospective candidates and attract them to apply to the job role. This
stand earns revenues by way of sale of premium job positing and resume to employers as well as
the companies which are interested in hiring candidates. During the year 2011, the stand begin
enabling the job seeker to apply to jobs on Indeed’s website directly.
CONCLUSION
As per this discussion in the project report it can be ascertained that the most important
resources that can be taken into use by individuals to obtaining jobs are recognized to be Indeed
and LinkedIn. Along with support of the previous, individuals are capable to apply to the job
applications posted by the company. In context of LinkedIn, it can be said that this is the job
obtaining resource whereby various trade associates interact with each other. Individuals are
capable to get news about vacancies within the companies and they can check the profile of
organisations on the platform for visiting the managerial premises to giving an interview. Thus, it
can be said that Indeed and LinkedIn are the best stands through which individuals can get
information about positions within their ideal job domain.
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