Professional Career Development

This article discusses the skills and knowledge required for working effectively as a security officer. It also explores the readiness for employment and understanding of personal strengths and areas for further development. The article emphasizes the importance of professional career development and provides insights for creating a personal development plan.

Professional Career
Development

INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................4
Skills and knowledge needed for working effectively................................................................4
Readiness for employment..........................................................................................................8
Understanding of personal strength and areas for further development......................................9
Further development..................................................................................................................11
Establishing employment goals and develop a personal development plan..............................11
Personal development plan........................................................................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFRENCES.................................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Professional development is that kind of development which is considered to be an
essential and important aspect of life. Every individual requires it as it helps in determining of
steps that is required to build career. This has to be initiated with an entry of professional work
area that is essential for personals fro attaining and learning of required amount of skills and also
knowledge along with it competencies. Such skills are required to be better accessed by the
professional work area and essential traits is needed to be passed with an individual’s
personality. For generating business at global level. Various skills are required in it as they are
very much necessary for an individual for executing task and organization. Things like
communication, team working, negotiation, emotional intelligence, conflict negotiation, public
speaking, researching, time management and various other skills. These are required to be
present in an individual so as to effectively work in an organization. Also in addition to this
leadership, strategic through process, presentation also many more falls under category of
advance skills. In the report skills and knowledge area has to be discussed to perform in affective
way. This is also considered to be readiness for employability as well as personal advancement.
In the end employment goals and development in order to enhance the skills sets.
MAIN BODY
Skills and knowledge needed for working effectively.
Professional are defined as those persons that are equipped along with skills and
knowledge fro executing an task within work place. This has increased knowledge as its is
considered as part of academic life, this can be said that all kind of professional get a chance to
show skills while performing of task in an organization. This has helped an individual to be
elevated in the interest field. Through this individual is able to develop both personal and
professional life from starting of corporate life or world. All security officer is required for
developing of skills and knowledge as it helps in climbing the ladder of success. Some of such
skills and knowledge of security officers has to be discussed as follows:
Skills

The kind of job role of security officer require very difficult to perform as various
situation is required by them to deal. As there job is different as per the industry they are. Fro
this they needed several skills for performing of job role. These are as follows:
Creativity:
This is key requirement of people within professional working in every field as it is
required to execute roles and responsibilities within an adequate manner. This is related to
certain kinds of trait that is shown by the people and take initiates to come up with unique issues
that is required to solve all issues in effective manner. A creative working environment is able to
provide advantages for professionals because it provide ability of solving specific solutions by
making use of creative thinking and past experience along with better usage of information and
resources. Also such kind of thinking is termed as a capability of professional that looks towards
the unique way and new ideas from the concept of “out of the box”. That is why it can be said
that managers and employer require those candidates which are having creative skills so as to
work within an business by finding out several ways of addressing their issues that has emerged
during performance of work. This is going to facilitate an unique moves and productivity to
perform direction of business and extremely helpful to an individual at its work station. This has
lead towards saving of cost efforts and time that helps business to enhance products and services
(Holton and Dent, 2016).
Communication:
Professionals are operating within an corporate world is required to have effective skills
of communication and this is termed as skills that every manager has look up to while choosing
persons to work in an organization. At the beginning of career of security and officer managers
notices the candidates behavior. Everything has been notice from call conversation, the way in
which person draft a mail and information that is being presented in their curriculum vitae and
cover latter an the way in which they communicate during the interview. All these thinks are
noticing by the top level managers before getting selection of filling job vacancy. So, that all
individual needs to be polished with the appropriate communication skills along with fluency
and impeccability. It is an essential thing to which needed to be communicating with the
customers, management and co-workers. This si of various types oral, written, verbal, non
verbal.
Team working:

It is termed as an ability of person's who are effectively working in a team along with the
proper coordination and cooperation with other members of a group. The main aim of all the
members is to accomplish common objectives and goals of entire team by the support and
interest of all members. It can be seen that team working is an essential skill which is needed to
be owned by almost all people who so ever is thinking to work in a corporate world or
environment. As it helps businesses in getting their short and long term goals by implementing
their core skills and strengths of all the team members while working jointly on a single project
(Haslerig and Navarro, 2016). This skill promotes loyalty as well as friendship within the
organisation as it develops strong and positive relationship with all the group members. It will
ultimately result in the motivation of employees in regards of hard work, put additional efforts
for accomplishing organisational goals as well as make them to work in a common direction with
the specific objects so that goals can be achieved quickly. It develops a feeling of support and
cooperation among workers and respect towards each other as they all believe that this type of
skill and behavior is termed as a key of their growth and success (Henderson and Syed, 2016)
.
Public speaking:
Every kind of corporate job like security officer needs an specified level of public speaking as
this is not essential that an person requires for providing presentation over daily basis. This is
quite evident that individual has been engaged with a business which has voice through opinion
and meeting. Also public speaking is a term that is required skill which is needed to
communicate information to an number of people within an organization. All individuals
contains ability to speak and provide information correctly with detail in clear manner. As per
requirements of company. This is considered to be an important trait in which an individual has
been working in any kind of field and face large number of audience that too with confidence.
Knowledge areas
Security officer has the responsibility of securing premises of the place where it has been
posted. This is done to protect some valuable things like buildings, equipments and also to
protect an individual, his family members. Also through this security can be enhanced.
Knowledge is an familiarity and understanding about something like facts, information, skills
etc. Area of knowledge in security officer has been explained below:
Knowledge of basic security

Inn this knowledge that can help security officer that is providing safe and secure
environment through protecting equipments, buildings, institution, property etc. This has been
having basic knowledge about all types of equipments, policies, procedure and also strategies. In
order to create secure environment. Security is considered to be very important part and people
working in an area or families of an individual are required to be protected fro unwanted social
elements of society. This are responsible for disturbing peace. This can be helpful in reducing of
any kind of mischievous action like theft of an equipments, valuable things, murder and
abduction. It is an very important for the security officers to have knowledge about security can
be installed in organized manner. Knowledge should also be there about when to portal and
where. As they are being appointed to give security.This will help them to patrol efficiently and
secure the environment from any discrepancy.
Fire inspection procedure
This is very important for security and has knowledge regarding preventing and
protecting of building. Premises from fire in order that it should hold knowledge regarding
prevention and protection of building from fire so as equipments, live stock can be saved from
getting destroyed. This can lead to loss of an organization. Also the security inspector must be
basic knowledge regarding safety of fire regulations and can be followed in strict manner. This is
going to prevent the premises from getting fire over it. Officer should be having basic knowledge
about suppression, electrical checks, flammable and fire exists. This is also very important and
inspector should be able to look any kind of hazard that can take place due to fire like fire lanes
can be checked, storage of flammable goods, fire protection equipments like smoke detectors,
fire extinguisher etc. So, the risk of fire can be minimized. Such knowledge is very important
that is going to make officer capable in protecting his environment and taking responsibilities
more effectively (Haslerig and Navarro, 2016)
Ability to work with technical equipments
Security officer must have a knowledge upon utilizing of security techniques and
technical equipments in efficient manner like operating of CCTV, walky-talkies and all other
kind. This is going to be helpful in keeping an eye over every person acting in society and all
things that are taking place in its surrounding. This also includes behavior of people. The higher
the authority has to take appropriate actions that can be taken. CCTV can be helped and security
officers in monitoring of premises can be done in more efficient manner with effective

surveillance. Walkie- talkies can be helpful towards reporting any kind of misshapening within
time and to right authority and important steps can be taken for security purposes.
Readiness for employment.
Employment readiness defined as a ability of individuals in order to find, gain as well as
maintain the relevant jobs together along with the transitions of new jobs when it is required. It is
considered as a model that is thereby based on some general assumptions that are for becoming
“Employment ready” There are mainly three goals that are related to the employability readiness
such as follows:
1. Being self sufficient on four factors of employability which prepares security officer
to manage their work life:
 Skills enhancement or can say that individual having skills as well as education for their
work which they want.
 Career decision making or based on knowing that what kind of work is most suited for
them.
 Job search or related to having skills in order to find work.
 Ongoing career management or can say that being able to manage their further changes of
work life.
2. Being strong on five soft skills which help security officer to manage challenges and
perform effectively in their work life:
 Self efficacy or it is related to the sense of being capable to perform in a well manner.
 Social support means their networks as well as capability to get help and support.
 Job maintenance or it is related to the having a specific set of skills in order to keep their
work once found (Sennewald and Baillie, 2020).
 Outcome expectancy or says that whether or not officer expect to succeed as well as they
are willing to take responsibility for creating that success.
 Work history or related to the feelings of them which they have performed well in their
prior work contexts either paid or unpaid.
3. Understanding the stresses or challenges that they face while working:
 Personal challenges means usually they can address themselves.

 Systematic challenges or can say that they have to be self-addressed on the basis of
community.
 Environmental challenges or it is related to that security officer can manage the
assistance (Hancock and Hums, 2016)
.
As per the discussion that has taken place over the employment readiness this has to be
reflected for being self sufficient under four aspects of employment is not correct. Due to this
most of the individuals has encounter lot of issues also challenges that has acted as an
stressor and can be impactful if not managed in mannered way. Security officers are required
to deal with lot of challenges or hurdles no proper assistance of handling them is likely to
struggle. For getting secure and retain employment if officer is successful in getting job of
suitable caliber. There are five skills that is going to help an individual for managing of all
issues related to performing of business activity in much effective manner and it is important
to become better work life. It has to be observed that all the three types of models talks about
employment readiness have equal importance that needed to be considered while gaining
access to the professional world.
Understanding of personal strength and areas for further development.
To gaining of access of professional world an individual as a security officer required to
be posses various skills, competencies also knowledge that is going to help in performing of
daily operations and working of job role in effective and efficient manner. Being an professional
career development analysis is required over personal strength and weaknesses (Fritsch, 2016).
This is important and necessary for an individual to undergo its detail analysis and complete
examination of strength and weaknesses is done further opportunities and threats. This is going
to assist an professional for examination and improvement area and future formation of plan for
development to enhance professionals for examination to improve area and further construct an
development plan for the pourpose to enhance existing level of all skills and knowledge. Fro
analyzing of these things the method is SWOT analysis which is going to be used by an
individual or security officer in following manner:
Strength and weakness analysis:

Strength and weakness analysis has to be termed as an essential and very important tool that
cannot be used by me in order to know about my strength and weaknesses as it is going to gain
knowledge about myself that is related to personality and readiness that has to be required for
entering into field of my work. As I am a security officer I have conducted my strength and
weaknesses analysis to know about skills that is presented in me so that I can easily deal with
more of complexities and issues that has emerged in business environment. The analysis of
strength and weakness of mine are as follows:
Strengths Weaknesses
 Creativity is one of the most important
thing regarding strength within me as I
am able to perform with more
effectiveness and unique manner.
 I have likeliness in order to deal with
the all kind of challenges which helps
me in becoming a better person and
best personality.
 Working also is an term oriented
environment and is also going to be
considered as a best skill of mine that is
going to facilitate me to work with
members along with better coordination
and cooperation with them.
 I am an enthusiastic person when it
comes to work and I am able to
perform various types of task and able
to complete my task on time
 Communication skill is considered as
an major type of drawback within
myself as I am lacking in both verbal
and written communication as I am
working this is going to impact my
personality to an greater extent.
 Also I lack leading skills a team due to
weak leadership ability . this can create
negative impact upon my strong area of
personality.
 Also I have find out that my average
problem is solving of skills a my
personality is not towards accepting of
cahllanges an I lack problem solving
skills.

Further development.
For the further development learning styles are need to be identified as it is a model that
was proposed by the Honey and Mumford which can be based on that my personality is more of
a type of reflector learner. It can be said that as I have more believe in observation and reviews
after that I reflect on that what is learnt by me through the experience. When I see others to
execute a specific task, I conduct analysis of it as it is the only then that I can repeat the same. I
do not considered myself as a spontaneous performer and I required huge amount of time in
order to so preparation beforehand. I will use all the identified learning styles in order to perform
effective learning process. This will help me in increasing my level of confidence that would be
required for understanding the changes within the business environment and thus work hard
towards my job role of security officer in order to perform better role and minimise all the
weaknesses (Korhonen and Törmä, 2016).
Establishing employment goals and develop a personal development plan.
Planning as well as development of individual career is most essential aspect of everyone
lives as it allows them to select a better and suitable career, enhancing their skills and knowledge
as well as shifts from one job to another by career development. With the examining of
personality, attitude and aptitude of individual the career development starts which emerges the
requirements to set up employment goals and objectives for the better and lucrative opportunities
for career. Assumption of these kind of goals normally is comprehensive of deciding the base of
skills and knowledge that needed to be developed, assume financial objectives, determination of
requirement of stability as well as development of vision in order to gaining several types of new
experiences. It is requisites for all persons to set up some goals before gaining the access in
professional and career world. Employment goals that are established by me in order to develop
my skills and knowledge towards the effective performance of security officer as a job role. It
can be considered as follows:
“To improve my employability skills within 6 months so that I can be able to handle all
the issues and challenges that are being faced by me at a time of performing job role and
develop my entire career effectively.”
Personal development plan.
Personal development plan refers to an activity or process setting up an action plan that
assist personnel in order to overcome from their weak areas as well as make more capable for
performing assigned job roles as well as responsibilities effectively and efficiently. It is termed
as a structural procedure in order to create action plans that is based on the person's performance,
achievements as well as learning (Klimoski, 2016). Through which personnel can appropriately
able to improve their personal and professional development. Along with this, it covers
challenges that is needed to be deal with those by an individual. As I have also prepared personal

development plan in order to increase communicational, leadership, technical knowledge and
problem solving skills (Bridgstock, 2019)
. It can be considered as follows:
Learning
Objectives
Present
Proficiency
Targeted
Proficiency
Development
Opportunity
Criteria for
Judging
Success
Time
fram
e
Measure to
improve
Communica
tion skills
I have quite
less
communication
skills thus I
face a lot of
problems while
interacting with
the colleagues
or with other
individual as
well.
I wish that I
could
improve my
communicati
on skills
while
interacting
with the
others and it
create more
easiness to
get to know
about the
different
issues and
problems
that was
faced by my
colleagues
or other
known one
as well.
These
opportunities
could be
enhanced by
reading more
books, by
preparing
lectures
notes,
attaining
seminars and
workshops,
work more
on
grammatical
skills.
Judging
criteria
depends
upon the
feedback
that I get
from my
friend,
family and
colleagues as
per their
daily
judgement.
One
mont
h
Improvement
must imparts
more
alertness and
enhance the
level of
understandin
g that
decreases the
shyness and
results in
more
effective
outcome.
Problem
solving skills
I am quite
weak in
problem
solving skills
as it is hard for
me to know
about the
different
It is
mandatory
and urgent
to get to
know about
the different
and
innovative
I think that
could be
increased or
improved by
gaining
knowledge
and
experience
It could be
judged by
the top level
management
and higher
authorities.
Two
mont
hs
It could be
improved on
daily basis as
by facing
different
situation and
after trying
so many

consequences
that has been
faced by the
other
colleagues.
approaches
through
which I get
the solution
in an easiest
manner and
helps other
to resolve
their issues.
while facing
different
problems and
situations‘(Ib
arra and
Petriglieri
2016)
.
attempts to
solve
different
conditions.
Leadership
skills
It is the skill
that could not
be improvised
by the time.
There is a lot of
pressure
regarding to
work thus it is
quite hard to
balance the
different
situations with
the leadership
quality.
I would
improvised
that by using
continuous
development
and by
trying to
solve the
random
issues of the
public and
with that
also try to
motivates
other to
enhance
their
performance
.
It could be
developed by
performing
different
activities
within the
business with
full
commitment
and I would
also follow
the time table
thus result
become even
more
effective.
That could
be judged by
the
leadership
approach
that I applied
in the
workforce.
Six
mont
hs
This skills
could be
measured
with the help
of time
management
with that I
could manage
all the
different
aspects of the
business.
Technical
skills
As everything
will be turns to
be more
digitalised thus
I felt more
uncertainty as I
have that
hesitation while
using technical
equipments.
There are
different
technologies
up-gradation
for that I
would try to
gain proper
training and
then implies
continuous
Technical
skills would
be developed
further while
using
different
digitalised
equipments
on daily basis
and with that
This could
be judged
after a period
of time when
I will
enhanced the
usage of all
technical
equipments
on daily
Five
mont
hs
It could be
measure by
the me after
setting a
standard for
myself as
where I want
myself after
some period

development
within my
own skills.
usage I gain
more
knowledge.
basis. of time.
CONCLUSION
The above report has to conclude that all kind professional career are required to develop
and its is necessary for an security officer because it is termed as an difficult and risk full job as
it is based upon protection of an individual and property it works. For this job roles personal
requirement has a specific set of skills also knowledge so as to work with more efficiency and
effective manner. Also these are redness of employability it is essential for goals and
development through which an individual is able to analyse its strengths. Upon the basis of this
type of set-up employment goals also development plan is going to help in enhancing skills and
knowledge of them.

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