Professional Career Development: Role Play and Reflection

This report discusses the importance of career planning and personal development for career growth. It includes a role play of interviewer and interviewee, a reflection on the Gibbs model and Kolb's model of reflective learning, and an action plan for improving skills. The report emphasizes the need to enhance skills and knowledge for creating new employment opportunities.

Professional career
development

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
Reflection of role play and career development.....................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
The professional career development plan is most essential to be developed or evaluate
by the individual because it will enhance scope to improve personal strengths and weakness. The
career development consist person goal, motivation, objective or learning approach that address
possible outcome of career goal path (Arthur, 2018). For desirable job role individual need to
enhance their personality and skill set in order to match job specification. With help of career
personal development plan individual can evaluate its knowledge and skill set and made some
changes to improve personal ability for creation of new employment opportunity. In order to
increase scope of the interested job section, individual keep on update their skill and knowledge
level. The plan of career development create productive path of self assessment for creation of
potential path of a career. The report highlights role plays of interviewer and interviewee
including job description and personal specification. It also include script of interview that
conduct set of questions and answer by interviewer and interviewee. Another part of this report is
personal reflection on the role play and career development planning that highlight skill and
knowledge and enhance employment opportunity.
TASK 1
In separate document.
TASK 2
Reflection of role play and career development
The Gibbs model is the famous cyclical reflection model hat aid in recognising or
analysing individual situational aspect that individual has experience during its course of action.
This can be done by performing specific or particular task activities (Roberts, 2017). There are
many skills that still need to develop or update to determine potential opportunity in career
development. The Gibbs model determine six components like description, feeling, evaluation,
analysis, conclusion and action plan. It will build strong action plan of personal and professional
development to generate more career options. The Gibbs model helps in evaluation and
enhancing skills of both interviewer and interviewee. The Gibbs model is applied for the first
group of nursery supervisor job profile.
Description- The current situation of the interviewer is very critical as they have to
utilise its skills of effective recruitment and selection in order to chose suitable candidate for the

post of nursery supervisor. The skills of interviewer are very best as they create perfect job
application form with job description (Sherif, 2020). This is help in identifying accurate
candidate that will match as per organisation requirement. I think interviewer need to polish their
skill of recruiting because lost of candidate are applying for this job post. It must adopt
appropriate channel of recruitment and selection to fill he vacant position of the nursery
supervisor. On the other hand, I think interviewee must have some required skills like delivering
high skills of standard application in the programmes of child education. The skills of
interpersonal is required by interviewee so that they can improve scope of productivity in
planning, execution as well as organising appropriate work structure in working environment. I
think communication skills of interviewee very impressive as they interact all questions with
confidence that is asked by the interviewer.
Feelings- The feeling which I think is developed by the interviewer during in recruitment
and selection that it have amazing skills set. The developing skills is most essential for career
development of both interviewer and interviewee (Tucker and et.al., 2019). There are some skills
which need to be update during course of actions by interviewer and interviewee. I think
interviewer is weak in selecting appropriate candidate for the post of nursery supervisor. Where
as interviewee is weak in time management or arrangement of things for administration. While
performing activities in job these skills will enhance productive performance at high level.
Evaluation- The positive element which I learned from the perspective of interviewee
and and interviewer to continues improvement in its existing skills by the help of personal
development plan. The knowledge that I improved in this report productive time is spent I
enhancing skills and knowledge to improve performance in the working environment. The
negative element that is experienced by me is lots of time is being exploited for in-depth
knowledge regarding interviewee and interviewer. This will help in building in my career
development because I analysis both situations that is essential in accomplishing goal of job.
Analysis – The impressive thinks of improving skills is that it will generate and enhance
level of my personal career development. The skills will improve scope of improvement in the
future performance. The knowledge that I learned from interviewer that they match skills and
ability as per job requirement. Hence candidate must enhance their skills and knowledge set
before applying any job vacancy. This will improve chance of candidate selection for the

respective job position. From interviewee point of view I gained knowledge of communication
and problem solving skills that help me in performing assigned task.
Conclusion-The conclusion is made for both respective, as per interviewee the skills
plays important role for career growth because it will generate demand in desirable job. The
skills like communication, managing conflicts or problem solving deliver productive
performance of interviewee (Walker‐Donnelly, 2019). Where as conclusion based on
interviewer, they need to polish its skills of recruitment and selection and advance level. So that
they they chose appropriate candidate which is able tom perform assigned task and complete the
task to achieve organisation goal.
Action plan- The ability to learn skills is most essential part of the career development
and skills and knowledge can be improved by appropriate action plan so that individual can
improve its performance level and develop its ability to deal in difficult situation of future. The
action plan based upon interviewer and interviewee skills that is mention below-
Skills Actions
Communication The skills of communication would be enhance
by attending regular lectures and online
tutorial of communication. My communication
skills will be improvised by regular practice
and interacting with the team members and
subordinates (Wehmeyer and et.al., 2019). I
can improve my communication skills within
the time frame of 3 months.
Problem solving The problem solving sills can be improve by
gaining practical experience in dealing real life
situation during working place. I can also
improve this skill by supervision and guidance
of administration. My problem solving skills
can be improve within time frame of 5 months.
Adaptability The adaptability skill would be improve by
thinking critically and manage to perform well

in tough situations. It can be also improve by
communicating well and understanding by
accepting reasonable responsibility. The skill
of adaptability can be enhance within time
frame of 4 months.
Time management The time management skills is most essential
for both interviewer and interviewee because
they can accomplish task objective on time.
Skill of time management can be improve by
prioritising work schedule on urgency so that
all the task will be complete without violation
of deadlines. This skills can be improve within
time frame of 3 months (Yarbrough and et.al.,
2017).
Stress management The stress management skills is most important
for delivering productive performance in the
working place. It can be improved by engaging
free time in interested fun activities. This will
help in reducing pressure in working
environment. It would also improve by
maintaining perfect balance among personal
and professional life so that no pressure or
stress will be deliver from personal to
professional life. This skill would be improve
within time frame of 7 months.
The Kolb's model is used for gaining learning experience and develop critical knowledge
in personal development plan. This model includes four stage that create value and
knowledgeable experience during course of actions. It involves concentrate experience, reflective
observation, abstract conceptualisation and active experimentation. This model is developed by

David Kolb in 1984 to invent experimental learning theory. The kolb's model of reflective
learning will encompasses productive learning process as it will aid in achieving personal career
goal plan. In this model, each stage are interconnected to each other in order to recognise
personal strengths and weakness of skills and improver according goal of career. This will reflect
my experience and explore my time in self development so that each stages support in my career
development (Young and et.al., 2020). This will help me in building my effective career
opportunity and I can deliver unique learning style. This model is adopted for the second group
of Nursery trainee teacher job profile.
Concrete experience- In the second group of Nursery trainee teacher, the interview is
trying to find out appropriate candidate for the job application of nursery trainee teacher. I think
the interviewer skills are not that effective to hire or chose perfect candidate out of several
applications. They need to execute appropriate mode of recruitment and selection which match
structure of organisation. To select suitable candidate I think interviewer must be very specific in
its interview script. On the perspective of interviewee of nursery trainee teacher need to improve
require skills and knowledge for increasing chance of selection. The skills like adaptability,
leadership, creative, patience, communications skills are need to be develop during its personal
development plan. It will enhance scope and improvement in the productive performance during
execution of the assigned task (Pugh, 2019). The future career opportunity also gets developed
by improving skills and knowledge set in the interested area. I believed that it will contribute key
learning involvement during module of learning. It is very essential for me not only evaluate
existing situation of interviewee and interviewer that will ultimately help in building career
opportunity. By evaluation existing situational analysis I must engage in the productive action
plan and activities in order explore influencing knowledge based upon my career objective.
Reflective observation of new experience- After engaging in the activities of
concentrate experience that is highly expected to reflect upon actual experience occurs from
interviewer and interviewee. This stage determine my learning cycle that I have experienced in
learning module, the skills of choosing right candidate is most essential for the organisation
process. I think in the interview script interviewer must be more specific in question designing
because it will help them in selecting suitable candidate that will perform well a per job roles and
responsibility. The interviewer should not ask any irrelevant questions that is not associated with
the job profile of interviewer and interviewee. The communication is the effective skill which

help me in analysing or evaluating existing situation. The interviewer and interviewee needs to
ensure identified discrepancies for in depth knowledge and understandable experience during
this evaluation. The good vocabulary facilitates suitable solid review that will conduct during
occurring event. As per my point of view, interviewee need to focus on continuous personal
development plan for polishing skills and knowledge for improving chance of its selection.
Abstract conceptualisation- It is the next stage of the learning process that is directly
associated with the appropriate sense of the events. In this two different perspective has been
seen involving interviewer and interviewee (O’Reilly, 2020). By abstracting conceptualisation
some conclusion has been drawn from the experiencing and reflection. It determine knowledge
and productive ideas which is consider as more familiar in discussing most possible outcome
while examine perspective of interviewer and interviewee. The leadership skills is most essential
for interviewee as it will generate potential career opportunity. I think, leadership skill help in
managing or guiding active team members. Not only in this nursery trainee teacher job, it will
contribute maximum benefits in finding other desirable jobs. I think the skills of patience and
creativity help interviewee in performing respective roles and responsibility of this respective
job. It will help in developing new fun activities that help me in creation of extra curriculum
activities other than educational one (Raque-Bogdan and et.al., 2020). It combines interpreting
kind of experience in order to made some interacting experience for better understanding
towards both perspective. I evaluate my current personal development plan by help of acquiring
these useful information regarding enhancing required skill and knowledge for performing
current job assignment. I will modify and try to improve my current skill that generate multiple
options for career development. The role play of interviewer and interviewee aids me in
analysing current abilities of performing assigned task. I will be able to modify changes as per
the requirement of the job description.
Active experimentation- In this stage, actual testing will be executed in order to provide
feedback of the learning experience during module. I participate in analysing the actual role play
of interviewee and interviewer to accomplish my career goal plan which is directly linked with
the learning experience. This will help me in analysing actual prediction to evaluate actual task
in developing plans and knowledge for desirable job post. This plan will help me examine future
perspective goal and employment opportunity of my interest. It will provide me proper direction
of practice that will determine relevancy and accuracy in existing skills and opportunity for

career enhancement. Improving skill and knowledge information is very useful for me because it
will ensure my retained future opportunity. It can be done by evaluation of interview script as I
got an opportunity to outlook both mindset of the interviewer and interviewee. This stage mainly
refers as cyclical process of learning experience that will completely ensure overall effectiveness
during the learning process. I work upon my active problem solving, communication, leadership,
patience that enhance my ability to perform well in interested professional filed. It will help me
in understanding of interviewer point of view so that I can update my ability to perform well in
the interview process.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it has been concluded that career planning is very important for
ensuring career development. This will improve individual ability for accomplishing short and
long term goal so that I can build more influencing opportunity for future perspective. This will
planned sequence of interviewee and interviewer point of view so that so that I can improve my
existing skills and build influencing strengths ton garb opportunity of desirable job. The action
plan of personal and professional development develop scope of improvement in skills.

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