Professional Career Development: Personal SWOT Analysis and Reflection on Recruitment and Selection

This report discusses professional career development through personal SWOT analysis and reflection on recruitment and selection. It includes a personal action plan for improving skills and knowledge in HR. The report emphasizes the importance of continuous progress to achieve career objectives.

Professional career
development

Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Personal SWOT analysis...........................................................................................................1
Gibbs reflective cycle.................................................................................................................3
Personal reflection under recruitment and selection.............................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
The professional career development is the procedure of career planning & development
that involves thoughtful self-assessment, with preliminary employment strategies. It is about of
learning new skill which helps in enhancing present career opportunities. The career
development is series of activities in life-long process for the development of one's career that
involves defining of new goals & acquiring skills for achieving them. Whereas professional
development defines the process of determining goals and learning new skills which help in
growth and success at work (Jafari Pazoki, and Alemi, 2020). This also allow employees to be
more aware of changing trends and directions in industry. The report is based on personal
reflection on the role play and career development planning through application of reflective
cycle in order to have understanding of skills, strength and areas for the further development.
Further, personal action plan is developed. In addition, personal reflection on role play is
incorporated under 'recruitment and selection' to have focus on skills & skills gaps, career goals
and own experience.
MAIN BODY
The role played by me is of team leader in which I was responsible to lead and manage
the team. In team leader my responsibilities are to communicate goals, organise work and
solving problem. Being team leader, I was required to manage performance and motivate the
team for having effective working. I was curious to take advantage of this opportunity as to have
understanding of entire recruitment process in suitable manner. My career development planning
was in human resources in which I want to develop my career by organising my career goals
(Jiang, Yand et.al., 2021). To develop my career in HR I have learn and studied course about
human resources that helps me in gaining knowledge, skills etc. The reflection is provided by the
use of Gibbs model that will help me career planning along with develop the required skills to
get success. To enhance my skills and capabilities I will conduct personal SWOT analysis which
enables me to identify the skills in which I am lacking that is needed for my professional career
development in the field of HR and helps me in playing effective role.
Personal SWOT analysis
Strengths Weakness
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 Communication skills- It is my
strength to have excellent
communication skills since I feel secure
while expressing myself and
communicating with others that also
helps in development of my personal
and professional career.
 Relationship-building skill- I consider
this skill as strength of me as this helps
in contributing in team and develops
better understanding with others. It
helps in developing people skills and
being positive build strong relationship.
 Time Management: I have a difficulty
in managing my time, which varies
depending on the daily duties I must
perform.
 Decision-making: I find difficulty in
making better decisions in several
aspects which affects my profession
and career. The lack of making
effective decision affects emotional
intelligence (Mabbe, and et.al., 2019).
Opportunities Threats
 Problem-solving: I solved several
problems in school and college by
understanding the problem and having
critical comprehension, which allows
me to solve various problems in the
business and other related domains with
efficient solutions.
 Leadership skills- I am able to
motivate my co-workers when they are
in need since I have good leadership
skills. This is an opportunity for me to
hone my leadership abilities, which I
presently do on my own. As I gain
experience as a responsible individual,
my career and attitude toward my work
will benefit (Ruth, and et.al., 2019).
 Professionalism: As a newcomer, I
fear losing my expertise and key skills
while gaining insight into the
professional world.
 Technical Skills: Technical and
software skills, both of which are
essential for my courses, are extremely
weak in me. The assignment and
project necessitate technical abilities.
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Gibbs reflective cycle
It is one of the reflection models which offers the structure in the aim of sharing learning
experience which is incorporated by Graham Gibbs. The main purpose to examine the person
experience which allows them to learn experience and make things planned. This consists of six
stages which is mentioned below-
Description- This involves the description of situation. The task of role play helps me in
understanding the process of recruitment and selection in HR. The recruiter is required to
develop the questionnaire on their own in which applicant is required to spontaneously answer
these questions. It helps me in self-analysis as to assess the specific skills based on my
performance (Sridharan, and Boud, 2019). The are several skills which I found that needs to be
developed in me and some of skills help me in playing my role effective which leads to benefit
me in the career development.
Feelings- To perform my task I was both excited and feel nervous as it was assessed by
the mentor. This entire activity provided me the opportunity to get learn number of things and
helped in developing of my several skills. while performing the activity and in career
development I feel that there were several skills which needs to be developed in me such as time
management skill and decision-making skills. I also found me better in the skills of
communication, relationship building skills, leadership skills. The role of team leader helped me
in managing by work related to HR.
Evaluation- While performing the task I evaluated my performance in which I found that
there was scope for improving skills. The whole process for me was learning experience that
allowed me to develop the knowledge and career in the professional aspects. The process of role
paly was entirely enjoyed by me when I have to think from perspective of recruiter (Stahl, 2019).
It was evaluated by me that relationship-building skills helps in establishing strong relationship
with others and helps in understanding their viewpoints. Further communication is process which
provides better understanding of message by communicating in better way which I posses this
skill.
Analysis- I analysed that there are some skills which needs to be improved by practicing
on them that will help me in the career development. I analysed that there is scope for the further
development which I would like to work on my decision-making skills and time management
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skills as I was lacking in managing the work on time and not able to take important decision
which hamper my work. For improving these aspects, I will work on the both aspects which will
help in performing the professional task successfully in future without experiencing any
challenges in long run.
Conclusion- It is being concluded that efforts made bye me to perform this task was
appreciated where I was required to focus on certain things and considering the feedback
provided to me. I concluded that through self-analysis and self-development it is important to
engage in process of continuous progress to achieve the career objectives. The skills
development helped me in performing better in the professional work which I can use in future
career development planning.
Action plan- In this stage there is development of action plan which is followed based on
outcome of analysis. This helps in improving overall ability in order to perform as successful
professional in long run. By Having the personal SWOT analysis, I found there were some skills
which needs to be improved (Tanveer, and.et.al, 2018). The action plan is prepared for my career
which will help me in crucial areas of human resource to perform job more effectively. The
following is the personal action plan-
Skills, knowledge or
abilities
Importance of key
area
Action to develop or
improve key areas
Time-scales
Time management
Skills
This skill is considered
very important which I
want to develop as I
am lacking in
managing the work
and meeting deadlines
on time. I will identify
the gaps which needs
to filled for developing
time management
abilities.
I can develop this skill
going through case
studies, allotting short-
time limitations for
different task. I will
also maintain a journal
for keeping record of
the progress in
developing abilities.
To enhance my ability,
I will take use of
internet and unbiased
Three months
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assessment.
Decision- making
Skills
This skill is very
important in every
aspect which I am
lacking as decision is
required in
everywhere. The skill
helps in developing
confidence in me and
shows the ability for
selecting best possible
options from
alternatives (Abbasi,
2018).
To develop this skill, I
will analyse the small
decision which is
taken on regular basis.
With this I will study
case & journals that is
based on decision
making. I will take the
use of resources such
as investigation, by
having critical
thinking and reliable
information.
Six months
Personal reflection under recruitment and selection
The role played was of team leader in the recruitment and selection as recruitment is of
hiring the applicant for the vacant position in accordance to their skills and abilities. The
selection is process of selecting the best candidate from the several alternatives on the basis of
skills, qualifications and experience. Both are considered as component of HR in which the role
is to recruit and selecting. As I want to develop my career in HR it is required to have knowledge
and skills related to several HR aspects so that I can develop by profession. The role-play of
team leader helped me in developing my leadership skills which helped me in the development
of my HR profession while recruiting and selecting candidates. I got the knowledge of recruiting
candidates by taking interviews. However, I believe that the recruiter and his ability to assess the
applicant's talents and competencies add to the effectiveness of the recruitment method. While
performing this I was capable to develop several skills such as critical analysis which helps me in
performing the task related to every professional. It helps me in understanding the situation and
hence work towards in taking the correct decision that is based on analysis, I'm working on
honing my capacity to analyse a scenario critically. I evaluate my decision-making abilities and
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previous decisions. With this I also consider that I posses motivating skills as in the organisation
every employee works in team and further requires to work in effectively towards the inspiring
team members which builds business performance and leads my profession development as well.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is being concluded that the task of role play was helpful in the
development of skills and knowledge that assist in career development of human resources
executive in the future. Further, it helps me in understanding in the process of recruitment and
selection. In the report, reflective cycle was used which offered me the opportunity to understand
the practical use of reflective framework and able to identify personal strengths. Within report
there is development of personal action plan for improving skills and provide a great learning
experience.
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