Professional Career Development: Strategies for Personal Reflection and Planning

Professional Career Development Task 2

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Understanding the concept of professional career development by Gibbs reflective learning
model...........................................................................................................................................3
Recruitment and selection:..........................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................2

INTRODUCTION
Professional career development is defined as the process of making decisions for long term
success. It involve all the activities required by the individual to enhance their occupational
status.it gives a positive atmosphere of career planning and development of a person.it makes the
employee more aware of the market and helps them to stay relevant and up to date. Professional
development of an employee increases the retention rate as well.in this report we will study
about the strategies for personal reflection and career development planning and to gain
confidence and competence as effective employees.( Yates, J., 2020)
MAIN BODY
Understanding the concept of professional career development by Gibbs reflective learning
model.
Professional career development is necessary for the future development of any individual.
Professional career development involves all the orientation programs, training and certification
course which are required to have a successful career future. With the help of professional
development an individual is able to do work more effectively and efficiently. Providing training
in job is one of the important part of professional career development. Likewise there are many
examples of professional development like mentoring, consultation, certification courses and
online training programs.it is very important concept for any organization as it promotes
employee retention.it also boost the confidence level of employees as they feel more dedicated
and innovative with lot of knowledge.( Vondracek, F.W., Lerner, R.M. and Schulenberg, J.E.,
2019) Professional development open the door of new responsibilities and makes the employee
more efficient.in one of the interview done with one of my friend regarding professional career
development, it has been analysed that for the development of career future professional career
development is required. Furthermore, we can understand the concept of professional career
development with the help of Gibbs reflective learning model. Gibbs' reflective learning model is
one of the most famous model of the reflection. The main purpose of this model is to have the
systematic reflection by explaining the learning experience through the six stages of this model.
The six stages of the model are description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion and the
action plan. (Savickas, S., 2018)This reflective model is considered the tool which helps the
individual to analysis the progress of themselves through learning by their past experiences The