Professional Career Development

Professional Career
Development
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CONTENTS
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
LEARNING OUTCOME 1.............................................................................................................3
Understand the skills and knowledge needed for working effectively........................................3
LEARNING OUTCOME 2.............................................................................................................6
Demonstrate readiness for employability and personal advancement through an understanding
of personal strengths and areas for further development.............................................................6
Learning Outcome 3........................................................................................................................9
Establish employment goals and personal action plan...........................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14
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INTRODUCTION
Professional Career Development (PCD) is a 2 hours program intended to create a rather
early night to the employment preparation and growth cycle. The method includes careful
personality-assessment, job discovery, preparation, and tentative work plans being followed out.
Professional development includes of research, assessment, and training that will continue to
strengthen the organizational workers. Obviously, how want to approach professional growth
based on priorities career aspirations and desired preferred approach. Professional called an
adult, who performs his or her roles independently with the aid of personality-knowledge and
abilities. In this report consist of define all the skills as well as knowledge in regard of the work
in which effectively working. Along with, employability and personal advancement helps to
understand all the strong point of the personal behavior and also key audit skills to know about
strong and weak skills. On the basis of this skills prepare personal action plan in order to
improve these skills in particular period of time. Moreover, set goals for the development that
categorize into short, middle and long term plan in detailed manner. There is effectively
indenting field those areas where required to improvement in particular manner.
LEARNING OUTCOME 1
Understand the skills and knowledge needed for working effectively
Professional development plays a significant role within one’s life by making advancement in
their expertise area and improve their learning in order to make them prepare for a better career
growth. The professional development is considered as a process where an individual seeks
toward determining the skills or capabilities they are having or required to improve so that a
particular path way can be set up to identify the range of actions that can eb taken to develop the
skills for approaching a particular profession (Yarbrough and et. al., 2017). In order to get a job
an individual is required to have certain skills and knowledge as the combination of all theses
support them in achieving a better job role and provide them a confidence to perform their work
effectively.
The retail industry has experienced a tremendous growth within past few years which bring
up several opportunities for the aspirants with the new skills and talent to join the organisations
and support them with their new ideas to reach up to new heights. But at the same time, it also
brings up several challenges to new aspirants as they required to develop a range of skills,
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knowledge and expertise in their field in order to get job over other people (Mayer, 2014). These
challenges are relatively higher for the role of marketing manager within the retail industry. This
is so because in retail sector the trends and market dynamics fluctuates so frequently that it
makes lead an organisation to either rise up by taking right action or it can take it to the bottom.
Therefore, the marketing managers are required to have certain set of skills and knowledge
which support them in determining the requirement of the market and aligning these changes
with the current strategies of the company that leads to the accomplishment of organisational
goals. The aspirants bundled with such skills and expertise are highly being in demand within
retail industry that provide a direction to company’s efforts and leads them to reach to new
heights (Mokhlis, 2014). Hence, in order to grab these opportunities an individual must focuses
toward their professional development by making their skills and knowledge advanced to the
level that are required for the job role of marketing manager within retail industry.
There are certain range of skills and knowledge that are required by an aspirant in order
to become a marketing manager within retail industry that help them in performing the working
efficiently are mentioned below:
Multi-tasking: - A good manager is one who have the capability to perform a range of task
consistently so that they get accomplish in effectively manner over the time assigned to them.
These kinds of people are one who are specialised in one field but have a keen to learn some
other additional roles. The marketing manager is required to be multi tasker so that they can
handle a range of responsibility all together at a time (Schenk, 2017). This is so because a
marketing manager have to perform several tasks such as studying the market trend, formulating
the strategies or action plan, coordinating the team, maintain an interaction among customers
with the help of promotional activities. These all are the actions that a marketing manager have
to perform conjointly, so a multi-tasking could be an advantage that help an individual to
perform their job role effectively.
Decision making: - An effective manager is one who has the ability to analyse the situation,
issue or any effective effectively, weight the alternatives on the basis of potential outcome and
take up the best possible decision which help in performing the operations effectively. Retail
often means that actions must be taken much quickly and often as changes are so frequent, but it
also requires that the right decisions must be taken without undertaking any mistake. Therefore, a
marketing manager is required to be having a better decision-making skill who have the
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