HR Reflective Essay - Human Resource

Reflective essay -
HR & Recruitment
Careers Ambitions

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
A) Skills And Qualities Which I Have:..................................................................................3
B) Identification and justification of your career ambitions: identify the types of jobs and
sectors you would like to work in the future and why...........................................................5
C) Matching skills to career ambitions: (1.) Appraise how your skills match your career
ambitions,(2.) Identifying any gaps in what skills you have and what career you would like to
have.........................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development within an individual is vital as these will help an
individual to lead ahead in their career. Development of an individual is depended upon how
well he is in learning thing through theoretical or practical knowledge. The aim behind these
personal and professional development is to helps an individual in managing of their own skills,
learning and growth throughout their career. As in the documentation of this reflective report the
major focus which have been given is own the determination of my own skills and career path
through the implementation of the models such as Gibbs model or Kolb's model. Along with it,
this study also covers the types of the jobs I am interested in and what measures I have taken to
achieve my ambitions and goals which I have decided to achieve within my career. Apart from
the reports will also focus on the gaps which have occurred while achieving the career ambition.
This report will help me in identifying my skills where I am good at and what other opportunities
are available in front of them so that I can succeed in my career.
MAIN BODY
A) Skills And Qualities Which I Have:
To survive in this competitive era, one must foster skills which helps them in leading in
their career(Prosek and Hurt, 2014). In similar manner, there are number of skills which I have
and which have supported me at each and every phase of my life. Through the fostering of the
skills like problem solving skills and decision making skills I have come up with tackling various
situation which were difficult. Some of the strength and weaknesses which I have can be better
understood with the help of SWOT analysis which will enable in understanding the areas of my
strength and weaknesses along with all other opportunity and threat which are in front of me and
has cause difficulty to me in leading in my career:
STRENGTH WEAKNESSES
Strength is the area which involves the factors
where individual has an advantage over other.
The strength which are present within me are
as follow:
 I have the ability to solve the problems
Weaknesses involves the area where we are
lacking at or are not good enough:
 I tend to get angry very quickly when
the work is not performed by me within
the given time period.

in a right manner without causing any
harm to other.
 I have great decision making skills
within me(Trede, Macklin and Bridges,
2012).
 I am confident enough to deal with
people and situations.
 I feel uncomfortable in dealing and
communicating with people which
shows that my communication skills
are weak.
OPPORTUNITY THREAT
Opportunities are those which renders us with
certain advantages which will lead in achieving
the desired ambition in life.
 I have the opportunity to work as a
motivators as I can motivate people
easily.
 I can also work as a manager in a
reputed company due to my
management skills and team building
skills.
Threat refers the things which prevents us from
achieving the goals.
 Due to my short temper issue I can face
problems in my professional life such at
workplace.
 Threat from the other individual due to
his better communication skills.
In order to understand my skills which will help me in leading my career as a HR recruiter the
model can be the best option will will render will detail analysis:
Kolb's learning cycle:
This theory consists of the 4 dimensions which shows that each individual have their own
different learning style:
Concrete learning: These type of the learning involves the person who already have
learned through their experience. This learning generally involves feeling(Kroll and Dussias,
2017).
Reflective observation of the new experience: In this criteria of the Kolb's learning
theory the person who are considered are the one who observe thing before making any kind of
judgement.

Abstract conceptualization: This learning of the Kolbs model is associated with the
person who think logically and react upon the situation after appropriate thinking and doing.
Active experimentation: These involves the individual who are very good at influencing
people and getting their work done through others in a effective manner.
Thus, from this Kolb's model of learning it can easily identify that I am a type of
concrete learners who have learn from the past experiences some of the skills which I have
developed in my life from the experiences are my ability to take decisions regarding each and
every situation due to my past experiences I have also developed a extreme level of confident
within me which will lead me in my career in the near future(Cooke, 2012).
B) Identification and justification of your career ambitions: identify the types of jobs and
sectors you would like to work in the future and why
As in the present corporate world, various types of job opportunities are available from
which an individual can choose as per their skills, talent and requirement. Here are describe
various types of jobs:
Marketing: It refers to those activities which is operated by an individual in order to
promote the product and services of an organisation. All these activities include create adversing
campaigns, determine the market trends, develop an effective pricing strategy and and many
others in order to create the more awareness among the customers towards the company's
products and services.
Finance: It is related to managing all the financial activities of the organisation so that
the all the business operation can be operate in an effective manner without any kind of
hindrance. The functions which have done by the finance department are planning, managing
investment, hedging, cash management, auditing, accounting and many others.
Human resource: The functions of this department is related to hiring the best candidate
within the organisation and provide them effective training an development program so that the
skills and knowledge of the employees can be increased. Other it is responsible for operating
various functions like organising, controlling, recruiting, job analysing, performance appraisal
and many others(Pallisera and et. al., 2013).
After considering the detail explanation of all the job role I will choose for me the human
resource job profile as this is most perfect for me. As because, I have all those skills which are
required to perform this job role. It requires various skills like communication skill,

organisational skills, budgeting skills, decision making abilities, empathetic skills, training and
development ability. I have comprises all these skills which enables me to carry out all the
activities in a most significant manner(Mahlanze and Sibiya, 2017).
C) Matching skills to career ambitions: (1.) Appraise how your skills match your career
ambitions,(2.) Identifying any gaps in what skills you have and what career you
would like to have.
My life ambition is to become a successful entrepreneur for which the skills which I am
having are very crucial as working as an entrepreneur It is not an easy task it requires lots of
efforts and power to solve all the problems related to the operating of business and its decision .
But in order to gain a competitive advantage in the market the skills which I need to work on
developing within me are communication skills and analysis skills which will help me further in
succeeding the business as with the help of this communication skill I can easily deal with the
people and know what exactly their expectation are and can provide them service with the best.
Development of these analysis skills will support me in analysing the market and prevailing
trends and demands of the customers within the market about the price of the products, quality .
These both the skills will help me in improving my performance in comparison to the other
entrepreneurs competitors in the market place(Gould and Taylor, 2017).
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CONCLUSION
From the above file, it can be concluded that in order to get the success and growth in the
future some effective skills and characteristics need to have in an individual. By considering the
SWOT analysis I will be able to ascertain my skills and weakness. Along with this, it also helps
me in ascertaining all the opportunities which I can utilise in order to acquire more personal
growth and development. It also represent all the threats of mine which can lead the bad impact
on me in order to carry out all the operations of the business effectively. An effective model is
also given in this report which help in ascertaining all the effective learning skills of mine and
also pertains that each and every individual have different skills which should be analysed by
them in order to conduct any of the business operation. Moreover, the different types of jobs are
define in which a person needs to have some specific skills. As per the consideration of all the
job types I felt that the human resource job profile is more suitable for me as I have all those
skills which needs to perform the job of human resource.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Trede, F., Macklin, R. and Bridges, D., 2012. Professional identity development: a review of the
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Kroll, J. F. and Dussias, P. E., 2017. The benefits of multilingualism to the personal and
professional development of residents of the US. Foreign language annals. 50(2).
pp.248-259.
Cooke, N. A., 2012. Professional development 2.0 for librarians: Developing an online personal
learning network (PLN). Library Hi Tech News. 29(3). pp.1-9.
Pallisera, M. and et. al., 2013. Personal and professional development (or use of self) in social
educator training. An experience based on reflective learning. Social Work Education.
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Mahlanze, H. T. and Sibiya, M. N., 2017. Perceptions of student nurses on the writing of
reflective journals as a means for personal, professional and clinical learning
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Gould, N. and Taylor, I., 2017. Reflective learning for social work: research, theory and
practice. Routledge.
Colomer, J. and et. al., 2013. Reflective learning in higher education: A comparative analysis.
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