Reflective Report and Developing Plan

This reflective report discusses the importance of self-assessment in understanding one's strengths, weaknesses, and areas of improvement. It explores various skills such as adaptability, observation, receiving feedback, working under pressure, and untapped strengths. The report also highlights underdeveloped skills and weaknesses that need to be addressed for career growth. It concludes with the importance of self-assessment in personal and professional development.

REFLECTIVE REPORT AND
DEVELOPING PLAN

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REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

REFLECTIVE REPORT
Self assessment is an essential tool which helps in understanding the persons strengths
and weaknesses and areas of improvement. After carrying out my self assessment, it got to know
about my strength and weaknesses. I have undergone self evaluation tests available online to
check my skills in respect to my personal and professional skills. Based on my assessment I was
able to do my own swot analysis. As per my current situation being a university student, it is
essential for me to sharpen my skills to grow in my career. The prime strength that is very much
important for my career growth and future is adaptability, observation skills, receiving feedback
and acting on own initiative (Lock, 2019). These four skills are my prime strength in which I am
good at and which will be very helpful in my future growth. These are those skills which are
actually enjoyed doing for example, doing observation, I used to do observe everything even my
surrounding because I believe in learning which can be done from anywhere. I used to initiate
actions on my own or I can say I am an initiator and I don't hesitate in taking the first step. Along
with that I am having the skill of adaptability and I can easily adopt the changes as and when
required. I am flexible enough to adapt to the changing trends and needs and requirements
(Hänggli and Hirschi, 2018). My next prime strength is receiving feedback, I am open to
receiving feedback from others with respect to the skills and anything about me which is not
good and required to be changes or managed. All these skills will help me in grabbing
opportunities and which will add value to my career.
Next category of skills are necessary skills which are important for everyone who wants
to achieve higher growth and success in their career. These skills are important for current role
and future role too. The most necessary skill is working under pressure. In the initial stage of
career everyone faces a situation in which they have to work under pressure in order to achieve
the required target. For example, work like sales required the employees to work hard to achieve
the target for which high work pressure is put on by the managers or relevant authorities. How to
deal with such situation completely depends upon me (Li, Fagan and Bourguiba, 2016). I have to
make sure that I am proficient in this skill and even if I don't like it much or doesn't enjoy it. Its
not like that I am not good at this skill but every time the work pressure is not same and its keeps
on changing so I have to strong enough to improve my this strength even more in order to take
advantage of it. I even try to find fun in this skill in the way that it will help in maximizing my
potential and sharpen my skills.

Another skills type is untapped strengths, which refers to the skills that I actually enjoy or
in which I good and competent but is not relevant to my current career goals. The only skill
which I think is I have untapped it is my numerical reasoning skills. All through my academic I
have been good at solving these numericals and knows what are the different ways to solve a
single problem (Maree, 2018). But after my schooling I have not even touched the numericals
much and don't know whether it is useful in my current career option. I sometimes feel that there
can be possibility that after getting proficient in this numerical skill might help me in providing
better direction to my career. So, I have decided to make it as my new skill and work upon it to
make it my biggest strength. This might help me in adjusting my career and putting it on the
right track.
Now I will categorize my underdeveloped skills which are essential for my career but
these skills are required to be developed. The key skills that I required to develop are technical
and computer skills, multi taking, managing conflict, active listening, crisis management and
leadership skills. The biggest problem is that I am very much involved with myself and doesn't
care about others. I believe to get my work done or task completed on time because of this I lack
the skills of managing the conflict and consequently the leadership skill. In my career, a time will
come where I have to mange different task at a time effectively which requires effective
management skills such as multi tasking (How to Use Self Assessment Tools to Choose a Career.
2020). This skill will add value in my entire career till life and my big organizations requires
their employees to be multi tasking which makes it essential for me to acquire. Also, I have the
problem of not listening to others and prompt in between without listening the other person even
if that person is conveying the same thing. These skills are interesting and enjoyable if properly
acquired. So, I have decided to work on these skills and will take help and guidance from my
friends, family, colleague and mentors. Getting these skills will help in overall development of
my personality and will increase the level of confidence and motivation in me. It will also bring
positivity and happiness within me and consequently to my surroundings.
The last but not the least is my weaknesses. These skills are required to be acquired
which are important for my current role and future outlook. These are the skills which are
usually doesn't like but are very essential to develop (Self-Assessment: Skills. 2020). It includes
working in teams and getting nervous when not aware about the task to be done and how to
articulate the things to make it presentable. These skills are very crucial for my learnings and

career and overcoming it is the biggest challenge that I have to face. I used to motivate myself in
order to acquire these skills and work on it. The only thing that can be done is comparing my
strength to my weaknesses and identify the factors or key strengths that can help me in achieving
my desired goals. Based on my strength I got to know that my prime strength is acting on own
initiative and adaptability and in order to further enhance this skill, the right path will be use it in
converting my weakness into my strength. I cannot let my strength goes wrong just because of
my few weaknesses. Also, I can use my observation skills to overcome my nervousness and can
also take all the feedbacks that I have received from others in a positive way to reduce my
weaknesses. So, I got the idea about how I can make changes in myself that will help me in
future and enhance my career and this will help in accomplishing the dual objectives first is
overcoming the weakness and second is further strengthening my strengths.
Thus, I can say that this complete self assessment has helped in a lot in knowing myself.
It has helped me in analysing myself and determining my key strength and weaknesses and the
ways that can be used to overcome those weaknesses. This assessment will assist me in future
and also it provides a direction which will help in dealing with the changes that may arise in
future and how to tackle them.

SMART Objectives 1: Technical and computer skills Objectives 1 to be completed
by: Student
How will I measure that I have successfully achieved objectives 1: Through implementing
the skills in developing new computer programming
Planned activities for
objectives 1
Date Resources required to carry
out activity
Activity 1: Attaining training
sessions
7 days Internet, To develop skill
through learning new things
Activity 2: Self evaluating task 3 days Stationary, Enhancing
confident level
Activity 3: Adapting the
techniques to bring new
computer programming
8 days Computers or advanced
technology, Bringing
innovative ideas to judge skills
SMART Objectives 2: Crises Management Objectives 2 to be completed
by: Student
How will I measure that I have successfully achieved objectives 2: Through predicting the
task before taking any decisions.
Planned activities for
objectives 2
Date Resources required to carry
out activity
Activity 1: examining the
issues
3 days Advanced Technology
Activity 2: Planning the ways
to overcome from such issues
5 days Stationary and paper work
procedure
Activity 3: Implementing such 7 days Online platform

ways to determine productive
results
SMART Objectives 3: Multitasking Objectives 3 to be completed
by: Student
How will I measure that I have successfully achieved objectives 3: By accomplishing the
task within the stipulated time period and also productive results are to be determined
Planned activities for
objectives 3
Date Resources required to carry
out activity
Activity 1: Training 4 days Internet and money
Activity 2: Implementing such
ideas on particular things
2 days Stationary and other
equipments
Activity 3: Interpreting results
through identifying facts and
information.
5 days Computers

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Hänggli, M. and Hirschi, A., 2018. The Incremental Utility of Career Adaptability in Predicting
Subjective Career Success.
Li, K. F., Fagan, J. and Bourguiba, I., 2016, December. Teaching professional practice and
career development to graduate students. In 2016 IEEE International Conference on
Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)(pp. 398-402). IEEE.
Lock, D. A., 2019. Constructing Careers: Self-awareness, Self-reflection, and Self-efficacy
Amongst Undergraduate Business Students. In Employability via Higher Education:
Sustainability as Scholarship (pp. 373-388). Springer, Cham.
Maree, J. G., 2018. Promoting career development in the early years of a person’s life through
self-and career construction counselling (using an integrated, qualitative+ quantitative
approach): a case study. Early Child Development and Care. 188(4). pp.437-451.
Online
How to Use Self Assessment Tools to Choose a Career. 2020. [Online]. Available through:
<https://www.thebalancecareers.com/self-assessment-tools-choose-a-career-526172>.
Self-Assessment: Skills. 2020. [Online]. Available
Through:<https://hr.berkeley.edu/development/career-development/self-assessment/
skills>.
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