Graduate Challenge: Overcoming Major Challenges in Career Development

This report discusses the major challenges faced by graduate students in their career development and provides insights on how to overcome them. It emphasizes the importance of skills such as communication, emotional intelligence, teamwork, and time management. The report also includes an action plan for career growth and explores specific challenges in debate, presentation, T-shirt, and hotel challenges. It highlights the significance of business skills and competence in achieving career success.

Graduate challenge

Table of Contents
Graduate challenge.........................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Reflection.....................................................................................................................................3
Action plan...................................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
The graduate student has to go through from the major challenges in their life for achieving
set objective for their career. Regular updating of the skill is most essential for developing career
and facing major challenge that act as a hindrance in generating more opportunity for career
(Cheng, 2019). The skills may contains like communication, emotional intelligence, team work,
time management, meeting, business, competency, presentation skills as well as excel etc. The
report aims towards major challenge such as debate, presentation, T-shirt and hotel challenge etc.
that focus upon business branding or operation as well finance. It also includes that final action
plan that is essential for developing this skill in respect of three years of graduate student in order
to overcome these challenges.
MAIN BODY
Reflection
The University learning plays important role for made successful journey to enhancing
skill of student and prepare them for future learning so that they can easily compete with other
challenges. In the student career of University I have to face lost of challenge that is majorly
concern with the business plan in dealing finance, operation, as well as branding. The challenges
that I majorly cover like debate, presentation, T-shirt and hotel challenge etc. These different
types of challenge push my limit to enhance my existing and potential skill. The debate challenge
is more effective one that influence my skills as this concept of challenge revolves around clear
set of argument as per own individual that deliver more structured organised manner. This will
involve withstanding the clear rebuttal stand opposite side opponent. For appropriate and
structured debate need to update my skill and knowledge in general sense so that it will
strengthen my position while countering my side or point of view in the debate argument. After
that another challenge that is presentation skill (Clarke, 2018). The difficulty that I faced in my
student journey is presenting actual consist of material that may include such as jiggling,
fidgeting . Some time I found stiff while presenting data so that tedious presentation will cover.

The T-shirt challenge is faced while working with an effective team to support the business. But
I faced some marketing challenges of the business idea while supporting each team members.
For reducing this effect of challenge I work upon team work skill as well as time management
skill so that I can schedule all meeting while achieving target deadlines. The challenge of hotel is
faced during the business plan of the hospitality industry. the major issue that faced is lack of
business skill and competence so that appropriate idea will need for proper execution of the
business operation activity (Kouzes, 2018). The skills like communication, emotional
intelligence, team work, time management, meeting, business, competency, presentation skills as
well as excel etc plays major role in the part of my journey so that it will reduce the effect of
challenge and strengthen my ability and competence for established strong position in the
competitive market in order to create potential career opportunity.
Action plan
Career action is most essential aspect through which graduate student will generate more
better career option while advance career option process. This will assist appropriate direction
while examining plan for career development. It act as a most influencing tool that cover all the
aspect related with growing career options (Mok,, 2018). In below report this will cover action
plan for improving my skill while generating more potential option for career development. It
will also help in reducing the effect of challenge during learning skill and operating business
activity.
First step-In starting step student need to recognise the vision, value as well as interest
for achieving skill competence in career of professional. This stage contains of selecting desired
professional field area which is totally attached with the individual interest.
Second step-This step combines of generating or evaluation of career option with the
appropriate data as well as collection in order to find most suitable option for career
development. It is based upon own individual skill, competence and knowledge.
Third step- In this stage career development needs to be analysis better option of
potential career so that student can prepare itself before implementing career plan. This will
assist proper guidance for creation of more options.
Fourth step-This comes under the last stage in which career option leads towards final
destination. This will cover more accurate way that involve in fulfilling long as well as short

career objective. It will leads to creation of more support while recognition identical career
objective.
While in the journey of career development lost of challenge has been faces so that it will
strengthen skills and opportunity while all type of weakness in respect of skill as well as career
action plan (Nichols, 2019). This will support career option while improving business skills
through action plan. I need to enhance skills such as communication, emotional intelligence,
team work, time management, meeting, business, competency, presentation skills as well as
excel etc. Through this skill it will reduce challenge in learning face so that I will reach up to
great extreme level for reaching career success.
Career action plan-
Goals Actions Timescale Outcome
Presentation skill The skill of presentation skill leads to
improve while watching more effective
or influencing presentation skill so that
I can easily interact with another in
more appealing way. Along with this
reading more presentation journals help
to enhance skill. At last I can judge my
skill be checking or taking demo in
actual terms and modify it if some
areas has been found that need to be
improved.
4 months Through this
appropriate quality
will discover to
overcome challenge
like presentation or
debate. This will
strengthen my ability
to present more
accurate data in
more effective to
influence target
audience.
communication skill The skill of communication is most
crucial part of the journey in the
learning process to overcome the
challenge. This will improve by
listening lectures from online mode on
how to enhance effective
communication skill lecture. This will
improve my level of communication.
3 months This will facilitates
my business skill
while interacting
through effective
communication skill
so that I can target
while connecting
with the business

For this I usually avoid to use the
jargons that affect my skill while
interacting with others in the process of
conveying message. This can be judge
while making proper feedback through
interacting with each other.
audience. This will
also support the skill
of presentation.
Problem solving This type of skill can be enhanced will
the proper guidance and expertise from
the senior post management employee.
It will help my in solving many tactical
and operational issue in the process of
business. This can be judge with the
optimum analysis of the result
outcome.
2 months This will increase
my ability to handle
or solve various
types of conflict
which create more
productive result to
maintain positive
image of business.
This will provide
some creative result
for business success
and overcome
challenges.
Time Management The skill of time management can be
enhanced when I prioritise my own
individual work in more effective way
that covers day to day operational work
(Short and et.al., 2019). This will help
to complete all type of dynamic work
on pre determine time on priority bases
for producing effective solution for
company success.
1 Months As a result of
improvised skill this
will leads to strong
management while
managing proper
competition of the
task.
MS Excel
This knowledge count as business skill
that will enhance from online tutorial
so that I can maintain the Excel sheet
3 Months It will help me in
recording accurate
data base of

in business. business so that no
data will replace or
misplace for
company
sustainability.
Interpersonal
This will be improved my skill of
positive assertive into the actions of
empathy in practice of business.
1 Month This will leads for
establishment of
strong bond while
managing the
administration.
Critical thinking
The skill of critical thinking can be
improve from developing knowledge
of foresight. This can done with
continuous learning.
3 Month Critical skill always
try to solve
technicalities issue
related with the
business activity.
Emotional
intelligence
It can be improve by involving sense of
emotional aspect while making
decision making.
4 months It will contribute
healthy and positive
relation with target
audience as well as
team audience.
Information
technology
It can be enhanced through regular
practise with the proper interaction to
consumer.
7 months This will increase in
depth knowledge
about particular area.
Team work While coordination with team
members it can be enhanced.
2 months This will boost my
confidence level
while working with
team members.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that the career of student in University plays
dynamic role. It will strengthen strong position of student while facing most difficult challenge

that influences its career opportunity. For this student need to examine its own career action plan
so that it will clear the objective of continuous development for the skill and competence. This
will provide strengthen towards direction and remove all weakness that act as a hindrance in the
journey of learning process.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Cheng, Y.H., Tsai, C.C. and Liang, J.C., 2019. Academic hardiness and academic self-efficacy
in graduate studies. Higher education research & development, 38(5), pp.907-921.
Clarke, M., 2018. Rethinking graduate employability: The role of capital, individual attributes
and context. Studies in higher education, 43(11), pp.1923-1937.
Kouzes, J.M. and Posner, B.Z., 2018. The student leadership challenge: Five practices for
becoming an exemplary leader. John Wiley & Sons.
Mok, K.H. and Jiang, J., 2018. Massification of higher education and challenges for graduate
employment and social mobility: East Asian experiences and sociological
reflections. International Journal of Educational Development, 63, pp.44-51.
Nichols, C., Block, M.E. and Wilson, W.J., 2019. Analysis of graduate programs in adapted
physical education in the United States. International Journal of Kinesiology in Higher
Education, 3(2), pp.47-57.
Short, K and et.al., 2019. A case for graduate student financial education. College Student
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