Report Plan and Evaluation of Sources for Personal and Professional Development

Report plan and evaluation
of sources

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Discuss the concept of personal and professional development..................................................3
Determine the value of short-term goals and address atleast 3 personal examples.....................3
Determine the value of medium-term goals and address atleast 3 personal examples................3
Determine the value of long-term goals and address atleast 3 personal examples......................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
Determine how ‘Author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance’ affect the use of a source...........4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
Discuss Evaluation of 8 sources to be supported in the report....................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
APPENDIX....................................................................................................................................10
Determine the value of a Personal Development Plan with supported examples using identified
goals...........................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills are defined by both technical and soft skills required by the individual to
accomplish objectives. Professional and personal development plan is defined by identifying the
areas of improvement and developing a schedule that needs to be enhanced within a period of
time. This report talks about personal and professional development, value of medium-term
goals, values and long-term goals and short-term goals, values personal development using
examples, the report also talks about that how author, purpose, reliability and relevance affect the
use of source, evaluation of different sources in the report (Cottrell, 2015).
MAIN BODY
Discuss the concept of personal and professional development.
Personal and professional development is an ongoing process of enhancing own
competence and skills for a future period of time and accomplish specific set of goals. A
personal and professional development plan helps to identify own strengths and weaknesses of
academic skills through which an individual draws the measures and action plan in order to
accomplish them within a limited span of time.
Determine the value of short-term goals and address atleast 3 personal examples
Short-term goals are determined by such goals that an individual prepares for a short span
of time. Short-term goals are crucial as it inherits a habit of setting goals and accomplish them
which is very useful in medium-term and long-term goals (Hanson, 2015).
Short-term goals that I have for myself are:
 Enhancing my public speaking skills
 Stress management
 Working on my listening and written communication skills
 Time management
Determine the value of medium-term goals and address atleast 3 personal examples
Medium-term goals are determined by such goals for a time being of 3 to 5 years. These are set
by an individual for not too short time or too long time, in medium term goals an individual gets
ample of time to work on his/her own skills and competencies prepare schedule plans and

measures to accomplish them. Unlike, short-term and long-term goals, medium-term goals play
an important role to build an individual’s core competencies by preparing action plan with
suffice time period. My medium-term goals are:
 I want to work as an intern as HR executives in a reputed firm.
 I want to do online certification courses pertaining to human resource management
 I want to build my portfolio by working on my academic skills.
Determine the value of long-term goals and address atleast 3 personal examples
Long-term goals are defined by such goals that an individual sees him/her in the future or
it is what an individual actually wants to become in the future career. Unlike short-term and
medium-term goals these are not for a specific time or month but it might take even longer
period to accomplish the set of goals (Helyer, 2015). It requires consistency for working and
learning on different skills and knowledge to become proficient and expert of what an individual
actually desires of.
My long-term goals are:
 I want to establish my own business
 I want to complete my Masters in human resource management
 I want to be a HR manager in a reputed business firm.
TASK 2
Determine how ‘Author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance’ affect the use of a source.
While adding references in a report the main purpose is to support the discussion with
relevant information and knowledge, references helps to add useful sources where the
information is being gathered to complete the report work. The references added in the report
should be relevant, reliable, purposeful and should define the author who published the source.
Relevance helps to define that whether and if the sources added are relevant pertaining to the
subject of research and covers the information required to complete the report (Lejeune,
Beausaert and Raemdonck, 2021).
Purpose helps to define the authors purpose or motive for publishing source and how its add
value to your research subject.