Importance and Strategy Tips for CV, Networking, and Personal Branding

MN3040QA
Orientation for Success in Higher Education
Project 2: Report & Reflection
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................3
Career development & employability....................................................................................................3
Reflection.............................................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES .........................................................................................................................................6
INTRODUCTION
Career development refers to the state where an individual set his career in a particular field. In
the career development process an individual acquires various skills and learning reading that subject so
that he can gain excellence. These learning and skill development would help a person in attaining the job
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in that field of work. There are complementary things which helps in career development and in getting
employability. These may include CV's, networking, personal branding and so on. This report discusses
about importance and strategy tips regarding networking, personal branding and Curriculum Vitae. Apart
from this, report also discusses the reflection upon the results obtained from personality test. This
personality test helps an individual in knowing themselves so that they can evaluate them on various
grounds so that they can bring the development accordingly. This enables the people in making a positive
change in their personality that directly contributes in their employability.
Career development & employability
Skills and knowledge is a must when an individual wants to pursue to a particular field of work.
The acquisition of these skills and learning will help him in getting a job. Apart from these skills and
knowledge there are other things also that goes in complementary to the employability. These things may
includes:
Personal Branding: Personal branding is a process in which an individual work in himself to create
a positive reputation in society. These personal branding is very much essential for any individual it helps
in influencing the people around you or the people who came in contact with you. Having a good
personality adds on more opportunities to an individual. Like it brings advancement in the career
opportunities and development. Having a positive personality differentiate an individual from the crowd
or other competitors (Savolainen, 2020). In the terms of employability a good personal branding helps in
attracting the employees or the interviewer. Personal branding will create an aura through which the
people would get attract. It is also to take a stand upon the principles and the practices which an
individual stands upon the most. Although building up this factor in oneself would be a bit time
consuming process but surely it will provide the long term benefits to an individual. In the terms of
employability it has the power to make and break various kind of opportunities. An individual can build a
positive and influencing personal brand through analysing and identifying the field in which he wants to
pursue further, evaluate your personality and personal traits, match it with your current personality image
and at last measures the differences. Measuring of differences will help in knowing about the gap and
then taking the corrective actions to bridge that gap. This will help an individual in getting more close to
his personal branding goal.
Networking: It is an informal social setting in which the an individual make the connections with
other people. Making the connection is very much helpful for any person as they might proves to be a
great help for that individual. These networks can perform help in the field of career development and
employability by providing the recommendations for the job, making some arrangements in performing
some work or might can help in providing more knowledge and information about a particular topic. For
example if a person is working in a very big MNC and you have made a good network or connect with
him, this might be possible that this individual would help in getting the employability in his company.
These kinds of favours and opportunities can be well grab through networking. A person build a good
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