Importance of Curriculum Vitae and Aptitude Testing in Career Development

This report discusses the importance of curriculum vitae and aptitude testing in career development. It explains what a curriculum vitae is, its importance, and strategies to develop an effective CV. It also defines aptitude testing, its importance, and strategies to improve aptitude testing skills. The report emphasizes the significance of career development in personal and professional growth.

REPORT AND
REFLECTION

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Define curriculum vitae, the importance and strategies to develop these...................................3
Define aptitude testing, the importance and strategies to develop these.....................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Career development involves improving the skills and knowledge of an individual in
order to accomplish the future career goals. These involves developing the set of skill set in the
area of interest which individual wants to peruse. The overall career development depends on
how an individual acquires the learnings from different sources and develop the understandings
on different subjects in order to accomplish career development. Career growth and opportunities
plays an important in order to accomplish the different employment opportunities. These are also
important to give a practical shape to the learning of a student acquires from the different
sources. Career opportunities simply involves of getting employment which can be only
achieved after acquiring relevant skills and competencies required for different job position.
These skill and knowledge incudes both soft skill like communication skills in order to
confidently express oneself, team work and other wherein technical skills involves IT skills, data
analytical and others pertaining to the specific job role. This report covers meaning of curriculum
development, aptitude testing, it importance, and strategies for developing these.
MAIN BODY
Define curriculum vitae, the importance and strategies to develop these
What is curriculum vitae?
Curriculum vitae is nothing but on simple words it’s a documents which delivers the academic
and professional achievement often individual. The job applicant gives this document to the
organisation where he/she has applied for the job position. With the helps pf this CV, it helps to
match the skills and competencies acquired by the individual with the requirement for t specified
job role. Thus, basically it is document that helps the employer to judge the skill of the job
applicant with the specific job position.
The importance of curriculum vitae
The CV is important as it delivers the all the necessary details about the job applicant. The
employer easily matches the skills and competencies with job position and draws important
employment decisions. CV delivers the detailed information about the job applicant includes the
personal details, academic qualifications, areas of expertise, career history which becomes the

basis for the employer to select the applicant n the basis of the information he/she mentioned in
the CV.
Strategies to develop curriculum vitae
In order to develop an effective and attractive CV that grabs the attention of the employer
includes different strategies like an individual must deliver all the necessary information
pertaining to the area of expertise, the individual must have the complete range of skills and
knowledge to the job position he/she is applying to. Determine the co-curriculum achievements,
learning and soft skill of an individual including communication, critical things abilities and
others.
Define aptitude testing, the importance and strategies to develop these
What is aptitude testing?
Aptitude test is defined by the way in which the employer analyzes the an individual and the
abilities of an individual. Aptitude test involves different question to which the candidates
responds to the formatted question. As a results the employer is able to determine that how the
candidate react, responds to different situations and analyze the cuticle thinking abilities of the
candidate.
The importance of aptitude testing
Aptitude test plays an important role as it determines the mental abilities fir an individual, its
plays an important role as employer is able to judge the mental and thinking abilities of the
candidate that how good a candidate is able to analyze different situation and helps to analyze the
potentials of an individual at work.
Strategies to develop aptitude testing
In order to develop aptitude testing an individual must focus on grey areas which needs to
developed be it logical reasoning or others. Candidates should daily be practicing for the aptitude
test pertaining to the specific realm of the job which will help to improve the thinking abilities
and improve problem solving skills. An individual must carefully practice time management
before completion of the test.

CONCLUSION
Career development is an importance aspect which helps an individual in both personal
and professional development. Career development incudes developing the core competent skills
of an individual so that the individual is able to get better employment opportunities in the future
career. This report reflected the importance of the curriculum vitae and aptitude testing and how
these can be developed in order to accomplish the career objectives. Career development does
not only help to achieve the employment opportunities but deliver growth opportunities to
different realm of subject. An individual must focus on improving the learning on order to
accomplish the care development and employment stability as the future career goals.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Li, H. and et.al.,2017, August. Prospecting the career development of talents: A survival analysis
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Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (pp. 917-925).