Personal Development Research Review

The assignment reviews a collection of research papers and articles on personal development from multiple disciplines. It covers topics such as the promotion of personal development for at-risk youth in community sport initiatives, positive thinking as an experience of personal development, and economic and personal development in Mafia contexts. The review also includes studies on entrepreneurial learning processes, students' personal development, and social education and personal development. It provides a summary of the key findings and insights from these research papers.

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Personal Development
Name of the student:
Name of the university:
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Assessment task 1: Resume and cover letter
Resume
I visited many recruitment websites and based on my level of skill and
knowledge I have found a company in which I am quite interested to apply as a
software developer. I would like to develop a resume through which the company
executives will get to know about my domain of interest including my skills,
experience and knowledge.
Applying for: CSIRO, New South Wales (Sydney)
Name of the applicant: James Andrews
Email address: [e-mail]
Permanent address: 234/7, princess highway, Milton NSW, 2538.
Contact number: [phone]
LinkedIn URL, Portfolio Link
Applying for the post of a Software Engineer
Designation of interest:
 High level performance application
 Continuous improvement plan
 Full lifecycle configuration management
The engineering leaders are strictly valued to drive both the quality and
consistency all throughout the phases of software development projects
professionally undertaken by CSIRO, New South Wales (Sydney). Proper
partnership with the developers, analysts, quality analysts and support engineers are
required throughout the lifecycle of the project. It is needed for producing high
quality, user-friendly as well as scalable bug free software for the clients.
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Communication skill: Fluent and clear
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Technical proficiency
 Java, c++, .NET, c#, ASP.NET, socket and TCP/IP
 Proficiency with MS windows server, OLAP, MS SQL server, IIS, TFS, SSIS
 Other software engineering skills
 Software engineering, testing and optimization
 Skills on SDLC strategy understanding, business planning and leadership
 Both mobile based and cloud based solution
 SaaS and IaaS technologies (AWS and OpenStack)
 Object oriented methodologies
 Professional experience
Software engineer: Worked as a software engineer from 12/06/2015 to
present.
1. In XYZ Company, I have been the key contributor for Startup
Company’s initial evolution from selling a single niche product in terms
of offering a full solution suite marketed to the global financial services
industry.
2. From 2/4/2012 to 5/5/2014 I worked for a company as a software
engineer in agile project development team for developing, test,
maintenance and web based desktop based software applications.
3. From 2015 to 2016, I have worked in robust version upgrading project
to ABCWorks 2.0
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Cover letter
To
To the HR manager
CSIRO, New South Wales (Sydney)
I am writing this letter to apply for the software developer designation as
advertised in indeed.com and I am keen to be part of your organization as a
professional software developer. As it is requested by you, I am enclosing a
complete job application including my personal interest, certificates and resume.
I am a 4 years experienced software engineer and I have worked for many
development organizations and I have fulfilled all my responsibilities very sincerely. I
have confidence in my strong technical skill, knowledge and communication power. I
can also say that my education background will help me to be a competitive
candidate for this designation. I have successfully developed many live applications
and I also strive for a continuous excellence. I am assuring that I will serve cent
percent contribution for your company. I am attaching my resume and all other
required certificated along with the cover letter.
Please analyze my resume and other additional information regarding my
experiences and I can be reached through email anytime.
-Thanks and regards
James Andrews
[e-mail]
234/7, princess highway, Milton NSW, 2538.
Dated on: 2/5/2018
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Assessment task 2: Gantt chart
Task Name Duration Start Finish Predecessors
Daily life schedule 24 hrs Mon 3/5/18 Tue 3/6/18
I wake up at early morning 5 mins Mon 3/5/18 Mon 3/5/18
Get freshen up 30 mins Mon 3/5/18 Mon 3/5/18 1
I go for Morning walk 1 hr Mon 3/5/18 Mon 3/5/18 2
Have my breakfast 30 mins Mon 3/5/18 Mon 3/5/18 3
I cook what I am going to have in
my lunch 1 hr Mon 3/5/18 Mon 3/5/18 4
I get ready for my office 20 mins Mon 3/5/18 Mon 3/5/18 5
I go to my office 1 hr Mon 3/5/18 Mon 3/5/18 6
I professionally complete all my
job duties allotted for that particular
day
4 hrs Mon 3/5/18 Mon 3/5/18 7
I do take my lunch 30 mins Mon 3/5/18 Mon 3/5/18 8
I do my rest of the work 4 hrs Mon 3/5/18 Mon 3/5/18 9
I leave the office after work
completion 5 mins Mon 3/5/18 Mon 3/5/18 10
After that I come back home 1 hr Mon 3/5/18 Mon 3/5/18 11
I prepare my dinner 1 hr Mon 3/5/18 Mon 3/5/18 12
I read story book 30 mins Mon 3/5/18 Mon 3/5/18 13
I watch television for sometimes 30 mins Mon 3/5/18 Tue 3/6/18 14
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I turn in to bed 8 hrs Tue 3/6/18 Tue 3/6/18 15
Figure 1: Gantt char of daily routine
(Source: Created by author)
Assessment task 3: Question and Answer
1. The set of personal as well as business goal that have been assumed in
the last six to twelve months are mentioned here. It is expected that if all of these
aspects are followed accurately then anyone can easily and smoothly achieve their
business goal and personal goal simultaneously. The steps followed to reach the
business goal are as follows:
 Setting personal and business SMART goal
 Creating a plan for action
 Elimination of all bad habits
 Instilling self discipline
 Distraction mitigation
 Leverage daily goal setting
 Avoiding all the procrastination
 Time management
 Implementation of Pareto principles
 Welcome all the failure for future learning
 Daily inspiration should be searched
 Searching for professional guide, philosopher and mentor as well
 Personal progress tracking
 Welcome all criticism positively
2. Prioritizing metrics
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QUADRANT 1
 Setting personal and business
SMART goal
 Creating a plan for action
 Leverage daily goal setting
 Time management
 Welcome all the failure for future
learning
 Daily inspiration should be
searched
 Personal progress tracking
QUADRANT 2
 Elimination of all bad habit
 Instilling self discipline
QUADRANT 3
 Avoiding all the procrastination
 Implementation of Pareto
principles
QUADRANT 4
 Searching for professional guide,
philosopher and mentor as well
 Welcome all criticism positively
 Distraction mitigation
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3. After thinking about the tasks those have to be completed in the workplaces
during my daily days, different resources are there on which I have to focus on are
the educational resource, financial resource, human resource etc. On a regular basis
all of these resources are needed to be followed accurately. The list of workplace
resources needed to deal with the current job are as follows:
 Office place calculators
 Storage space calculator
 FASB changes or lease accounting resources
 Financial resources
 Resources to support recruiting and retention future office planning
 Education resources in terms of digital books
 Daily E-learning online courses
 Webnaries
4. Even after following many rules and regulation in some cases, personal goals
might not be achieved. The reasons for which a person might fail to reach his or her
goals are as follows:
 Fear for personal success and even failure
 Lack of professional commitment to the SMART goal
 Lack of focus towards to the activates and analysis
 Lack of a real world destination and improper goal planning
 Complexity with the setting personal goals
 Unworthy feeling towards the end resultants and Lack of motivation towards
the changes
5. In any project lifecycle whether it is a professional project or a personal one,
planning is the most phase that has to be strictly considered by the project developer
or any personnel. In both personal life and workplace the planning plays important
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role. In order to reach the personal goal and workplace
objectives planning is very much important. The benefits of planning in the workplace
are as follows:
It provides proper direction to the personnel and business owners so that they could
easily reach the objectives
 It increases the workplace accountability
 Personnel could eventually anticipate the problems
 Planning provides opportunity to the personnel and business to share different
resources
 It makes any project financially beneficial
 It helps to make a project cost effective
 With project planning a project could be completed within estimated time and
budget as well.
 It helps to increase the level of skill discovery
 Helps to get reliability
 Planning provides skills discovering scope to the employees
 Both personal and organizational projects and objectives could be achieved
accordingly
 In each step of planning additional lessons could be learned
6. In order to accomplish any workplace project the project managers are
responsible to maintain a set of project activates to reduce the work load and also to
complete the project within estimated budget and time as well. Based on the project
background single project should be divided into smaller sub-activities and all those
activities are needed to be followed. However, each time it is not necessary that the
project activities are equally important. The project manager is responsible to decide
between the task urgency and task importance. With the help of prioritization metrics
the project activities are needed to be segmented in different parts such as urgent,
important etc. While prioritizing any task the project manager should consider some
features. The steps set for measuring the priorities of any project activity are as
follows:
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 Measuring the tasks and its respective
responsibility during the project implementation
 Evaluating the importance of each of the tasks
 Proper learning to manage time during the implementation of the
workplace projects
 Consideration of accurate changes those are to be done and adopted
by the project manager as well
 Discrimination between urgent and important
 Based on the workplace priority, business goals and success metrics
should be prepared
Assessment task 4: Personal Development Plan
1. Time management skills
In my previous workplace, I was assigned as a professional software developer and
a project leader too. Thus, my responsibility was not only compete my job roles but
also motivating the rest of the project team members. Time management is referred
to as one of the most important activities that have to be considered by the project
manager for successful accomplish accomplishment of any project.
In order to manage time accurately it is necessary to maintain proper rues for
managing time and economic status as well. There is certain time management
techniques those are needed to deal with the work overload, productivity
improvement, etc. Organization is an alpha and omega time management tool that
helps to get a accurate overview regarding the project plans and current days
solution. It also helps to identify the urgent and important tasks those are required to
be completed initially. It helps to save the overall project development and
implementation time. In my previous workplace I used to develop a project charted
first and a work break down structure as well. It helps to reduce the work pressure
from the project team members. Based on the importance, urgency and load of any
activity the time for any activity is estimated.
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I am not at all intended to change the way of my working in
the professional career and working field as well.
2. Being a software developer in a business organization my responsibility was to
meet the project objectives and SMART goal as well. Another responsibility was to
meet the expectation of the project managers. In order to meet the expectation of the
managers, I also had to set some steps and processes as well and those are as
follows:
 The project activities are required to be clear to the project developer and
project team members
 Understanding the expectation of the project manager
 Understanding the organizational culture
I think that the lists of expectation I have considered are completely realistic and
achievable.
3. In order to measure my success in the workplace I think I need to conduct a
professional workshop on IT and its usage in the workplaces. Not only this but also
the ways to be followed to conduct the workplace responsibilities as IT professionals
should also demonstrate in the workplace. In addition to this I think that I also have
to talk about the communication tools through which the poor communication issues
could be resolved. For measuring the personal success, I think I also have to collect
survey results from my project team members to make sure that, they are
appreciating me as a project manager.
In my previous company I have followed different rules and regulations those
are needed to be considered by a project manager to meet the project objectives. In
the coming future I am expecting to increase my level of knowledge through
attending different professional workshop, training and development programs.
Measuring the success is important because it helps to define my current
status as a project developer and also as an IT professional.
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4. Being an IT professional I have huge responsibility in the workplace and at
the same time I also have to work very hard in my personal life. However, in each
step I also have to balance my personal and professional life. In order to balance the
professional and professional life I have to follow some activities and the list of
activities are as follows:
 Development of time management plan
 Setting professional and personal priority
 Separate the works and play
 Development of daily schedule
 Maintaining the schedule
 Procrastination management
 Eliminating all the obstacles and distraction as well
 Must create separate professional and personal life
 There must be a shield to safeguard the passion
I feel that I meet these responsibilities very accurately.
5. My Future goals in terms of SMART goal
Specific: I want to become a leader of a software development project
Measurable: I want to reach the designation within the coming 5 years
Attainable: I think I could attain my expectation through attending different
workplace and training ad development programs
Realistic: I am expecting to reach this expectation within coming 5 years
Time bound: I am already working as a professional software developer and
to reach the professional goals within coming 3 years, I will try to attend training
programs and workshops as well.
6. I think I am an active IT professional worker with positive mind set. I am
very much interactive in nature as well. My communication skill is also very strong. I
can easily interact with new members of any project. I am extremely punctual.
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However I am little short tempered which is my biggest
weakness.
7. Being a software developer in a project development team I have
addressed my weakness because apart from being motivated in nature I sometimes
get tempered with unprofessional and non sincere behavior of the project team
members, which I need to control.
8. According to Keller’s motivational model, I think that, my work goals sit
within the top priority level offered. The components those are expected to achieve
by me are attention, relevance, confidence, and job satisfaction.
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