Victoria University Applied Business Challenge 1: Value Audit Report

This report presents a student's self-assessment and analysis of their professional skills and values, framed within the context of an Applied Business Challenge. The student identifies key values like integrity, continuous learning, respect, accountability, and excellence. They conduct a capability audit, highlighting communication, customer service, administrative, and leadership skills developed through work experience and academic projects. The report includes a graduate elevator pitch outlining career aspirations as a System Analyst or Project Manager, emphasizing skills and qualifications. The student references relevant literature to support their self-assessment and career goals. The document provides insights into professional development, career planning, and the importance of values and skills in achieving success.

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Value Audit
Hoorn said that every person has some values within him or her, although they may or may not be
aware of its existence. These values have a great impact in our lives as they not only make us wise
but also help us to take important decisions in our lives and career (Nique, 2010).
Integrity
The ability of people to make wise and correct decisions in the need of the hour with honesty and
good ethics is regarded as integrity.
Continuous Learning
The process by which a person adapts himself or herself continuously with the help of new abilities
and ideas is called continuous learning process. In order to lead a successful life, continuous learning
is vital as it not only helps us to avoid and reduce mistakes but also makes us wise, inspired,
experienced, confident and adaptable, all of which are crucial in a successful life(Margart Bourke-
white).
Respect
Respect is the quality of a person to honour the views, ideas, experiences and thoughts of other
people in order to form a close bonding and also to build trust and confidence of each other.
Accountability
Accountability is the ability of a person to realise one’s own mistakes and faults and to accept them.
It takes great courage to do so and thus it makes the person more responsible.
Excellence
The ability of a person to be extremely intelligent and be good and innovative and produce new
ideas for performing various tasks is called excellence.
Capability Audit
A person can achieve everything in life with their capabilities, hard work, perseverance and their
individual abilities and skills.
Communication is regarded as one of the most important skill of a person as it is regarded that
person with good communication skills have potential for great successes. My Communication
skills have been boosted due to my work in various organisations and my dealings with several
customers. Even my university environment has helped me in learning effective and professional
communicative skills which has developed my presentation skills as well. Most organisation believe
that a person should possess excellent communicative skills at the beginning of their career itself as
its important to express oneself and his or her ideas to everyone.
I am working with Rica pastries currently where I require both communication and customer
services skills. I have been able to make good relations with staffs and customers alike with my
customer service. The main objective of Rica pastries is to not only provide best customer
service but also to help each other when needed. At the start of my career, the company

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was losing customers due to bad service to customers but I have served them well and thus
get appreciated by the CEO for my work and also get encouragement to carry on.
Furthermore, I had the work of maintaining all the documents, customer details, orders,
packing details, etc. I also attended board meetings to discuss on strategies of operations.
Being experienced, I have the job of handling my colleagues, all the products, as well as to
ensure smooth, efficient and effective working of all activities, especially during night time. I
also supervise all the overnight activities as the leader of a team of three. All these have
helped me develop my administrational as well as my leadership skills, both of which are
extremely important for running a successful business.
There are various units like Applied Business Challenge and International Business Challenge in
which a person needs to work hard individually as well as work together in a team. They are
regarded as Professional Development courses, which helps in development of various skills like
proposing business concepts and solving various problems. Once, I was a team leader and it was my
responsibility to ensure that my team provides quality assignments, to assign tasks to the members
of my team according to their speciality and capabilities, and manage their tasks and meetings, to
help out if there was any problem as we had to reach our milestone within the scheduled time.
Responsibility, trustworthiness, accountability and leadership abilities are key to be a project
manager. My project management ability and skills has been received well by my colleagues and
lecturers who have given good feedbacks about me and our team’s project.
Although my communication and leadership skills are good, I still try to improve them as much as
possible in order to get better in future.
Graduate Elevator Pitch
Job: System Analyst
I am Gurpreet Singh, 24 years old. I am currently studying Bachelor of Business at Victoria University
in Sydney. This year, in the month of November, I will complete my course and I specialise in
Information System Management.
I want to be a successful Project Manager or System Analyst after completing my course. I would
also like to travel under taking the responsibility of my job.
I prefer teamwork for completing my tasks. My certificate for diploma from ZBA has allowed me to
have a successful career as a system analyst by improving my problem solving and interpersonal
skills.
I have developed exceptional leadership and communication skills over the years and thus can lead a
team well. I, being optimistic, always believe in overcoming stereotypes through hard work,
perseverance, teamwork and determination. I believe that if a person has a goal to aim at and the
necessary skills and will to achieve them, then he or she can succeed even in impossible scenarios.
Throughout my University life, I have performed exceptionally and thus I have the necessary skills
and knowledge. I have worked hard with focus of attending positive results in my work. Given a

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chance, I shall perform my duties, work hard and beyond expectations and add value to this
company through my skills and knowledge.

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