BMSW4005 Professional Career Development: Report and Role Play

This report reflects on a professional career development exercise involving interviewer and interviewee role-play. It utilizes Gibbs' Reflective Cycle to analyze the experience, focusing on description, feelings, evaluation, conclusion, and action. The report identifies strengths and weaknesses, culminating in a personal action plan for skill development in areas like communication and leadership. Feedback from teachers is incorporated to highlight areas for improvement and future actions to enhance performance in similar situations. The role play was undertaken in the college campus. It concludes with an action plan detailing steps for improvement and further development.

Professional Career
Development

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Professional development refers to the combination of a personal and career development.
Personal development is defined as the process of the development of skills and knowledge for
the purpose of fulfilling the personal potential of an individual. Personal development is not
related with the job but it include the learning activities outside of the workplace with the
objective of improving health and social interaction. Career development is defined as the
procedure of focusing on the activities of learning which include the work experience towards
the preferred carrier result. The development of career competencies comes under the career
development. Development in an individual by focusing on the career advancement refers to
professional development. Majorly it is related with the human resource activities which include
performance appraisal. This report is a reflective part of professional career development report
and a role play of interviewee and interviewer. This report includes the major strength and skills
which I have identified during the role play. Along with this it also include a personal action or
development plan.
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MAIN BODY
From a report it has been found that the individual learn in the best manner from
experiences. If any individual do not reflect through the experience, it is difficult to learn the
same. Reflective Cycle had been developed by Graham Gibbs in 1998 for the purpose of giving a
specified structure to learning from several of experiences. Basically it provide a Framework
which helps in examining the experience is along with giving its cyclical nature lends. This
model have been used by the individual for exploring a situation. This model included several
stages which include description, feelings, evaluation, conclusion and action. Under this model,
the work has been done through an experience. It can either a standalone experience or a
situation. In the given role play I have perform as interviewer and interviewee both. I also
receive feedback from the senior authorities which implies some strength and weakness in
myself. Below mentioned are the several stages of Gibbs reflective cycle on the basis of given
role play:
Description
This stage of Gibbs reflective cycle simply explains the situation what happened exactly in
the experience. When I was pursuing my management course I was asked to act as a interviewer
and interviewee so that an application can be completed on the basis of a job description and
personnel specialisation for a chosen job role. I have performed a role play under the recruitment
and selection heading. This role play was held in the college campus and some of students done
this role play buy Microsoft teams and using the several technical setups. I have performed the
role of interviewer and interviewee both. Several of questions have been asked by the
interviewer such as something about the individual, future goals, greatest strength, how to handle
the pressure at workplace, reason of leaving the previous job and many more. When I performed
the role of interviewer I asked the above mentioned questions with confidence and when I had
performed the role of interviewee, I had gave the the accurate and relevant answers to the
questions asked by the interviewer during the role play.
Feelings
Is the next stage of Gibbs reflective cycle model which in coverage the individual to talk about
water they thought and felt while performing the experience or roleplay. Majorly, this is type of
focus on avoiding the comments on the emotions of an individual. I was feeling too nervous
before involving in the role play as it was my first time to get this chance. When I get involved in
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the interview process during the role play I perform the entire task in an effective and efficient
manner with full confidence. My teachers, who were monitoring there, notice to my nervousness
and give a feedback that I was a bit tensed while starting the role play but I get relaxed and
smiled towards the end. Also I get a professional standard feedback as I give the good interview
role play which could have been better if absence had not interrupted practice. I have never get
involved in such role play. As a result I was a bit confused and nervous. Also I have not
performed any practices before performing in the roleplay. But after performing the role offer
interviewer, I get comfortable with the situation and I performed the role of interview in a better
manner.
Evaluation
This is stages of reflective model in coverage the individuals experience to look towards the
objective at what approaches the worked and which one did not. At this level, the individual
provide self evaluated answers to some questions related to the role play or experience. The
positive impact of this situation is that it leads to the increase in confidence within me as I am
able to ask the questions from the interviewee in a proper and organised manner. Along with this
help me in developing the skill of confidence, removing nervousness and performing the task
with in the group of people. My role of interviewee was not so good as I was a bit confused
while replying the questions. My teacher's shares of feedback that I have performed a well role
of interviewer as I have designed good questions which are really useful for analysing the skills
of interviewee. On the other hand some of cautions developed by me also helped me in analysing
the weaknesses of the interviewee. I have a made a direct eye contact with the interviewee while
performing the role play. It was a positive aspect regarding the role play. My teacher also share a
positive feedback on the same. Totally I have performed a well satisfied contribution to the
situation by performing well as a role of interviewee and interviewer. I receive several of a
positive feedback from my teachers which helped me in analysing my skills which are available
within me.
Conclusion
After evaluating the skills and role play I have to help the team members to draw a
conclusion about what happened. It encourages the individual to think about the experience
situation for role play again by using the information which have been collected so far. It can be
considered as the more positive experience in the given role play if I can get more time for
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practice. After doing the practice of interviewee and interviewer in the recruitment and selection
heading I can perform some well. If I get the chance of involving in the same role play again, I
will try to remove some negative aspects such as nervousness my english communication skills
and many more. I can also develop several of new questions to ask in the interview round. I can
handle this situation in a better manner by understanding all the experiences and qualifications of
the interviewee through its resume. It will be much better if I get the time of getting done with
the practice for the same situation. I have performed this role play without any well planned
practice so I was little bit confused when I have to ask the questions in the interview round.
Action
Now it's time to take the action related to the team members which help them in dealing with
the same situation in a more effective manner in the future. This is considered as the last stage of
Gibbs reflective cycle model which is required for an individual to come up with a plan so that
they can make the change is in themselves. After getting the feedback from my teachers I have
identified the areas in which I have to work on myself. I have to commit to take the strict actions
to develop some skills which are not available in me at present. Along with this I also have to
you decide a date on which I will get both review and progress. In the starting of role play I was
little bit tensed and Confused. I have to develop the decision making skills in myself as it help
me in taking the instant and sudden decisions as per the situation. When I had played the role of
interview I said that my strength is leadership and I have desire to improve the same. So I also
have to work on my leadership skills. Along with this I also have to develop my communication
skills so that I can communicate with the team members and interviewee in an effective and
efficient manner.
Skills to be
Developed
Development Plan Resource Date
Communication
Skills
In order to be an effective
leader or manager, I
should know how to
communicate the tasks in a
team. I have to focus on
the communication skills
which is a part of
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management course. I will
join some course through
which I can work on my
communication skills.
Leadership
Skills
For the better growth of
my career, I found that I
should develop leadership
skills in myself as it leads
to the growth and
development of my job
profile in near future. For
the same purpose, I
decided to join a
management course which
will help me in growing
my skills which are
necessary for a leader.
This management course is
a complete overall study of
management skills. This
course will help me in
becoming a skilled and
effective leader in near
future.
This management course
will take two years to
develop the skills which
are necessary for an
effective leader.
The main function of this
course is to grow the
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management and
leadership skills to make
future as a leader in a good
organization.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that I have performed well in the role play
which have been undertaken in the college campus. I have performed the role of interviewee and
interviewer both. While performing this role play I have a notice some of my skills and
weaknesses within me. Gibbs reflective cycle model has been applied in this report for preparing
the reflective report on the given role play scenario. It is a a five step process which included
description, feelings, evaluation, conclusions and action. I also get a feedback from my teachers
reaches show some skills and strength along with the weaknesses. There are some areas as well
in which I have to perform and remove my weakness. Above-mentioned Action Plan easy
showing some skills which are required to develop within me to be an effective interview and
interviewer both. Furthermore the reflective cycle model helps the team members to think about
the situation and the ways in which they can deal with the same. It also help the individual in
knowing about their improvement and improved skills and strength.
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