Career Action Plan and Self-Reflection Report: HR Generalist Position

This report presents a comprehensive career action plan and self-reflection analysis for an HR Generalist role, specifically targeting a position at AT Global in London. It begins with a personal analysis, evaluating the applicant's strengths, such as communication, proactivity, and teamwork, and weaknesses, including HR reporting skills and intercultural sensitivity. The report then details a career action plan, outlining strategies for skill development, particularly in organizational skills, time management, and adaptability. This plan includes target actions, resources, and timelines for improvement. Furthermore, the report emphasizes the importance of intercultural sensitivity and provides actionable steps for the HR professional to develop the required skills. Finally, a CV is included, tailored for the graduate-level position, summarizing the applicant's skills and experience. The report focuses on enhancing the applicant's suitability for the HR Generalist role through targeted self-improvement and career development strategies.

Career Action plan
and self-reflection

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.......................................................................................................................3
Personal Analysis .........................................................................................................3
Career Action Plan ........................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
The report will consist of the personal analysis for the job vacancy at the AT Global
for the position of the HR Generalist for full-time in London. The analysis will include the
strengths and weakness of the applicant and the evidences for each of them. Career
action plans for the weak areas and development of the skills and the knowledge. The
methods for the implementation of the plan for moving forward in the company. A CV for
the application of the graduate level position in the AT Global. The HR skills required for
the application of the vacancy are:
 Staff recruitment
 Retention
 Orientation and the onboarding
 HRIS technologies
 Performance management
 Organizational development
 HR policies and procedures
MAIN BODY
Personal Analysis
Strength:
It refers to the capabilities of an individual. I being the HR it is very essential that
the HR must have capability of inattentiveness, creativity, communication, leadership,
high patience level, and various other. These strength plays an important role in the
working of HR. For example if I have high creativity and innovative skill then I can easily
bring and implement change in the organization. Likewise, presence of good
communication skill enable me to represent my views among the employees in effective
manner.
Weakness:
It refers to the weakness or loophole that is needed to be enhanced or developed
by me in order to perform the work of HR. Poor time management, record management,
change management, less experimental, low creativity and many more are counted

under my weakness of being an effective HR. This can also be understood with an
example that if I have a weakness of poor time management then it would be very
difficult for me to implement changes on time along with moving the organization with
the changing trends. It is to be noted that it is highly required that I have to work towards
this so this weakness can be minimized.
Communication skill
The HR generalist’s basic skill is the communication skill. Communication is
considered the most crucial skill for the human resource management because this skill
helps in developing the connection between the employer and the employees. I being
the HR have to take stand for the employees at the workplace and also act for the
employer. For maintaining the balance between both the employers and the employees
the communication skill plays and important role. Along with this the communication is
necessary in spreading the information among the employees under the workplace for
the functioning. As a HR generalist have to deal with answering the issues and
complaints of the employees and handling this is the role of the HR. This skill was clear
by the tasks completion at the university level by me (Favi, Germani and Marconi,
2017).
Proactivity
The HR generalist skill demand for the proactivity of the person at job. The
proactivity can be considered a personality trait more than a skill. This was identified by
me during working at the multinational company in London. Proactivity can be
developed with time. The HR being the mediator between the employer and the
employees need to have this skill. This skill help the HR to actively spot the areas of
problem and resolve them before time. This also helps in preventing the other problems
from generating. The proactive human resource management is preferred more than
the reactive HRM. The proactive human resource help in the management of the core
tasks of the HR and I can align the plans according to the business goals (Ohly and
Schmitt, 2017).
Teamwork
The skill that is impossible to avoid is the teamwork while thinking of this job role
of HR. This skill was identified by me while working as a volunteer for a mental
awareness campaign. The HR is required to work with the managers and the
employees, for that the management of the activities in the organization is aligned so
everyone is working efficiently. The HR have to make the staff member of the
organization to work together in order to get the work done and for the development of
the company (Sanyal and Hisam, 2018).
These skills are the strengths of me for the role of HR generalist in an
organization. Some weakness of me in the role of the HR generalist are:

HR reporting skills
The essential parts for the role of the HR generalist is the reporting skill and I am
lacking in this skill. This is required by the HR for being more analytically driven as well
as oriented towards the work. This skill involves the creation, reading and the
interpretation of the information from different human resource system for the HR report.
This report helps the HR to make more effective policies and evidence based decisions
(Cassar and et.al, 2018).
Administrative expert
The role of HR as an administrative expert may have reduced due to the use of
the technologies and the increase use of digital HR but it is not ended completely. The
HR is required to engage in the issues like the employee absence, absence files, payroll
and hiring and firing of the employees. The administrative expert is my weakness for the
role of HR generalist.
Intercultural sensitivity
The HR generalist have to have the intercultural knowledge. The HR when
working with the employer and the employees of the different countries need to be
aware of their culture differences. This experience is gained by me while working at the
multinational company in London. Managing the tasks of the employees and the
retention become easier when the HR is aware of the intercultural difference along with
the skill of language. The culture differences influence the ways of hiring, retaining and
promoting people. The communication style with the employers of the other countries
need to handle with the consideration that it is respectful and directs the message the
HR needs to convey to them. The slight mistake in the language skill can cause the
employers of the different country to get offend. Such kind are risks are the main issues
that the company need to avoid while deals important matters (Cojocariu and Boghian,
2020).
Career Action Plan
Target Resources/strategy Long
term/short term
action
Personal
development
activity
Due
date/time
scale
Time
management
This can be done
with the
organizational skill.
It is a short term
action.
Managing the
payroll and the
employment
contracts are
very time
consuming and
this need to be
changed
Need to be
completed in
a week.

Record
management
Developing the
organizational skill
will help.
It requires some
time to be
completed as the
records are
many.
The appropriate
software can be
used to keep all
the important
documents at
one place.
Need to be
done in a
month.
Calendar
management
Using calendar
management tools
to remind the HR
about the important
meetings and tasks,
the notifications by
the tools will avoid
missing any
important thing.
A to-do list can
be made in the
starting of the
day to give a
direction on what
to do next and
what are the
priorities. This
will help in being
more organized.
Observing the
time required by
each task to be
completed by the
HR and
assigning each
task a time limit
to be completed
in,
On-going
process
Change
management
The management
needs to be changes
according to the
changing needs of
the company.
Long term action
Is needed.
self-assessment
and
improvement
plans are
required.
On-going
process
Enlarged
thinking
Keeping open mind
while thinking about
anything that is
required in the
company.
It is a long term
process.
involve in
meeting with the
professionals
On-going
process.
Personal development

For making the effective HR reports I need to organize the information coming
from the different human resource systems. The developing organizational skill will help
the HR professional to save time by managing the records. The organizational skill will
be helpful as:
Time management
Managing the payroll and the employment contracts are very time consuming.
This can be done with the organizational skill as the HR is responsible for the
completion of the essentials on time and accompanying with the relevant strategies.
Record management
The organizational skill will also help in the managing of the records like the
documents of the employees and their storing as well as retrieving (Gould, 2017).
Calendar management
The HR needs to be prepared for the important activities and meetings with the
employers and the employees along with the tasks that come with the responsibility.
Managing a good calendar will help the HR professional to great extent.
The organizational skill can be improved by:
 Using calendar management tools to remind the HR about the important
meetings and tasks, the notifications by the tools will avoid missing any important
thing.
 Observing the time required by each task to be completed by the HR and
assigning each task a time limit to be completed in. this way the responsibilities
are divided to specific limit for the completion (Kofler and et.al, 2018).
 A to-do list can be made in the starting of the day to give a direction on what to
do next and what are the priorities. This will help in being more organized.
 The appropriate software can be used to keep all the important documents at
one place.
For getting over the intercultural differences adaptability skill needs to be developed by
the HR:
The changes that are unpredictable can disturb the functioning of the HR
professional. The adaptability skill will help in the:
Change management
The HR needs to understand when it’s time to change according to the needs of
the different countries and their culture (Al-Ali and et.al, 2017).
Enlarged thinking

The HR professional are responsible for the decision making process in the
company. Thus, the HR needs to understand what is required by the company to meet
the needs of the international company’s need.
Self-assessment and improvement
The HR can follow the self-assessment and improvement plans to be in the
improving phase so as to keep the functioning of the company modern and creative.
Adaptation skills can be developed by:
 Understanding the work and keep looking for the results for the estimation of
change required. The HR practices can be changed accordingly (Calvo-Mora,
Domínguez-CC and Criado, 2018).
 Keeping connection with the leaders of the companies in other companies and
the current organization can help the HR with solving the general issues and
providing information to be up to date.
 Communicating and casual discussion can help the HR to get the different point
of views to be taken into consideration.
Career related activities
The HR can learn the scope available of HR to move forward, there are variety of
career paths for the HR. the HR generalist can help the HR to identify the different roles
and functions to perform with the challenges that come with it. Different company offer
different roles to the HR in the HR generalist role the HR will become a suitable for the
position of the managerial role (Kelly and et.al, 2020). The ways that can help the HR to
gain full exposure to the duties are:
Shadow your peers
The shadowing of the peer will help the HR to get different roles to experience.
Involving in activities like the managing a team and talking with the benefits plan with
the broker. Various things can be learned by simply watching the working.
Experiment with new initiatives
The HR can work on the initiatives that give more exposure to the interested
areas. Like if the HR is interested in the employee engagement activities the then HR
can do specific improvement in the engagement practices. The HR will be provided with
more of the work related to the employment management if the improvements work
(Bolli, 2017).
CV to apply for the graduate level position
Jacob Kelsch, HR generalist
[e-mail]
Linkedin.com/in/jacobkelsch

161-436-4452
Professional summary
Skilled for the employee engagement and training. Seeking to enter in the AT
Global Group. To energize the corporate culture at the company. To manage the
performance development and implementation of the program to gain the increased
employee management.
Education
2011-2016 at ______ University
Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management
 Was excellent at the HRIS classes.
 Was involved in the consultancy services of nonprofit communities for the
improvement of HR management.
Skills
 Hard skills: HRIS, project management
 Soft skills: Communication, collaboration, leadership
Activities
Volunteered as a project manager
Coach little kids for the baseball leagues
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from the report that I have the strengths and the
weakness, this is known by the personal analysis. The strengths such as the
communication skill, proactivity and teamwork can be used for filling of the
vacancy at the AT Global. The weakness such as HR reporting and intercultural
sensitivity can be improved by the implementation of the career action plans. The
career action plans involve the personal development and the career related
activities for moving forward. The CV is made available for applying for the
graduated level position of the HR Generalist.

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