Career Action Plan and Self-Reflection Report: Fashion Retail

This report presents a comprehensive career action plan and self-reflection for a student aspiring to be a marketer in the fashion retail industry. The report begins with a personal analysis, evaluating the student's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The student identifies interpersonal skills, IT skills, and communication as strengths, while numeracy and analytical abilities are acknowledged as areas for development. The opportunities include creativity and influencing skills, while threats involve analytical limitations and IT skill gaps. The core of the report is a detailed career action plan, outlining specific tasks, required resources, and a timeline for skill development. This includes enhancing IT skills, improving numeracy and analytical abilities, and developing leadership skills. The plan details how to achieve these goals through online courses, quizzes, case studies, and observation. Finally, the report includes a CV summarizing the student's skills, experience, and education. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of self-assessment and strategic planning in achieving career goals and provides a positive reflection on the project's impact.

Career Action plan and
self reflection
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................2
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................2
PERSONAL ANALYSIS........................................................................................................................2
CAREER ACTION PLAN......................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................7

REFERENCES............................................................................................................................................7
APPENDIX.................................................................................................................................................9
INTRODUCTION
For an individual it is very much potential to plan for the career as it is very much
essential to live the life happy and pleasant (Maree, 2020). To choose one of best career option
required to visualize own areas of interest and weakness to remain competitive in the
marketplace. Respective report is based on the fashion retain sub industry in which an individual
desired to become the marketer to achieve potential outcomes. As while an individual choose
one of best career opportunities can be able to give one of best efforts that is very much
potential. Respective report is based on the choosing the career by finding out best opportunities
inherited with it. Further it includes the accessing own areas of strength and weakness and then
build the action plan to work on respective areas to achieve the desirable goals and objectives.
finally it includes the CV that depict all the information about an individual to achieve the
desirable job role in potential manner.
MAIN BODY
PERSONAL ANALYSIS
Personal analysis is very much important for an individual that contributes in accessing
own areas of skills and capabilities by showing the path to choose one of best career
opportunities. As career and choosing one of best opportunities helps in giving one of own best

outputs in organisational as well as self development in potential manner (Hartung and Vess,
2019). As per the CW1 an individual wants to become the marketer in the field of Fashion retail
sub industry to gauge the opportunities. Before opting career opportunities required to analyze
the own strength and areas of weakness.
Strength:
 By analyzing the areas of strength
includes the interpersonal skills that is
very much important for an individual
to build the close relationship with the
people that is very much important to
give one of best efforts.
 The another significant skill required is
good oral and written communication
skills that is very much important to
become the very proficient marketer.
 The area of strength includes the team
work that can be possible by the
analyzing the areas of skills and
capabilities in order to achieve the
desirable goals and objectives.
Weakness:
 It is very much potential for individual
to collect the necessary information in
regards of Marketer that are IT skills
that is very much potential for an
individual in work accurately and very
promptly as after collecting the data
need to be collected for the long time.
 Numeracy and analytical ability is very
much potential of the marketer in
achieving the best outcomes. I analyzed
that facing the numeracy and analytical
ability as it required to achieve the
potential knowledge and information in
potential manner. in that regards it is
very much potential to analyze the
areas of strength and weakness to
remain competitive in the marketplace.
Opportunities:
 The opportunities that can be achieve to
become one of best marketer required
the creativity and imagination as it is
very much potential to collect the
necessary knowledge and information
in the most potential manner to achieve
the desirable goals and objectives.
Threats:
 It has been analyzed that the major
threats that encountered is not able to
lead in proper manner as due to lack in
analytical ability I am not able to
collect the potential data and
information which hinders the self
interest to remain competitive in

 The another area of opportunity that
proved beneficial for an individual
includes the influencing and negotiation
skills that is very much potential for
marketer to collect work and activities
from employees and while collecting
data from the respondents.
marketplace.
 The another area of threat includes the
not accuracy in the outcomes due to
lack in the IT skills an individual not
able to collect information and
memorize for the long duration. So
respective areas proved hazardous for
me in giving one of the best outcomes
in potential manner.
From the above analysis it has been evaluated that for an individual it is very much potential to
analyze the areas of own strength and weakness as it proved beneficial in choosing one of the
best career opportunities. To become the good marketer required some sort of skills and
capabilities that are analyzed in the above section. in addition to some other areas also analyzed
that come under the weaknesses and threats for an individual that need to be improved by using
the action plan to achieve one of the best outcomes.
CAREER ACTION PLAN
Career action plan is the plan from the side of individual student for evaluating the career
goals by describing the steps that is necessary to pursue the goals and objectives in potential
manner (Chen and et.al., 2020). to become the Marketer in the fashion retail sub industry
required to prepare the career action plan that are as follows:
Tasks Resources Timescale Personal
development
Career
related
activities
Action plans
IT skills To develop the
IT skills
required to
join online
classes,
software, tutor
It required
approximately
six months to
learn.
IT skills not
only proved
beneficial for
personal
development
but also for
By learning
the IT skills
an individual
can enter in
any field as
IT
To gauge
the IT skills
required to
collect
information
as per the

and feedbacks career related
activities as it
provides lot of
employment
opportunities to
individual in
potential
manner
(O’Connor,
2019) .
department
and related
skills
required in
each and
every
department.
department
in which an
individual
presently
working and
required
skills to give
one of best
efforts then
take the
online
classes that
conveniently
available.
Numeracy
and
analytical
skills
To develop the
numeracy and
analytical
skills the
required
resources are
articles,
solving quiz
and case
studies and
watching
online videos.
To learn
respective skill
the estimate
required time
is 4 months
approximately.
Respective skill
proved very
much beneficial
for an
individual in its
personal life as
in day to day
life an
individual have
to deal with
severe
calculations and
have to take
effective
decisions (Park,
2019).
It has been
analyzed
that
respective
skill not only
proved
beneficial
for personal
development
but also
provide
career
opportunities
as number of
job
opportunities
available for
To develop
the
respective
skill set an
individual
required to
firstly
collect
resources
and solve
the case
studies,
solve the
online quiz
and take
feedbacks
from the

individual
who
proficient in
respective
field such as
logistic,
legal
secretary
and many
more.
seniors.
Leadership
skills
It is very
much potential
for an
individual to
develop the
leadership
skill to do the
same required
the resources
is online
classes, books,
articles and
observation.
To develop the
leadership
skills required
approximately
6 months.
It has been
evaluated that
leadership skill
is very much
potential for an
individual that
not only
provides the
opportunities to
individual in its
career but also
in day to day
life. As by
developing
respective skill
an individual
can be able to
take prompt and
effective
decisions by
understanding
Leaders
plays very
much
prominent
role in the
organisation
as well as
people who
commencing
the activities
with leader.
It provides
great career
opportunities
to lead
people in
several
industries.
After
effectively
development
To develop
the
leadership
skill
required to
plan in the
systematic
manner, in
that series
firstly an
individual
need to list
out the skills
that adds
value in
personal
ability. Then
take the
online
classes or
observe the

the situation of
others in
effective way.
of leadership
skill than
need to
adopt the
leadership
style that
plays very
important
role in the
life of an
individual.
other people
with take
feedback
from the
people in
order to
develop the
same in
oneself.
In that regards it is very much potential for an individual to develop the sound career action plan
that directly enhance the value in the individual to give one of their best efforts in development
of organization as well as individual. Before developing the skills required to collect potential
knowledge in regards of specific skill and learn to adopt in practical life to achieve the desirable
goals and objectives in positive manner.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that for an individual it is very much
potential to choose the one of best career and related opportunities. to do the same required to
analyze the areas of strength and weakness that helps to find out gaps in performing well. With
the help of analysis individual have to build the career action plan that helps to focus on the areas
of weakness and strategies to overcome from the same in potential manner. I feel very much
happy and confident after completion of respective project as it enhance by thinking and
knowledge in regards of required skills and areas of strength in potential manner.

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APPENDIX:
CV:
Charles Gresy
17585, Galla street, San Francisco. Phone: [phone]
Personal summary
The honest, hardworking individual with the potential knowledge of assisting sales team in all
related areas of organizational marketing strategy. Having effective managing skills of people
and administration including planning, market research and many more.
Work experience:
 Marketing Assistant in the manufacturing company from June 2015 to present.
Skills:
 Strong working knowledge of Mac and PC experience and ability to manage the multiple
priorities by strong attention on detail.
 Strong self motivation by capable to prioritize and embrace changes in effective manner
by maintaining high quality in outputs.
Education:
 Bachelor’s degree in the marketing from the Carnegie Mellon university.
 Master’s in Marketing from the Carnegie Mellon university.