CW2: Career Action Plan and Self-Reflection Report

This report presents a comprehensive career action plan and self-reflection analysis. It begins with a personal analysis, identifying strengths such as communication, hand-eye contact, leadership, and teamwork, while acknowledging weaknesses like lack of confidence, poor presentation skills, and difficulty handling work pressure. The main body then outlines a detailed career action plan, specifying skill development strategies for presentation skills and work pressure management, including actionable steps, desired outcomes, and timeframes. The plan emphasizes the importance of practice, participation in activities, and work experience. The conclusion summarizes the benefits of career planning for skill and knowledge development, emphasizing self-assessment and goal setting. The report highlights the importance of identifying strengths and weaknesses to formulate effective short and long-term career strategies, supported by relevant references.

CW2 Career Action Plan
and Self-reflection

Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Personal Analysis.........................................................................................................................1
Career Action Plan.......................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Career view point are important for a person which helps them to enhance learning as well as
knowledge (Burton and Burton, 2016). This allow individual foe identification of strength as
well as weakness which helps to access to get many opportunities. These strength helps a person
to overcome of threat occur in their life due to weakness. This project helps a person to
understand various aspects of academic skills and knowledge of an individual. This project
report includes career action plan as well as self-reflection which cab ne completed with personal
analysis of a person to get job opportunities. This report includes discussion of knowledge and
current skills of an individual and other academic focus areas. It also considers different areas of
development of a person along with their action plan which include shore as well as long term
plan.
MAIN BODY
Personal Analysis
Strength: Strength of a person refers to qualities which make a person efficient and capable to
access various opportunities. These strengths of an individual are mentioned below:
Communication: Communication is one of important skills in any field as it is required to
present business information, interreact with other people, building good relation with others.
These skills are important for an individual for professional as well as personal development. I
have strong communication skills which make me feel different as it creates good impression
about in minds of others.
Hand Eye Contact: Construction jobs is not kind of sitting job nut it take very long hours of
working (Li, 2018). It is critical job which require focus, concentration, eyesight and
coordination of hand and eye. I have developed these skills by work placement, job experience,
seminar and wok shops. These skills help in getting various job opportunity as these are my
qualities and strength which make me able to get these opportunities.
Leadership: Leadership is also on of important skills as it important for a person to know how
to handle employees for completion of task and attainment of goals of company. I have
developed thee skills with job experience and attending seminars as these helps me handling
various team which is working under me in future.
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Team Working: Team working is another important skill which strength capability of a person.
Team working is important for any individual as they need to work in a team who as different
nature. For completion of job roles successfully, a person needs to adjust in team. I have
developed team working skills while studying as there are various group assignments given by
teacher that helps to develop team working skills. These also helps in job as there are important
skills and provide opportunity to a person to work in diverse team.
Weakness: Weakness refers to a qualities and particular part that make some not effective and
not good (NEWMAN and LILLY, 2016). These weaknesses create problems for a person to get
various opportunity for a person. Weakness of an individual create threat for a person in future
and deprive them from various opportunities. Weakness of a person are as follows:
Lack of confidence: It is one of my weakness as I am shy person and not much confident while
communicating with others. These create problems for me as I’m not able to communicate with
confidence which create doubt for me in minds of other team members.
Poor Presentation skills: Presentation skills of an individual is an important skill as it helps a
person in effectively present ideas and information of company in front of team members or
client. I have poor presentation skills which create problem for me as it does not allow me to
access various opportunities.
Work Pressure: Handling work pressure is one of important skills but it creates both physical as
well as mental burden on a person which does not allow a person to access various opportunities
in their life. I cannot handle pressure as it creates burden on me and does not allows me to work
with efficiently and with creativity and it create problems for me in many ways.
Career Action Plan
Career actin plan refers to plan for an individual which can be used for identification of career
goals and also describe direction for attainment of goals (Wong, Wan and Gao, 2017). These
action plan can be in form of document which can be update by individual or student that helps
them in attainment of their career goals as well as objectives. For development of action a person
to conduct self-assessment and also need to explore career. For preparation of career action plan,
one need to set their goals which can be specific and achievable. Career action of a person are
mentioned below:
Skills and Knowledge Action to be taken Outcome Time Period
Presentation Skills Presentation skills can These skills boost These skills can
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be developed by
practising. These
practises make them
efficient and capable.
Participating in
classes and activities
organise in
educational institution
helps them in
developing thee skills.
Also, there are various
assignments given by
lecturer which helps
person to prepare
presentation and
present it in front of
audience.
confidence of a person
and allow them to
present information
and ideas effectively
(Wang and Lee,
2017).
be developed
within 6
months.
Work Pressure Handling work
pressure is also one of
important skills for
career of a person.
Work pressure
handling can be
learned by individual
in learning phase of
their life. There is
initial face of an
individual gives
homework to students
which make them able
to handle pressure.
This skill allow
individual to handle
work pressure
efficiently and make
them capable to take
more responsibility in
future and push them
towards path of
success.
These skills can
be developed
between 6
months to 1
year.
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After that hey handle
assignment in college
life. These make a
person capable to
handle pressure.
Work experience Work experience is
one of important thing
for a person which can
be developed with
work placement that
allow a person to get
various opportunity in
life and provide them
good employment
opportunity. For this
individual need to
prepare their CV and
apply in reputed
organisation where
they want to work.
Work experience
helps a person to get
various employment
opportunity and also a
person to understand
working patters of
companies.
These skills can
be developed
within 1 to 2
year.
CONCLUSION
From above mentioned project report, it can be concluded that career view point helps a person
for development of skills and knowledge to a person. These are important for life of any students
as they need to access various employment opportunity and also access to career development
opportunities. For self-assessment of a person, they need to identify various strength and
weakness which helps them to access career growth. A person also develops career action plan
which provide them direction in their life for attainment of goals of person. These career action
plan include various short and long term goals of a person. It also includes various strategies to
be followed that helps in attainment of these short as well as long term goals. After that outcome
of action plan and time duration to be taken should also included in this. These action plan
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should be based on strength and weakness identified by a person. With person analysis a person
can identify where they need to work.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Burton, E.P. and Burton, S., 2016. From scientists to teachers: The role of student epistemology
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377.
Li, Y., 2018. Linking protean career orientation to well-being: the role of psychological
capital. Career Development International.
NEWMAN, L. and LILLY, J.M., 2016. CAREER PROFILES: Options and
Insights. Oceanography, 29(3), pp.229-232.
Wang, Y.C. and Lee, Y.M., 2017. The effectiveness of two positive career counseling modules
for working parents in Taiwan. Journal of Employment Counseling, 54(1), pp.23-37.
Wong, I.A., Wan, Y.K.P. and Gao, J.H., 2017. How to attract and retain Generation Y
employees? An exploration of career choice and the meaning of work. Tourism
Management Perspectives, 23, pp.140-150.
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