Employability and Professional Development: Career Action Plan Report

This report presents a career development action plan with the objective of becoming a resident home coordinator. It details strategies such as pursuing a social work degree and gaining practical experience through internships. The plan includes a personal SWOT analysis, focusing on enhancing strengths like empathy and mitigating weaknesses such as communication skills and digital competency through public speaking courses and specialized computer training. The ultimate goal is to effectively coordinate residential care, manage conflicts, and utilize modern software for daily routines, ensuring a successful career in residential home coordination. Desklib provides access to similar solved assignments and study tools for students.

LC 580 Employability and
Professional development
CW1 Career Development
Action Plan

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

MAIN BODY
Work related goals and strategies to achieve them
The action plan which will be developed in this report will revolve around my chosen career
path to become a resident home coordinator. This job profession is related to the field of social
work and people management and involves taking care of clients in a household according to
their needs and scheduling important activities and events for their betterment (Fæø, and et.al.,
2020). In order to become a resident home coordinator, I will follow various strategies which are
listed herein.
 I will pursue a degree in social work for one year to gain proper understanding of home
coordinating and providing residential care
 I will intern under a residential home coordinating agency to gain practical field work
experience
Personal SWOT analysis
Strengths
 I possess the ability to emphaticize with
others and relate to their situations
 I also possess traits related to proper
leadership
Weaknesses
 My communication skills need
improvement
 My computer competency is quite
limited
Opportunities
 Undertaking courses on business
administration and emergency care
 Learning about digital technologies
Threats
 Major imbalance due to COVID-19
 Job role being eaten by smart AI
systems
Personal strength enhancement
By focusing on being more empathetic and caring towards the residents of the home, I can
solve their problems and avoid conflicts while also providing the required emotional care to the
residents in time of need (Ahnlund, and et.al., 2022). The action plan will also include measures
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to further enhance my strong leadership skills to effectively coordinate the residents and keep the
daily flow of activities in the household run in a smooth manner. The action plan will enhance
leadership skills through attending of seminars and going through educational and skill
development courses (Badibanga and Ohlson, 2021).
Personal weakness mitigation
Both identified weaknesses in this action plan have the capacity to hamper my strategies to
become a resident home coordinator. The role of communication skills is quite imperative in
resident home coordinating as proper communication is needed to manage conflicts and service
the clients (Jerman, Pejić Bach and Aleksić, 2020). Being digitally competent is also a major
requirement for modern resident home coordinators as most of the daily routine is conducted on
smart software’s and desktops (Makhmudov, Shorakhmetov and Murodkosimov, 2020). The
identified weaknesses will be overcome with the help of undertaking public speaking, taking
online courses and building conversation habits. Lack of computer literacy will be further
mitigated using specialized courses to keep the strategy productive in the long run.
CONCLUSION
The above developed action plan went into detail regarding the objective of becoming a
residential home coordinator along with strategies to achieve the same which involved pursuing
a social work degree and gaining practical experience using internship at resident home
coordinating agencies (Albert, Boccardy and Vernet, 2019). The action plan also included
analysis of personal strengths and weaknesses and included measures to mitigate the same which
includes public speaking and undertaking courses. It has been concluded from the action plan
that in order to become a resident home coordinator, one must possess commination skills and be
digitally literate (Buckland, 2021).
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Jerman, A., Pejić Bach, M. and Aleksić, A., 2020. Transformation towards smart factory system:
Examining new job profiles and competencies. Systems Research and Behavioral
Science, 37(2), pp.388-402.
Badibanga, A. and Ohlson, M., 2021. Millennials’ Leadership Skills for Promoting Flow and
Profit in a Business Simulation. Journal of Leadership Studies, 15(2), pp.70-80.
Fæø, and et.al., 2020. The compound role of a coordinator for home-dwelling persons with
dementia and their informal caregivers: qualitative study. BMC health services research,
20(1), pp.1-14.
Albert, A., Boccardy, V. and Vernet, S., 2019. Nurse coordinator and in-home nursing care
services. Revue de l'infirmiere, 68(249), pp.21-22.
Ahnlund, and et.al., 2022. Perceptions of intimacy and integrity in formal home care. European
Journal of Social Work, pp.1-12.
Buckland, R., 2021. Towards a social work of home?. Qualitative Social Work, 20(1-2), pp.77-
82.
Makhmudov, K., Shorakhmetov, S. and Murodkosimov, A., 2020. Computer literacy is a tool to
the system of innovative cluster of pedagogical education. European Journal of
Research and Reflection in Educational Sciences, 8(5).
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