Career Development Plan: Skills, Goals, and Resources Exploration

This assignment presents a student's career development plan, structured around a four-step process. The student identifies current skills (organization and accountability), career goals (marketing manager position), and steps to achieve these goals (staying organized, seeking advice, and avoiding negative behavior). The plan explores resources needed, including professors, seniors, and coworkers, and addresses questions about strengths, values, and work preferences. It also includes a goal audit checklist with SMART goals and reflection on work environment, challenges, and barriers to success. The student aims to improve communication and manage anger while prioritizing work-life balance. This plan also covers relationships that will support career goals and personal development, including a commitment to achieving goals and measuring success through feedback.

Career Development Plan
Name:
Current Position:
Employer:
Date:
This career development plan template can be used as a tool to guide your thought process and map your progress over a chosen
period.
Completion of this plan will follow a 4 step process. Each step will address specific career related questions:
1. What skills do you already possess? (Where are you now?)
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I think that the skills that I already posses are organizing skills and accountability. I feel that these skills are really important for
working as a good leader or a manager. As a manger or a leader I need to take care of the fact that I can take up the responsibility of
my own work. I do not shift the blame on others. This is mainly because of the fact that unless I develop the skill of accountability
within myself I will never be able to do the same for my employees. Thus, I feel that presently I am good at organization skills and
accountability skills.
2. What do you want for your career? (Where do you want to go?)
I am currently studying the course of diploma of business. Thus, I want to attain a good prestigious position in future. I want to attain
the position of a marketing manager in one of the leading MNCs or the top corporate organizations.
3. How might you get there? (What steps do you need to take to get there?)
 I will make sure that I am staying calm and organized.
 I will take proper advice from my teachers, friends, co workers and colleagues
 I will not treat anybody as inferior
Who can help? (What resources might I use?)
 I will seek help from my professor as I am currently a student of diploma of business studies.
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 I will also take help from my seniors, my co workers and others who have some good knowledge about this field.
You can complete it at your leisure, print and save a copy for your personal use.
Please use a separate sheet of paper if you need more space to add information.
1. Where are you now?
This process starts with taking a good look at where you are currently at. What are your skills, talents and interests? What are your
values – do you like to lead, work with people or alone with data or text? Do you like working face to face with people or prefer
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independent work? Do you like to work inside or outside? Do you like working to deadlines? Which teams do you like working on,
quiet or loud, small or large?
Question Notes.
Where am I now in regards to my career? I am currently studying the course of diploma of business. I am about to take up
some posts like internship in any business house.
What is my view of current situation? Currently I have accountability and organizations skills
What have been my experiences to date? I have seen that I am good at organizing skills and I can take up the
responsibility of my own task.
What do I enjoy most? I enjoy reading books and browsing the internet for keeping myself updated.
What skills come to me naturally? Naturally the skills that come to me are empathy, organizing the events and
taking part in co curricular activities.
What do I think my strengths/assets are? My strengths are organizing skills, people management skills. I have interest in
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(Skills, knowledge, talents, interests)? doing an in depth research in order to keep myself updated with proper
information.
What are some things people ask me to help
with?
People usually ask me for more support as they feel that I am very good at
encouraging people to never give up hope.
What do I do well? I can organize many events, schedule meetings and also keep proper follow up.
What appeals to me? The honest and hardworking nature of people appeals to me.
What are my values? (work/life) My values are to help people achieve their goals. As a manager I will always try
to move forward with all my team mates. I will try to imbibe a collaborative
effort among them.
Do I like to lead, work with people as a
team or work alone (with data or text)?
I like to work as a team. I feel that this help in exchange of many good and
innovative ideas.
Do I like working face to face with
customers or back office work?
I usually like to work back office as I feel that I will not be able to properly
communicate with the customers face to face.
How do I feel when I think about my ideal
job (excited, motivated, fear)?
I feel motivated and I also think it to be a very good exposure. It is the right
platform that will help me to step into the professional world.
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Is there anything getting in my way of
achieving what I want?
I think that one of the main obstruction is
My lack of proper communication skills and also my anger.
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2. Where do you want to go?
What you'll do next is:
 Consider your career goals
 Explore your career options.
 Develop concise written statements related to your goals and add them to the table below.
Knowing where you want to go makes the next steps in determining your futurecareer move much easier.
Question Notes
What does my ideal job look like? My idea job role be to work as a marketing manager in one if the successful
MNCs.
If I could do any job in the world what
might it be and why?
I would like to work as the chairman or the CEO of any of the leading MNCs.
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Question Notes
What are my goals (short/long term)? My short term goal is to work over my communication skills. In the long run I
will try to work over my anger level.
What energizes me? I think that the thing which energizes me is the availability of proper resources
to work and workforce.
Where do I want to be (in 1 yr, in 5 yrs) I want to be at the position of a manager in the near future.
Are there any specific challenges I want to
face?
I want to face all the tough and new kinds of projects that might be out of my
expertise. I will e learning it and doing it with proper perfection.
Why is this important to me? This is important for reaching to the position of a leader.
What do I want to see/get/do more of? I want to take up in more management studies related work.
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Question Notes
What do I want to see/get/do less of? Same as above
What is my preferred balance between work
and my personal life?
I like to focus over the time management. I know that in order to strike a proper
balance I have to set the time slots properly.
Who else does this affect? This affects my family members and also my co workers
What normally gets in the way of achieving
my goals?
I think that my communication skills and my anger level.
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Question Notes
What kind of work environment suits me
best?
I always work best in employee friendly environments. The environment must
also be knowledgeable and refreshing.
Do I feel I have a calling in life? Help others to work over their weaknesses and learn some good lessons from
people I meet.
3. How might I get there?
By answering questions 1 &2, you should now have a clearer idea of what you want & where you want to go. The next step is figuring
out how you might get there. What do you need to do? Below are some questions you may consider in deciding what resources may
be useful.
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Question Notes
How can I prepare myself and my
environment to achieve my goals?
I can make myself calmer, composed and improve over my organizations skills.
I will try to avoid the negative vibes in my environment.
What resources and tools/resources do I
need?
Resources I need are more books on management course, internet facilities,
supportive employees and a proper guidance
What steps do I need to take to get from
where I am now to where I want to be?
 I will make sure that I am staying calm and organized.
 I will take proper advice from my teachers, friends, co workers and
colleagues
 I will not treat anybody as inferior
What new skills, knowledge do I need to
possess?
I need to develop good and well versed communication skills. I will also try to
work over my anger level so that I can handle all the tasks properly.
What new skills do I want to learn? I want to learn proper management skills and work over my domain knowledge
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Question Notes
What existing skills do I need to develop? I need to develop my people skills
How can I commit to achieving my goals? I will develop a career development plan and move forward in a step by step
manner
What barriers do I need to remove to make
this happen?
I need to deal with my low confidence level and my communication skills.
How will I know I have been successful? I will measure the level of my success by taking proper feedback from the
people like co workers and my teachers. I will also tae regular feedbacks from
them.
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