Career Development Report: Skills Audit, CV, Cover Letter, Plan

This report comprehensively addresses career development, focusing on the role of a Human Resource Manager. It begins with an introduction to career development and its importance, followed by a detailed skills audit, including a self-assessment questionnaire to identify interpersonal, technical, analysis, and management skills. The report then provides a sample Curriculum Vitae (CV) and a Cover Letter, highlighting professional experience and qualifications. A crucial component is the career plan, outlining steps for self-assessment, career exploration, identification, and action planning for a successful HR career. Finally, a personal development plan is presented, detailing priority skills, current ability, target ability, development opportunities, and timeframes for improvement in areas such as communication, decision-making, and leadership. The conclusion reinforces the significance of career development and the tools presented in the report.

Career Development

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Skill Audit....................................................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................1
a. Curriculum Vitae (CV)............................................................................................................1
b. Cover Letter.............................................................................................................................1
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................1
Career Plan...................................................................................................................................1
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................1
Personal development Plan..........................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................2
APPENDIX......................................................................................................................................3
Job Description............................................................................................................................3
Person Specification....................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
Career development is considered as the procedures of opting a career, developing their
competencies as well as advancing along a career path. Moreover, this is a lifelong procedure to
learn and decision which brings them closer to its ideal job, skill-set and lifestyle. In addition to
this, it needs successfully navigating their occupational options for opting as well as training for
jobs which suits its competencies, interest and personality (Vondracek, Lerner and Schulenberg,
2019.). It is essential as this present information related to future trends that assists individuals to
develop more realistic career development goals. The aim of this report is to procedure a
portfolio of chosen role that is human resource manager. The topics which are going to be
discussed in this report are development personal skills audits, curriculum vitae (CV) and cover
letter (Arifin, Saputra and Puteh., 2020). Moreover, career plans as well as personal development
plan are also discussed in this report.
TASK 1
Skill Audit.
Skill audit is undertaken as the written document which clearly lays out whole competencies it
presently has as well as how advanced those skills are. Moreover, this would also document what
competencies it required for their desires, in which the gaps are into its skills set as well as obtain
competencies it needs. In addition to this, it is regarded as the method of forming contrast among
skills as well as abilities in respect of capabilities and competencies that are required for
performing the particular activities or role in appropriate manner (McWhirter and McWha-
Hermann, 2021). Additionally, into this may personal skills audit which aids me for determining
my skills to conducting human resource manager are described below:
Skills Personal audit questionnaire 1 2 3 4 5
Interpersonal
Skills
With assistance of this skill, I motivated as
well as inspired individuals within entity.
*
Team development
Skills
With assistance of this skill, I become capable
to conducting and executing task in much
efficient manner.
*
Technical Skills It is vital for me as with assists of it I can
become competent for performing my several
*
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tasks related with their work.
Analysis Skills With assists of this skill, I identify and handle
various work related to analysis at specified
time period.
*
Management
Skills
It enables me to manage the overall work and
enhance productivity of particular task which
are not being accomplish due to lack of
respective skill.
*
Creative-thinking It is the skill that allows me to think in
creative way.
*
Leadership Skills It is more important to me for to handle group
of employees or create of team
*
International
hiring expertise
In Human resource hiring or recruiting is
play an important role in which I have to
increase more practise in international such as
hire candidates or screening international
candidates.
*
Professional
Training and
Development
practise
As I am quite know and have knowledge
about certain part of training and development
during my past experience. But as I want to
apply for Human resource manager I must
know about more training and development
practise within effective manner
*
Guidance
1- Bad, 2- Not bad, 3- Average, 4- Good, 5-Excellent
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TASK 2
a. Curriculum Vitae (CV)
The CV is type of professional document in which information is highlight related with
professional experience of specific candidates.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Curriculum Vitae
Name: - ABC
Address: - 28rd street, West-side lane, London
Phone No: - xxxxxx.
Career objective: To pursue my career in an organisation which provide me opportunities where
I can apply my skills and able to develop them.
Educational Qualification: -
 BBA in Business Management.
 MBA in International Human Resource Management
Work Experience
Experience: 2 year working experience in retail firm.
Roles and Responsibilities:
 Handle end to end Recruitment or hiring process.
 Conduct training and management program and Employee Engagement activities for
employees.
 Maintain Weekly record of MIS report of employees data and employee leave cards.
Skills and Knowledge:
 Better in communication skills.
 Command in decision making.
 Better expertise in MS Words.
 Having knowledge of Employment compliances
 Having effective leadership qualities.
Declaration:
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I hereby declare that all above information presented by me are correct as per my knowledge.
Date:
Place:
b. Cover Letter
Cover letter is considered as the written document that commonly submitted with job application
as well as representing the applicant’s interest and credential into open position. As it often one
of only two document sent to capable employer (Burnette and et. al., 2020). Moreover, this
introduces individuals as much personal manner and compliments the info upon resume or
curriculum vitae, exploring upon the competencies and achievements as well as highlighting a
selection off their greatest career growth.
COVER LETTER
Name- XYZ
ABC Company
South wales
United Kingdom
June 1, 2021
Application for HR manger
Dear, Recruiting Manager,
I am excited to work in this prestige company as HR manager position and I believe that, my
choice will be the perfect for the role. Currently I am working in Xyz Company, where I am
responsible for managing all the internal activities present in the organization. The three year
experience in my respective field has allowed me to become an effective HR manger. Apart from
this, I have great problem solving skills which I believe is the great contribution in the company.
There are different achievements which I have like improving working condition of employees,
implementing policies which have increased company performance rapidly. I have done my
Masters in HR which increase my knowledge to achieve desire aims and objective.
Please fine the attach resume for your kind review and thank for your time. Hope i see something
positive and please revert as soon as possible.
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Yours sincerely,
ABC...
TASK 3
Career Plan
Career plan is undertaken as the practical tactics which enables individuals to ascertain their
competencies as well as interests, set career objectives and put the actions into place which
would aids individuals which would aids them to reach them. Moreover, this is an ongoing
procedures as well as this incorporates an overview of present skills and experiences. In order to
develop career plan for HR manager individual needs to be focused as this help in achieving
desire aims and objective in a given time frame (Smith, and Wood., 2020). To have better future
it is essential to have career plan for 5 to 10 years as this provide clear mind set to achieve the
goal. HR staff deals with the labour, employment law and have responsibility to hire best
candidate for the job. To become successful HR manager in future, it is essential to have proper
guidance which allows choosing effective career path. The detail career plan of HR is explained
briefly below:
Self-assessment: It is an initial step in which person try to figure out qualities and weakness for
choosing right career path. The self-assessment provides detail information about the person
skills and ability and individual can focus on certain aspect to achieve respective desire aims and
objective (Chin, Jiao and Jawahar., 2019). During this process there different method like taking
guidance from colleagues, friends and family helps to get right direction to focus on achieving
goal.
Career Exploration: Based on the result of self-assessment, it gets easy to figure out different
occupation which assists in identifying certain values and goals. The next step is to narrow down
the list of career option and choose the best option which suit the personality. There are vast
option present in the market and having choice which match the skills and interest helps in
choosing right career. After exploring the choices, now it is vital to identify all the requirements
like, education cost, university, and other cost which will help in achieving certain goals.
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Career identification: As the name suggested the career identification is the process in which
the person has to select the occupation. In this particular process, individual will get to know
about the interest as well as few alternatives which can be used as plan in career path (Autin, Ali
and Garriott, 2020). For becoming successful HR in future, it is essential for the person to have
good communication skills and have ability to take pressure. Such quality is effective to become
Human resource manager in the organization which helps in constant career growth.
Career action plan: This is a final step which require complete action plan which is designed to
reach the goal. It is considered as the road map to choose career path which helps in achieving
longer term vision in a well-structured way (Bolger, Egdell and Ritchie, , 2021). It is consider as
the most effective way for planning as this help in reforming strategies to choose effective
career. Hence choosing HR as a career require proper identification of skills which help in
achieving desire aims and objective. s
TASK 4
Personal development Plan
PRIORITY SKILLS CURRENR
T
ABILITY
TARGET
ABILITY
DEVELOP
MNET
OPPORTU
NITIE
CRITERIA
TO JUDGE
TIME
FRAME
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Priority 1 Communica
tion skills
Average To become
professional
excellence
in
communicat
ion
For that I
need to
attend
seminar,
Soft skills
workshops
which
would
enhance my
communicat
ion level
impactful
manner.
Interview
panel as I
have target
to
communicat
ion skills for
international
hiring
motive
Feedback
has to be
gained from
colleagues
and family
member.
1-2 years
Priority 2 More need
to know
about
decision
making
during
interview
and team
building.
Average High To spend
time in
various in
experts of
Human
resource as
well as
attend
different
panel of
seminar to
get better
focus on
better hiring
system
international
For
Feedback I
have to
examine
myself first
as how I am
performing
for that I
have to
work in
corporate.
After that to
recommend
some panels
who belong
from
This would
take atleast
2-3 years.
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ly. management
background.
Priority 3 Learn more
training and
developmen
t program
Better Need to
execlleent
or
professional
For this
particular
skills I need
to examine
different
training
program
which
implemente
d in
different
industry
wise. As
well as
watch new
training and
developmen
t panel
videos that
would help
me to grow
my training
skills.
Workshops
related with
job fair or
Human
resource
seminar I
For my
concern
feedback
would beb
my
company
guide or
mentor apart
from it I
need to
examine my
performance
for I have to
join
professional
as intern in
some retail
company to
more get to
know about
training
program
effectively.
on that
situation my
performance
would be
evaluated
and I would
To
completion
of this task
it would
take
6months or
maximum 1
year.
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want to
attend that
would help
to know
about how
training and
developmen
t work in
corporate
world.
receive
geninue
feedback
from my
managers
Priority 4. More gain
professional
Leadership
Skills
Average Essential to
get on
expertise in
leadership
field
effectively
Knowledge
over
leadership
theories
helps in
enhancing
skills and
knowledge
enhanced in
both
professional
and
educational
terms.
Discussing
with senior
authorities
and taking
feedback
from them
helps in
making
performance
improvisatio
n on regular
basis
possible.
More than 6
months.
CONCLUSION
As per the above report, it has been concluded that career development is very important
at present times as this present information related to future trends that assists individuals to
develop more realistic career development goals. Moreover, skills audit is performed as this is
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helpful in understanding the person’s strengths and weakness through rating its competencies. In
addition to this, Cover letter is developed as this introduces individuals as much personal manner
and compliments the info upon resume or curriculum vitae, exploring upon the competencies and
achievements as well as highlighting a selection off their greatest career growth. in addition to
this career plan aids into development as it is the practical tactics which enables individuals to
ascertain their competencies as well as interests, set career objectives and put the actions into
place which would aids individuals which would aids them to reach them. Moreover, this is an
ongoing procedures as well as this incorporates an overview of present skills and experiences.
Apart from it creates Personal development plan which shows about first person preparation
regarding with its goal in professional field. As the chosen field is Human Resource
Management in which hiring, communication, leadership, training and development better team
building plays an vital role to become professional for that 1-5 years of planning is execute
within effective manner.
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