Career Development Planning: A Comprehensive Guide

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Career Development Plan................................................................................................................4
Areas of relevant placements...........................................................................................................7
Curriculum Vitae.............................................................................................................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................11
References......................................................................................................................................12

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Introduction
The project is totally based upon the career development plan. In the study the various potential
skills and qualification related to career development the project also include the various
activities like CV of an individual. In the CV the various highlighted issues like communication
skills, professional expertise and career goals are mentioned. In the study the various ability or
skills to identify various resources are described. In the project a structured career development
plan includes potential skills and qualifications are described as well.

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Career Development Plan
A career development plan is a written document of the long term and short term goals
that an employee have covered to employees current and future aspect of job and the career
development plan is also an formal and informal approach that helps the employees to achieve
their long term goals (Martina et al., 2018). The long term goals also cover the individual’s
strengths and weakness (Tang, 2018, May)
Development Objective and
Area
My goals and objectives
Education Qualifications
Degree level- Masters in
Human Resource
Development
Key Skills
Organizational Leadership
Abilities, Decision-making
skills, Interpersonal abilities,
critical situation analysis
Employment
Sun corporations- 2 years as
a leader
Short term goals Long Term goals
Work-Secure a
position of HR
recruiter for
demonstration or
showcasing my
talent.
Work as a head business unit and also
confirm a long term commitment or
relationship with the organizations

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E-team business firm-
5 years as a position of
Recruiter
Ethical Values
Contribute the resource
allocations, perform business
objectives
Limitations
Speaking in Foreign
languages
Potential skills
● Good Analytical
power
● Proper knowledge on
MS office
● Critical condition
evaluation
Qualifications that needed
to progress
The better communication
skills that is professional and
structured in nature.
Current competencies and skills,
experience and Knowledge
Analytical, chemistry, modeling,
processes, innovation tools, business
environmental analysis, business scopes
and improvement.
Skills and developments need for
current job and future jobs
Understanding company’s HR policies
and strategies, maintain company strategy
and resource allocation, Create
opportunities and scope for developing
new business area and also has the ability
to identify new market potentials

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Critical decision making
skills enhancement to take a
correct decision in adverse
situations
The team management
qualifications help to work as
a team under goals and
objectives.
Action planning
Develop a plan to use the MBA and past
working experience to secure a HR
position in an organization and also
implement investigating strategy in other
sectors.
The potential skills that need to have to fill up the positions of Human resource recruiter are
proper understanding of HR rules. The various HR rules and its implications according to the
organizational situation is the most needed skill that required. The other potential skills that are
required are good analytical power of critical situations and also understand the depth of various
organizational issues and based on the depth the solutions are also needed to have. The potential
skills like good behavior and overall presentations are also needed. Thinking ability in critical
situations and interpersonal skills are needed to gain the position of HR. The ethical values and
working experience is also very much needed as prior working experience help to understand the
various strategic implications of organizations. The ethical values are needed to maintain the
work ethics also maintain the ethical structure of an organization. Educational qualifications are
the most vital area. The educational qualification denotes the factor whether the person can be
applicable for the positions or not. The educational qualifications that needed to become HR
manager is the proper knowledge regarding the HR areas and also a bachelor degree is must

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have. There would be nothing like if an individual hold the master degree in Human Resource
Management or relevant areas. In fact prior experience and educational qualifications are the
basic two factors that are mostly needed to work as HR manager or recruiter in an organization.
The qualification that needed to be work on is better communication skills. As without proper
and professional communication skills it’s not possible to understand the level of grievances and
work related issues. For HR related job prior experience in recruitment strategies may be helpful.
As most of renowned organizations don't hire people in Human resource positions without
proper experience. As the area of human resource is quite vast and the responsibilities of HR is
quite broad as well. The other limitations like understanding foreign languages are the also vital.
As the total HR department is based upon the communication and operational expertise. The
requirement is needed to have is maintaining the goals or vision system. The HR with proper
responsible vision and mission system help the organization to meet the requirements and
objectives. Another key functional area that is needed to fill up the HR positions is the critical
thinking analysis. The critical thinking analysis helps the HR manager to take decisions in
adverse situations (Strømmen, 2015). Though this is one of the major drawbacks of the
candidate. But it can be in better situation if the candidate works on this aspect (Ruggunan &
Kanengoni, 2017).
Areas of relevant placements
The various placements can be found from various sources. In today’s digitalized world
the placements can be done on online and other placements can be found from offline or by
visiting various places like job fairs or walk-in interviews are one of the major placement sources
in today’s organizational perspective. The various online portals are used like LinkedIn, Indeed.
The LinkedIn is one of the biggest and trusted job portals that can be used to find various kinds

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of jobs. The process that can be used to find a job in L LinkedIn is first a form need to fill
up with full name, last name, emails and password is needed to create a account and after
creating the account the thing that is required is to make a Curriculum Vitae. In curriculum vitae
the various information regarding the educational background, the personal information, the
contact details need to be mentioned. After making the CV the activity that need to followed is
upload the CV. Based on the CV and based on the recruitment the placement procedure start.
Another important placement source is Indeed. In Indeed there are various kinds of job are
reported based on their current recruitment. In Indeed the log in procedure is not must. The
placement procedure can happen without logged in as well. In Indeed the organizations post the
job based on the recruitment needed. In Indeed there is another chance is that an individual can
make the curriculum vitae on their site as well. The proper curriculum vitae might help the job
seekers to find a job in both online and offline. Another important technique that can be
implemented to find a job is offline method or walking interviews. The various HR related jobs
can be found on various companies like Unilever, Vodafone, Tesco, IBM, Cognizant and so
many. The placements can be found either walk-in interview. Where the job seekers don't need
any prior commitment. Another placement strategy that can be implemented to find out the job is
by visiting the official websites of renowned companies. Like visiting the Face book pages, the
other job portals or company portals like official pages of Google, Cognizant IBM and Unilever
a job seeker can find the job. The companies like Google, Cognizant or IBM has a particular HR
policies and the management also very particular about the HR strategies and if a job seeker join
these companies as HR manager it may benefitted the job seeker to capture a secure position in
the renowned organization. The pay scale is also an important factor to join these organizations
as a HR recruiter. Other worldwide job portals that can help to find a suitable HR jobs are

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Careerjet.com... Through these official sites a variety of jobs can be found. In CareerJET.com the
40 million jobs are updated from various quality websites. Another important job portal is
Neuvoo. In Neuvoo job boards, company websites and placement agencies work together and
help to find the suitable job. Among all these online job portals Indeed provide the best and
secure jobs to the candidate. In Indeed, the jobs are evaluated from various classifieds, job
boards and company official websites. Walk -in interviews can also be used to find out the dream
job. As walk-in interview also less time-consuming as the only thing needed to be prepared with
the situations and the information’s related to the job the candidate applied for. Another way to
find out the job is newspaper advertisements. Through newspaper advertisements the various
leading organization advertise the current requirement of the company in terms of recruitment.
The recruitment procedure can boost up through newspaper advertisements as well. The giant
organizations like IBM, Unilever and Cognizant use the advertisement strategy as recruitment
tool to gain the attention of job seekers. The online social media advertisements also play a
major role of recruitment. Though most of social media job advertisements are not totally
correct. But registered online job portals and walk in interviews can be used extensively to find
out a job. The newspaper job advertisement can also be used as trusted job portal as most of jobs
in newspaper are authentic in nature. The other sources like advertisement on various job related
magazines or holdings can also used as major sources of job (Basak, 2017).
Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae are one of the major elements to find out a job. The total recruitment
process is totally relies upon the making of a proper structured curriculum vitae. The first step to
find out a job is starts with the Curriculum Vitae. The components of curriculum vitae has major

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elements like the educational qualifications, the family background, the personal details like
address , contact number , gender, prior experience need to be mentioned along with the sign of
job seeker. The signature of job seeker is the most vital part for the acceptability of the CV.
Curriculum Vitae (CV) is also important as it can be used as communication tool with the
potential job seeker. A CV has various important steps like personal details, professional
expertise, employment history and area of interests and hobby, references and the most important
educational qualification. There are some particular patterns that need to be followed while
writing the CV. Like in terms of writing technique spelling and grammar, any criminal record if
any need to be mentioned (Schmitt-Grohé et al., 2018).
Curriculum Vitae
Name: Martin Davies
E-Mail ID: [e-mail]
Contact No: +41-****-*****
Address: 15/1, HBC Lane, Australia
Objective
To prove myself dedicated, worthy and career ambitious in a progressive organization that gives
me the scope to apply my skills and knowledge and to be a member of a team that structurally
works towards growth and success of the organization.
Educational Details
Examination Board/ University Year of passing 0% marks
School Hampton High 2010 72%
High School Hampton high 2012 68%
University Yavneh College 2017 6.5 cgpa

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Technical skills
Have a proper knowledge MS excel and Diploma in ADFA
Area of interests
Travelling, web surfing, singing
Work Experience
Work as a team leader for 2 years in Sun Corporations, work as a position of recruiter for 5 years
in E-team Business Firms.
Personal Profile
Father’s Name: John Davies
Date of birth: 24.03.1994
Linguistic Proficiency: English, French
Marital status: Married
Hobbies: Painting, watching theater.
Declaration
I hereby declare that all the information mentioned above is true to the best of belief and
knowledge.
Date:
Place:
(Signature)

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Conclusion
The total study is based upon the career development plan and its implications on the current job
scenario. In the study the various job portals are described and how they helped a job seeker to
find out the job is also discussed. The study also focuses on various aspect of different job
portals like newspaper, online job portals and offline job portals who play a significant role in
terms of searching a job is also discussed. Through the study the various important aspect of HR
are discussed.