BN2279: Career Development Plan with Reflection and Evidence

This report presents a student's career development plan, meticulously crafted to outline their professional aspirations and strategies for achieving them. The plan encompasses a thorough self-assessment of the student's competencies, leveraging online tools and seminar activities to identify strengths and weaknesses. It details specific job roles and companies targeted, demonstrating a clear understanding of the requirements for a chosen career path. The report includes evidence of career development activities, such as workshop attendance, job applications, and interviews, showcasing the student's proactive approach to professional growth. Furthermore, the report reflects on the student's experiences in teamwork and presentation seminars, highlighting their ability to collaborate effectively and communicate ideas. The student reflects on their experiences, evaluations, and analysis of their journey. The report also includes a detailed reflection on the student's experiences, evaluations, and analysis of their journey. This comprehensive approach provides a clear and well-supported framework for career advancement.

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CAReer development plan with reflection & evidence

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Description-
As a child, I had a dream to start my own business where I am able to profitably manage it. In
the pursuit of my dream, I charted my career path by getting myself employed as the part
time assistant manager for three months in a recycling company. The part time job was
helpful as it helped me in learning various skills. It has developed in me the strength of
managing the multiple tasks at a time and maintain good relation with the superior staff. After
my job, I left Romania and moved to UK to pursue my further education. Going to UK had
again contributed to various strengths as it has made me flexible in adjusting to the new
environment as it is highly essential quality to succeed in the managerial world. After two
years of extensive study, I was able to secure the fulltime job at Dragon net consulting which
is a recycling company except recycling, it has the job of selling its old items to new
consumers, I was also involved in securing the sell of the items in other a job of the sales
man. According to the dynamic personality test conducted by me, I found myself good at
languages, management of emergencies and creative skills (Kulczyk, 2016). I secured the
good score in these areas and was considered suitable for the positions of salesman
responsible for promoting sales of the products. As my dream role is of a business man then
these skills are not sufficient to help me become the competent businessman. According to
Comeau, it is important to have the good knowledge of languages to succeed in any kind of
profession as it gives an individual the opportunity to maintain and close deals (Comeau,
2015).
Besides these tests, I have also conducted the business test which were evident of that I lack
business knowledge to achieving my dream and other weak areas included lack of managerial
experiences. These strengths and weakness gave me the insight on the areas to improve upon
before securing the position of CEO of the own organization. With acquiring Knowledge of
one’s strengths and weaknesses, I decided to chart out development and action plan to turn
my dreams into reality. I focused on bringing great self- management tricks to manage things
in a better way. As I already secured the placement at the recycling company, I thought of
attending at least one management event in a week to acquire the good management
experience and understanding. Other than the objective of attending the good management
experience and understanding, I made resolution to build good networking with great
management personalities in business world. The networking can be built to ensure that

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things go as planned. I have also decided to take on various freelance projects of various
industries as it is helpful in gaining a lot of experience. From the past last year, I have been
keeping up with my career plan activities by attending various seminars and workshops on
the topic.
Besides these skills, I believed that it is of high importance to secure the knowledge of the
companies or organization as it gives an extra edge on getting the dreams done into reality.
Before, securing the placement at the recycling company, I tried gathering knowledge as
much as I could regarding the company and its position, I would like to be in. I also designed
an attractive CV so that I can easily get selected in the organization of my choice. As of now,
I am looking forward to start my own business in my country Romania for that I am
researching a lot in the area of my business and about other business which are already into it.
Feelings-
Although I worked towards achieving my goals and objectives of employment, I felt that
there are other areas to be focused on that are communication skills. According to the
personality test conducted by me, I had the highest score in the areas of language and
effective communication. I am good at speaking various languages with ease. According to
Bowyer-Crane, an individual who is polyglot has the higher chances of having successful
career in future (Bowyer-Crane, 2017). I felt quite confident on knowing this fact and felt like
polishing my skills by conducting the practical interview through launchpad video interview
software. Initially, before using the software, I felt quite apprehensive of doing the self-
assessment test but I gathered courage to take it. After taking the interview test, I self-
evaluated my performance and got an average score. According to Bowden, for an individual
to ace an interview it is essential that he takes various mock interviews so that an individual
is successfully able to clear the final interview (Bowden, 2017).
On seeing the average score, I felt bad as I was highly confident of getting the high score in
the test but I did not lose hope and kept trying. In some of the famous articles, I read that
stated that to improve communication skills, it is essential to practice various presentations
such as elevator pitch and seminar presentation. In the past, I have joined the economic
society where I won the game with my team. In the game, we had to give the elevator pitch
where I gave it to describe the individual targets. I gave the good speech on it. Even as the
captain of my football team for the last two years, I gave various sports presentation that
contributed to my communication skills. These activities, I felt has contributed to my

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communication skills making it more polished and enhanced. After getting selected as the
full-time employee in the recycling company, I felt confident and thought of taking my
communication skills to the next level. I decided to participate in various competitions, and
elevator pitch as it would have given me better way of tackling the affairs and polishing my
skills of communication (Rashid, 2015).
I always felt myself to be the good team worker as it was evident from my good number of
participations in the team collaborative activities at high school and companies. I even
managed other teams to win at various competitions as a determined and dedicated team
worker. Even during my part-time job at the recycling company, I learned various skills of
managing teams to initiate the change directed by the manager. These experiences have
developed in me the great understanding of managing the work in an effective manner so that
it helps me in my future career path and to realize my dream of starting my own business.
Evaluation-
As an individual planning to start a successful career, I had various good and bad experiences
on my way. These experiences have given various positive and negative insights of
management of various affairs (Kulczyk, 2016). There were many good experiences during
my education time, part time job and as the captain of the team. During my part time job
experience at the recycling firm, we were given with the task of managing the materials of
the reputed company with specific target. We had to work in the team and it was an urgent
task. As one of the team members of the team, I was given with the task of managing the
production of the waste materials into the recycled materials. I had to coordinate with the
production and the supply department in the effective manner. The target which was given to
me was to produce 50 recycled materials in 8 days. I was able to achieve the target by
coordinating effectively with the departmental heads and team members. My performance at
the job was revered and I was given with the certificate of being the great supporting team
member of the 8 days project. According to Borghuis, the great coordination skills in an
individual is helpful in achieving the objective and the goals of the teams (Borghuis, 2016).
The experience gave me confidence in my skills of working effectively in the team which I
later on used it in my CV. The other experiences I had that during high school time, we had
the business competition where we had to come with the innovative and creative business
plan in the area of cosmetic industry. In the business plan competition, I was awarded with
the with the highly creative and innovative presentation of the plan. This business plan was

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helpful in instilling in me the idea that I have a creative mind and is very good at solving
things.
Before becoming the full-time employee of the recycling firm, I had to clear the interview. In
the interview, I was asked about the commercial knowledge of the company, I would be
working in. I gave them the good explanation of their company and the type of the work they
do. Moreover, I was pretty clear about the job position that I would like acquire in the
company. My clear understanding about the commercial position of the company gave me
this job. I still try to keep myself updated about various job positions at reputed companies. I
keep searching about the vacancies at the reputed companies so that I can gather the best
experience so that I can start the business of my own in future. Besides, the good
experiences, I had various bad experiences where I tried playing the business simulation
games just to make sure whether I am currently capable of starting my own business in
Romania. In the business simulation game, I failed badly where I was unable to take the right
decisions and the suggestions that came out was to get more real-life managerial experience.
The experience in the business simulation game discouraged but at the same time I
understood the importance of getting a good experience for various reputed companies.
Analysis-
The journey so far has been the great learning ground to shape my personality. It had taught
me various essential things of achieving the goals. It had taught me about the various
essential principals of communication. Earlier, I used to give very less attention to the non-
verbal cues in the communication but as the time passed, I realized that non- verbal
communication can do wonders. I started applying the good tactics of non – verbal
communication during my speeches and many of the deals and agreements started coming to
an end with my tactics. Another important principal that I have learned was the attitude of
giving importance to the listener as it develops better understanding between the people
(Walker, 2016). These lessons that I have learned has developed me in the positive manner.
To manage my career in the best possible way, I have participated in the ABS workshop
career and placements where it helped me in providing me the feedback for my CV which I
later on incorporated in it.
My interaction with the guest speaker Anthony Keefe had taught me the importance of
operation management, I felt more interested in doing the job of an operation manager in the
company. It had also taught me the right method of preparing the cover letter of my C.V. In

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another workshop of ABS career placements, I met with Maya Modi, a business
transformation consultant who taught me the right ways of acing the interviews. These short
lessons that I gathered helped me understand the professional working in the effective
manner. After, attending fruitful workshops, I decided to register myself with the placement
program at ABS Placement where I discussed about future prospects of places, I could apply.
The interaction with the placement coordinator had taught me about my strengths and the best
places to apply for it. After the few days, the placement agency had called me and asked me
to apply for Dragan Net Consulting company. Initially, I was called for the Dragon consulting
company where I was called for the face to face interview for the job of marketing assistant.
My face to face interview went really well where I was able to comply with set job guidelines
and procedures. The face to face interview round had taught me how to be confident while
appearing in the face to face interview. The next round was the telephone round where I had
an interview with the assistant manager, hopefully the phone interview went well where I was
told that regarding confirmation I would be informed shortly. Then finally, I was told about
my selection in the company at the position of marketing assistant. The whole interview
process has taught me the importance of right communication skills and body posture and
other non- verbal cues. It helped me in getting the right position of marketing assistant in the
Dragon consulting.
Conclusion-
My journey from having a part time job to securing the full-time placement as a marketing
assistant at dragon consulting limited has been great. The journey was full of various exciting
experiences and learnings. It had taught me various great learnings about the stated things.
According to Blehar, self-reflection is the most important necessity if an individual wants to
secure the good placement or wants to have a great professional career (Blehar, 2015).
During the process, I have learned the right management techniques to achieve the stated
professional goals. According to Bircan, an individual can get his career successful if he
knows how to manage the affairs in the intelligent manner (Bircan, 2015).
Various activities and part time job taken has been of great help as it gave me great
experience in my collaborative skills. I developed my collaborative skills where I understood
the importance of communicating with the people around. As right kind of networking helps
you whether in the job or the business to interact in the effective manner. I have also learned

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various essential principles of team management while working as the team leader and the
member of the company.
Some of the principals that I learned was of cooperation and clarity with the roles and
responsibilities. The principle of cooperation has been helpful in achieving the team goals in
the positive manner where it becomes really essential to understand each other opinions and
to respond them in a manner that promotes the team cohesiveness. The other important
principle of team management is clarity of roles or responsibilities, during my part time job, I
have observed that the clarity of roles and responsibilities are essential to achieve the goals of
the team.
The third most important learning was promotion of culture of learning and psychological
safety within the team that was helpful in the correct exchange of learnings among the team
members (Vasyakin, 2016). The correct exchange of learnings among the team members is
helpful in developing the motivational levels of the team members (Linton, 2017). According
to Bhargava, the exchange of learnings is helpful in improving the motivational level of the
members of the team (Bhargava, 2018). The experience in the management of the team has
successfully led my management path in the field of managing people and helping them
work.
During the interview process also, I was able to effectively convince the assistant manager of
the recycling company about the reasons for doing the job. I have convinced him about why I
am the right candidate for the job position of marketing assistant in the Dragon consulting
company. I have specified the kind of skills that are required to be the best marketing
assistant in the field. I have told them about how I handled the position of the Football
captain of the team and how I participated in the economic activities of the university. These
evidences that I provided to them helped me in cracking the interview with ease. I was able to
secure the good secure and achieved the designated the full- time position of marketing
assistant at the company.
Action plan-
The overall professional experience I had taught me the right things and lessons that are to be
used in future for delivering the best output to the team. According to Bengtsson, lessons
learned in the process of securing the great professional career are important to achieve the
best results in the future (Bengtsson, 2016). Although the career path that I followed was
quite right and developed in me the greater awareness about my weakness and helped me in

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converting my weakness into strengths but there were various weak areas that ought to be
concerned to improve them. In future, I would ensure that I would consider various
important points to achieve the goals and faster growth in the career. After joining as the
marketing assistant of the Dragon consulting limited, I would make sure to participate in, as
many managerial events as possible as it will give me great insights about various things. I
would make sure that as a marketing assistant of the dragon Consulting, I see the product
from the point of consumers that try to advise them in a way it satisfy their needs and
requirements.
According to Arditi, it is important to understand the needs of the consumers as it will be
helpful in achieving the right sales in the designated time (Arditi, 2017). As a marketing
assistant, I would make sure that I take part in as many as consumer negotiation as possible to
secure the skills of good communication and negotiation. These skills will be helpful in
fulfilling my dream of starting my business in Romania as communication is the highly
required skills in business. I would also make sure at the same time; I focus on building the
good networks by interacting with the consumers.
The networking will be helpful in achieving the right support for the business in the future.
In Romania, I can easily communicate to start my own business by taking their help for
material collection and supply at an affordable price. There were some of the areas where I
committed various mistakes, I would make sure that those mistakes are not repeated again. I
would also make sure that I apply my strengths in the areas at the jobs, one of strengths I
have is the knowledge of various languages. The knowledge of languages will be helpful in
getting the things done in the best possible manner as it will also be impressive to different
consumers that come in the company as they would feel highly connected with the company.
Self- development plans on the competency model-
Organization strategy and mission-
I would ensure that as a marketing assistant, I am able to effectively understand the
organizations’ strategy and missions that will result in better achievement of my professional
goals.
Expectation from the job and success criteria-
I would ensure to meet the expectation of the job honestly. I would make sure that I am able
to secure around 80 percentage of sales using my good negotiation and communication skills.

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Integration with management processes-
As a marketing assistant, I would ensure to collaborate with the production and sales
department in the organization effectively using my collaborative and team-working skills.
Common language-
I would also makes sure that I am able to maintain good relations with the people in the
organization through informal communication and my effective communication skills.

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