Career Development and SWOT Analysis: A Reflective Report

This report provides a reflective analysis of personal career development, utilizing the SWOT analytical tool to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The author outlines short, medium, and long-term career goals, including aspirations to become a human resources assistant, training coordinator, and ultimately a human resources manager. Opportunities for progression are discussed, emphasizing the importance of improving communication skills and expanding professional networks. The Driscoll reflective model is applied to assess performance and identify areas for improvement. The report concludes by highlighting the necessity of continuous self-assessment and skill development to achieve career objectives in a competitive environment, with the ultimate aim of becoming a proactive and skilled HR professional.

Reflective Piece

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Analytical tool (SWOT)..............................................................................................................1
Progression concept ...................................................................................................................2
Progression opportunities............................................................................................................4
Driscoll reflective model ...........................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Career development refers to the process in which an individual choose career path, improve
own skills in order to achieve success and accomplish the goals. This activity give assistance in
process of decision-making in effective and adequate manner (Teoli, Sanvictores, 2019). Career
development motivate individual to become more productive for the future progress. The present
report will highlight the analytical tool that is SWOT analysis in context of the individual
person. Furthermore, the report will examine the career prospectives for short, medium and long
period. The opportunity which an individual can grab for further progress.
MAIN BODY
Analytical tool (SWOT)
In order to acquire success in the future it is very essential to identify the strength, weaknesses
and the ability to do work for the better career path. Similarly, I utilized the analytical tool that is
swot analysis for further progress which is mentioned below:
Strength: the strength represent the positive side or the quality or the talent I have. The strength
is the power of being physically and mentally strong in professional as well as personal life
(Stewart and Brown, 2019). I am having strong quality of being creative and also curious to
know what is happing around me in order to keep myself up to date. So I'm familiar with
research and learning process. Along with is extremely flexible regarding my work and
confident enough top motivate the individuals, person or any sort of human. My biggest strength
is I never afraid of the people as having the quality of being cooperative and coordinative.
Through the several activities of my personal life I realized that I can solve the problems of the
people in effective and educate manner. Furthermore, I have the ability to deliver the
transparency or honesty to the people, organization or consumer.
Weakness: the most essential element to improve the skills and knowledge to acquire the
success. The weakness is the element which highlight the negative point a person is having and
become the reason of being failure in the life (Snowdon, 2018). It is challenging part for me to
highlight my weaknesses but it is i important to implement some sort of changes or the action
for developing the better version of myself. As I am the critical thinker I focus on thing too
much sometimes which create confusion in my head or took too much time in the process of
decision-making. My greatest weakness is that sometimes I am not able to communicate in a
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manner that individual person can understand easily. Many times it leads to the
miscommunication among the people.
Opportunity: after the analysation of strength and weaknesses it is important to mention the
skills which I can achieve. I have opportunity to become a leader as I am the critical thinker and
having quality of solving the issues of the people and motivate them to archive the goals. Along
with this the opportunity I can grab is that can avoid too much focus on the same specific
content to avoid the confusion while making the decision or taking any action. With the
capability of co-operative and co-ordinative I can become the good leader who can understand
and solve the formal as well as informal problems of the working person at workplace(Singh,
Amiri and Sabbarwal, 2019). In the future I can create the possibility to become the human
resources manger of any large scale firm. The mangers key responsibility is to take the decision
for the welfare of the company . Beside this I can improve my communicational skills by
observing the people, the way they think, work and communicate.
Threat: after all the strength, weakness and opportunity there are some factor which affect the
potentials of individual. As I am having less communicational skills I may face trouble in
convincing the employee in the forthcoming period. The threat is that I am not able to explain
what individual person suppose to perform in the particular job role because I aim to become
human resources manger or the leader of an organization. The HR manager is the one who can
explain each and every function of the organization in effective manner and motivate the
employees to do their work. So this will become the barrier in my career path therefore it is
important to improve the ability to communicate to lead the career path.
Progression concept
After examine the strength, weakness, ability or the skills along with the treats I set my goal as
per the time period. Like I set the goal for the short, medium and long term which I will achieve
or accomplish step by step.
For the short period I set the primary goal of become a successful leader in forthcoming period.
My primary goal is to become human resources assistant which the basis step to involve or
engaged in the human resources' administration. With my learning skills or the ability of become
creative I can perform the duties of HR assistant. The HR assistance duties is to lead the hiring,
promotions, look at the salary adjustment and firing the candidates which are not productive for
the organization (Schlesinger, O'Shea, and Blesso, 2021). With the researching skills I can
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evaluate the ability of the candidate who desire to work for the organization. As I am the
responsible person for my work I have the capability to mange the data of the candidate and
maintain employees record. In order to build the experience I will expose the various function
and analysis the idea of being productive with interacting with the candidates which belong to
different regions and the areas.
Middle term goal: after the accomplishing the short term goal I will work on my further goal
which is to become the training coordinator or the training manager. This is next process after
becoming the human resources' manger. The key responsibility of training coordinator is to
deliver the training programme to the candidates and direct them to accomplish the goal of the
organization in effective and efficient manner. The training programme include the culture of the
organization and the traditional the company is following (Sarsby, 2016). The training
programme include various subject related topic which is essentials to mention. My ability to
learn fast as well as have confidence to address the view points to the new joining on the behalf
of the company. Once I develop the better communication skills I can easily explain the
perspective of conduct the training programme. With the creative mind set I can deliver the
creative ideas to the people who belong to different region, area, cast and the values because
every person belong to different culture. I have the capability to motive the employees and
boost them to increase the productivity of the company and the person of the individual.
Long term goal: this is the final as well as long term goal to accomplish for better future.
Employees relation manager or the human resources manager is the goal which I can fulfil
after the analysation swot analytical tool. As I determine I have capability o make effective and
efficient decision I can make the decision for the organization or the employees. The human
resources managers main function is to resole the conflicts of the employees and maintain the
positive culture within the organization. The responsible leader is the oven who took all the
responsibility to manage all the functions of company. In short that person is responsible for the
management organizational (Rastgoo, 2016) As I am having the quality of become qualitative
and quantitative I can cooperate with the employees of the organization and will manage all the
function n effective as well as efficient manner. With the analytical skills I can conduct the exit
interviews and maintain the relation with the employee as well as the potential consumer of the
company. With the confidence power I can represent the values of the company and regulate the
workflow within the organization. Beside this I can provide the assistance in overseeing the
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plans of action which will be beneficial for the growth of company. I will become the successful
or productive manger when I deliver the compensation and punishment as per the performance
of the individual to boost the potential.
Progression opportunities
In today working life the competition is increasing rapidly along with opportunity. Therefore, it
is not easy to acquire all the opportunity you have. As per the progression concept I have
determined some sort of opportunities which I can grab in order to achieve my personal goals. Ii
have the opportunity to increases my skills and move my career for the progress. I have the
opportunity to learn different culture and belief as the human resources department interact with
different kind of the people (Phadermrod, Crowder and Wills, 2019). Along with engaged in
the interaction with different candidate or the peoples I have the opportunity to improve my
communicational skills and learn different styles and the ideas of completing work in a specific
time period along with that have opportunity to acknowledge myself. Through this career path I
have the possibility to boost my education and open up more career option for myself. Also,
have chance to become more responsible and creative for the professional as well as personal
life. This career path provide the chance of expending the networks among the people , also
increase the possibility of being rewarded by the organization or appreciate by the people who
determine the creativity and the responsibility I will deliver. The aim of become the human
resources manger I seek out many professional challenges in order to become proactive and
create the chance to upscaling the skills and knowledge. Whereas I suppose to have some sort
of difficulty also as every person of the nation is aim to mange the function of the organization
which lead to high competition. It is the strongest barriers which create difficulty in achieving
the short, medium as well as long term goal. In order to grab all the benefits or the opportunity I
suppose to come out of my comfort zone. Not having adequate knowledge and lack of
communication al skills will be the barriers in accomplishing the goals. The human resources
department required strong communication skills by which they can convenience the candidate
and resolve their issues.
Driscoll reflective model
This model is the most effective model for analysing the performance of the individual student
so the student or the person can adopt the changes or modifies the skills which is necessary for
achieving the goals in effective and efficient manner (Cascio, 2021). This model includes
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several questions such as what is happened during the completion of the project? What did you
observe? What action you take in context to that? What are the important elements in the
completing of the task?
Simultaneously my answer are when I was non-competing the project I identify my strength
that I am the fast learner, curious to know , good at decision-making process. Along with also
determining the weakness that I don't have great communicational skill which will become the
barrier in accomplishing my career path. While I was developing the carer path I acknowledge
myself that the human resources department required lots of skills as the manger is the one who
represent the organization in the marketplace. During this project I improve the
communicational skills to accomplish my goal. In order to improve the skill I communicate
with the different peoples. Also, learned about the different culture, region and belief work. To
enhance the skills I started researching more information in short period and started reading the
books and interacting and observing the friends as well as family in order to bring better
communication.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it will be concluded that it is very essential to analysis the ability of
individual with the assistance of different analytical tools (Lazarova, 2019). The identification
of the ability will make easy to choose the suitable career path for the student. Furthermore, the
report acknowledge the skills which are essential to perform the job role in effective and
efficient manner. The study also reflect light on the opportunities the individual can grab to
become more successful in the forthcoming.
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