Effective Career Development: SWOT, Goals, and PDP Planning

This report outlines a personal career development plan, incorporating a SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The plan details short-, medium-, and long-term career-related goals focused on developing leadership, teamwork, time management, and career management skills. A personal development plan (PDP) is included, emphasizing the importance of values, awareness, reflection, and goal setting for personal and professional growth. The report also reflects on external engagement experiences, highlighting the impact of COVID-19 on such opportunities and the adaptation to online mediums for skill development. The ultimate aim is to enhance employability and secure future career growth by addressing identified weaknesses and capitalizing on available opportunities.

Career Development
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INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
SWOT.....................................................................................................................................3
Career-related goals................................................................................................................4
PDP Plan.................................................................................................................................5
Future development................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12
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INTRODUCTION
Career development plan is mainly defined as a written list which is inclusive of short-,
medium- and long-term goals. These goals are patterned by an individual in order to fulfil their
current as well as future job needs (Chow, Salleh and Ismail, 2017). Career development plan is
basically a planned sequence of informal and formal experience through which individual or
employee can gain advantage in terms of accomplishing their goals. The main purpose of this
plan is to reach to goals and aspirations in life with an effective planning process through which
individual can fulfils specific career goal. Present report is inclusive of a personal development
plan and career related goals along with SWOT analysis that help in accomplishing goals and
objectives of personality growth plan in an effective manner.
MAIN BODY
SWOT
It is a vital management tool that facilitates and ensure effective and systematic analysis
of all the key strengths and weakness of an individuals along with having analysis of current
opportunity and threats so that a better conclusion can be made about the skills and areas that
need to be develop and improve (Cilliers, 2018).Strengths
Weakness
My key strengths comprise of having a
learning and adaptable attitude that enhance
my curiosity level and enables me to have
higher underdoing and knowledge level.
My time management skills are also my key
strength that makes me more discipline and
able to effectively in line my all activities
and task.
My organisation skill are also effective and
vital that supports enhanced level of
Lack of effective communication skill is my
biggest weakness that limits my ability to
effectively interact and deal with other
people.
Further, in effective team work and lack of
proper coordination with other team
members while working in group is also my
weakness.
Ineffective leadership trait and skill is also a
week ness that hampers my employability
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management and organisation in my task
and activity.
and growth level.
Lack of effective management of my career
option has been also faced by me as a
biggest weakness that hampers my
development and growth.Opportunity
Threats
Higher opportunity for learning is available
in current business environment through
making use of online classes and training.
Higher job vacancy and employability
opportunity are also identified in various
career and business area.
High level of competition has been faced for
vacant job position in current business
environment.
High cost of training and learning
programmes.
With respect to above SWOT analysis, a conclusion and analysis can be made by me that
I need to focus on my communication, team work, leadership and career management skill in
order to grab the opportunity of high employability that is currently present within the business
environment.
Career-related goalsShort-term
To develop connection with mentor and find an internship to develop professional skill in
the time period of 1 monthMedium-term
To develop leadership, time management and team working skills in next 1 year.Long term
To become a leader in management field in upcoming 5 years.
PDP Plan
Personal development plan is a process through which person can develop an action plan
which is based upon values, awareness, reflection, goal setting and planning for personal
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development in terms of education, career or for making self-improvement. Personal
development plan helps individual to identify strength and those areas that are required to be
changed and improved. Personal development plan is a structured framework that helps in
accomplishing career related goals according to set time basis. Mentioned below on personal
development plan is being given (Giirel and Tat, 2017). A personal development plan is basically
a documented plant that tend to outlie the goals and strength of an individual through properly
analysing the strengths and identifying the areas where further improvement is needed to achieve
these set out goals. The main goal and objective set out by me comprises of achieving and having
higher employability skill and improved skill and knowledge level that secures effective future
development and growth. Implication and use of the SWOT analysis tool has been made to
effectively analysis and observe the main strengths and weakness in term of the key competence
required to have higher employability skill and improved development level.
Competence Indicate
Knowledge
(K), Skills (S)
or Attitude(A)
Describe
competence
element
How far do
you think
you have
already
developed
in this area?
(rate from 1-
lowest, to 5-
How do you
know you are at
that level? What
evidence you
have that you
developed to that
extent?
How do you plan
to continue
developing in
this area?
Indicate some
concrete actions.
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highest)
Teamwork
K
The key
competence
element of
effective
teamwork
skill
comprises of
improved
loyalty and
Commitment
level among
team
members
along with
feeling of
Respect.
Along with
this, effective
accountability
and
delegation of
role and
responsibility
is also vital to
have better
coordination
in task
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I am having
proper
commitment
level and
feeling of
respect for my
team members
but I lack in
effectively
bifurcating the
task and
ensuing proper
coordination
thus, I am
having an
average level
of team work
skill.
I am planning
to effectively
improve and
develop my
teamwork skill
through
learning and
implementing
better use of
tool such as
work break
sown structure
which supports
improved
delegation and
bifurcation of
task along with
setting better
coordination.
Skill
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A
Leadership K
S
Attitude The key
competence
element of
leadership
attitude
comprises of
having
effective
social
intelligence,
proper
conflict
management
along with
improved
interpersonal
skills,
(learning)
agility, proper
decision-
making and
being a good
coach with
effective
emotional
2 I think that I
lack in having
effective
leadership skill
as I found it
difficult to
think properly
and make wise
decision in
complex
situation.
Further, I also
lack the ability
to motivate and
guide other
people due to
having lack of
proper
communication
and interaction
skills.
I would like to
have some
training and
online learning
about the
different and
aspects of
leadership to
improve this
ability. Along
with this,
reading and
analysing the
attitude of top
leaders of the
world could
also be made
by me which
supports better
decision
making even in
complex
situation.
Further, I
would also
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intelligence. focus on
having
improved
motivation and
communication
level.
Career
Management
Knowledge
The core
competencies
element of
career
management
comprise of
building self-
awareness
along with
gaining
environmenta
l awareness
and
effectively
planning
ahead for
career with
having proper
Work-life
balance.
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I had
developed
effective time
management
skill that
supports
proper work
life balance
and I got
sufficient time
to analysis and
get awareness
about the
current
environment to
effectively
plan by career,
thus, my career
management
knowledge are
at significant
level.
I would like to
access and
review more
career
development
and
management
sites along
with having
improved
environmental
awareness
through
effective
planning of
various task
and activities.
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Future development
I am having future development opportunity in terms of developing my skills like
teamwork, leadership and career management in an effective manner. Development of all these
skills will enhance my growth and development opportunity in future. I am having significant
confident that will help me to develop all these skills according to the planned procedure. In
terms with developing my team working skills I have future development opportunity to develop
professional and personal relationships through which I can accomplish my goals while taking
support from others. In addition to this as I am having inquisitee personality as I always look
forward to new opportunities and ways to discover something new. Along with this I also have
high degree of adaptability through which I can manage changes in an effective manner and can
further perform my roles and responsibilities. Accordingly, however there is a certain need for
me to take assistance and develop my certain skills in order to achieve more growth. Currently I
am looking forward to take advantage of support from my peers and taking motivation through
effective planning of various task and activities. Along with it has been identified by me that it is
essential for me to evaluate my learning styles and attitude. From this report I discovered from
SWOT analysis that I have significant strength that are required to be sharpened that will help
me to prevent negative consequences in future. However, it has been evaluated by me that I am
both curious and anxious and sometime I feel difficulties to express myself. I will undertake
advantage of my analytical skill in order to manage things in an effective manner. It has been
identified by me that I am having better form of retention rate that will assist me to develop my
qualification and gain personal certification from authorised institution. By developing skills
according to the plan, I can obtain professional credential. I will also have future about needed to
undertake use of tools to overcome particular issue such as speech grammar style through which
I can express myself in effective manner. Development of these aspects will allow me to have
access of cognitive skills scope skill according to the learning environment which will help me to
assure overall growth. Thus, according to the analysis, it has been identified by me that I have
having significant opportunity for future development through which I can assure more growth
and development opportunities in future. This will help me to fulfil my personal and professional
objective at greater extent.
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External engagement
External engagement is an important and essential aspect that help in developing individual
in an effective manner. It has been identified by me that with the help of external engagement
with the outside world of the classroom helped me in efficient manner. As it aids me in
developing my personal and professional competencies. With the help of external engagement, I
have experienced an opportunity through which I develop my number of skills that will help me
in future in accomplishing my objectives and short-, medium- and long-term goals. However due
to the outbreak of covid-19 and restrictions imposed by government on travel bans I have
engaged with organisation through online medium in which I spend almost five months in an
organisation which is associated to my career aspiration. The work experience during the
external engagement is positive, as I have developed certain skills like team working and
communication that will help in contributing my personal and professional development
(Sharma, 2019). Team working and communication skills plays important role in both student
and professional life during my time period in organisation. I have collaborated and coordinated
with other individuals that help me in developing my communication skill. By working with
others also develop my team working skills in an effective manner. Furthermore, in terms of
volunteering I spent one week in assisting others in terms of guiding them in an effective
manner. I have provided other individual a guidance and a direction to accomplish team roles
and assign task with a proper planning. However, in terms of study abroad due to the restriction
on travel I could not find the way to study abroad as to develop my skill and competencies from
University outside United Kingdom. According to my external engagement experience it has
been identified by me that covid-19 pandemic outbreak has significant impact on external
engagement, as due to this outbreak government across countries-imposed lock down and
restricted national, local and international travel. This affected my career as I did not find a pot a
way to study abroad and conduct my desk-based projects. However, with the help of online
methods I gained certain work experience and volunteer other individual from online methods.
However, with the help of online medium I develop certain skills like team working and
communication. Furthermore, it has been identified by me that the outbreak of covid-19
negatively influenced my life as my study and goals at some extent. The current situation have
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significant impact upon my career development and other skills as in this I have to gain access of
number of online methods to accomplish my career objectives.
CONCLUSION
According to the above-mentioned report it has been concluded that career development
plan intitles short term and long-term goals through which individual can accomplish future and
current job objectives in an effective manner. This report states that personal development plan is
a documented plan that duly identify individual strength along with the manner through which
the goals can be fulfilled. Personal development plan identifies weaknesses and the way through
which individual can make improvement in the areas of weaknesses. From this report it has been
predicted that with the help of and listing career related goals and taking advantage of personal
development plan into which people can fulfil their priorities and targets in a time effective
manner.
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