Engineering Career Plan, CV, and Study Work Plan Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of career planning and CV development for aspiring engineers. It begins with an introduction to career planning and CVs, highlighting their importance in identifying skills, setting goals, and achieving professional success. The main body of the report includes a detailed SWOT analysis to evaluate the author's strengths and weaknesses, opportunities, and potential threats in the engineering field. A personal development plan is outlined, detailing specific skills to be developed, activities to be undertaken, resources needed, and timelines for achieving these goals. The report also presents a sample CV, showcasing the author's education, work experience, and skills. Furthermore, the report includes a study work plan, outlining the author's daily activities, including online training courses, and how they contribute to achieving career goals. The report concludes with a summary of the roles of graduation engineering jobs. Overall, the report offers valuable insights into career planning, self-assessment, and professional development for engineering students.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Career Plan and CV.....................................................................................................................3
Study Work Plan and Review Process.........................................................................................8
Summary of the roles of graduation engineering jobs...............................................................13
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................15
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
Career plan refers as the practical strategy which permits individuals to identify their skills
and interest, develops career goals and gives high efforts on the action that supports to achieve
them. It is constant process which includes current goals, interest and skills helps to transform an
ordinary person into great man. A effective career plan helps individual to get healthy bank
balance in start of months which leads self-actualization creates baseline to build other dreams
and achieves then by constant following career strategy. CV is a documentation process which is
used for job purpose in which includes skills and background information i.e. post school
percentage, post-graduation percentage and others. Career plan and CV are essential document
because analyse individual’s weakness and strengths. The brief study includes essential
documentation such as Career plan and CV and Study work Plan & Review Process etc. and
helps to understand strength, weakness, interest and current career plan strategy of individuals.
MAIN BODY
Career Plan and CV
In order to develop my career as an engineer, I first need to evaluate my strengths and
weaknesses based on which I will be able to develop a personal development plan as well
(Abdel-Basset, Mohamed and Smarandache, 2018). SWOT analysis is the best tool that can be
used in order to evaluate my own strengths and weakness and this can be done in a flowing
manner:
Strengths
There are certain qualities and skills that I
possess which I can adequately categorise as
my strengths. These are:
 The analytical skills that I possess are
extremely well developed where I can
easily analyse the data that has been
presented before me because of the
simple logical manner in which my
mind works (Ervural and et.al., 2018).
 I have good risk analysing and
Weaknesses
I am not perfect and therefore there are various
aspects in which I lack or cannot perform well.
The major weaknesses that I possess can be
categorised as follows:
 My communication skills are not very
good in a professional environment. I
often get nervous and am not able to
speak fluently which presents certain
disadvantages in my prospective career.
 Additionally, my time management
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perceiving skills as well because I am
in the habit of constantly evaluating the
environment and the changes that are
occurring regarding the trends. This has
made me extremely perceptive and I am
able to identify potential risks. This can
help me in my future career prospects.
 The last best thing that I consider for
myself is may ability to develop and
maintain relations and connections.
This has always helped me in sorting
out difficult situations because of the
friendly nature that I possess and can
potentially help me in professional
environment as well.
skills are also very poor. Often the
quest to complete things perfectly, I
tend to over exert the deadlines and this
can lead to many serious consequences
in my career as well (Phadermrod,
Crowder and Wills, 2019).
 Another major area where I lack is the
management skills. I cannot effectively
maintain the different activities and
areas in which work is being performed
and this consequently makes me
doubtful about my leadership skills as
well. Therefore I lack in these aspects
as well. As a result I need to work upon
these skills as well.
Opportunities
In the engineering field that I have chosen as
my prospective field of study, I have identified
certain opportunities that will help me in
succeeding in the professional environment.
These are:
 I can develop myself professional as a
problem solver. This is because I am
already good at risk identification and
market analysed. As an outcome, the
solutions that I develop in such
scenarios will also be effective enough
regarding the current problem that has
arisen (Gürel and Tat, 2017).
Therefore, I think this is a strong field
to develop myself effectively.
Threats
The threats that I face in the engineering
background to which I belong are significant
and wide. For me in particular, these can be
enumerated as follows:
 Lack of any adequate skills can make
me incompetent and this can lead to my
options of getting a good job limited.
This is a major threat to my career and I
need to avoid this at all costs so that I
can develop myself accordingly.
 Another major threat is that the skills
required in the market are changing
drastically and in order to address these
skills, I need to keep myself abreast
with the changes and developments that
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 Another major area in which I can
develop myself is in Information and
communication Technology skill i.e.
ICT. Since I am an engineer, all of my
job roles will require development of
ICT skills to the highest level because
of the regular interaction that I will
have to undertake with technological
systems, software etc. Therefore, I
think that the development of this skill
will also help me in developing better
career prospects for myself in future.
are arising (Bull and et.al., 2016). If I
continuously update myself with the
changes in the laws and regulations, I
will be able to make myself multi-
skilled thus making me resourceful.
Therefore, I need to develop myself
according to the skills that I have
identified so that the prospective threats
can be avoided for me.
Based on the skills analysis that I did above, there is a personal development plan that I can
develop myself. The evaluation of the different strengths and weaknesses that I undertook has
helped me in ascertaining that I need to develop myself in multiple skills. The personal
development plan will help in developing those skills in a systematic and structured manner thus
helping me in achieving the desired results in a limited time period:
Skills to be
developed
Activities undertaken Resources
required
Time
period
Feedback
Time
management
skills
In order to succeed in
my career meeting
deadlines is an
important aspect. I will
do this my developing
comprehensive
schedules including all
the activities that are to
be performed and
meeting the deadlines
well before time. This
will help in ensuring
Schedules,
Time
evaluation
sheet
5 months I can gather the
feedback from the
teachers, colleagues as
they can help me in
analysing that whether
my schedule is proper
or not (Stewart,
2016). Further, the
results will be self
evident if they are
completed on time
thus giving me the
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that I do not employ too
much time on some
specific activities and
distribute my work
adequately.
desired feedback.
ICT skills ICT skills are necessary
for my career and this
will improve my
communication skill as
well as update me in
information technology
aspect (Rimmer, 2018).
In order to develop these
I plan to develop myself
comprehensively in the
field by engaging in
online lectures etc. so
that I can ensure that I
will be able to develop
myself multi
purposefully
Online
lectures,
videos
3 months I will take feedback
from my mentors as
they will help in
testing that whether I
have gained sufficient
knowledge or not. I
will keep on working
until I have made
myself partially
developed.
Management
Skills
In order to work in a
corporate environment
successfully, it is
necessary to ensure that
I can manage several
tasks at the same time.
In order to develop this,
I will have to make
myself more oriented
with handling multiple
Observing my
seniors,
reading
management
books by
management
gurus
6 months The feedback will be
obtained from my
scenarios, peers and
colleagues who will
help me in
ascertaining that
whether I successfully
managed different
tasks or not (Lejeune,
Beausaert and
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tasks at a single time so
that I can manage other
employees as well.
Raemdonck, 2018).
Therefore feedback
will contribute
effectively in the
development of this
skill.
Problem
Solver
It is necessary for an
engineer to develop
swift decision making
skills with the solutions
that are correct prompt
and effective
(Dahmarde,
Khodabakhshi and Rad,
2018). Through this
skill, I will be able to
incorporate problem
solving skills and
though I have basic
skills in this, further
development will lead to
me making better
decisions
Join problem
solving
session, read
books by
famous
authors
2 to 4
months
I will collect feedback
from my supervisors
who will advise that
the solutions that I
developed will be
effective or not and
whether they can be
realistically applied. I
will repeat this until I
am able to hone this
skill.
CV:
In order to develop and gain job effectively as an software engineer, the development of CV is
extremely important. I can develop my CV in a following manner:
CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Charlie Woods
Address: H Nos. 152, Baker Street, London
Email: [e-mail]
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Education
 Pursuing Graduation in engineering from University of Manchester, London.
 Completed vocational course in engineering training programme from University of
Warwick.
Working Experience
 I completed my internship from the Hilti GB organisation that has been a major milestone
for me because of the major learning that I was able to develop in the field of engineering
from there.
 I have also obtained a certificate recognising my excellence in an software development
project at Renishaw where they recognised my skills at data analytics and quicker
decision making skills.
Skills
 I can identify and analyse risks potentially before they arise and my decision making
skills are also very swift, prompt and accurate in the time of crisis specially.
 I am a ardent complier of the rules, regulations and laws that are followed and
implemented by organisations thus supporting the work culture in the organisation
peacefully.
 I always work in accordance with the mission and objectives that have been set by the
organisation thus making me an ideal employee.
 My knowledge about software and my achievements make me well qualified to deal with
adverse situations that can arise in your organisations. Additionally, I am a very calm but
efficient employee and this will help in maintaining healthy work relationships at
organisation.
Study Work Plan and Review Process
Study Work Plan is the strategic approach that enlists a set of goals and procedures so
that individuals can meet those goals over the time and provides understanding to other. Most of
the student organizes schedule outline with study time as well as learning goals which helps
them to focus on daily activities (Al Shobaki and Abu-Naser, 2017). A good study work plan
provides individual a sense of goals and develops short-term and long-term goals for achieving.
It is a type to study timetable which assist to keep priorities and keeps individual focused on
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crucial tasks and improves knowledge as well. I belong to science background and I gave priority
to software engineering because I have more intertest in the engineering field. I organized study
plan in which includes about my activities that is undertaken on daily basis such as current study,
private study, part-time employment etc. helps to analyse my goals which I want to achieve.
Activities undertaken Time undertaken
Online Training Courses
 I am software engineer and I have more interest to learn
about new technologies and languages that’s why I join
online class such as Python Web Software & Web
Development Online Training courses. The main reason
behind is that it helps me to learn coding and I can
develop innovative web designs in future. It is
innovative software courses which emerges from past
few years and I know the requirement of the language
will be higher in the future. another reason is this when I
listen about python language that creates enthusiasm in
me to know about language (Cope and Baker, 2018).
While this institute is highly famous in the UK which
provides online training course and obtains certificate.
They organize online competition after completing
online course to check eligibility of student after
learning course. The certificate of the university keep
more value while giving job interview because
university follow legal criteria and gives honest result.
So, most of the companies consider this certificate. I
will get two benefits by competing this online training
courses first I learn new language and become enable to
develop software. While second advantage is this, I can
analyse my performance based on the test.
 Java Software & Web Development Online Training
3 months
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Course is the UK’s best online training course which
helps students to learn programming languages i.e. class
based, object oriented and others. I join this class to
learn java language so that I can develop different
software. As same concept for this online course which
I explain above. Java is highly popular language
currently and most of the companies recruits only those
employees who know coding of multiple language. Java
language is not help to coding but also supports to
develop different type of software (Northwood, 2018).
The software is quite different from Python software.
Informational technology companies who operates on
wide scale needs java language coding because most of
the place java coding is famous then it becomes easy for
the companies to communicate with them effectively.
As I know I will go for job then I must know this
language. So, I join the online course for improving my
skills and knowledge as well.
Private Study
Whatever I learn from online training courses, internship and
extra curriculums, recalls them to improve my
comprehensiveness and retention power. I read my academic
books related to software engineering that helps me to
understand principles of each language which is needed to
understand (de Oliveira Fassbinder and et.al., 2017). There is
various principle which have to follow while learning different
software language then can do coding effectively. Even I
resolve previous question paper to analyse my retention power.
Apart from this, I read great journals books who has explained
about exceptional concept like Java programming barriers,
Pythons language exceptional and others.
3 hours
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Extra curriculums
 I join skills and development class to learn new skills
and improves existing skills. For example, Analytical
skills is not good in me which major weakness of me. I
want to improve this skill because I know in the future, I
have to face various critical situation then I must know
hoe to deal with situation and gives creative solutions.
Another reason is this I never want to make me feel low
due to scarcity of skills and personal attitude. In this
class I have learned many new skills like
communication skills, develop web design, analytical
skills.
 Currently I want to improve my ICT skills because it is
the part of field and I must know about different
computer programming and others. therefore, I attend
my class regular basis because I know this skill supports
me in future to tackle any type of computer issue at
workplace.
3 weeks
Part Time Employment
Full Stack Developer is software engineering industry which is
established in London, UK which offer part time employment
to the fresher. I sent my CV few weeks before and I got call
form the industry for interview purpose (Fletcher and
Harrington, 2018). I went there and senior authorities made me
comfortable. There were lots of candidates who came for
interview. industry had effective recruitment strategy they kept
three level such as written test, group discussion and personal
interview. I passed all levels and in last I got job. There is a
reason to take part time employment is that I want to learn how
to develop software and what type skills requires to manage
workplace. As I know I get new information about new
6 months
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software daily basis and I also develops some software within
workplace.
Internship
Hilti GB organisation is UK’s best organization which provides
internship facility to the student. I join this organization by the
help of HOD because I want to learn about new software i.e.
ERP system, IT systems (Karabulut‐IlguJaramillo, Cherrez and
Jahren 2018). I have listened that organization gives advance
information about innovative software which helps me in future
when I looks for job. The university supports me to learn how
to operate ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) which is latest
technology but highly use by MNC’s. the reason behind is that
it integrates various type information systems i.e. Human
resource, Management information system and Decision
support system. Senior authorities aware me about Transaction
information system which works in ways online transaction and
invoices. These type system keeps various type of software
application to deal with different type of tasks. Apart from this,
I want to make myself great software producer so my goal is to
learn about each and every software which can improve my
skills and knowledge as well. Hilti GB organization offers
placement to internship students which is golden chance for me
to improve my skills in software development and grab
upcoming opportunity.
4 months
Online Quiz competition
I join Online quiz competitions which are time affiliated.
Overall quiz competition related to information technology. I
give different type of quiz to analyse my performance and
knowledge. In addition, these competitions obtain certificate
when gets good marks as per their requirements. That’s why I
give many quiz competitions and I get many certificates from
1 month
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