Positive Psychology: A Finance Manager Career Development Report

This report details a career plan for a Finance Manager position in the arts and crafts industry, utilizing positive psychology principles. It covers the roles and responsibilities of the position, self-awareness gained through skills mapping and psychometrics, and the development of a LinkedIn profile and CV to meet industry requirements. The report includes extra self-development activities undertaken, such as attending guest speaker events and job fairs. Furthermore, it outlines SMART goals for short, medium, and long-term career aspirations, culminating in a pitch for why the author should be chosen for the role. The plan emphasizes acquiring certifications, achieving academic success, and gaining practical experience in the finance field. The report concludes with a reflection on improving one's digital footprint and a list of references.

Positive Psychology
for Success

Position applied for with justification
and research findings on the industry
 Position applied is for the finance manager in arts and crafts industry.
 Its roles and responsibilities are to produce accurate financial reports and information,
developing cash flow statements, projecting profit, managing credit, providing advice in making
financial decisions, directing investments, making financial forecasts, budgeting and managing
risk of financial loss.
 It is chosen because now a days financial management are playing the most important role in
businesses without which it becomes impossible for the organizations to analyse and make
decisions for investments (Schreiner, 2018).

Reflection about self-awareness in
the skills mapping and
psychometrics
 Self awareness related to the skills mapping in financial management
in arts and crafts industry came in me from the work experiences in
working with financial software, volunteering in various institution
in order to vantage the cognition and also the college opportunities in
processing the projects accompanying to the finance. That is why I
have gained interest in the financial management.

How the LinkedIn profile and CV is
developed to reflect the necessary
requirements for the job/industry
 LinkedIn profile and CV is developed by Keeping them up to date,
highlighting recent experience, being comprehensive about current
skills and objectives, researching the companies that are interested
in and follow them, networking after the business hours and getting
involved in LinkedIn Professional Groups.

Extra self-development activities
undertaken
 There are several self development activities which must
be understood to be the financial professional manager.
 For example, guest speakers and job fairs along with the
networking and LinkedIn Learning.

Development plan and identifying
challenges to the career aspirations
SMART goals - short term goal (end of L4)
 Short term goal is to acquire the certification financial courses of finance management in order to formulate the CV
more attractive and also the short term commercial enterprise experiences so that the ultimate placement in the
desirable business can be more easily accessible as per the skills and cognition.
SMART goals - medium term goal (end of university)
 Medium term goal is to achieve the academic honesty with good grade in the university.
 University experiences are essential to attain the relevant degree in finance which is significant.
 This is done to fulfil the eligibility criteria which must be gained by the student to work and perform task for the
occupational group.
SMART goals - long term goal (first promotion)
 Long term goal is to attain the practical experience in finance field in the financial industry so that the adequate
knowledge can be earned in order to be the financial manager in a acknowledged companies.
 Other goals must be to work for the promotion in financial profile along with the salary increment as well.

Pitch - final reasons as to why we
should choose you
You should hire me because I have all the abilities and
practical experience that you're searching for. I'm quite
assure that I am the good candidate for financial manager
job profile in arts and crafts industry. It's not just my
background in the previous undertaking, but also my group
ability, which will be relevant in the role of financial
manager (Bachik, 2021).

Reference list
 Bachik, K., 2021. VIA character strengths among US college students and their associations with happiness, well-being, resiliency,
academic success and psychopathology. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 16(4), pp.512-525.
 Boniwell, I. and Tunariu, A.D., 2019. EBOOK: Positive Psychology: Theory, Research and Applications. McGraw-Hill Education
(UK).
 Green, S. and Palmer, S. eds., 2019. Positive psychology coaching in practice. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
 Lopez, S.J., Pedrotti, J.T. and Snyder, C.R., 2018. Positive psychology: The scientific and practical explorations of human strengths.
Sage publications.
 Robertson, P.J., 2018. Positive psychology and career development. British journal of guidance & counselling, 46(2), pp.241-254.
 Schreiner, L.A., 2018. Applying principles of positive psychology to student success and well-being: Enabling all students to thrive.
 Seligman, M.E., 2019. Positive psychology: A personal history. Annual review of clinical psychology, 15, pp.1-23.
 Snyder, C.R., Lopez, S.J., Edwards, L.M. and Marques, S.C. eds., 2020. The Oxford handbook of positive psychology. Oxford
university press.

Any questions?
 What do you think is the most important next action point for you?
The most important next action point for me is to discover the finance manager job in arts and crafts industry so that
my experience in this industry can work out and results in the good income form the organizations. Earlier I was a nail
technician in arts and crafts industry but now looking for the finance management for better opportunities and growth
in the career of business management.
 What are you going to do to improve your digital footprint further?
It is important to improve the digital footprint on future basis. This is because it highly impacts the career development.
Therefore in order to improve the digital footprint then I must be keep updating the LinkedIn profile and curriculum
vitae so that anyone can visit my profile must get the relevant and recent information about me and my employment.

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