MG410 Career Viewpoint: Crafting a Detailed Career Action Plan

This report provides a comprehensive self-reflection and career action plan. It includes a personal analysis identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. It also outlines a detailed career action plan to address weaknesses and leverage opportunities, focusing on skill development in areas like analytical skills, multitasking, technical skills, and time management. The report emphasizes setting specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound goals. The ultimate aim is to provide a roadmap for career development and to enhance employability. Desklib offers a range of similar resources and study tools for students.

Reflective

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Personal Analysis ..................................................................................................................3
Career action plan...................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Career refers to a period of time which has been spent in a profession or job and it also
defines about what an individual do for their living and the range which requires extensive level
of training and education as well. Career is the most important decision that an individual has
make in their life and its all about taking a decision what an individual do to make a living. The
present report will cover discussion about the personal analysis where certain strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities and threats have been identified of a particular individual. In addition
to this, the report will cover analysis about the career action plan which resolves the weak points
and threats which create hindrance in terms of creating a career path. Moreover, the report will
cover discussion about the preparation of CV and Link din profile as well so that the current
situation can be identified into appropriate manner.
MAIN BODY
Personal Analysis
It provides overview about the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of an
individual, what challenges are coming ahead and what opportunities are present now and in
future. Like this I have also done my personal analysis through which I came to know my
upcoming chances and my weak points.
 Strengths:- I have good communication skills which helps me to connect with people
easily also I have good negotiation skills. These two skills helps me to make a connection
with new people which is very much required to do a job or a business.
 Weaknesses:- I am not so good when it comes to analytical skills and multitasking,
which are also require to perform a task on time and with efficiency. But I am working on
my weaknesses to convert them into my strengths,
 Opportunities:- As I have good communication skills through which I am seeking
opportunity in global units in which I can fully utilise my skills and will be able to
improve my existing skills also will be able to adapt new things.
 Threats:- Like any individual I also have some threats that will create hurdles in my
career goals. According to my personal analysis I am not good when it comes to time
management and I have low technical skills also.

After analysis my personal skills and my opportunities and threats I decide to choose HR
as my upcoming profession. My communication and negotiation skills helped me to choose my
career field. I also have attended many seminars and work shops regarding the same which is
beneficial for me because of which I am able to understand the job profile closely and it also
helped me to analyse my skills to choose a right career path.
With my education period I have also done some online training and development
programme and I also have some certificates in HR which enhanced my skills to do my
upcoming job in future. I have also done few part time internships because of which I have some
work experience too. I found the profile interesting as in this job profile I will be meeting with
new people on daily basis which will help me to improve my network, I will be solving the
issues of the candidates working which will improve my problem solving skills, apart from all
other benefits the major thing that will boost is my confidence. Confidence building is necessary
in every life and in job also.
I haven't choose the field only on the basis of my secondary research or through my
personal skills but I have also done some primary research through which I am able to know the
upcoming future trends like in upcoming 5 years the work of HR will be working with the help
of technology and using people analytical skills which will improve the work scope and
importance of HR in a business unit, HR work will more be inclined towards analysing the real-
time performance of an employee which will reduce the gap between the quality of workforce
planned and the current workforce.
Through my research, to be a good HR an individual require strong administrative skills,
knowledge about human resource process, some strategic and problem solving skills, technical
skills, managing priorities, advising and coaching the candidates. I have all the skills to be a
good HR that why I choose this field as my career path. I am a quick decision maker too, this
quality of mine helped me in my academics and in during my internships I was appraised many
times by my seniors because of this quality and now I am hoping that it will also help me during
my job.
I like challenges and the work of HR is rewarding and challenging at the same time
because a HR is responsible to select the right candidate for the post if he is failed to do so then it
can effect the working of the organisation so its a work of great responsibility also.

I have done all the primary, secondary and personal analysis which helped me a lot to
take the decision and rest of the skills that I require, I can gain it with the experience. But for the
smooth and efficient work I need to convert all my weaknesses into strengths and my threats into
opportunities, however I have decided to take coaching class and training program which will
enhance my skills and on the same time will improve my efficiency. \
Career action plan
Career action plan basically refers to the dynamic planning document which is managed
and owned by young people which is intended to reflect their increased career development
learning. This plan help students or young people which help in terms of setting their goals
which clarifies the actions which has been required to achieve these goals into result oriented
manner.
Specific skill to
be developed
Measurable (the
resources needed)
Achievable
(potential
barriers)
Realistic
(evidence of
success)
Time bound
Analytical Skills For developing
analytical skills it
is important to
face challenging
situation into
appropriate
manner and need
to practice for
solving
complicated
maths problems.
Analytical skills
can be measured
through observing
that how many
problems can be
solved on their
own level.
I have to face
certain barriers
in terms of
developing
analytical skills
such as social
conditioning,
egocentric
thinking and
group thinking
as well.
The evidence of
success of
developing
analytical skills is
that improvement
into the
personality while
facing challenges
at the
organisational
level
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Multitasking
Skills
Multitasking
skills can be
developed
through taking
smaller tasks into
multiple forms at
the initial level
There are
certain barriers
which I have to
face which
includes I
become less
efficient and
The evidence of
success of this
skill can be
achieved through
handling different
tasks within a
limited period of
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and then practice
for different tasks
in a limited period
of time. This skill
can be measured
through handling
different tasks at
the organisational
level into
successful manner
start doing
mistakes in a
frequent form
time at the
organisational
level into
successful manner
Technical Skills Technical skills
can be improved
through education
and training. It
can be measured
through
successfully
doing computer
programming into
successful manner
There are
certain barriers
in developing
technical skills
which include
training
methods, road
blocks of
organisational
requirements
The evidence of
success of
technical skills
can be measured
through doing
every task at
organisational
level into
successful manner
without any kind
of problems
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Poor time
management
For improving
time management
it s important to
do proper
planning skill
which needs to
ensure that can be
developed into
positive manner.
Time
management skill
can be measured
through
completing
project within a
set period of time.
There are
certain barriers
in developing
time
management
skill which
include lack of
priority,
procrastination
and fear of
failure as well
The evidence of
success can be
measured through
achieving the goal
of an organisation
within a defined
period of time
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These are the weaknesses which I need to overcome through an action plan so that
appropriate action can be taken into positive form. This career action plan act as a road map for
developing my skills into result oriented manner. That's why this action plan is important in
order to reach towards the goal within a defined period of time.

CONCLUSION
The above stated report concludes that career plays a very significant role in the life of an
individual. It has been concluded that every individual has their own strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats which needs to be considered into serious form while making plan for
the career. There are certain weaknesses and threats of an individual which needs to be resolved
through career action plan so that appropriate decision can be taken for the career into positive
form.

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