Reflective Essay: Skills Assessment, Career Prospects, and Progression

This reflective essay explores the importance of skills in personal and professional life, beginning with a personal SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The author acknowledges weaknesses in communication, teamwork, and technical skills, and outlines strategies for improvement, such as social work, self-practice, and classes. The essay details career prospects as a marketing manager, emphasizing the need for enhanced communication and technological skills. Short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals are established, focusing on communication, leadership, and technology skills, respectively. Progression opportunities are discussed through strategic evaluation, resource allocation, and time monitoring, with a clear plan for skills development to achieve career growth in the marketing field. The author concludes by reiterating the importance of continuous skill development and the structured approach taken to bridge identified gaps.

Reflective Piece

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
SWOT analysis............................................................................................................................3
The impact of gaps.......................................................................................................................4
Career prospects...........................................................................................................................5
Progression opportunities............................................................................................................6
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Skills plays an important and vital role in an individual life. Skills and abilities of a person
reflects the knowledge and ideologies from.which they are able to perform well in their personal
and professional life as well. In this context, the report is illustrating the importance of the
various skills and abilities in the reflective manner. It includes the personal swot analysis from
which it will be easy to understand the skills set and its importance effectively (Wang, 2020). In
addition, it also involves the career prospects and career opportunities of the various skills from
which an individual can be able to perform well at personal and professional level as well.
MAIN BODY
SWOT analysis
The swot analysis is a tool or technique which is utilized by the organization and an individual
person to identify and recognize the internal structure of environmental of the particular
existence. It includes the person strength, areas if improvement, opportunity and a threat.
According to me, here performing my personal swot analysis from which I can be able to
understand and evaluate my performance and ability which will be very effective and beneficial
for me in the future times.
Strength: The first factor determines the concept of the power and strength of an individual.
According to me, I am very good at leading myself and also in conducting the people in the
organization effectively (Salmani, Mohammadi-Nasrabadi, and et.al., 2021). I believe that I have
an excellent leadership skill which will be very effective in the future existence. For being a
marketing manager I am having major skills like leadership and self-management skill which I
believe that it is my strength. This skill will also help me to understand the people needs and
requirements and can be able to provide and fulfil all the roles and responsibilities of the
marketing manager. I am also capable in numerical skills which is the important part of the
marketing manager. Having these skills as my strength will help me to become more effective in
my career and job role and drives me to be a successful person in the future existence.
Weakness: The second factor of analysis describes the weakness of a person from which they
cannot be able to move forward. Looking at me, I am having major weaknesses in myself which
can create a problem for me in the future time. I am very weak at my communication skill which
makes me to not able to approach maximum number of consumers. Communication skills is the
most important skill which an individual should have and obtain in their personal life. Along

with this, I am also weak in working as a team which is also a big huddle for me. Being a
marketing manager I am required to be suitable of working in a team from which my colleagues
also can feel comfortable to convey any speech and conversation to me without getting nervous.
In addition, I am also not much good at the technical skills and it is required to improve as soon
as possible. Technical skills can help me to program the different languages, data analysis and
even at also will increase my sales effectively. The lack of these skills is my weaknesses which
can make problem for me in the future.
Opportunity: The term opportunity describes the opportunity to grow in an individual life.
Similarly, I got an opportunity where I can improve and increase my skills. At my academic
session, my tutor gives me a project where I need to make a project by showing my skills and
abilities. While making the project, I got some difficulties from where I needed to discuss with
my mates about the project. Communicating with my mates makes me to feel comfortable and
help me to improve my communication skills (Engelbrecht, Lindeman, and et.al., 2019). Along
with this, during making the project I got to understand the effectiveness of the team working
which makes me to improve my team working skills and abilities. I made my project effectively
by taking the help of my mates and utilized the technical skills also which makes me to enhance
my weaknesses and makes me to grow and develop accordingly.
Threat: Threat reflects the risk which can impact the individual effectively. I feel that not
improving and increasing my lack of skills will make me to not grow and develop in the definite
position. As I wanted to be a marketing manager where the communication, technical and tem
working skills play an important role in this job role. I am quite serious about lack of these skills
which will make me to not able to grow in my future existence. I also had fear and threat that all
my mates will grow in their individual life except which will make me to lose my motivation and
drives me to feel nervous.
The impact of gaps
Accordingly, during this report I analysed that I need to improve and increase my skills to fulfil
all the opportunities and gaps for the future existence. As I am very weak at so many skills which
will increase my ability and provide me effective results in my future career plan to improve my
skills firstly I needed to improve my communication skills which will help me to convey
effective and understanding speech which will definitely makes me to obtain and achieve higher
success. For increasing the communication skills I will join the social work activities from

where I can be able to listen and learn the effective communication skills and abilities. Looking
forward, I am also required to increase my team working and technical skills which will help me
in my future job role activity(Palomares, Martínez-Cámara, et.al., 2021). For improving the
technical skills I will do practices by my own and also join the classes where I can learn and
increase my technical skills. Along with this, I also needed to improve my team working skills
from which I can manage and work effectively at the organization level.
Career prospects
I analyse from the career expansion decision as marketing manager which require from
identification of and consideration of multiple essential skills which I don't have like
communication, team work management, technological and many more. I clearly analyse that
utilization of appropriate and effective career expansion in this field where communication and
technological skill highly essential because of management of multiple task within in business
practices (Hodge, and Clutterbuck, 2019). I analyse that have to build concern and prepares
proper framework for my goals effectiveness and daily identification of that I have potential to
do and make career as a become marketing executive or not. Because I analyse they do have
multiple responsibilities to manage whole team members of marketing and provide them
guidance about new technology and new practices for customer attraction expansion towards
with the business and many more.
Therefore, I have clear mind-set that I have to raise my skills in right area where I
influence my performance with positive manner. So I finally decide that I have to make more
efficiency towards with consideration skills develop chart which useful for continuously makes
idea about how to influence performance with impressive manner.
Short term goals: As become marketing manager in future I decide that I have to develop more
focuses and attraction towards with the right and appropriate skill development. I decide my
major short term goal is communication because its essential for the become marketing manager
because manage has responsibility to provide guidance and information to employees. Short term
goal mainly refers to complete within one week to 1 month. So I decide that I have to learn
communication skills within week and month from regular practices.

Medium term goals: This goal expansion is all above refers to develop skill achieve within in 2
weeks to 6 months. I decide that I have to develop leadership skill because its essential for my
career effectiveness. Without having this skill I am not able to survives in organization as a
became marketing manager. Become as marketing manager its important that I have to gain this
skill within 6 months with participates into classroom activities.
Long term goals: I analyse that I am very poor in technological skills but its essential for my
career expansion in marketing field (Mir Kamali, and et.al., 2020). As a become marketing
executive I decide that I have to develop technology skills in 2 year with practical training and
from participates into organization as intern.
From the skill identification and time frame expansion its clear that goal achievement
require effective framework and plan which continuously evaluate and provide idea about that I
have to develop this important skills for my individual growth.
Progression opportunities
For the career expansion and identification of progress mainly develop and effectively
evaluate by the utilization of progression opportunities. I analyse that I have to develop
progression opportunities structure and personality development plan which makes
understanding and clarity how much timely take individual skills to become successful and
effective marketing manager.
Area to develop Strategic Evaluation and
monitoring
Resources Time
Communication I prepare strategy
that I have to
develop concern
towards with the
appropriate and
impressive tools
which has power
to develop
effective skill
with powerful
strategy which is
I decide that I
continuously
monitor my
performance in
night that which
essential skills I
learn from my
day practice
because it makes
more consistency
and performing
From the learning
of this skills with
appropriate
manner I have to
develop concern
towards with the
communication
practices with
experts and which
have great skill in
communication
2 to 4 week

communicated
with family
member, learn
new words and
many more
(Aliyah, H.,
Kusmayadi, T.A.
and et.al, 2020)
tasks with great
manner.
with new work
also which has
power to right
and provide
instruction to
improve language
with proper
manner.
Team work skills I analyse that I
have to develop
concern towards
with the team
work skills
development
from expansion of
participation in
collage class
activities and
become leader
and management
of colleagues
makes practical
learning.
I participate in
class activities
and then I analyse
my performance
that learn this
skill or not with
consideration and
evaluation from
experts and
professors of
graduation
practices.
Because they do
have clear ideas
that which major
aspects I have to
learn.
I continuously
monitoring my
performance with
identification of
performance
evaluation within
learning approach
to makes more
creative and
constancy with
skill identification
from the self
evaluation that I
learn team work
management
skills or not.
6 month
Technological
skill
I decide and
develop strategy
that I have to
build
technological
I evaluate my
performance from
where I provide
my services do
intern within in
I clearly decide
that I buy
technical sources
and learn
practical skills
1 to 2 year

skill with
participate in
organization as
well as other
sources where
experts provide
knowledge and
instruction about
essential technical
skills. Because I
analyse that I
have to build this
skill for great
position
expansion in
organization.
participates in
organization as
become
marketing
employee because
they gives more
profound ideas
and skills which
essential for my
learning.
throughout the
application of
practical learning
from uses of
appropriate and
effective practical
learning process
(Ravindran,
Haycock, Woolf,
and et.al., 2021).

CONCLUSION
It has been summarized from the above reflective study that expansion of career in
marketing field. I analyse that I don't have essential skills which require for career expansion and
career growth development become marketing manager. From the analyses and development of
SWOT makes more clarity that which essential skill I have to learn from utilization of short
term, long term and medium term goal development. It has been also evaluated that expansion of
effective and appropriate work performance require development of proper and efficient skill's
development for the skills expansion like leadership, communication and technology I clearly
present proper plan and structure which helpful for develop consistency in performance
effectiveness. This study makes more clearly that expansion of personality development plan
useful for continues information and motivation expansion of skills development.

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