Personal Pitch: Key Competencies, Career Prospects, and Progression

This essay presents a personal pitch that focuses on personal and professional development as a crucial skill development activity for career growth. It identifies key competencies through a personal audit, highlighting strengths like self-motivation and problem-solving, weaknesses such as self-criticism and impatience, skills including communication and time management, and attributes like empathy and organization. The essay outlines career prospects, focusing on establishing a business venture or working as a manager, with short and medium-term objectives aimed at gaining experience in a reputable company. It also discusses progression opportunities in the business and management sector, emphasizing the importance of strategic planning, teamwork, and a motivated organizational culture. The conclusion reinforces the role of personal and professional development in shaping a strong career through enhanced performance and effective decision-making.

PERSONAL PITCH

TABLE OF CONTENTS
 INTRODUCTION
 KEY COMPETENCIES
 CAREER PROSPECTS
 PROGRESSION OPPORTUNITIES
 CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development is one of the skill development activity which helps in development
of the personnel through which the individual can effectively perform and share their career and have a good
career growth. Personal and professional development offers numerus career growth opportunities which will
be helpful in enhancing the living standards of a personal. Such development is possible by analyzing the
skills and competencies which will be helpful in shaping the career and getting more career opportunities.

KEY COMPETENCIES
Key competencies or core competencies of an individual are those skills
which helps individuals in performing the assigned work effectively. With the
help of personal audit, several strengths, weakness, skills and attributes have
been identified. Such personal competencies are discussed below:
Strengths
Weakness
Skills
Attribute

Strengths
By using personal audit, several strengths were identified, some of the key strengths are disused below:
Self-motivated
Reliable
Problem solver
Dedicated
Quick learner
Supportive

Weakness
By using personal audit, several weaknesses were identified, some of the weakness are disused below:
Self-criticism
Impatient
Public speaking
Lack of concentration
Lack of leadership

Skills
By using personal audit, several skills were identified, some of the skills are disused below:
Communication skills
Interpersonal skills
Good time management skills
Critical thinking
Team spirit
Flexible
Creative

Attribute
By using personal audit, several attributes were identified, some of the attributes are disused below:
Empathetic
Optimistic
Emotionally aware
Organized
Observant

CAREER PROSPECTS
From the above mentioned skills and competencies, several career pathways which needed to be focused
involves: opening a business venture or working as manager in good company which will help in getting an
exposure of working with such companies and focusing on career and personal development.
My long term objective is to establish a business venture and focus on offering quality products and services
that can offer maximum customer satisfaction and result in incline in sale and profit maximization.
Whereas my short and medium term objective is to work with the reputed company and worked as a manager
where I can lead and guide team and aim to achieve the desired organisational objectives by strategic
planning, effective teamwork, increased collaboration, motivated organisational culture and dedication.

PROGRESSION OPPORTUNITIES
It can be seen there are various career opportunities in business and management sector. The career
opportunities in the sector is rapidly increasing and many job opportunities from top management to entry
level jobs can be taken by graduates.
The major focus will be on finding a job as a manager and to gain some experience by working as a manager
in a company.

CONCLUSION
From the presentation, it can be concluded that personal and professional development plays a crucial role in
shaping a strong and effective career. There are several skills and competencies which can help in enhancing
the performance and forming decisions by which the objectives can be accomplished and desired
performance standards can be maintained.

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