Career Viewpoint Report: Self-Evaluation, Action Plan, and Analysis

This report presents a comprehensive analysis of a student's career viewpoint, specifically focusing on the path to becoming an internal auditor. It begins with an introduction that outlines the report's scope and summarizes the previously identified job opportunity and necessary skills. The personal analysis section delves into the student's self-evaluation, assessing their current skills, knowledge, and experience, supported by feedback from seminars and work experience. This includes a SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The career action plan outlines a structured approach to developing skills, knowledge, and experience through specific actions, desired outcomes, and timelines, addressing areas like data mining, problem-solving and other skills. The conclusion summarizes the student's self-development and career aspirations, emphasizing the importance of the action plan for achieving their goals and contributing to their professional development in the field of internal auditing. The report references several academic sources that support the analysis and provide context for the career development process.

Career Viewpoint

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
PERSONAL ANALYSIS................................................................................................................3
CAREER ACTION PLAN..............................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
In previous assessment, job opportunity of Internal auditor has been identified, which in
an reality needs to be carry-on in this assessment. Internal auditor is one who is appointed by the
management of the company in order to carry out internal audit functions. Generally, this is an
employees whose task or activities is to do audit work in an organisation to gather sources of
suitability and validity of an information (Bosanquet, 2014). Some companies appoints internal
person as an internal auditor, where some appoints external experts as an internal auditor to
perform. In order to perform these job opportunity, the purpose of this report needs to be shifted
to full list of skills and knowledge/expertise that are majorly necessary to become expertise in
that area of working. Skills such as communication, analytical, problem solving and aptitude
skills are required along with knowledge over audit practice and also certified accountant who
have adequate knowledge and also short term practices in that context.
For this job opportunity, expertise of 1 year is role play experience which requires a
formal working and also person must have right and priority to take independent decisions. For
this, report will put its focus on self-evaluation and reflection on understanding of skills,
competencies and development of job opportunity of an internal auditors.
PERSONAL ANALYSIS
For the job opportunity of an Internal auditors, I realised various important skills, level of
competencies, knowledge or expertise required to development my credentials or portfolio in
accordance to that. For this role, I identified that skills such as critical analysis skills, topmost
communication, data mining & analysis and IT skills has been identified as value to perform
defined job role in that context. My knowledge level is highly reflective to this position to work
in an effective manner. I also gained knowledge on working for job opportunity as an internal
auditor with short term training and also practice in that field (Lodge, 2013). But in contrast, I
needs to be focus on regular practice or upgrading obtained knowledge by looking at a current
trends running into the market at a greater scenario. On this role of an internal auditor, I also got
various valuable feedback and reviews in audits based practices or seminar over my knowledge
or skills in doing practices for internal auditors for working in E&Y. Also, it has been my
continues practice will proved me right in my personal goals or targets to be accomplished in
given period of time. For this, job opportunity, I really needs to be focus on my skills,

competencies or expertise to bring major level of strengths for performing this job role in given
period of time at an effective stage. In that seminar's, I got high reviews or feedbacks which is
majorly necessary to make this job role accomplished with a stage of productive results or
outcomes to be attain. In my e-portfolio, I mentioned various skills, competencies or expertise to
make my credentials for wide and also must be focused on accomplishment of defined
opportunities for loner period of time (Matthews, 2017). In this respect, I also needs to be focus
on development of my professional and personal exposure to led improve my skills, exposure or
knowledge for an effective performance of this job role of an internal auditors. Skills such as
communication, IT based skills and decision making. This skills are majorly important to bring
overall development of my personal and professional exposure to perform job role of internal
auditors in given period of time to develop my performance at an utilised period of time. In order
to develop my personal and professional development, this is important to conduct SWOT
analysis to understand scope and opportunities for development of personal and professional
exposure to perform this job opportunity of an internal auditor's for longer period of time.
Strength Weakness
My major strength is skills related to ability to
communicate, interacts and also people
engagement at an different stage of working.
Also, power of high adaptability for more
knowledge is also my major strength.
Also, I realised that I have weakness such as
lack of problem solving and aptitude skills are
very less in me, in which development and
improvement is required for me.
Opportunities Threats
Here, major opportunity is to develop my skills
related to problem solving, analytical and level
of aptitude is an opportunity for me to develop
own skills or competencies for performing of
job role of internal auditors.
Lack of dedication is major threat here which
needs to be overcome and higher level of
dedication is required in my context to develop
my personality and exposure in order to take
suitable and corrective course of action.
This SWOT analysis will be helpful to led both personal and professional development in
that context to led development of my skills or exposure on an utilised level of performance of

this role of an internal auditors. Also, this is prominent to led development activities in order to
plan enhancement of these skills at an optimised level.
CAREER ACTION PLAN
Career action plan is a structured plan, which involves both personal development and
carried out certain activities in return of activities done in defined career for longer period of
time. This plan is majorly required to develop skills, efficiencies or exposure of career selected
to develop for longer period of time (Baek, 2014). For this job opportunity of Internal auditor's,
career action plan for this opportunity will be also be taken into consideration to led personal
development and also conducting specific activities in order to develop skills, competencies or
expertise in that context. For this job role of internal auditor, personal development is a best and
also suitable option tool to develop weakness based skills with motive of specific activities
which may lead to productivity and also growth of these skills at a greater denomination.
Skills, knowledge Purpose Actions Desired outcomes Time
Data mining and
analysis
Here, the purpose is
to enhance power to
accumulate data and
also analysis it to
perform job role of
internal auditors in
given point of time.
For this, activities
such as data
collection,
management and also
analysis will be done.
Here, outcomes for
expectancy will be
development of this
skill to conduct work
related to the internal
audits in an effective
or productive manner
to enhance audits
power.
One
month
Problem solving
skills
Here, the purpose is
to develop skills
such as problem
related to solving
problems relates to
performing of work
of internal auditors
in an effective way.
Activities such as
case study, problem
solving will also be
undertaken to
enhance ability to
empower ability to
conduct internal audit
and document
In this desired results,
ability to develop
problem solving
ability will be
accompanied at a
defined stage of
working.
1.5
month

This skill is needs to
be develop to assist
into internal auditors
checking in an
effective manner.
As, this is career action plan is consisting of skills which in reality needs to be develop in
an effective or productive manner to bring suitable outcomes into my personality for longer time.
This level of career action plan is important to develop my skills, knowledge and also exposure
to develop for effective results or outcomes for performing this job opportunity of an internal
auditor's to work effectively and productively (Kelly, 2017). For development of an exposure to
pursue job opportunity of internal auditor, it is necessary to be arranged resources such as books,
training & development in order to led empowering of a skills at an optimised period of time to
build scope for development of skills, knowledge and information for acting into an opportunity
of internal auditors.

CONCLUSION
From an above analysis, I realised that in this project, I also have gone for development
of skills, exposure and also expertise to develop won skills, competencies and exposure for
longer period of time. In order to do this things effectively, I have gone my own skills
development to led working of this role of internal auditor in an effective or developed manner to
enhance work based solution to increase my own skills, competencies and expertise on higher
develop to enhance work based solutions in given period of time. Also, I will use this career
action plan to develop my career in job role of internal auditors to go long of this career for
longer as well as developed period of time. Lastly, it is also concluded that this career action plan
will assist in continuing business based activities in given point of time.

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