Comprehensive Career Action Plan: Skills, Goals, and Self-Reflection

This report outlines a career action plan designed to achieve career growth by identifying necessary steps and objectives. It begins with a personal analysis, determining strengths (result-oriented, innovative, communication, time management, ability to work under pressure, self-motivation) and areas for improvement (decision-making and presentation skills). The plan includes strategies to overcome weaknesses through professional development, setting both short-term and long-term goals. It emphasizes the importance of continuous learning and practice to develop necessary skills. The report concludes that a career action plan is a valuable tool for personal and professional growth, promoting innovative ideas and thoughts to explore a particular field, with skills like communication, presentation, and decision-making being crucial for career advancement. The document includes a sample CV and job advertisement.

CW2 Career action
plan and self reflection
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TABLES OF CONTENTS
Introduction.................................................................................Error: Reference source not found
Personal Analysis……………………………………………………………………………… 3
Career Action Plan...........................................................................................................................4
Conclusion..................................................................................Error: Reference source not found
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Appendices..................................................................................Error: Reference source not found
Appendix 1: Job advertisement..............................................................................................9
Appendix 2: Industry or Role Specific CV..........................................................................10
Appendix 3:Supporting evidence for personal skills and achievement.................................10
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INTRODUCTION
Career Action Planning outlines an action plan to achieve goal for the achievement of
career growth. It includes necessary steps taken to set ideas and objectives to make plan and
convert them into dream. Career action plan is a process that helps an individual to make
decision to shape career goals . It helps in personal and professional growth in life. It is designed
to develop skills and knowledge for effective learning process. These plans allows an individual
to frame clear plans to assist them towards achievement of desired goals. The Planned activities
can meet when person has implement those set plans (Yang, Zhou and Deng, 2022) .This report
will analyse the objective of skills that will require me to become a successful assistant event
planner. This report will further review personal analysis by determining strength and weakness.
It also develop career action plan to overcome those weaknesses and made present CV.
MAIN BODY
TASK
Personal Analysis
As an assistant event planner, it is necessary for me to have certain skills and knowledge in
this particular field. I am pursuing related skills and capabilities to carry out the task and
responsibilities relevantly. I am resulted oriented person and focus primarily on my objectives to
achieve the result. With the help of this field , I am capable to learn new things and experiences
that are required to manage the event more effectively. As an assistant event manager, I am
capable to innovate new ideas which makes me unique from others. There are set of skills that I
develop as an assistant event planner and it includes communication skill, time management
skills to manage all the task (Crawford, Weber and Lee, 2020). I am organized all the events to
manage all the work on a given specified period of time. All these skills helps me to meet
deadlines. There are certain skills that I developed are mentioned below:
 Communication Skill: It is one of the most important skill that must have possessed as an
event manager to attract the clients with effective communication. It build confidence and
boost the morale towards my work. The effective communication brings transparency in my
work through which I am able to express my views and thoughts before my clients.
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 Ability to work under Pressure: This skill helps to deal with unforeseen situation and
reduce stress level (Sardi, Garengo and Bititci, 2018). The ability to work in pressure helps
me focus on my goal to accomplished the task on time. This will allows me to remain
positive in adverse situation.
 Self Motivation Skill: The profile as an assistant event manager helps me to deal with tough
situation. It boost my self esteem and motivates me in different ways. In order to deal with
pressure, it is important for me to motivate myself with my strength and abilities.
From the above skills, it has been contributed in me personal and professional growth. It is
required to focus more on decision making and presentation skill for the systematic working as
as assistant event manager. It promotes management of all the work for which I am accountable
to my organization. The plan related to such field helps me to lead the work. All these learning
opportunities enable to overcome all the barriers that comes in between my skills and abilities.
With the helps of frame plans and strategies towards my objectives make me successful person
this field.
Career Action Plan
Career Action Plan identifies the professional path that directs me to achieve them. The
skills which I was develop as an assistant event manager assist me to implement in setting up of
long term objectives. These set objectives guide me throughout my life to develop an action plan
in order to achieve goals. There are certain skills that I need to focus on which includes decision
making and presentation skills and I am working hard to overcome these weakness. It is a set
goals that enhanced my personality and ensure growth for future. These skills are the asset for
me for my work . It requires lot of efforts to accomplish in professional world because it varies
person to person and changes with the time (Ladd and Reid, 2020). The framed plans is used to
self asses and evaluate the overall performance. Also, the action plan includes many short term
objectives that can be achieved through extra learning and training. As decision making skills
helps an individual to think in precise manner and logically to use those decision in the
professional field. There are few skills that I will require to develop:
 Decision making skill: Effective planning in order to make right decision is necessary in
professional life without any doubts and with the help of thinking process. It will increase
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the ability to deal with adverse situation and brings confidence through effective application
of mind.
 Presentation skill: This skill is required to make effective presentation of views , idea and
expression to interact with others. It will helps to transmit the message from one source to
another more efficiently. I will be able to convey my message and opinion with my team
mates in order to achieve organizational goal. The ideas and thoughts to meet the customer
expectation can be satisfied when I have specialized skill to express myself to other through
my words and movements .
 Leadership Skill: This skill helps to coordinate the activities with the team. The leadership
quality will help e to direct and assist the employees at professional level. It ensure unity and
cooperation with the team mates to manage the task to accomplish them to time to meet
deadlines (Amoah and Bikitsha, 2021). The leadership skills are required to me so that I am
able to make plans and strategies to lead my team towards achievement of desired goals.
The leader is responsible to address the issue and resolve them for effective business
activities. As an assistant event manager, the work requires to carry with the team and
authorized different task to different person which will require proper direction of team
manager.
These weaknesses can be overcome with the help of outlining the professional development
skill and have to commit myself to meet the timelines for the goal. It helps to identify the
weaknesses and support me to indulge in activities and task, contributes me in overcome those
barriers. I need to set long term and short term goals for my career growth and these skills me in
personal and professional growth as well. It will require long term commitment and hard work to
remove hindrance that reduce my efforts towards my work. Therefore. The continuous practice
and learning helps me to develop those set of knowledge and skills.
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CONCLUSION
From this above report, it has been concluded that career action plan is a road map that
motivates the person to set their goals and accomplish those work on time. It is an effective tool
that promotes personality growth both at personal and professional level. The skills and
knowledge is the demand of the today’s world and it can be achieved through setting up of short
term and long term goals of the career plan. The outlines of plans guides an individual towards
its achievement. It promotes innovative ideas and thoughts to develop new things, experiences
and learning to explore particular field. All the skills like communication skill, presentation skill,
decision making skills etc. are necessary to advance career and overcome all the barriers of life.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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technology in Jianghan Plain, China: An examination of the theory of planned
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Ladd, D.L. and Reid, J.M., 2020. Transitioning between Libraries: It is All About Skills and
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Crawford, A., Weber, M.R. and Lee, J., 2020. Using a grounded theory approach to understand
the process of teaching soft skills on the job so to apply it in the hospitality classroom. Journal of
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Amoah, C. and Bikitsha, L., 2021. Emerging contractor's management and planning skills to
overcome business risk factors. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation.
Massingham, P. R., 2018. Measuring the impact of knowledge loss: a longitudinal study. Journal
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Kanders, K. and Et. Al., 2020. Mapping career causeways: supporting workers at risk.
Sardi, A., Garengo, P. and Bititci, U., 2018. Measurement and management of competences by
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Appendix 1: Relevant job advertisement
Appendices 2: CV
Kristen Smith
XXX
United Kingdom
Contact No. XXXXXX
Email Id: [e-mail]
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Profile
Performance -driven and dedicated Assistant Event Coordinator adept at managing various
corporate events , design budgets and recruit new personnel.
Work Experience
 Assisted in the organization and management of various companies events.
 Conducted pre -event and meetings , reports.
 Awarded employee of the month for increasing client satisfaction with provided services.
Skills
 Communication Skill
 Organizing skill
Personal Details
Name: Kristen Smith
Date of Birth: XX-XX-XXXX
Gender: Male
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