BMS502 Personal Pitch: Skills Audit & Career Opportunities Analysis

This presentation provides a personal pitch, analyzing key competencies, career prospects, and progression opportunities. It begins with an introduction to employment skills and their importance. A personal audit is conducted using a SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Career prospects are discussed in short, medium, and long-term goals, focusing on becoming a marketing manager. The presentation also covers potential progression activities and associated barriers, such as decision-making problems and commitment anxiety. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of skill audits for self-improvement and finding suitable job profiles. References to various academic sources are included to support the analysis. Desklib provides this and many other solved assignments to help students.

PERSONAL PITCH

TABLE OF CONTENT
 INTRODUCTION
 PERSONAL AUDIT
 PROGRESSION OPPORTUNITIES
 CONCLUSION
 REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION
 Employment skills are transferable skills that
are needs by individuals in order to get good
employment opportunity in future
circumstances.
 It includes soft skills that helps a person in
completing the task and responsibilities in
most effective manner, make use of its
existing potential knowledge and capabilities
to solve particular problem.

PERSONAL AUDIT
 Personal audit helps in analysing individuals existing capabilities, key skills and knowledge that
can be useful for the organisation in achievements of its end goals.
 Through conducting personal audit, I will able to identified my key strength, weakness, attribute
and attitude that will contribute in imminent career and future progression into graduate
employment.
 Therefore, the SWOT analysis of myself can be illustrated in detailed as follows:

STRENGTH
1. Good communication and interpersonal
skills
2. Technological skills
3. Positive attitude and strong personality
4. Good decision making skills
5. Versatile skills

WEAKNESSES
1. Less ability to work in team
2. Lack creative and innovative skills
3. Time management skills
4. Anger

OPPORTUNITY
1. Become a manager
2. I can be selected from pool
of candidate

THREAT
1. Threat of increasing competition
2. Changing competitive environment
3. No job experience

CAREER PROSPECTS
 This states about the probability or chance to get success in
future professional career through putting specific efforts
and energy.
 After conducting SWOT analysis, I will try to find out
alternative method that I could make use to enhance my
growth in future professional career.
 As per my key competency, I have capability to become
marketing manager in any reputable and international
organisation.

SHORT TERM GOALS
1. Creative and innovative skills
2. Time management skills
3. Team working

MEDIUM TERM GOALS
These are career prospect that can be achieved in medium time frame that is within a time frame of 1
year. In order to achieve my medium term goals, I have decided some important key action that can
be taken which are explained as:
1. Control over my emotions
2. Part time or full time employment
3. Post-graduations or MBA in marketing

LONG TERM GOALS
1. Gain experience in marketing
field
2. Get promotion
3. To start up my own business

PROGRESSION OPPORTUNITIES
 Career progression opportunities are process of climbing ladder
during the working life or moving forward through find new
employment opportunities, task, challenge or getting best out of the
career.
 So, it is just not related to getting better job but also include rise in
pay, additional responsibilities and other associated growth.

CONT.
 Seek internship opportunities
 Growing my existing skill and knowledge
 Work study program
 Finding employment or job

ASSOCIATED PROGRESSION BARRIERS
1. Decision making problem
2. Commitment anxiety

CONCLUSION
• From the above presentation, there are range of things that can be concluded such as skill or
personal audit is one of the best method that helps me in identifying my strength, weakness so
that I can take steps to improve the same.
• Likewise, through knowing my strength in skills, attribute and attitude, along with my interest
area, I would able to find appropriate job profile in reputable organization.

REFERENCES
 Bhambri, S., Employability Skills: Ticket to Employment.
 Davies, A., Beasley, N. and Hamilton, D., Multidisciplinary team working.
 Ha, N. H and et.al., 2019. ENHANCING STUDENTS’SOFT SKILLS BY IMPLEMENTING CDIO-BASED INTEGRATION
TEACHING MODE. In The 15th International CDIO Conference (p. 569).
 Hass-Jacobus, B., 2021. Assignment: Learning the Scientific Method by Analyzing Study Skills Research.
 Mitra, S., 2019. Learners’ perception of their own employability skills.
 Perumal, N.L. and Usharani, P. M., 2017. Employability skills as an integral part of the ESL curriculum. Language in India, 17(1).
pp.164-189.
 Rimmer, A., 2019. How do I improve my time management skills?. BMJ, 366.
 Rodrigues, A .L and et.al., 2021. Technological Skills in Higher Education—Different Needs and Different Uses. Education
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