Career Viewpoint: Personal Analysis, Action Plan, Skills, and Goals

This report provides a comprehensive overview of a student's perspective on their HR career, detailing personal analysis, career action plans, and skill development. The report begins with an introduction highlighting the importance of job opportunities and the relationship between careers and jobs, emphasizing the need for adaptability, communication, and organizational skills in the HR field. The main body includes a personal analysis, identifying the student's strengths (communication and time management) and weaknesses (difficulty adjusting), along with opportunities and threats in the field. A detailed career action plan is presented, outlining steps and strategies to achieve the goal of becoming an HR manager, including improving adaptability, administrative skills, and organizational skills. The report concludes by summarizing the key learnings and experiences gained from the project, emphasizing the development of essential skills and the formulation of a strategic plan to overcome weaknesses and achieve career goals. The report also includes references and an appendix with a CV and a LinkedIn profile.

Career Viewpoint

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Personal Analysis.........................................................................................................................1
Career action plan........................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Job opportunity provides employment and more opportunities for people in the future. It
helps in learning and increasing knowledge regularly. As knowledge can be enhanced by
changing the job as it provide information related to different fields. Different jobs are available
in the market that enhances more opportunities to the people (Amankwaa and Anku-Tsede,
2015). If person is having good job then it has more opportunities to grow in future course of
action. Career and job opportunities are related to each other as career is depended on the job that
will help in increasing growth of an individual. As different skills are required for the position in
different sector. Adaptability skills is necessary for accepting changes in the organization.
Communication skill is necessary in Human resource field as it have to interact with the people
at the time of interview. Organizational skills helps in taking decision, solving problem that is
essential in handling different situation in the company. In this study I have gained knowledge
about the recruitment, training and development and various HR activities in the company.
This report covered personal analysis, career action plan, career viewpoint and the linked
In profile of human resource.
MAIN BODY
Personal Analysis
Personal analysis is the phase that enhances through training and development of an
individual (Parks-Leduc, Feldman and Bardi, 2015). It is done to identify the strength, weakness,
opportunities and threats of a person.
My current skills include adaptability, communication, organizational, administrative and
time management skill. All these skills are very necessary for me as a HR. I have developed my
adaptability skills by accepting the changes in the organization. As, it is essential to build an
adaptability that helps in enhancing growth of an individual. I have also developed
communication skill by interacting with employees and exchanging ideas with them. I think my
organizational skills is also developed as I am able to take decision and solving problem in the
company. With this my administrative skill is also improved I am able to manage and control
people in the industry. I think these skills are necessary for me to do improvement in the field of
human resource. I have learned about how to manage time in the industry while doing
multitasking work at a particular point of time. I have gained many skills and knowledge in the
industry. I learned many new things as I have not known to them earlier so I get evolved more to
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gain more knowledge and skill. I have gained knowledge regarding different software that is
being used in the industry.
I am getting knowledge about different things that are related to human resource will be
beneficial for me in the future. As it is necessary in taking knowledge from each and every
segment that help in growth for future course of action. In addition to it most of the industries
are using HRIS system in the industry that will help in increasing knowledge about various
aspect of industry. However, before entering into HR field it is necessary to adapt many skills
that is required for personal development and gaining experience in that field. For improving my
skills training is being provided to me enhance skills as per the Hr field. All the skills and
knowledge helps in growing me for future. I have to focus on the areas that help me in personal
and professional development it is important for achieving success in industry (Verderame and
et. al., 2018). It is also important for development in professional area as it helps in gaining
knowledge related to corporate world that how industries are working in the market.
Strength
As my communication skill is good I feel comfortable to interact with people that helps
me in my Hr field as there it is important to interact with people. I am punctual as my time
management skill is also good that will help me in managing my all the work on given period of
time.
Weakness
My weakness is that I am not able to adjust with the people so it lacks in interacting
sometime with the people. I need time to adjust in the environment that is the weak point as
industry is growing so it necessary to adjust according to it.
Opportunities
As I am in Hr field there are so many opportunities for me to grow in future as learning
many things related to Hr.
Threats
There are competitors that are available in the market that replace me in my field by
gaining more knowledge and skill so it is the biggest threat for me in the industry.
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Career action plan
It is a plan that is to be prepared for the purpose of identify career goals and objectives
and the steps and strategies that is to be necessary for achieving goals in the development process
(Gupta, 2018). These plans helps in creating, measuring and achieving objective of an individual.
CAREER ACTION PLAN OF HUMAN RESOURCE
Career goal: Want to become HR manager
Possible steps and strategies
 Improving decision making skill
 Organizational and leadership skills is also have been improved for becoming successful
manager
 Building ability to use human resource management software
Action that needed to be
taken
Resources and ways to carry
out the action
Timeline
Improving adaptability skill  For improving this skill
I have to interact with
more and more people
so that I can adjust in
the environment easily.
 I also have to accept
the changes that is
done in the industry for
betterment of the
employee.
 For becoming Hr
manager I have to take
training and attending
seminars for gaining
more knowledge that
what does it do to
achieve success in the
1-2 months
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industry.
Administrative skills  I have to develop my
administrative skill for
managing and control
of people in the
industry. As it is
necessary to adopt
these skills for Hr
manager to do work
effectively and
efficiently.
 As I have to manage al
the things of the
industry so this skill is
to be developed in me
as I have to take
training and
development for
enhancement of this
skill.
2 months
Organizational skill  This skill plays an
important role for me
to become Hr manager
in the future.
 I have to develop
decision making skill
that what is right and
wrong for the industry
in achieving the goal of
it.
2-3 months
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 If any problem may
occurred in between
then I will have that
capability to solve the
problem of employees
and this I can achieved
through training and
seminars that is being
conducted in the
industry.
Employee engagement  For maintaining good
relation in the company
I have to build relations
between the employees
for that organizing
employee engagement
activities in the
company.
 I have to maintain the
decorum of the
company so that all the
employees will work
effectively
1 month
Evidence of success
 Able to take decision for the industry
 Feedback from the employees
 Gained Leadership skill and organizational skill
Evaluation Process
 Feedback form is being filled by all the employees of the company that will give
evidence that how evaluation is being done
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 360 degree feedback form will help in evaluating that I have improved my skills.
CONCLUSION
From the above project I have learnt many things as I have improved many skills through
this project and set a career action plan for future. As I have improved my communication,
organizational, time-management skills etc. By improving this skill I am able to achieve my
future career goal of becoming Hr manager. As it is necessary to improve the skills that is
essential for achieving the goal of becoming Hr manager. I gained knowledge about the different
Hr software that is being used in the industry. This helps me in managing the work of the
industry. I have earned lot of knowledge regarding the Hr processes that is being conducted in
the industry. As it is necessary to gain all the qualities and skills that is to be needed for
achieving the goal. I have also gain experience from this project about the function of Hr and
strategies that is being used in Hr department for maintaining employee engagement that
enhances easy work for future. Career action plan helps in developing the goal of career and also
helps in overcoming from the weakness that I have so that my goal can be achieved through it. I
have learnt about many things that is being used in the industry by Hr. This action plan can be
achieved by focusing on the weakness and try to overcome from these that will help in enhancing
the future. I have also gained knowledge that how this plan works and what I have to do become
Hr manager. As I have to follow the rules and regulation and must know about the benefits that
is being provided so that I will also apply them in the future. Overall experience is good in doing
this project that help in building growth of me.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journal
Amankwaa, A. and Anku-Tsede, O., 2015. Linking transformational leadership to employee
turnover: The moderating role of alternative job opportunity. International Journal of
Business Administration. 6(4). p.19.
Gupta, K., 2018. Dmit as a Career Guide: Case Study on Brainbow-a Dmit Solution Provider.
Parks-Leduc, L., Feldman, G. and Bardi, A., 2015. Personality traits and personal values: A
meta-analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Review. 19(1). pp.3-29.
Verderame, M.F and et. al., 2018. Point of View: Competency-based assessment for the training
of PhD students and early-career scientists. Elife.7. p.e34801.
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APPENDIX
CV
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGER
John Kelly
General manger- Human Resource
Core skills
Communication, adaptability, punctual
Qualification
B.com University of Cambridge 2006-2009
MBA University of Oxford 2011-2013
Key skills
Organizational development
Job Evaluation
Employee welfare
Certifications
Executive development program in Human Resource
Summer internship at Sainsbury
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LINKED IN PROFILE
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