HR Career Development: Personal Analysis, SWOT, and Action Planning

This report provides a career viewpoint with a focus on personal analysis and career action planning for an HR profession. It includes a personal SWOT analysis identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, along with a skills gap analysis. The report outlines a career action plan to develop necessary skills such as communication, leadership, decision-making, problem-solving, and interpersonal abilities. The ultimate goal is to enhance the individual's capabilities and prepare them for a successful career in human resources. Desklib provides study tools and solved assignments to help students with similar career planning tasks.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Personal Analysis: .......................................................................................................................3
Personal SWOT analysis:............................................................................................................4
Skills gap analysis:.......................................................................................................................5
Career Action Plan:......................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
APPENDIX....................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Career is considered as the jobs or experiences and sessions of training that helps an
individual in advance for paying or having responsibility. Career view point is highly important
for the students as it helps in learning about the various professions that suit well their
competencies as well as experiences along with their unique career choices such as likes and
dislikes, interests, skills as well as values (Afanasiev and et.al, 2018). It helps in identifying my
strengths and weaknesses along with the opportunities and threats. It also facilitates me in
recognising my skills to stay competitive for specific job role. Within this report, the chosen job
role is HR profession as a career as it is a perfect platform to expand my career in this corporate
world through knowledge as well as capabilities. Personal analysis is included within the
portfolio that describe the strengths and weaknesses. Furthermore, career action plan is also
going to be discussed along with skills and knowledge that are to be required for future
development of an individual.
MAIN BODY
Personal Analysis:
Within the existing scenario, the profession of HR is functioning as there are many
colleges or universities and institutions that are providing different types of related courses. In
this present study, an individual is intense capable to increase its skills, abilities and knowledge
that facilitates it in meeting their personal goals in a successful way (White, 2019). As per my
knowledge within the current field, I recognise that profession of HR can give me various
opportunities that would provide assistance to me in making my successful future. Because of
my interest in this field, I am able to make a plan for performing a role of HR as I am very
passionate about this role and I always consider it as my dream. I completed my graduation in
business management and within this course I had learnt what kinds of skills and knowledge are
required in this field for monitoring and managing human resources effectively within an
organisation (Hooley, Sultana and Thomsen, 2017). I also analysed that this field requires a lot
of skills such as leadership, analytical and critical thinking, problem-solving, managerial, active
listening and many more.
While participating the role of HR in many plays of school and university, I observed that
my communication and leading skills was not good. I also noticed that I was lacking in the skills

of problem-solving and teamwork. For enhancing these skills within me, I started interacting
with other people because these skills are highly required not only in HR but also in many other
fields. Effective communication skills help in maintaining connections with other people as it is
very essential to improve this skill (Rick, 2017). These type of skills would help me in easily
conveying or transferring the information to other people in a better way. Hence, I highly worked
upon this type of skill and made improvements within me through this skill. In context to
decision-making skills, I recognised that at the position of HR, I have to take better business
decisions concerned with the growth of the organisation. To improve this type of skill, I started
to take my own decisions within my life that would help me in my performing the role of HR
and also provide assistance to the human resources of the organisation in giving directions to
achieve the set objectives and targets of the business (Tsai, Hsu and Yang, 2017). I also
identified some weaknesses within me that created problems for me in making my career
successful. So, I had also worked upon these skills that also facilitate in removing hazards related
to this skill in my future career.
Personal SWOT analysis:
Strengths
 I have good communication skills that
would help me in doing effective
communication within the business.
 I am able to take my own decisions that
would help me in taking quick and
correct decisions in organisation when I
will become an HR
 I have good time management skills
that would facilitate me in managing
the business activities within a specific
period of time.
Weaknesses
 I am weak at leadership skills and for
achieving this type of skill, I have to
practice on more projects and develop
situational awareness within me.
 My another weakness is that I have less
initiative skills in information
technology so I require directions for
doing the task.
 I am not good at doing the task in a
team or I can say that my teamwork
skills are not good.
Opportunities
 It is an opportunity for me to develop
information technology skills within
Threats
 It can be a threat for me if the
competition within the HR department

me as it would help me in my
profession of HR. It will also help me
in gaining experience in IT sector also.
 This is an another opportunity for me to
enhance my knowledge in the field of
HR so that it would help me in
performing my role in an effective
manner.
would increase in future as I will be
having less experience and knowledge
to deal with business operations in
comparison to an experienced
personnel.
 Changing technologies can also be an
another threat for me. As with the
passage of time, it is sure that there will
be technological advancements in near
future. But my less technical skills can
become a threat for me in future period.
Skills gap analysis:
An analysis which is used to determine the gap or difference between the currant and
desired state of the human resources within the company. This analysis helps in identifying
which knowledge and skills are lacking among the workforce of the organisation. There is a
personal skill gap analysis which is described as under:
Skills Personal audit questionnaire 1 2 3 4 5
Communication
skills
Good in communication and persuading
candidates. It helps in capturing more target-
base.
*
Training and
development
skills
Good in providing knowledge to human
resources. It helps them in overcoming from
the challenges.
*
Recruiting skills Good in selecting right candidate for the right
job which results in effective recruitment
practices.
*
Organisational
analysis
Good in analysing the requirements of human
resources. It facilitates in providing
motivation to employees.
*

Analytical and
critical thinking
Good in critical thinking and making analysis
of it. It helps in making better business
decisions.
*
Leadership
skills
Good in guiding, instructing and motivating
the employees. It helps in increasing the
effectiveness of organisation as a whole.
*
Career Action Plan:
Skills Action plan Resources Time
Communication skills For becoming an
effective HR in future,
it is important for me
to improve my
communication skills.
Listening properly
what other person is
saying, writing notes,
by framing sentences
in mind, speaking
with my friends and
family members can
help me to improve
my communication
skill.
Resources that I
needed in order to
improve my
communication skill is
books, online courses,
mails and messages,
group discussion and
seminars.
3 Months
Leadership skills By taking many
responsibilities can
help me to develop
my leadership skills.
Taking initial in a
project, handling
The resource which is
required in order to
develop my leadership
skill is playing games,
online training
resources, mentors,
2 months

complex project,
inspiring and
motivating others can
help me to develop
my leadership skill.
advisors and coaches
Decision making
skills
By making plan
before conducting
task, taking
commands, asking
from expert, setting
deadlines, trying
experiments and more
learning can help me
to improve my
decision making
skills. This will help
me to become an
effective and good HR
for an organisation.
Proper time
management with
calenders, playing
puzzle games,
teamwork with group,
emotional intelligence
and learning creativity
in performing task is
needed for me to
develop my decision
making skills.
1 month
Problem solving skills Identifying problems,
defining the elements
of the problem,
examining possible
solution and act on
resolving the problem
can help me for the
development of
problem solving skills
which is most
important for an HR.
Proper research
through primary and
secondary sources,
good communication
with managers and
employees, actively
listening from people
who involved in a
group, team building
and decision making
abilities can help me
6 weeks

develop my problem
solving skills.
Interpersonal skills Establishing my goals,
recognize with other
expertise, actively
listening and by
staying positive help
me to develop my
interpersonal skill.
Patience to listen
others, teamwork
exercises, taking
responsibility of
project, motivation
skill and leadership
skill help me to
develop my
interpersonal skills
which is needed in HR
of the organisation.
2 months
CONCLUSION
From the above mentioned report, it is concluded that it is important for an individual to
develop and improve their skills and abilities which is very helpful in their career as well as in
their job also. Personnel who wants a career throughout its life always thinks about the goals that
are designed for long-term. Career action plan is used in order to identify individuals career goals
and describes the method which help it for achieving them in the most effective manner. Various
types of skills can be developed in order to make an individual an effective leader for the future
such as communication skills, decision making skills, problem solving skills, interpersonal skill
and leadership skills can help an individual to make its career most effective in order to do future
practices.

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APPENDIX
CURRICULUM VITAE (CV)

Human Resource (HR)Manager
Contact Details:
Name:
Contact No.:
E-mail ID :
Career Goals:
Work Experience:
Qualifications:
Achievements:
Skills:
Hobbies and interests:
Reference: