Individual Portfolio: Skills Audit, Development Plan, and Reports

This individual portfolio showcases a student's work-based learning experience, focusing on self-assessment and career preparation for a Human Resource (HR) role. The portfolio begins with a skills audit, utilizing a SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. A personal development plan is then created, outlining strategies to improve leadership, decision-making, and information technology skills. The report further includes reflections on progress in planning for the HR role, identifying required skills such as communication and decision-making, as well as the knowledge needed in personnel management and administration. The student documents their learning progress through reflective logs and journals, and provides a short report detailing their plans for a future career as an HR advisor. The conclusion highlights the importance of work-based learning in professional development and the use of the SWOT analysis for creating a personal development plan.

Individual Portfolio of
Evidence

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Undertake and document a skills audits and from this produce a personal development plan,..3
Produce a short report that reflects on your progress in planning for and undertaking the work
role,..............................................................................................................................................6
Produce a short report that identifies the skills and knowledge you require for the work role,. 6
Evaluate and document your learning and progress with reflective logs and journals,..............7
Include a short report for your planning for a future career role................................................8
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Work based learning is strategy which is educational in nature which provides the
students with the real life experience regarding work where it can apply technical and academic
skills in order to develop its employability. It is commonly a series of the educational courses
which is integrated in the university or the school curriculum with a workplace in order to create
the different learning paradigm (Geden, 2020). It encompasses the diversity of the formal,
informal and the non formal arrangements. This report shall cover a document of the skill audit
with personal development plan. Further it will cover the skills and knowledge of the work role
with the short reflective on its progress.
TASK
Undertake and document a skills audits and from this produce a personal development plan,
In order to document a skill audit, it is necessary to have the personal SWOT analysis. It
is a tool which helps in identifying the strength, weakness, opportunity and threat so that with the
help of this skill audit can be done and a personal development can be produced (Nation, 2016).
Personal SWOT analysis
Strength Weakness
 I have a strength of communication
skill which helps in delivering my
information to the people effectively.
 I also possess the skill of time
management which helps me in
completing my activity or task well on
time.
 I do not have the skill of leadership
which is the biggest hurdle in my
professional development as I am
unable to lead the team or the group
forward effectively.
 Another skill in which I lack is the
decision making skill. I tend to become
confuse while taking any decision
which results in delayed or ineffective
decisions.
Opportunity Threat
 I may acquire the opportunity to
develop the problem solving skill so
 Nowadays, the competition have
increased and every person has become

that I can easily solve the queries and
conflicts.
 I have the opportunity to possess the
skill of Information and technology. As
this generation is a master of
technology so this skill will help in
completing the work in easy and
effective manner.
career oriented which is my biggest
threat.
 Another threat is the market condition
which changes every now and then. I
have a threat to become dynamic in this
condition.
Skill audit
Skills Poor Average Good Excellent
Communication
skills
*
Decision making
skills
*
Time
management
skills
*
Information and
technology skills
*
Problem solving
skills
*
Leadership skills *
Personal development plan

Skills Current
proficien
cy
Target
proficienc
y
Development
Opportunities
Judging
criteria
Time frame
Leadership
skills
Low High I can acquire this skill
by undergoing some
training sessions
which will help in
building my
leadership qualities.
Further I can read
some good books and
journals from the
expert writers which
will help in learning
the tricks and
techniques.
My peers and
family family
wuill judge my
progress and
their feedbacks
will help in
marking my
progress
towards the
development
of this skill.
Further the
mentor of my
training
session further
judge my
development.
3 months
Decision
making
skills
Low High I will learn this skill
by practising my
ability on the
hypothetical situation
so that I can become
efficient in it. Further
by reading articles
will help me.
My judging
criteria shall
be my
colleagues and
peers who will
monitor my
progress.
3-6 months
Information
and
Average High I will possess this skill
by undergoing
Feedbacks
from my
6- 9 months

Skills Current
proficien
cy
Target
proficienc
y
Development
Opportunities
Judging
criteria
Time frame
technology
skills
training sessions
which will guide me
in acquiring this skill.
Further I will also
undertake diploma
courses for learning
this skill.
superiors and
mentors will
judge my
progress. And
also my result
from the
diploma
course will
judge my
learning.
Produce a short report that reflects on your progress in planning for and undertaking the work
role,
I have been planning to undertake the job role of Human Resource Manager. This work
role requires a lot of patience and ability of management. I have the skills of communication and
time management which helps me in managing my work effectively and further it helps me in
communicating my words to the other. As I have been lacked in the skills of leadership and
decision making, it will be a hurdle in effectively undertaking this job role in my future career.
However, I have been planning to undergo the training session for acquiring this skill so that I
can enhance my productivity and get prepared for this role. Additionally I have the opportunity
to acquire the information and technology skill by undergoing a diploma course so that I can
learn this knowledge. Another opportunity which lies is problem solving skill which is very
necessary as a HR manager as the role of conflict solving is common for the HR. this skill is
required in everyday life of career which is essential to be developed. Moreover these skills in
which I lack and which I have acquired will help me in my work role but the threat which exist
in market may make me loose the work role which is competition and dynamic market. These

will become a roadblock in my career so I have to acquire these skills and become efficient so
that I can learn and enhance my productivity to undertake the work role.
Produce a short report that identifies the skills and knowledge you require for the work role,
As the work role chosen is HR manager which is a prominent role in every industry or
the organisation. An HR manager has the most important function to perform which is to recruit
the efficient, skilled and talent workforce so that the company can achieve its goals and
objectives. The skills and knowledge required for the job role of HR manager is as follows-
Skills
 Communication skills- As a HR manager, I have to communicate clearly both orally and
in written form with its workforce. The process of recruitment requires a lot of
communication as it entails series of interview. So the HR manager must possess this
skills so that it can deliver its information effectively. Further HR also has to
communicate the instructions so that work can be done as per the plan and effective
interactions motivate and increase the morale of the staff (Peters, 2019). Decision making skill- An HR manager has to take many decisions to which the most
initial one is involved in recruitment process. It is important to recognise the good talent
which requires experience, strategy and ability to take decision on the basis of the
intuition or experience. So I must have the decision making skill to become efficient HR
manager (Qin, Xu and Guo 2016).
Knowledge
 Personnel and Human resource- This includes that the HR must have the knowledge to
recruit and select the efficient staff. It must have the knowledge of training, development,
motivation and many others so that it can retain the skilled staff and bring out the best
from them (Sobel and Finiasz 2020).
 Administration and management- It includes the knowledge of principles of
management so that the resources can be allotted at the right place. It also involves
leadership technique in order to coordinate and manage the employees so that goals and
objectives of the company can be achieved (Shin and Bryant 2017)
Evaluate and document your learning and progress with reflective logs and journals,
Reflective log

Session goal:
To learn the decision making skills.
To possess the knowledge of administration and management.
To acquire personnel and Human resource knowledge.
What I feel I have achieved:
I have learned the techniques of taking the decisions effectively.
I managed to learn the management principles which will help in increasing my productivity.
I have learned the leadership technique and learned the theories of leadership which can help in
acquiring the abilities and qualities of the good leader.
What I feel I have developed:
I have developed the knowledge of good leader and attained the knowledge of training and
development.
I have improved my decision making skills.
What I wish to keep improving at:
I will going to improve my administration skills which involves leadership technique so that I
can become a good leader.
I need to be better at training and development skills so that I can bring out the best from my
employees.
How I will develop that:
I will continue practice my decision making skill on hypothetical situations so that I can
effectively take good decisions.
I must remember the principles of management by continuously revising it.
Include a short report for your planning for a future career role
For acquiring my future career role, that is, HR Advisor, I must acquire the requisite
skills and knowledge so that I can become eligible for that role. I must possess the skill of
decision making and problem solving so that I can become efficient in it. Further I need to

improve the knowledge of administration and management so that I can apply the principles of
management in my daily working in order to manage the staff effectively. Moreover, I need to
acquire the personnel and human resource so that I can learn the technique of leadership which is
essential for leading and managing the employees (Xiao and et. al., 2016).
In order to acquire this skill and knowledge, a continuous personal development plan is
discussed below which will help in developing the lacked skill and knowledge.
Skills Current
proficien
cy
Target
proficienc
y
Development
Opportunities
Judging
criteria
Time frame
Decision
making
skills
Average High I am developing this
skill by undergoing
the training session to
understand the
techniques of good
decision making.
further I am practising
this skill on
hypothetical situation
so that I can become
an efficient HR
Advisor.
The judging
criteria is that
my progress is
checked by my
peers,
superiors and
colleagues
who re
evaluating my
journey to this
development.
The time I am
taking for
developing this
skill is 3 months.
Administrati
on and
management
knowledge
Average High I am learning this
knowledge by
undergoing the course
of management
through which I am
learning principles of
management. I am
also reading articles of
I progress is
judged by my
superiors and
subordinates
who are giving
me feedbacks
on my
progress.
I will take 6- 9
months for
developing this
knowledge.

Skills Current
proficien
cy
Target
proficienc
y
Development
Opportunities
Judging
criteria
Time frame
experts writers so that
I can learn from their
experience.
Further the
result of my
course will
judge my
development
of this
knowledge.
Personnel
and human
resource
knowledge
Low High I am developing this
knowledge by reading
books and journals of
expert authors which
are guiding me.
Further I am
undergoing training to
learn the recruitment
and selection process
and techniques so that
I can effectively
undertake my role.
My progress
shall be judged
by my
superiors and
colleagues
who are giving
me regular
feedbacks for
my progress.
I am taking 6
months to learn
this knowledge.
CONCLUSION
It is concluded from this report that work based learning is an essential part of
professional and personal development. In order to document a skill audit, SWOT analysis is
done so that a personal development plan can be produced (Zheng et. al., 2020). Further for the
role of HR manager, communication and decision making skills are important so that it can
perform its roles and responsibilities effectively and knowledge of administration and

management and personnel and human resource knowledge is also essential. Moreover a
continuous personal development plan will help in planning the future career role.

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