People & Careers Portfolio: Skills, Experience, and Reflection

This document presents a comprehensive career portfolio designed to showcase skills, experiences, and reflections relevant to a marketing assistant role. It includes a cover letter expressing interest in a position at a digital production agency, highlighting communication, teamwork, and ICT skills. The CV details the candidate's education, experience, and interests, emphasizing skills in marketing, strategy development, and project management. The application form provides insights into the candidate's problem-solving abilities, teamwork skills, and approach to managing priorities. The portfolio concludes with a reflection on business readiness using Gibb's model, assessing the candidate's strengths and areas for improvement in a professional context. Desklib offers a wealth of similar resources and solved assignments for students seeking to enhance their understanding of career development and professional skills.

MANAGING PEOPLE AND
CAREERS PORTFOLIO

Table of Contents
PART A......................................................................................................................................................3
Cover letter..............................................................................................................................................3
PART B......................................................................................................................................................4
CV...........................................................................................................................................................4
PART C......................................................................................................................................................5
Application form.....................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES........................................................................................................................................10

PART A
Cover letter
Date- August 5, 2021
Jane Smith
221 Business Rd, CA 5421
Dear Mr. Smith
I am interested in marketing assistant position at leading creative digital production agency, as
advertised on website and other job marketing tools. I completed my higher education in field
of marketing and have 3 years’ experience as marketing team member. I am capable to
communicate with other people who seek to gather information about what products we have
and offer to them by considering their needs and expectations.I have good experience about
team work and group presentation, which made me capable to represent my ideas and creative
thoughts in front of key stakeholders or board of members, who tend to obtain profitability and
grow their venture in effective manner. Along with this one, I also had better experience
regarding marketing laws, and ICTs skill that me able to achieve strategic aims and objectives
of your organization. I am enable to develop effective plans and tactics in regard to promote
venture all over the world. I am able to build effective relationship with press and customers
that provide benefits in the context of organizational growth and success. As marketing
assistant, I will be able to conduct market research and effectively analyze key market trends
that benefited company and allow it to grow continually.I had gained knowledge about
working under budget and conducting activities accordingly, during my academic career. My
interpersonal skills made me effective and productive in term of accomplishing work on time
and achieving set aims in excellent way, without doing any major mistakes that put negative
impact on business performance. By using time management competence, I will complete my
task and develop effective tactics to advertise current as well as further offerings to your
brand.
I am confident that my skills, knowledge and experiences will benefit me and your
organization in varied terms.I assure you to comply and follow all the rules and regulations
that require to work as marketing assistant in your firm. Along with this cover letter I had also
attached my CV, which help you to know more about what I have and what I expect to achieve

in the future, if you provide chance to me to work with you. I have also enclosed my resume
and I look forward to meet with you and make discussion about further information in more
detail.
Sincerely,
John Brandson
PART B
CV
Name-John Brandson
Address-B, 252, high street
Contact number-0246587497
[e-mail]
Skills and knowledge-
 I have effective communication and team working skills.
 I had group work and presentation skill.
 I have effective decision making skill.
 I am able to use advance technologies and work with each.
 I have ICTs and strategy development competencies.
 I have better comprehending about managing marketing budget and assignment
timelines.
 I have interpersonal competencies in collaboration and coordination at workplace.
 I have time and project management skills.
Education-
 MBA in marketing
 ITI certificate
Experience-
 3 years’ experience
Interests-
 I prefer to listen music and ready interesting novels
 I am interested in bike riding, swimming, and horse riding

PART C
Application form
1. Why do you want to work for us?
I want to work with you because I am able to achieve your aims and objectives by using all my
skills. I heard a lot of positive things about your company, which drive my attention towards take
a chance to perform with such an amazing brand. I feel that I am capable to contribute in
organizational success by developing unexpected and suitable plans through which you will be
popular worldwide. I am completely ready to move ahead in my life and feel the same to take
more unpredicted professional benefits as well as accountabilities to shape my career in a better
manner. When I got to known about opportunity that you gave to everyone, I wanted to apply
right and legal away. I see this chance as a source to contribute to a forwards, exciting and fast
moving organization and I really feel I can do so with my team members. I also felt that my
skills and knowledge as well as experience are especially well-suited to the position of marketing
assistant.I also believe that I have type of competencies and understanding to succeed in this job
role and at firm because of having 3 years of experience. I will help organization succeed and
progress even better than its key rivals.
2. Tell us about a time you worked in a group to achieve an objective (what did you do
and what was the outcome?)
Group work is one of those skills that I had and capable to use any time. While dealing with
critical situations like work load, I prefer to group in a team which made me able and other as
well to achieve strategic goals and objectives of digital production agency, which have potential
client base and excellent teams of players who work to make brand competitive forever in
business market. I am enable to do group work activity and make discussion about what roles
and responsibilities can individual candidate effort to fulfil in productive manner, which made
them able to reach at desire outcomes. While performing as marketing assistant, I will give
appropriate and suitable suggestions to other people that already work within brand from longer
time under marketing department with having big accountabilities, for which they work really
hard. By conducting above activities I will obtain expected outcomes in term of generating web
traffic in bulk, achieving set aims, and increasing profitability.Along with above result, I will get

more in unpredicted way, through which organization benefited for long time. I make group
discussion and engage other to share their points and point of views with everyone, which play
vital role in business success.
3. Tell us about a time when you identified a new approach to solve a problem. (what
did you do and what was the outcome?)
It is so important to find out new method and technique regarding particular activity or
project, as it enable individual to get desire result. I want to share my experience that I had
gained during time when I determined a new approach to solve an issue. Lack of effective
communication and misunderstanding among people in my previous job is an example of issue
that I had faced earlier and effort to solve it, by communicating with individual worker and
taking initiative to determine key reason behind this situation. I also effortto understand the need
and expectation of team member and then direct them to work together. I attempt to arrange
group meeting, where individual employee coordinate and interact with each other and know
everyone appropriately, as it make group working activity easier for them. Furthermore, during
this circumstance I identified new and effective approach that is group activities at workplace
that gather all together at one place and give chance to communicate, collaborate and coordinate.
This method is quite effective as it enables organizer to solve specific issue and obtain positive
outcomes on time without any negative affects.
4. Tell us about a time when you had to manage a number of different priorities and
complete a number of tasks in a short amount of time (what did you do and what was the
outcome?)
At work load time I had to manage a number of varied priorities such as team work,
performance monitoring, measuring marketing strategies and plans along with developing each.
All these things I had done in short amount of time, which is quite tough for me to do so, but still
I had handled this situation and obtain positive outcomes in term of achieving business objective
and aim. During this circumstance, I work hard and focus on main priorities of organization,
which management effort to fulfil in excellent and systematic manner. Work load is the most
challenging situation for every person, as it drives their attention towards formation of strategic
approaches, techniques and plans through which they can achieve set aim without any mistake. I
face this situation and manage my as well as other work, in appropriate way that make work load

easy to manage for everyone at work area in the company. I had managed process of forming a
tactic related to products marketing excellently and in productive manner. I had also encouraged
individual candidate to take part in group meeting and share their innovative and creative ideas,
which we all implement to reach at expect results in short amount of period.
5. Tell us about a project you worked on that required you to persuade others to your
point of view (what did you do and what was the outcome?)
I want to tell about a particular project and that is development of marketing plan, for
which I worked on and persuade others my point of view clearly, which enable them as well to
take part in entire process and contribute to make it successful. As I am accountable to
accomplish this project, so I had work actually hard to add key points and elements within this
plan to make it beneficial and profitable for the company and its stakeholders who also take
interest in success of brand and its continuous progress in the marketing world. This project is
really quite important for me as I am highly responsible to obtain positive and desire results
through it. I had worked on that and also persuade others to give own opinion about my point of
views, ideas and plan, which I developed for sake of organizational benefits. Their suggestions
and perspective are so essential for me to continue my work and gain competitive edge in the
context of brand.
REFLECTION ON BUSINESS READINESS
GIBB’S MODEL:
Description
I being the marketing assistant of organization was able to manage scales of market
which helps to function and analyze the market situation on large scale (Kaptay, 2017). This also
helped me in knowing what my roles and responsibilities were which further helped me in
developing them and enhancing my skills so that I can deliver my best performance by being
marketing assistant. I being marketing assistant was able to identify my key strengths and areas
in which I am strong enough in marketing segment.
Feelings
I felt very good on professionally being the marketing assistant as this has also helped in
increasing my confidence and has motivated me to know more about my roles and

responsibilities which I delivered to the organization (Adeani and et.al., 2020). I also felt
encouraged in delivering my part of knowledge by being the marketing assistant and along with
this I also learned many things which were new to me in my performing my work more
effectively and efficiently. Therefore, being marketing assistant helped me learn many things.
Evaluation
The good thing about being the marketing assistant was that I got to learn many new
ways of performing the role which will also further help me in my professional career. And in
this process, I also was able to analyze my key strengths and weaknesses on large scale while
delivering my duties to work (Middleton, 2017). The bad thing about being marketing assistant
was that it became very tough for me to work on practical grounds and analyze the financial
scales in the working.
Analysis
The situation in which I was being placed as marketing assistant was that I was able to
analyze the situations and the strategies which were being framed for performing the best of how
effective and efficient I am able to deliver my best performance in organization by being the
marketing assistant (Wain, 2017). This also helped in analyzing and evaluating what can be the
situations for Global world leading creative digital production agency is helpful for me in my
professional career and at marketing assistant position.
Conclusion
I being marketing assistant learned many things which helped me in building up my
position in an effective and significant manner (Zadorozhna and et.al., 2018). Also, I conclude
this by saying that there were many aspects in marketing segment which I could have explored
but this helped me analyze and evaluated aspect that what can be other factors which could have
let me be best and deliver my performance on scale of excellence overall. Along with this, I
being marketing assistant helped me in my professional career.
Action plan

The changes which I expect in the future should be on scale of knowing what is the base
through which all the effective and efficient processes can be taken into accordance and so that
this helps me in knowing what are the necessary changes which I can take for benefit of knowing
that my performance can be improved and my position can be changed from being a marketing
assistant to some higher position (Wareing, 2017). Thus, this is future of how I seek my best.

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