Comprehensive Personal Development Portfolio for Career Growth

This personal development portfolio provides a comprehensive analysis of an individual's current reality, skills, and career progression options. It includes personal and professional feedback, a SWOT analysis, degree research, and a LinkedIn profile assessment. The portfolio explores various employability schemes, learning resources, digital libraries, and career hubs to identify potential paths forward. SMART objectives are defined to increase revenue, attain professional courses, and improve organizational efficiency. The portfolio also includes relevant resources and a checklist to ensure all aspects of career goals, current reality, and progression options are addressed. Desklib offers similar resources and solved assignments for students seeking assistance.

Personal Development
Portfolio

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section 2: Current Reality................................................................................................................3
Section 3: OPTIONS FOR PROGRESSION..................................................................................6
Source 7: MY Network Profile/Linkedin........................................................................................6

SECTION 2: CURRENT REALITY
SOURCE 3: ASK 5 PEOPLE SURVEYS - PERSONAL
Silviq considers sonal to be strong, the greatest achievement he thinks of sonal is family,
he considers sonal as kind, the thing he would like to change about her is to be more
calmer and the greatest strength is durable. Another person Tsarevna considers sonal to be
combative, the greatest achievement of sonal would be her family, the value that she
possess is being kind, the thing which should be changed is being more calmer and her
greatest strength would be her strongness. Florian describes sonal as strong, the keyskill
that she possess is hardwork, the thing that must be chaged is being more calm .
SUMMATION:
Personal Feedback Data:
Strong, family oriented, kind, durable and to be more calm. Other traits included would be
of combative, being kind and hardworking.
SOURCE 4: ASK 5 PEOPLE SURVEYS – PROFESSIONAL
From the professional surveys, sonal is considered as strong, the main skills which she
possess is hardwork, the trait which must be changed would be that she should be more
calm.
SUMMATION OF NUMERICAL COLLATED DATA:
Self-management Low self management
Team Working Low skills of team working
Business and Customer
Awareness Low awareness of business and
customers.
Communication and Literacy Better at the literacy and
communication
Application of Information
Technology
Good knowledge of application of
information technology

SUMMATION OF QUESTIONS 1-3:
Sonal is trustworthy, the main skills which she possess are team work, hardworking and
full of energy, the thing which she must work on is to wake up and arrive at the work early
and presses for the results.
SOURCE 5: SWOT ANALYSIS
Strengths Weaknesses
Interna
l
 Speak two languages
 Have good IT knowledge
 Driving License
 Have Chef Certificate
 Have a certificate in Food
Hygiene
 Not on professional level
English speaking
 Not big marketing Experience
 Need to develop confidence in
presentation skills
Opportunities Threats
Externa
l
 My current company have a
good opportunities in
communicate with different
people
 Brexit has made foreigner status
unclear
 Competition for training
programme will be intense
SUMMATION OF SWOT ANALYSIS:

Strengths and Weaknesses:
Can speak two languages but not on the professional level, IT skills, driving license, Chef
certificate and food hygiene, no better marketing experience, low presentation skills.
Opportunities and Threats:
The existing company have the better opportunities in communication with various people
and the competition for the programmes of training will be intense, the foreigner status is
made unclear by the Brexit.
SOURCE 6: DEGREE RESEARCH
DEGREE PROSPECTUS:
Professional Chef course
REFERENCE:
https://en.pgtsamokov.org/za-gimnaziyata
SUMMATION OF DEGREE RESEARCH:
Degree Title
and Duration: Professional high school
“Professional development in tourism'
Pathways into
Employment: After completing the school when getting the job as the Chef
Skills
Developed:
Professional cook in the production of food and beverage
Modules of
Interest:
The job interest would be of cooking serving.

Overall
Comment:
The overall comment for me was better knowledge related to
the industry after completing the first job as the chef.
Project
SECTION 3: OPTIONS FOR PROGRESSION
SOURCE 7: MY NETWORK PROFILE/LINKEDIN
MY HEADLINE AND SUMMARY:
To maintain the relationship with the clients along with the ways in which they function to
offer the solutions that meets the requirements in the best manner.
ASSESSMENT OF HEADLINE AND SUMMARY:
Profile Picture
Headline Maintain relationship with the clients
Summary
(About)
To offer the solutions to the clients that helps them to meet their needs
while maintaining the relationships with them.
Suggestions
for
Improvement
To implement the plans and strategies in order to maintain the
relationships with the clients
EXPERIENCE:
Four to five years of experience in the professional chef
ASSESSMENT OF EXPERIENCE:
Jobs included Chef
Relevance of
jobs
Cooking and serving
Information
included
The practice was done in the fourth year which was found to be very
helpful for the career
Suggestions for Internships along with the training to be done in the field of cooking

Improvement and serving management
EDUCATION:
Professional course in Chef
ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATION:
Institutions
Included
Institute of culinary education
Information Kitchen restaurants along with other dining establishments.
Relevance Withe the cooking and serving
Suggestions for
Improvement
To offer with specialized courses in various departments
SKILLS/EDORSEMENTS:
Cooking and serving, team work, hard-working
ASSESSMENT OF SKILLS/ENDORSEMENTS:
Relevance of
skills listed
In the field of hotel management and the establishments of the
restaurants
Range of skills Teamwork, collaboration, cooperation, cooking and serving
Endorsements Competition endorsements
Suggestions
for
Improvement
Focus more on being calmer and cooperative
SOURCE 8. COPY AND PASTE EMPLOYABILITY SCHEME BADGE HERE
Examples of Resources: PowerPoint, interactive activities, assessments,
resource packs, teaching ideas (Lodge and Elliott, 2019).
Assessment of
Resources:
Interactive activities related to the management, the power point
slides related to the cooking and teaching (Pham, 2021) the resource
packs associated with the management.

REFERENCE:
Pham, T., 2021. Transitioning from education to the labour market: What matters and
essential resources for positive employability outcomes. In Enhancing Student
Education Transitions and Employability (pp. 69-87). Routledge.
Lodge, H. and Elliott, S., 2019. Leading the Way: A Case Study of Establishing an
Employability Scheme at Coventry Law School. In Employability via Higher
Education: Sustainability as Scholarship (pp. 503-512). Springer, Cham.
9. COPY AND PASTE LEARNING RESOURCES USE HERE.
Examples of Resources:
Chef tutorial, websites, magazines, TV, cookbooks, etc (Sabourian, 2022.)
Assessment of
Resources:
Chef tutorial specifies about the various recipes, websites offers with
the knowledge of the recipes such as the magazines as well as the
cookbooks (Yu, 2022, July.).
REFERENCE:
Yu, T., 2022, July. Construction of Hakka Chef Engineering Innovation
Mechanism Based on Coordination Theory. In 2022 2nd
International Conference on Enterprise Management and Economic
Development (ICEMED 2022) (pp. 75-78). Atlantis Press.
Sabourian, L., 2022. The Efficacy of Maker Education and STEAM Content
Delivery Through Cooking: A Case Study of the Chef Koochooloo
Project. International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course
Design (IJOPCD).12(3).pp.1-12.
10. COPY AND PASTE - DIGITAL LIBRARY
Example of Resource: Audio recording, discussion list, digital edition, catalogue,
downloadable data (Ruthven, 2018).
Assessment of Catalog such as the archives, libraries and the images, the

Resource: downloadable data is that which can be downloaded, multimedia that
includes the 3D, bibliography refers to the primary and the
secondary resources (Bagnall and Heath, 2018).
REFERENCE:
Bagnall, R.S. and Heath, S., 2018. Roman studies and digital resources. The Journal of
Roman studies.108. pp.171-189.
Ruthven, K., 2018. Instructional activity and student interaction with digital resources. In
Research on mathematics textbooks and teachers’ resources (pp. 261-275). Springer,
Cham.
11. COPY AND PASTE CAREER HUB HERE
Example of Resource: Internet, libraries, counsellors, job search methods,
networking with the help of personal contacts (Cooper, 2022).
Assessment of
Resource:
Internet offers with a range of the career options, the methods of the
job search provides with various options of job along with the
networking through the personal contacts (Bosslet and Miles, 2018).
REFERENCE:
Bosslet, G.T. and Miles, M.C., 2018. Introducing the CHEST teaching, education, and
career hub. Chest, 153(1), pp.7-8.
Cooper, R., 2022. Career pathways: Vaccinating in-house and hub. Australian Pharmacist,
41(1), pp.18-19.
Section 4: WAY FORWARD
SMART STEPS:
12. COPY AND PASTE RELEVANT RESOURCES HERE
SMART Objective 1:
Explanation To increase the revenue by 15% in the
profession
SMART Objective 2:

Explanation To attain various professional courses of the
chef management
SMART Objective 3:
Explanation
To increase the efficiency and the
performance of the organization
Portfolio Checklist
Section 1: Career Goals
1. EXAMPLE JOB ADVERT
Reference
2. INFORMATION ABOUT THE INDUSTRY
Reference
Summary of job advert and sector
Section 2: Current Reality
3. ASK 5 PEOPLE SURVEYS – PERSONAL

Summary of personal feedback
4. ASK 5 PEOPLE SURVEYS – PROFESSIONAL
Summary of professional feedback
5. SWOT Analysis
Summary of your Strengths and Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats
6. DEGREE RESEARCH
Reference
Summary of degree
Section 3: OPTIONS FOR PROGRESSION
7. LINKEDIN PROFILE
Summary of heading
Summary of experience
Summary of education
Summary of endorsements
8. COPY AND PASTE EMPLOYABILITY SCHEME DETAIL HERE
Explanation how this source will help you
Reference
9. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES (e.g. VLE)
Explanation how this source will help you
Reference
10. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES (e.g. DIGITAL LIBRARY)
Explanation how this source will help you
Reference
11. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES (e.g. CAREER HUB)
Explanation how this source will help you
Reference
Explanation of how you will tackle your opportunities and threats
Section 4: WAY FORWARD
12. RELEVANT RESOURCES
SMART Objective 1
SMART Objective 2
SMART Objective 3