Personal Reflection Report: Career Objectives and SWOT Analysis

This report provides a detailed personal reflection, focusing on the identification of skills, abilities, and qualifications to achieve career objectives. It utilizes a SWOT analysis to evaluate strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, offering insights into areas for improvement. The report highlights the importance of skills like team working, communication, and leadership, while acknowledging weaknesses in problem-solving, time management, and numeracy. A professional development plan is outlined, specifying targets and activities to enhance skills like problem-solving, time management, leadership, interpersonal skills, and numeracy. The report emphasizes the importance of continuous development and adaptation to meet the demands of the current business environment, concluding with a call to action for individuals to enhance their skills and achieve their career goals. References from various academic sources are included to support the analysis.

INTRODUCTION
Personal reflection can be defined as an identification of own skills abilities and
qualifications which will through performance level of individual as well as their experience
(Clarke and Chalmers, 2018). The current report will consist a personal reflection which
should different skills and abilities as well as strengths in order to achieve the objectives of
employability.
MAIN BODY
It is important for every individual in the current business environment to use
appropriate functions which will guide them toward the goals and objectives. Order to
achieve the goals and objectives individual require a appropriate system which will evaluate
their own strength weaknesses opportunities and threats and order to overcome them and
perform in an appropriate manner. In order to achieve the career objectives I use SWOT
analysis to identify my own strength and weaknesses. This is helpful for me in preparing an
appropriate action plan which can be used to achieve the objectives. My own SWOT analysis
is discussed below:
SWOT analysis can be defined as a Framework which can be used by individual in
order to identify their inner capabilities and skills. SWOT analysis include four stages which
are strength weaknesses opportunities and threats. Important for every individual to analyse
their strengths weaknesses opportunities and threats in order to deal with the current business
environment and prepare themselves according to it. In context of me, my own strengths
weaknesses opportunities and threats are discussed below:
Strength
Team working skills: team working skills can be defined as a skill which is helpful
to an individual while working within a team. In context of me, my team working skills are
my strength. This is because I used to perform within different teams which helped me in
gaining knowledge about behaviour of different individual and manage the behaviour
according to the needs and requirements of a team. This is also helpful for me to managing
the way a person's according to their skills and requirements and using their skills in order to
achieve the team goals (Cooperrider and Srivastva, 2017).

Communication skills: Communication skill also acts as my strength. This is because
I can easily communicate with different individuals by the use of appropriate system. There
are two types of communication skills which include verbal and nonverbal act as strong part.
I can easily communicate with other individuals and can understand their supplied
information in an appropriate manner to achieve my objectives and use the information in
performing the task. I also used to transfer information in simple and easiest way so that
receiver can understand it in an appropriate manner and can respond according to it
(Weisberg, 2018).
Weakness
Problem solving skills: Problem solving skills at as my weakness. Under these skills
I always get confused in different situations which make it difficult for me to solve a
problem. Identify this when I was performing in a group where I had to choose between two
situations. Due to some uncertain circumstance, I am unable to choose between the situations
which acted on my decision making ability and become a phobia to make appropriate
decisions (Geiger, 2020).
Time management: Time management skills are also act as my weakness which I
have to develop in order to achieve the objectives in future career. Identify the time
management skills are important in order to achieve professional lifestyle in future career.
This is because time management in help in managing time in different activities and using
the time in an appropriate manner. My time management skills are weak because I don't used
to distribute time in an appropriate manner as well as don't follow appropriate time chart.
Opportunity
Leadership skills: In current business environment it is important for an individual to
develop leadership skills. Leadership skills provide number of opportunity to individual and
its future career where it can lead different individuals in the direction of goals and objectives
of the firm (Spencer, 2019). According to me, leadership skills are in average where I have to
develop them in order to achieve objectives in future career and lead different individuals
within team and Organisation. This is helpful for me in improving my image as well as
getting self-satisfaction by leading different individual towards the direction of goals and
objectives.

Interpersonal skills: Interpersonal skills also act as an opportunity for me as I am
performing in an average basis in my interpersonal skills. Interpersonal skills can be
developed by me in order to achieve my future career objectives as well as performed in an
appropriate. Under interpersonal skills I can easily communicate with different individuals
and established better relations so that I can work according to the needs and requirements of
current business environment and tackle different business dynamics (Hannon, 2018).
Threats
Numeracy skills: Numeracy skills always active thread for me this is because my
mathematical calculations are always week which impacted on me in a direct way. under this
function I have to use appropriate studies where I can easily match the performance and then
use appropriate functions which will operate. I also identified that money skills are so weak
where I have to use tools in order to calculate small amounts (Sampson and Laub, 2016).
It can be analysed that I have number of functions which I have to improve in order to
achieve my future career and goals some of these skills are included in my professional
development plan which is discussed below.
Professional development plan
Skill Purpose current
proficiency
Target
proficiency
Activity Time
duration
Problem
solving skills
The main
purpose
behind
developing
problem
solving skin
is to improve
my
functioning
as well as
solve
complex
problem
6 out of 10 9.5 out of
10
I will use to
divide my
time as well
as formulate
different
charts for
allocating
time
according to
the task.
6 months

while
working on
different
task.
Time
management
The main
purpose
behind
developing
my time
management
skill is to
achieve my
career
objectives as
well as
provide the
task in an
appropriate
manner.
6 out of 10 9.5 out of
10
I will use to
divide my
time as well
as formulate
different
charts for
allocating
time
according to
the task.
3 months
Leadership
skills
It is
important to
develop
leadership
skills to
target the
different
individuals
as well as
help them in
guiding
about the
goals and
objectives
7 out of 10 10 out of
10
Used to
guide
different
individual as
well as take
participation
in team
working
activities and
become a
leader within
the team to
guide the
individuals.
4 months

Interpersonal
skills
This is
helpful in
interacting
with different
individuals
as well as
manages
relationships
to achieve
personal
objectives.
6 out of 10 10 out of
10
I will use to
communicate
with different
individuals
as well as try
to establish
relationships
so that I can
improve my
interpersonal
skills.
3 months
Numeracy
skills
To collect the
data as well
as analyse
information
and use the
information
for working
of various
task.
5 out of 10 8 out of 10 I will use to
take help of
teachers as
well as take
different
classes in
order to
improve my
numeracy
skills
8 months
This is a plan which will be followed by me in order to improve my functions as well
as achieve my career objective in a timely manner. There are different skills which are used
to develop and perform a function in an appropriate manner so that I can work according to
the needs and requirements of the current business environment (Koopman, 2016). The
professional development plan is helpful to me in order to achieve my objectives as well as
improve my problem solving skills time management skills leadership skills interpersonal
skills and various others which will help me in my future career as well as perform in an
appropriate manner according to the needs and requirements of business dynamics. By using
appropriate analysis of my future career and abilities I can perform the functions in an
appropriate way and achieve better results.

CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from the above mentioned information that there are various skills
which has to be developed by individual in order to achieve the objectives and perform
function in an appropriate manner. It includes skills like communication interpersonal skills
time management and many other which are required to be an effective employee in future
career and achieve the career objectives.

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Books and journals
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