Personal Development Report: Career Goals, SWOT, and Progression

This report presents a personal development plan, focusing on career goals within a professional setting. It begins with an introduction to personal development and its importance in enhancing career paths. The main body of the report outlines career goals, specifically highlighting opportunities in advertising, promotions, and marketing management, engineering management, and financial management. The report then delves into the current reality of the individual, analyzing strengths and weaknesses based on a personal SWOT analysis and feedback questionnaires. It identifies areas for improvement, such as gaining professional experience and expanding professional networks. The report explores options for progression, including developing professional networking and building a professional profile, while addressing potential threats. Furthermore, it sets out SMART goals to facilitate measurable progress, focusing on specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-based objectives. The report concludes by emphasizing the significance of the personal development plan in fostering measurable changes and improving overall working ability. References and appendices, including a personal SWOT analysis, feedback questionnaires, and a professional profile, are also included.

Personal Development in
Professional Settings

Table of Contents
Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Career Goal.............................................................................................................................1
Current Reality.......................................................................................................................2
Options for Progression..........................................................................................................3
Way Forward..........................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
Appendices.......................................................................................................................................7
Personal SWOT......................................................................................................................7
5 completed feedback questionnaires.....................................................................................8
Your professional profile......................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
The personal development plan includes the different set of actions that will provide
appropriate direction to strengthen the positive strength while making the shift of the weaknesses
into the opportunity. It is the overall process through which an individual will develop the plan
that will be based on the attrition, value, goal setting, planning, awareness, reflection and
personal development (Carey, 2018). It helps to enhance the career path while making the self
improvement and while emphasising the education and the knowledge. This report includes the
different career goal, personal SWOT for progression and SMART goals.
MAIN BODY
Career Goal
As per the individual, there are some different opportunities for the profession of
manager as are as follows as:
 Advertising, Promotions, and Marketing Managers: It is the career choice in which an
individual get the opportunity to pursue the career while managing the marketing
management. In this the major focus will get maintain towards the promotional activities
and the advertisement through which the product and the service will get easily promoted
in the market. It is more effective as the individual has to dealt with the digitalisation and
it is most required factor in today’s world thus if it will be chosen then rook get better
achievement in the future life.
 Engineering Managers: It is the another carrier choice which might have been chosen
and in this the individual must get work more on the different technicalities by which all
the different resources of the business will get managed with more perfection and with
better affordability (Cheng, 2018). It is the position that will require more cognitive
approach and with those better inputs will get engaged to make more profitable
outcomes.
 Financial Managers: It is the career choice in which the individual must have work with
the profitability of the business and have a better command of make more suitability by
which the different resources will get managed and adequate flow of funds will get
managed.
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The better opportunity to develop the future development is in the career choice of
advertisement, promotion and the marketing manager. It will generate the better opportunity as it
is more in demand and all the world will get shifted towards the digital usage thus it is the career
that is more applicable and has huge demand in the market as well. There are a lot of benefits as
well like higher salary, transferable job skills and the most favourable job location as well
(Crumb, 2018).
Current Reality
The strength of an individual by considering the as per the skills, experience and the
personal qualities that must get based on the SWOT analysis and the feedback that will get
collected from the 5 people and that are as defined below as:
The strength includes
The individual has better experience and with that have the individual has more technical
knowledge and with that have more clear academic concepts as well. The individual also has
better computer knowledge and with this it is easier to get perform the promotional activities and
advertisement by pursuing the career as marketing manager. All the different people that have
completed the questionnaire commented that individual has that leadership skills through which
make huge difference and make them more different from other managers. In addition to this
there is a lot of other strength as well like the overall personality is more attractive by which it
easy to make more better and effective interaction with other people as well. The individual also
have the better soft skills by which it is easy to make more flexible in every situation and make
string advantage from every aspect (Daniëls, 2019).
The experience includes:
As per the reference of the SWOT analysis it has been considered that there are some
weaknesses as well and in that the individual has lack of experience by which it is harder to get
chooses what the person want in the life and with that having more confusion while selecting the
future career. There are various factors under which the skills must get more developed or might
get improved as well. The individual also doesn’t have much knowledge about the career
planning as the graduation is being freshly complete thus didn’t have any experience as well and
by which the professional network also didn’t get expands. While developing the future it is must
that the individual has basic information about the training and the developments that help to
know more about the recent trends thus it is a major weakness.
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The graduating degree of bachelors in computer science helps to get develop the different
understanding of the basic formats that help to get standardised the better outcomes and more
sustainability in the future period of time. Thus the individual has more knowledge about the
basic information and get more trained by attaining the training session of the company and that
helps to make better success and more growth in the future (Fletcher, 2019).
Options for Progression
In order to get more trained and developed by which the skills and ability will get
implemented with more perfection and it furthermore helps to perform the assigned task with
more perfection. It is more necessary that the working attitude and the composure will get
inserted in the personality by which the individual will be calmer and easily learn the different
nuances of the new working environment. It is more needed while getting developed the personal
plan that all the strength and the weaker areas must areas must get more considered. It helps to
make the validate change as the individual must have more knowledge about the key basic of
computer and graphics thus the academic part is more strong but it is also needed that
professional skills also get induced and in that the time management and the social network must
get more wider. Thus it is most needed that the training must get taken by which the advanced
learning and clear concepts will get furnished by which all the employee get more certain
changes with more sufficiency. The network also is wider by which the comfort and confidence
will get developed that boost the working attitude and relatedness with the business surrounds.
There are some different options that might help to bridge the gap as in between the
current situation and the career aspiration as well and are as defined below as:
 Developing the professional networking: The professional network is the one that
helps to make more effective relationship with the different people that are already
worked under some of the different organisation and having more relative experience. It
will help a lot to get understand the companies requirement and according to that make
applicable changes within the personality to get develop more growth and better success.
It also helps to learn more about the professional development by which better outcome
will get developed.
 Develop the professional profile: It is the major factor that helps to make more
sufficient advantage and in that the skills and the experience bridge will get more
developed and by that the current situation will get more enhanced (Laletas, 2019). It
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helps to get develop the better profile by which it is more easy to get select in any big
organisation with more easiness. As it is more important in this competitive market that
an individual have better skills that develop the personality and that get filled by taking
appropriate knowledge and better training.
There are some different threats as well that get affect the individual personality and that are
as like there is a lot of market challenge and in that the job opportunity also get decreased and
the best and most suitable candidate get the job while other didn’t get achieved that much heights
and success in their life. In order to get more relative results from the different threats are as that
the person must have sharpen their skills a lot and takes a lot of technical experiences that makes
the most effective change not in personal but the professional life as well (Richards, 2018).
Way Forward
There are some of the SMART goals that has been set by an individual to make better
productivity in certain period of time and that is as defines below as:
SPECIFIC: The individual must get start clear the basic concepts within the 1 month and
then start apply for the appropriate post that brings more confidence and inner motivation.
MEASURABLE: It is the goal that must get measured the individual will have start
working to improvise the listening skills that help to impart more clarity while making
conversation with any other person (Vijayadevar, 2019).
ATTAINABLE: In this the individual must have start networking himself and with that
have try to work with more efficiency and thus it help to make relation with the people who has
more reliability to the business world.
RELEVANT: In this the individual must have set the goal to improvise the presentation
and the speaking skills and thus it is easy to present him in-front of others.
TIME BASED: It is the scope in which the individual must have make develop the time
management skills by which every task will get achieved within the timely manner.
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CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the above report that the personal development plan has been
more important and with that it helps to make measurable changes by which the overall
personality and working ability will get more improvised. There are some of the basic analyses
as like SWOT will get used to make the adequate information about the personality and it helps
to reduce the skill gap with more perfection.
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REFERENCES
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Cheng, S.L. and Xie, K., 2018. The relations among teacher value beliefs, personal
characteristics, and TPACK in intervention and non-intervention settings. Teaching and
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Daniëls, E. And et. al., 2019. A review on leadership and leadership development in educational
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Fletcher, L., 2019. How can personal development lead to increased engagement? The roles of
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Laletas, S., 2019. Ethical decision making for professional school counsellors: use of practice-
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Appendices
Personal SWOT
Strengths Weaknesses
Internal
 My personality
 Leadership quality
 My better network
 I must have experience of both
personal and professional as
well.
 Have good communication
skills.
 Good soft skills.
 Have the technical and computer
based knowledge.
 Better education and great
training and development.
 Effective personal attributes
 I have less professional experience
 I didn’t have any strong future plans
 I have to improvise my skills and
working abilities
 I must have taken some training
sessions to fulfil desired needs.
 I don’t have any plan for the career
 My professional network is very less.
Opportunities Threats
External
 The market trends and more
positive for my personal
development.
 The expanded opportunity in the
marketing manager field.
 There are lot of opportunity to
change the future with lot of
diverse direction
 Have gained a lot of education
 I have gained a lot facility to
 The economic have faces a down face
thus lot of job will get closed that will
restrict more options.
 There is a lot of market competition
that bound to expand of market job.
 The technological changes are so
random thus it is more important to be
updated all the time.
 It economic crises limit the
unemployment programs.
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expand my working and
professional network.
 The jobs are few and the job applicants
are more thus hard to get selects.
5 completed feedback questionnaires
Name: John
Q) What one word or phrase describes me best?
Diligent
Q) What do you think is my greatest achievement?
Great presentation
Q) What do you value most about me?
Your trait
Q) What one thing could I change for my own benefit?
Want to become more result orientated
Q) What do you believe to be my greatest strength?
Creative thinking
Name: Jack
Q) What one word or phrase describes me best?
Loyal
Q) What do you think is my greatest achievement?
More organised
Q) What do you value most about me?
Honesty towards work
Q) What one thing could I change for my own benefit?
Get to learn the time management
Q) What do you believe to be my greatest strength?
Analytical thinking
Name: Cohen
Q) What one word or phrase describes me best?
Reliable
Q) What do you think is my greatest achievement?
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Graduation with higher marks
Q) What do you value most about me?
More committed
Q) What one thing could I change for my own benefit?
More ambitious and driven the change in personal life
Q) What do you believe to be my greatest strength?
Communication skills
Name: David
Q) What one word or phrase describes me best?
Creative
Q) What do you think is my greatest achievement?
Good mentor
Q) What do you value most about me?
Modest
Q) What one thing could I change for my own benefit?
Become the natural leaders
Q) What do you believe to be my greatest strength?
Enthusiasm and dedicated
Name: Advert
Q) What one word or phrase describes me best?
Visionary
Q) What do you think is my greatest achievement?
Well organised
Q) What do you value most about me?
Have more compassionate
Q) What one thing could I change for my own benefit?
Enhance the working culture
Q) What do you believe to be my greatest strength?
Interpersonal skills
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Your professional profile
First name
Last name
Professional profile
I have seeking a position at where I have applied all my skills and abilities that helps to
make professional growth and development and with that enhance the capabilities with
continuous learning.
Core skills
 Communication skills
 Computer applications
 Management
 Risk management
 Leadership quality
 Soft skills
Professional experience
Fresher
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