Personal Development Report: Career Planning and Goal Achievement

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of personal development, emphasizing the significance of goal setting and career planning. It outlines a personal development plan, categorizing goals into short-term (3-6 months), medium-term (6-12 months), and long-term (1-2 years) objectives. ...Read More

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................3
TASK 1.......................................................................................................................................3
Short term goals.....................................................................................................................3
Medium term..........................................................................................................................3
Long term goals......................................................................................................................3
Personal professional development plan................................................................................4
TASK2........................................................................................................................................4
Author, reliability, purpose and relevance..............................................................................4
TASK 3.......................................................................................................................................5
Examine evaluation of eight sources used in essay plan........................................................5
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................8
Books & Journal:....................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Success and growth is important for every individual on the way they analyse their
goals and objectives accordingly. Personal development plan refers to written document
which reflects about the process of a continuous learning which is used by individual to
accomplish their goals in timely manner (Anderson, 2017). Main purpose of this report is to
understand the importance of personal home plan and goals in context of specific person.
This report consists of short term medium term and long term goals with personal
development plan.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
Short term goals
Short term refers to those which are being ccomplished within period of 3 to 6 months
(Catalano, 2017).These goals are important for individual in order to determine medium and
long term goals. So, various goals are given as follows-
 My first one goal is to enhance my knowledge in regards of my career field to obtain
good grades in my bachelor.
 Further is to complete novel within every two weeks.
 Then, another is to improve my work life balance.
Medium term
Medium terms are one which are needed to accomplished within the period of 6 to 12
months (Gould, 2017). Different types of medium term goals are explained below-
 First goal is to get graduated from college without any backlogs.
 Another one is to complete my trip to Goa and Maldives as soon as possible.
 Then, to start learning about stocks and field to earn more money.
Long term goals
These are needed to be achieved within the period of one year or two year. Different
long term goals are given as follows-
 My first long term goal is to purchase a new house with my own money in a
international country.

 Second one is to get recognised in multinational companies as an asset for their work.
 Third goal is to enhance my problem solving skills to deal with my both personal and
professional problems.
Personal professional development plan
Personal development planning is defined as a process of written documentation
action plan which is used by an individual as a strategy two analyse and decide about career
plan. It is an effective method of analysing about your career plan which is to be properly
written down so that all goals are accomplished in a specific time period (Jones, 2017).
Goals Type Level Want to
achieve
Time How
To accomplish
higher
capability in
thinking skills
& planning
Short term
goal
3 8 6 months Through taking
many projects
inside and
outside college
To be effective
student in
university
Medium term
goal
6 8 1 year By being
effective
student and
accessing
classes
regularly.
To work in
MNC’s
Long term
goal
7 9 5 years Getting
employed in
MNC
To develop my
field
knowledge and
expand it as a
expertise
Long term
goal
9 7 5 years By giving more
interviews and
accessing to
doing PHD.
So from above described table it is seen that each and every goals are different from
each other which are important to be properly analysed by a individual so that strategies can
be implemented accordingly (Kratzert, 2018).
TASK2
Author, reliability, purpose and relevance
Author-

An author is a person who has a detailed knowledge and experience about particular field
or topic depend on which articles and blogs are being communicated to public (Lei, 2019).
Relevance
Relevance States about the how effectively topic is relevant to the field of a study and
how an individual can obtain benefits from the prospective study
Purpose-
Purpose States about the main aim of author and their level of study is easily
understandable by students and other people efficiently.
Reliability-
Reliability refers to weather focus topic or a field of study is relevant to student career or
not and all information are being obtained authentically with use of references.
Therefore from above reflected paragraph it is seen that author reliability purpose and
relevance all are important in development of students’ knowledge regarding a particular
topic article or a blog. It is critically essential to focus on this element so that knowledge is
increased in appropriate way (Miller, 2018).
TASK 3
Examine evaluation of eight sources used in essay plan
Sources Author Purpose Reliability Relevancy
Book
Anderson, To brief about
the planning and
its importance.
Motivating
students
regarding their
career plan.
It is relevant
with report as it
gives a
importance of
planning in
individual
context.
Book
Gould, 2017. Focusing on
career
development
plan.
This writer is
famous for
delivering of a
clear
understanding
about a topic
and
development
plan.
The book is
linked with
career
development
plan which is
beneficial for
achieving goals.
Website
Jones To promote
career goals in
specific field for
students
Author is known
for its
experience in
college field &
This article
focuses on
promotion of
goals in

encourages
students.
student’s life.
Website Kratzert Long term and
short term goals
importance in
person life
Brief about the
need for
different types
of goals in
individual life.
Gives
enhanced
explanation
regarding
several kinds of
goals.
Book
Lei Significance of
long term goals
in implementing
networks
mechanism
Author focuses
on
accomplishing
of long term
goals by
development of
network
mechanism
Reflects
regarding need
for long term
goals with their
impact.
Website Miller Impact of
college course
on students
goals
Author pays
attention on
college course
and how
students can
benefits from it.
Develop
knowledge
about effect of
college courses.
Website
Verner-Filion,
2020
Long term goals
in career of
students
Gives a detailed
understanding of
career goals.
Gives
information
linked with
career plan as
well as goals.

CONCLUSION
After a brief analysis of a bug report it has been specified that individual needs to
focus on their career so that there are all kinds of goals are achieved in effective manner. So
discussions have been made about personal development plan and several types of goals. In
this competitive era, it is critically necessary for a person to have knowledge about what is
important to achieve at what time period.

REFERENCES
Books & Journal:
Anderson, 2017. Building Your Personal Leadership Development Plan. In Transforming
Leadership (pp. 248-261). Routledge.
Gould, 2017. Career development: A plan for action. Nature, 548(7668), pp.489-490.
Jones, 2017. Using psychological constructs from the MUSIC Model of Motivation to predict
students’ science identification and career goals: Results from the US and Iceland.
International Journal of Science Education, 39(8), pp.1089-1108.
Kratzert, 2018. Rainfall–runoff modelling using long short-term memory (LSTM) networks.
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 22(11), pp.6005-6022.
Lei, 2019. Fault diagnosis of wind turbine based on Long Short-term memory networks.
Renewable energy, 33, pp.422-432.
Miller, 2018. The impact of a college career course on students’ career decision states. The
Career Development Quarterly, 66(4), pp.371-377.
Verner-Filion, 2020. Passion and grit in the pursuit of long-term personal goals in college
students. Learning and Individual Differences, 83, p.101939.