Personal Development Plan: SWOT Analysis, SMART Goals, and CV

This report provides a comprehensive personal development plan (PDP) focusing on self-assessment and career advancement. It utilizes SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, emphasizing the importance of communication and leadership skills. The plan outlines steps for personal development, including setting SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound) to address weaknesses and leverage opportunities. Furthermore, it includes a sample CV highlighting key skills, education, and marketing experience. The document emphasizes the need for continuous learning and adaptation to remain competitive in the job market. Desklib offers this student contributed assignment along with other study tools for students.

Personal development plan Strength & weakness Opportunity
Treads including CV

TABLE OF CONTENT
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Persona development plan: .........................................................................................................3
Step for personal development plan:............................................................................................4
The PDP:......................................................................................................................................5
CV:...............................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

MAIN BODY
Persona development plan:
Personal development plan help to achieve the success in career of a person.
Development plan involves improve of existing skills and learning new skills and knowledge
(Lejeune, Beausaert and Raemdonck, 2021). This is very important of the student to plan
develop their skill level and knowledge, it is very beneficial in career of the person. When a
person do not have plan career plan, they suffer a lot in their future. There are certain analyse
which help a person to identify the skills and knowledge they have such as:
SWOT analysis: swot analysis help a person to identify the strength and weakness which they
have and how these strengths and weakness effect the career of the person (GURL, 2017).
Strengths: strength lies in the inner ability of a person, I have strength of communication skill
which allow me to communicate with people effectively. This skill is very important for the
person explain and understand the task to others. My communication skills help me to explore
certain areas of the career life. I have noticed that, in today's world, effective communication
plays a vital role in getting the job. I have such strength that fulfil the demand of various
companies. Another skill I have is leadership skill which make me to lead the team, in my
academic period I used to lead my team and guide my friends about the task. These skills not
only one of the best skill but it is one of the rare skill as well.
Weakness: every person have weakness at some personal level, which make them to face
problem in the future. These weaknesses not only affect the development of the person but these
often slow down the process in career development. I have certain weakness which make me
weak in various part of personal as well as professional life. My weakness are argument, I
sometimes start the argument unnecessary which effect my image in the eye of the person. I need
to overcome this weakness because this will going to create some problem for me in the future.
Opportunities: opportunities are often lies in the weakness of the person, when a person
identifies the weakness they identified the opportunities. I have opportunity to improve my
weakness and often turn it into effective communication skills, I have bad habit of arguing which
make my image bad in front of people. Many company look for people who have effective
communication skills, they demand active listening and communication skill. I have opportunity
to apply in such organization and have high chances of getting hired.

Threats: threats are often competitors and in personal life competitors are the person having the
same skill level and knowledge level. Threats are more risky when they know about the
weakness of the person. I have faced the threats as a competition from my friends and collogues,
some of my collogues have the same knowledge level and skill set. They will going to give
heavy competition to me in career (Kivimäki and Meriluoto, 2018). In today's world, people are
more talented, and they are more aggressive with their personal skills, they try to develop new
skills now and then which make them more effective in getting the jobs. Although I have the
communication skills and most importantly leadership skill which make me different from
others.
Step for personal development plan:
Personal development plan is also known as PDP, every PDP is different. There are
various steps in development of personal development plan such as:
Swot analysis: swot analysis help person to identify the strength and weakness of their personal
skill and knowledge. This help in analysing the hinders that can be turned into goals. This help
me to evaluate my existing skills and knowledge which can he used in finding the job.
Goals: goals plays an important part in the life of a person, without goals there is no purpose of
struggle of developing personal developing plan. Goals are very essential to achieve something
in life or career process. Goals need to be set according to the requirement of the situations,
many people apply smart goal to identify what is need to develop personal development plan.
These SMART goal are:
Specific: my goals are specific, I have various goals which need to be completed because they
have a specific purpose (Bjerke and Renger, 2017). For example, I have goal to become more
effective in communication. This is a specific goal which I need to accomplish with specific
time.
Measurable: goals need to measurable, with the measurement a person can not identify the
actual taking to accomplish the goal. My goals are measurable, I have complete plan which
include the costing and affords. After the measurement it is now very easy for me to accomplish
them.
Achievable: goals should be real and achievable, if the goals aren't achievable, all the affords of
the person will be wasted (Latham, 2020). I ask myself that, is my goals are achievable? This
help me to short out the goals which a have made to achieve a specific target.

Relevant: goals must be relevant in every way, an irrelevant goal can lead to waste of time and
affords. All my goals are relevant, this help me to stay on track rather than making an un useful
or irrelevant goals.
Time bound: goals are time bounded, they need to be completed within a time frame. Setting the
time of the goals help a person to stay active because of the deadline of the goal (Fernández-
Reyes and Shinde, 2019). I have set time to all my goals which help me to stay active and give
me speed to complete my goal.
The PDP:
weakness Skills and Goal Resources strategies Time
Inactive listener In active listener:
I am an inactive
listener, as I do
not carefully
listen to the
person who is
speaking to me,
this often create
misunderstanding
and sometimes
conflict.
The have applied
for $300 course to
develop and
improve my
listening skills.
Completing an
active listening
course and trying
to speak to more
people to improve
my listening
skills.
I have to
complete this
course within 3
months.
Weak
communication:
I have
communication
skills but
sometimes my
communication
become weak in
front of good
English speaker.
I have joined
English
communication
class with $100
per month.
I am tried to join
English-speaking
academy and
often trying to
communicate and
speaking to native
English speakers.
I have to
complete this
course within 1
month.
Less flexibility: I am less flexible
which means I do
I have applied for
flexibility
I am trying to join
the flexibility
I have set time to
learn flexibility

no get
comfortable with
new people. I
need to improve
this weakness.
learning program
online with $50
per month which
help me to learn
flexibility.
program online
and also trying to
practice
flexibility at the
workplace.
within 6 months.
CV:
How to write a successful CV (Gaitan, 2017).
John wick
Down town, 48 street, new york, US.
Profile:
Interest in marketing and have degree in marketing management. Have a good marketing
experience and knowledge about the building marketing brand strategies.
I have experienced in handling and managing online platforms and making effective marketing
strategies. A have good feedback from clients after the strategies which I have provide to them
and managed their marketing platforms and channels.
Communication skills: I have a good communication skills which allow me to communicate
with the clients with fluent English.
Leadership skills: I was captain of my football team in summer school tournament, this help me
to build leadership skills in me. I can manage teams effectively with my leadership skills and
ability.
Education:
2019-2021 Marketing and Finance, King George University, London.
My degree is on Marketing and Finance Research Management which allow me to make
effective marketing related strategies and effective plans. I have worked with team and as a
individual as well.
College module include study on marketing and finance
 Focus of consumer behaviour — interest in consumer behaviour and have done 1 year
project in finance (A grade achieved).
 Problem solving — managing and analysing the problem arise within the work and

workplace and effectively providing solution using various statistical package.
2018-2019 Hart Secondary School, Poole.
A level: Marketing Management.
AS level: Finance
10 GSCE: Mathematics and English
MARKETING EXPERIENCE:
2020- present Marketing Officer, University George.
Responsibilities to ensure company and their product is been promoted.
Interest in branding: successfully build the branding strategies for the company with two online
platforms and Facebook page which result in 50% sales in the company.
Web designing: successfully design the web for the company and for various other clients.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Bjerke, M.B. and Renger, R., 2017. Being smart about writing SMART objectives. Evaluation
and program planning. 61. pp.125-127.
Fernández-Reyes, F.C. and Shinde, S., 2019. CV Retrieval System based on job description
matching using hybrid word embeddings. Computer Speech & Language. 56.pp.73-79.
Gaitan, A., 2017. How to write a successful CV.
GURL, E., 2017. SWOT analysis: A theoretical review.
Kivimäki, V. and Meriluoto, S., 2018. Holistic perspective to individual study plan: Personal
Development Project Plan. In Transforming our world through design, diversity and
education (pp. 514-526). IOS Press.
Latham, G., 2020. Goal setting: A five-step approach to behavior change. In Organizational
Collaboration (pp. 10-20). Routledge.
Lejeune, C., Beausaert, S. and Raemdonck, I., 2021. The impact on employees’ job performance
of exercising self-directed learning within personal development plan practice. The
International Journal of Human Resource Management. 32(5). pp.1086-1112.
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