Career Development Plan and Skills Assessment: BMAF005-20 Report

This report presents a comprehensive career development plan, structured around the '5-Step Career Development Model,' encompassing self-assessment, exploration of career possibilities, resume preparation, job search implementation, and decision-making. It includes an action plan worksheet and a skills assessment worksheet to evaluate strengths and areas for improvement. The report outlines career options, relevant qualifications for a fashion designer and consultant, and job search strategies. Furthermore, it contains a CV and cover letter tailored to a fashion designer position, reflecting the student's qualifications and experience. The report also reflects on current achievements, identifies areas for skill development, particularly teamwork and emotional decision-making, and provides strategies to move forward in career development, such as continuous learning and networking. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of personal and professional development in achieving career goals and provides a summary of the report's key components.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
PART 1............................................................................................................................................3
Career Development Plan...........................................................................................................3
Action plan worksheet.................................................................................................................4
Skills assessment worksheet.......................................................................................................4
Career options and relevant qualifications needed......................................................................5
Jobs and Placement search..........................................................................................................5
Part 2 ...............................................................................................................................................5
Curriculum Vitae.........................................................................................................................5
Cover Letter................................................................................................................................6
Part 3................................................................................................................................................6
Current Achievements.................................................................................................................6
Improvements..............................................................................................................................7
Identify how to move forward in career development................................................................7
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development aims at helping individuals to manage their own
growth and learnings throughout their career. It is very important for all the individuals to
continuously engage themselves in learning so that the skills and knowledge is retained and up to
date (Dikilitaş and Yaylı, 2018). This also helps in ensuring that the work done by any individual
is legal, safe and effective. This report contains a plan for career development focused on the
potential skills and the qualifications needed. It also contains options for the placement and how
to find them. This report contains a CV Relating to the career ambitions along with a cover letter
for applying to the job posts for specific position. This report will also reflect on current
achievements, identification of improvements and how to develop skills to improvements.
MAIN BODY
PART 1
Career Development Plan
Any plan made for the development of career by an individual is known as a career
development plan. The said plan is made by following the “5-Step Career Development Model”
The steps are as follows:
Illustration 1: Simons, 2021

Step 1: Assessment
In this step an individual identifies his own skills, interest, traits, etc. this is the way in
which a self analysis is done through which an individual gets to know of their skills and the
traits which they lack and needs improvements (Ab Rashid, 2018).
Step 2: Exploration
In this step an individual is focused on the exploration and research of the available
career possibilities. In this step necessary information related to the job and placements are
collected of various fields that interest an individual. In this, an individual also explore for more
opportunities that are available to them.
Step 3: Preparation
This is the step in which an individual prepares a proper resume in which skills,
qualifications, etc. of the individuals are mentioned. After the resume is prepared, a proper cover
letter is drafted specifically for the position of the jobs to be applied.
Step 4: Implementation
This is the step in which an individual develop and also implement the job search. In this
step all the skills are sharpened and the preparation for the interview begins.
Step 5: Decision making
This is the last stage in which the decision is made by an individual by referring to their
goals and career plans. In this the jobs are analysed and then accordingly a well informed
decision is taken.
Action plan worksheet
This is a planned document created by an individual which describes a career action plan.
This plan is very helpful as it helps in setting the goals and actions to be taken by them in
achievement of such career goals (McGill, Heikkila and Lazarowicz, 2020).
Skills assessment worksheet
This is the type of worksheet that helps an individual to assess their own skills by either
rating various types of skills on scale of any number provided or it can be done by taking tests
for skills assessment. This is beneficial for the individual as this helps in determining the skills
which an individual have and what skills are needed to be improved.
From taking few tests for skills assessment I outlined that I need to work on my skills that
relates to:

 Teamwork
 Intellectual skills
Career options and relevant qualifications needed
Career Options Qualifications
Fashion Designer A degree in fashion designing or a relevant
course that teaches designing and also
technical skills.
Fashion Consultant Degree of bachelor's in fashion merchandising
or fashion designing or in image consulting.
Jobs and Placement search
An individual who is focusing on his career may find relevant information related to the
jobs and placement from the following below mentioned options:
 College or campus placement cells (Quinn, 2019).
 LinkedIn or any other job portals.
 Official websites of company.
 Newspaper job Advertisements
Part 2
Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
Name: XYZ
Address: 13th street, Birmingham, UK
Phone No.- 654 664 6743
Profile Summary:
I have completed with bachelor's degree in Fashion designing and have 2 years of experience as
an assistant designer. I want to work in an organization where I can utilise all my academic and
practical knowledge and enhance my professional skills. I have good knowledge and skills
required to be a good fashion designer.
Specialisations:

 Fashion Designing
 Fashion stylist
 Personal stylist Fashion Influencer
Educational Qualifications:
 Bachelor's degree in fashion designing Diploma courses on fashion and personal stylish and fashion influencer.
Declaration:
I hereby verify that all information is accurate and is foremost of my knowledge.
Date: 8th March 2021
Place: Birmingham
Cover Letter
Dear Ms. PQR,
I came to know from a reliable source of advertisement that ABC company have announced
vacancy for a fashion Designer. I have completed my Bachelor's degree in fashion designing
and also I have done diploma courses in fashion & personal Stylish and Fashion influencer.
I have 2 years of experience of an assistant fashion designer in UK. My resume is attached with
this cover letter for your review.
I will be waiting for an interview call and also for the further discussion of my capabilities and
achievements. I will explain to you in details, what exactly I can do for your brand.
Sincerely yours,
XYZ

Part 3
Current Achievements
While I was graduating in fashion designing, I scored highest in both practical and theory
tests. For this my university appreciated me with a gold medal. I also got selected for an
internship with one of the most talented fashion designer with whom I learnt all skills required to
be good fashion designer.
While I was working as an assistant fashion designer, I got an opportunity to freelance
and make designs for a fashion show. From this event, I grabbed many opportunities that came to
my way.
Improvements
There are many areas of improvements which were noticed by me while I was working,
interning and studying. I am a person who is self dependent and like to do things on my own. I
am a person who do not like other people interfering in my work. The skill which I wish to
improve is of Team work. I want to adopt this skill so that I can work with the team who are
distinguish from each other which will further help me with enhancement of my knowledge.
After doing my self analysis I determined that I am a person who thinks emotionally
instead of taking strict decisions. I want to improve this skill of mine as this would sometimes
land me in trouble. I want to adopt this skill so that I take decisions in future effectively rather
than taking decisions emotionally.
Team work skills can be improved by me by working with team and giving chance to
people with their abilities. This way I will be able to sustain working with team where everyone
will be giving their opinions and the decision making in collective.
To think emotionally is not a problem, but while making decisions one is suppose to take
decisions keeping in mind that it do not harm work or is not against law. Sentiments in work
often leads to making decisions not correct for the company (Bond and Blevins, 2020). Therefore
this skill can be developed only with time by developing intellectual skills.
Identify how to move forward in career development
To move forward for the development of career there are few effective tips which can be
followed. They are :
 By identifying skills and goals an individual wants to achieve.

 Take all the necessary steps required to improve upon skills and reach goals (Lee and
Ritchotte, 2019).
 Learning is continuous and never ending process. It is suggested to always continue to
learn as this helps in keeping oneself updated.
 Build strong network and social relations with people. This helps in getting more
opportunities.
 By improving communication skills, an individual can get more confidence as they can
speak and communicate in better ways with others. This helps in creatine of contacts with
others.
 Staying motivated is also necessary. Being scared or any fear might make an individual
lose certain opportunities. As it is said that being unmotivated often leads to destroying
one's dreams (Hildebrand, 2018).
 Always stay focus on your goals and careers and work on self to achieve them and
develop skills required.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is concluded that, from the personal and professional
development of an individual, one can achieve their career goals. This also helps in self
evaluation of a person that further helps in making of a perfect career plan. When anyone is
stepping into getting jobs or placement, it is important that they draft a CV and send it with cover
letter to the concerned person. This will help them to get desired job for the position they are
looking for. Meanwhile a person can also develop and work upon their skills till there job
application gets a revert.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Dikilitaş, K. and Yaylı, D., 2018. Teachers’ professional identity development through action
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Hildebrand, J., 2018. Bridging the gap: A training module in personal and professional
development. Routledge.
Lee, C.W. and Ritchotte, J.A., 2019. A Case Study Evaluation of the Implementation of Twice-
Exceptional Professional Development in Colorado. Journal for the Education of the
Gifted, 42(4), pp.336-361.
McGill, C.M., Heikkila, M. and Lazarowicz, T., 2020. Professional development, performance
expectations and academic advisors’ perceptions of relational skills: a sequential
explanatory mixed methods study. New Horizons in Adult Education and Human
Resource Development, 32(4), pp.50-69.
Quinn, E., 2019. STEPS: Building a Personal and Professional Development Program for On-
Campus College Student Employees.