University of XYZ: Academic Skills and PDP Development Report

This report, focusing on personal and professional development (PDP), explores the significance of goal setting across short, medium, and long-term objectives. It emphasizes the creation and benefits of a personal development plan, detailing how it aids in career planning, skill development, and achieving desired heights in a chosen field. The report analyzes the impact of an author's credibility, the purpose of a source, its reliability, and relevance on research. It also includes a table of contents, references to books and journals, and a discussion on the effects of teaching abroad and career adaptability. The report provides a structured approach to understanding and implementing effective strategies for personal and professional growth, as well as the importance of evaluating sources.

Academic Skills and PDP

Table of contents
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................2
Task one.......................................................................................................................................2
Task two.......................................................................................................................................4
Task three.....................................................................................................................................5
REFRENCES...................................................................................................................................6

MAIN BODY
Task one
Personal and professional development
The aim of the personal and the professional development is to help the individual to
manage with their own growing and learning through the academic and career path. It is
important for the individual to learn continuously and develop the required skills along with the
appropriate knowledge to stay up to date with the career path and work safely, legally and
effectively.
Short term goal
Short term goals are the mini steps taken for the big goals to be achieved. They help in
eliminating the procrastination. The goals that are accomplished in one year or less are short term
goals. The short term goals allow the individual to focus on one thing as they down clear path to
success. Focusing on one thing at a time helps to keep the individual productive and motivated at
the same time. This also helps the individual in achieving their long-term goals in less time.
Examples are:
 Earning the new certificate for the managerial skill.
 Improving the work-life balance.
 Start a new personal project.
Medium term goal
It is very important to set the medium term goals as a bridge between the short and long
term goals. The goals that can be achieved in three to five years are called medium term goals.
The long term goals provides the best from both the worlds that are long enough so the
individual can make significant progress and short enough so that the individual does not change
into a whole new person by the time the goal is completed. Examples are:
 Graduate from the college.
 Becoming a manger of the specific organisation.
 Earning the amount to buy a house.
Long term goals

The long term goals help the individual to self-improve. The long term goals provide
with the focus where the individual want to be and give something to strive. Long term goals
shape the life as well as career of the individual by providing direction. Long term goals are
important for the career of the individual as they last for the whole working life. The long term
goals help to think and plan about the future and decide the type of education is needed for that.
The long term goals also helps in deciding the jobs an individual wanted to be doing in the
future. For example:
 Save enough for the retirement.
 Want to become the leader in the field of interest.
 Investment in real estate.
Personal development plan
A personal development plan has its own benefits such as it help in planning the career or
changing it completely and building the skills according to the career that needed to be pursued.
The plan can also help in learning new things along with achieving the new heights in the desired
field. The plan provides with well though direction to the goal to ain for along with what needs
to be worked upon. The personal development plan provides an insight and gives clarity. The
plan helps to gain the confidence, self-esteem, motivation, work-life balance and knowledge.
Target How to achieve Resources Target date
Earning new
certificate for
managerial skill.
Enrol into the
university program or
online programs.
University program and
internet.
Six months.
Earning the
amount to buy a
house.
Saving money and
working at the
organisation at a high
paid job role.
Dropping resumes to
high-end organisations
and reducing the
expenses.
Three to five years.
Investment in
real estate.
Searching the best real
estate for making
profit.
Using the internet for
searching real estate
brokers.
Two years.

Task two
The effect of author, purpose, reliability and relevance on the use of the source is:
Author
This helps the reader to look for the author and decide if they are the appropriate for the
consideration of the research. The trusted authors provide with trusted information.
Purpose
The purpose of the source is that it helps the readers to know that the information they are
reading is correct of their research. It also helps in keeping the authors intentions clear. To keep
certain aspects into consideration like is the information given a fact, propaganda, opinion,
personal, political, ideological or religious.
Reliability
This helps the readers to know whether the information used id posted or published. It
can be questioned if the source used is updated or review in the given course of time. The topic
needed the source to be considered according to the current news or latest finding from thee
research.
Relevance
The relevance of the source will impact the rounded research endeavour. It clarifies how
the topic relates to the information provided in the source. The source needs to be focused on the
intended audience. There are many topics and increased access to the information thus, the
relevance helps the reader to know what they are looking for.
Task three
Source Author Purpose Reliability Relevance
Serin, H.,
2017
Serin For defining the
personal and
professional
development.
It is a 2017 journal.
The topic is relevant as
it discuss the personal
and professional
development.
Bocciardi, F.,
Caputo, A.,
Fregonese, C.,
Langher, V.
and Sartori,
Bocciardi Discuss the
personal and
professional
It is a 2017 journal. The topic is relevant as
it talk about the
strategic career

R., 2017. development. development for
personal and
professional
development.
Gustafsson,
L.K., Östlund,
G., Zander,
V., Elfström,
M.L. and
Anbäcken,
E.M., 2019.
Gustafsson Discuss the short
term goals.
It is a 2019 journal.
The topic is relevant as
it talk about the short
term goals in the
development of an
individual life.
Ghassemi,
M., Wolf,
B.M.,
Bettschart,
M., Kreibich,
A., Herrmann,
M. and
Brandstätter,
V., 2020.
Ghassemi Discuss the short
term goals.
It is a 2020 article. The topic discusses
about the motivation
from the short term
goals.
Adams, C.A.,
2017
Adams Discuss the
medium term
goals.
It is a 2017 report. The topic is relevant as
it discuss the medium
term goals as
sustainable
development.
Thew, S. and
Sutcliffe, A.,
2018.
Thew Discuss the long
term goals
It is a 2018
experience.
The topic is relevant as
it discuss the long term
goal.
Kasych, A.
and
Vochozka,
M., 2019
Kasych Discuss long
term goals.
It is a 2019 article. The topic is relevant as
it discusses the role of
long term goals in the
career development.
Bintani, K.,
2020.
Bintani Discuss personal
development
plan.
It is 2020 article. The topic is relevant as
it discuss the
importance of personal
development plan..

REFRENCES
Books and Journals
Adams, 2017. The Sustainable Development Goals, integrated thinking and the integrated
report. Integrated Reporting (IR). pp.1-52.
Bintani, 2020, August. Personal Development Plan as a Guidance and Counseling Strategy in
Higher Education. In 2nd International Seminar on Guidance and Counseling 2019
(ISGC 2019) (pp. 18-22). Atlantis Press.
Bocciardi and et.al, 2017. Career adaptability as a strategic competence for career
development. European Journal of Training and Development.
Ghassemi and et.al, 2020. The dynamics of doubt: Short-term fluctuations and predictors of
doubts in personal goal pursuit. Motivation Science.
Gustafsson and et.al , 2019. ‘Best fit’caring skills of an interprofessional team in short‐term goal‐
directed reablement: older adults’ perceptions. Scandinavian journal of caring
sciences. 33(2). pp.498-506.
Kasych and Vochozka, 2019. The choice of methodological approaches to the estimation of
enterprise value in terms of management system goals. Calitatea. 20(169). pp.3-9.
PLANNING, C., 2018. Personal Development Plan.
Serin, 2017. The effects of teaching abroad on personal and professional
development. International Journal of Social Sciences & Educational Studies. 4(1).
pp.110-114.
Thew and Sutcliffe, 2018. Value-based requirements engineering: method and
experience. Requirements engineering. 23(4). pp.443-464.