Professional Career Development Report: HR Manager Role Play Analysis

This report delves into the professional career development of an HR manager, emphasizing the importance of specific skills and knowledge. It begins with an introduction to career development, highlighting self-assessment, career exploration, and employment strategies. The main body focuses on the role of an HR manager within a company, underscoring the significance of communication, decision-making, and problem-solving skills. It also covers the knowledge required in areas such as administration, personnel management, and information technology. The report includes a personal SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, followed by SMART goals to facilitate skill development. A detailed personal development plan is presented, outlining strategies and timelines for achieving these goals. The conclusion reiterates the importance of these skills and knowledge for effective performance in an HR manager role.

PROFESSIONAL
CAREER
DEVELOPMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ........................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES ........................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
It is very important to develop the individual for its career professionally. The professional
career development is a kind of course which is designed to give the early start on a process of the
career planning and the development. This process involves the thoughtful self assessment, the career
exploration, the planning and the follow through with the preliminary strategies of the employment.
Career development refers to the management of the self career in the inter organisational or intra
organisational scenario (Wolniak, 2017). This process involves training on the new skills, moving up to
the higher responsibilities of the job, making he change in career within the same company, shifting to
other organisation or starting up a new business of the own. There are many kinds of career
development which includes career awareness, goal setting, career management, self assessment and
skill development. This report shall deal with the reflection the role play of HR manager and a personal
development plan.
MAIN BODY
For a career development, the process begins with a company where an individual is hired.
Every organisation possess with the skilled staff which is recruited and selected by the most important
functionary of the firm. It is the Human resource department (Sarsby, 2016). The HR manager is
entrusted with most important role to manage the asset of the company which is Human resource. It is
important that the human resource manager must possess with the requisite skills and knowledge which
make their work effective.
As an individual, my career planning goes to the direction of role play of the human resource
manager. As a human resource manager there are some skills and knowledge which must be in me in
order to make my working efficient. The skills and knowledge required by HR manager are discussed
below-
Skills
These include the ability to do something in an effective manner. The HR manager must possess
the following skills-
• Communication skills- The HR manager must have the ability to express itself clearly in both
verbal and non verbal form. As a HR manager, a lot of talking is involved as the team as the HR
as to communicate the rules, regulations, policies to the employees so that they can work with
the ethics and culture of the company. Moreover, it has communicate the goals of the company
in order to make them for it. The HR manager has to deal with the issues and conflicts of the

employees, whether related to work or not. This brings trust and confidence in them and makes
their relationship healthy and positive. So HR manager must possess this skills (Lejeune,
Beausaert and Raemdonck, 2018).
• Decision making skills- There is a lot of decision making involved in the work of HR. for
instance, it has to decide during the recruitment process as to which employee is better for the
company. Moreover, it has to decide on the conflict or issue of the employees so there is a need
of the efficient and sound decision maker in the HR so that it can support the critical
organisational functions also.
• Problem solving skill- This skill requires the HR manager to possess with the skills of
identifying the critical problem and review the related information in order to develop the
option so that solution can be implemented (Beygi and Gholipour, 2016).
Knowledge
It is the information, facts and skills acquired through the education or the experience. The HR
manager must possess the knowledge of the following-
• Administration and management- The HR manager must have the knowledge of the business
and the administration so that it can apply those principles in the strategic planning or resource
allocation and human resource so that the management of the company can be handled well.
The HR manager must have the knowledge of leadership so that it can lead the team and
coordinate with them effectively in order to bring out the positive outcome (Tuan, 2019).
• Personnel and human resource- The HR manager must possess the knowledge of recruitment
process, training, development, benefit, reward, compensation and many other so that it can
manage the human resource of the company effectively. The knowledge of these principles is
must in order to make their functions efficient and productive.
• Information and technology- As the new digital era is flourishing, every work has now
reduced the manpower and made the work computerized. So the HR manager must have the
knowledge of IT so that it can manage its data and information through the computer software
and hardware in order to maintain privacy and secrecy (Stewart, 2016).
As I have to get prepared for the employment of the role play of HR manager, I must acquire
the following skills and knowledge so that I can get ready to obey my obligations and responsibilities
efficiently. I have good communication skills which helps me in my overall personal and professional
development. I have fluency in verbal communication but somewhere I lack in the non verbal
communication which involves studying the body language or the gesture of the people. To get myself
ready for this role play, the personal SWOT analysis is explained below so that I can get to know my

skill gaps and work on filling those lacunas.
Personal SWOT analysis:
It is the evaluation of the personal strength and opportunities which helps in overcoming the
weakness and threat. It includes strength, weakness, threat and opportunity of the individual (Lopez-
Cabrales, Bornay-Barrachina and Diaz-Fernandez, 2017). The personal SWOT analysis is discussed
below-
Strength
• My major strength lies in the verbal
communication skill which helps in
delivering my information and message
effectively.
• Another strength of mine is personnel and
human resource as I have knowledge of
leadership technique which helps me in
leading and directing the groups and teams
as a HR manager..
Weakness
• My weakness lies in the decision making
skill as I tend to get confused while
making decision which results in delayed
decision and work. This affects the
efficiency of the work.
• Another weakness is that I lack
administration and management
knowledge where I do not have good
command on the management principles
Opportunity
• According to me, I must grab the
opportunity to develop the problem
solving skill so that I can handle the issues
and solve them with effective decisions.
This will help in enhancing my
productivity as a HR manager.
• Another opportunity for me lies in
information and technology knowledge so
that I can work non manually and work
effectively with the use of computer. This
opportunity will also help me in working
with technology so that I can become
technology savvy.
Threat
• The major threat for me is the competition
in the market as every person has now
become career oriented and wants to work
one step ahead of everything so
competition is my biggest threat.
• Another threat is the dynamic market
condition which changes every now and
then. At one point there lies need of one
thing and the next moment the demands
changes which work as a threat to
professional career development.
Skill audit

Skill and
knowledge
Poor Average Good Excellent
Communication
skill
*
Decision making
skill
*
Problem solving
skill
*
Information and
technology
*
Administration and
management
*
Personnel and
human resource
*
SMART GOAL
These are the elements of the goal which involves specific, measurable, realistic, achievable and
time bound. It provides clarity, motivation and focus which is needed to achieve the objectives and
goals (Chowdhury and Miah, 2016). As I want to get prepared for the role play of HR manager, the
SMART goals will help me in improving the ability to reach these goals as it will encourage me to
define the objectives and set a date for its completion. The SMART goal is discussed below for
establishing the employment goals-
Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic Time bound
I want to acquire
the decision
making skill.
The ability to
acquire this skill is
8 out of 10.
This skill shall be
achieved by
practice. I will test
my ability to take
decision on the
hypothetical
This skill will be
acquired by
reading books and
journals so that
technique can be
learned to take
This will be
acquired in 3
months.

Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic Time bound
scenarios so that I
can develop it
through practice.
decisions.
I want to develop
the knowledge of
administration and
management.
The ability to
achieve this
knowledge is 9 out
of 10.
It will be achieved
by undertaking a
training to learn
the principles of
management.
This will be
acquired by
reading books of
management.
Time required to
develop this skill is
6 months.
I want to acquire
the knowledge of
information and
technology.
The target ability
to develop this
knowledge is 10
out of 10.
This will be
developed
undergoing a
diploma course to
understand this
concept and
subject.
It will be
developed by
reading books and
journals.
The time taken its
development is 6-
12 months.
Personal development plan
In order to achieve these goals, SMART plan is discussed above which will help for the
professional career development, I believe that these SMART goals will help in my professional
development and a personal development plan will help me further in my growth and success. So in
order to get ready for the role play of HR manager and fill the skill gaps for it, a personal development
plan is discussed below-
Skills Current ability Target ability Development
opportunity
Judging
criteria
Time frame
Problem
solving skill
My current
ability is
average.
My target
ability is high
for this skill.
I will develop
this skill by
reading books
and journals of
the expert
authors so that I
This
development
process shall be
judged by the
peers and
colleagues who
3 months

Skills Current ability Target ability Development
opportunity
Judging
criteria
Time frame
can learn the
tricks and
techniques to
solve critical
problems.
will give me
feedback
regarding my
progress.
Decision
making skills
Current ability
is poor.
It is high. I will acquire
this skill by
practising my
ability on
hypothetical
situations and
also read book
and articles of
expert authors.
The result from
my decision
will check my
progress.
Moreover, the
feedback from
peers, superiors
will help me
further.
3 months
Information
and technology
knowledge
The current
ability is
average.
my target
ability is high
fo acquiring
this knowledge.
I will develop
the knowledge
of information
and technology
by undertaking
a diploma
course which
will help me in
my overall
learning.
My judging
criteria for this
will be result of
my diploma
course.
6- 12 months.
Administration
and
management
My current
ability is poor
in this
knowledge.
My target
ability id high.
I will acquire
this knowledge
by undergoing
a training
session so that I
My judging
criteria is result
from training
session and
feedback from
6 months.

Skills Current ability Target ability Development
opportunity
Judging
criteria
Time frame
learn the
principles of
management.
Moreover I will
read books of
management
for further
enhancement.
sub ordinate,
colleagues and
peers.
For the role play of HR manager, the skills and knowledge which I have is communication skill
and knowledge of personnel and human resource. I have many skill gap which is necessary for filling it
so that I can become efficient in my working. These skills and knowledge will help making me ready
for this employment.
CONCLUSION
It is concluded from this report that it is important to possess the requisite skills and knowledge
for the role play of HR manager. The skills required includes communication, decision making and
problem solving skills and the knowledge required includes administration and management, personnel
and human resource and the information and technology. In order to examine the current skills and
knowledge, personal SWOT is done and with the help of it, skill gap is identified and SMART goals
are made t achieve the employment goals. To get ready for this role play, a personal development plan
is made for the overall professional career development.

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