Professional Career Development: Analysis of Future Goals Report

This report provides a comprehensive overview of a student's professional career development journey, focusing on future goals and action plans within the field of management. It begins with a reflection on the student's interests and awareness, followed by a detailed action plan outlining steps to achieve career aspirations. The report explores career planning, including financial goals, job preferences, and the ultimate aim of starting a retail business. It also discusses employer expectations, highlighting the importance of honesty, hard work, listening skills, and time management. Furthermore, it examines self-motivation factors, such as dreams, peer groups, and personal achievements. The report concludes with a SWOT analysis and a plan for personal development, demonstrating a clear understanding of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats within the context of career advancement. The student's ambition is to work for multinational companies and start a retail business.

Professional Career
Development Future
Goals

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
Reflection.....................................................................................................................................3
Career planning............................................................................................................................4
Employers want............................................................................................................................5
Self motivation.............................................................................................................................6
Personal development..................................................................................................................6
Employment goals........................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Acquiring skills and learning are the continuous process. Human beings grab the skills
and knowledge in the field in which they have the interest. They prefer to choose that path for
life as a profession in which they think they are good at and have forte. I also have acquired
various skills and knowledge to pursue my profession. I always wanted to pursue for
management and has a dream to start something of my own. To pursue for my management
degree I got enroll in a good college and acquired a job of retail assistant in Redlux Company.
This report discusses about my experiences, skills and knowledge which I have to acquire during
this course of time. This also discusses about my personal development plan, career plans,
factors that the employer expected from employees, employment goals and etc. Apart from this
self motivation and its related factors also included in the same.
TASK
Reflection
Every being makes plan about his personal development. In that plan he considers all the
skills and the learning he need to acquire for this professional. An action plan needs to consider
in which I have stated all the skills and knowledge which I need to acquire (Reynolds, 2017). This
action plan got prepared by considering the following:
My particular interest: Since the starting I have a keen interest in management. I like to manage
my things and time table. It was very much clear from my side that I need to perform something
in the field of management only as I believe I can do better. All my actions were taken with
respect to my interest for management only.
Awareness: Awareness is the knowledge which I have regarding the course which I will go to
pursue (Anderson and McCormack, 2018). Also it includes how will I take the actions, what actions
can lead me to my final dest8ination and the like.
Current skills: The action plan was also set by introspecting my current skills which I posses.
When a person knows about his skills which he possess currently, then according to that he can
set the skills which he needs to work upon and the new skills which he required to acquire.
Economic and Political factors: The economic and political factor includes the demand of the
management profession. The issues which can be faced in this profession due to the political
factors such as rules and regulations of the government change in the study course and the like.
The action plan which I made was as follows:
What do I want What I will do
by achieving it
Resources need Criteria for
success
Target dates for
start and
complete
Preparing for a I would get Coaching classes Getting enroll 20 dec 2019 to

good
management
college
enroll in studying
management in
good college.
which can
provide me with
good learning so
that I can clear
my entrance
exam
into a good and
prestigious
college.
20 april 2020
Communication
skills which
includes both
written and oral
Through the
regular practice
of verbal
communication
Good novel or
reading material
so that it helps
me in generating
the good
communication
style.
When I can
properly able to
communicate
well with
somebody and
also able to
deliver a proper
communication
to the receiver.
30 dec 2019 to
30 april 2020
Analytical and
logical reasoning
By analyzing and
studying more
about various
studies and
arguments.
The effective
books and case
studies which
adds on to the
skills.
When my
decision making
ability would get
good where the
decision which I
have made has
prove to be a
benefit for the
company.
30 march to 31
july 2020
Career planning
While making the action plan I did consider my career and it’s planning about the future.
Career planning is the process in which an individual plans about his career and the path with he
has decided to follow. Career planning is very effective tool as it makes a person more practice
and serious about his professional steps. It also enables a person in getting clear about the next
step which he entitled to take (Zhang and Chen, 2018). I planned my career in such a way that it
helps me in getting the final destination which I have seen for myself. My plan my career in the
field of management. To pursue for the same I required scoring a good score in my graduation so
that I get eligible for getting my application into my college. I managed to get a very good score
in my graduation time and also that helped me in getting a consideration into the management
college. After finishing my graduation I studied very hard for my exam for management entrance
exams. The preparation took a total time of about 4 months. After my preparation I managed to
score the excellent percentile for my management college (Arvanitopoulos, Achanta and Susstrunk,
2017). And as my hard work has shown his results I finally got enrolled into a prestigious college
for my management degree. There I got an internship of retail assistant in Redlux Company
where my job profile or description was to handle the retail related issues, problems or any kind
of grievance. There I learnt a lot of management and leadership styles which my manager or the
boss had. I also learned a lot about the communication styles in both the oral and written. In my

internship I learned about drafting mails there I grab the skills for jargon about the management
terms. This has helped me in getting good at written communication. The drafted the message
and mail with a profession language and style due to which I also gained many good attention of
my manager. After the competition of this internship, I have planned to complete my
management degree with a good score and meanwhile I also will continue to put my resume in
big multinational companies so that I can take a big exposure which will enhance my experience
and skills at a big scale. I have the following goals with the career:
Financial position: I want to grab a job which can stabilize my score of income. I want to earn
that much which can fulfill the rent amount for my living place, my food and clothes expenses
and my other expenses (Asadchy and et al., 2016). My current plan is to take a job in big
multinational company so that I can pay my rent amount properly.
Job which matches with my interest: I will take a job which can help me getting a good and
fruitful experience. This experience will help me in getting future good opportunity so that I
don’t miss much good chance. That job should give me more practical knowledge about
management and administration.
Roles: As per concern with my job, I want to get stick with the roles of management only. For
example in my internship my role was concern with the proper management of retails and issues
related to it. This is giving me a good exposure about the management and I my garnishing my
skills about management. This internship though has also taught me about the leadership and
management styles that which leadership style would be suitable for which situation.
Own Business: After taking the good experience with the MNC, I have planned to open up my
own business of retail chain. In that business I will own an own retail chain of merchandise
shops. The major reason for pursuing my management degree is that I can pursue my dream for
opening up my own business.
Employers want
Learning style refers to the style or the manner which a person adopts to get the things
learns. Different person have different style of learning, it depends on their capabilities, skills,
and their preferences. There are various learning styles available which a person can adopt, one
of which is VAK learning style.
VAK learning style: VAK is an abbreviation for visual, audio and kinesthetic style. Here visual
learning stands for the learning in which an individual learn the lessons or topic through the
visual representation of the same. He thinks that this mode of learning is very much easy and
convenient for him. In audio learning, the individual make thing learn through listening to the
topic or lesson. Through proper listening he makes his learning properly (Beenakker and et al.,
2018). Where as in kinesthetic style an individual make things learns through movements and
touch. He loose the concentration or the topic when he lost his movement or touch upon that
topic.

There are various factors which an employer looks into employees; some of them are as follows:
Honesty: An employer expects the honesty from his employee. He expects that his employee
must remain true to him and tells him all the actual facts and incidents.
Hard working: It is an important factor which every employer looks into an employee. When an
employee is hard working he tends to give more productivity in the organization.
Ability to listen properly: The employee should listen properly to what his employer wants to
say to him. He should not be indifferent towards his employer saying, he should listen to him
properly and also needs to obey it thoroughly.
Time management: Time management is also an important factor which an employee should
have the skills to manage the work and time properly. He should be exercise a balance between
personal and professional life. He must be able to divide the time in such a way that he can
manage to perform the work very properly without having a burden. Through the proper time
management the employee would be able to give proper time to all important factor of work
which would be ultimately beneficial for the organization only (Graham and Walton, 2018).
Self motivation
Self motivation is said when an individual gets motivated by himself without any help of
extrinsic factors for motivation. Motivation can be brought through various factors in an
individual. Different person have different factors for self motivation. I also have some factors
for motivation and which are as :
Dreams: The dreams which I have set for myself has always worked as a motivation for me. My
dream is to open up my own business has always motivated me in performing the work with hard
work. This work as an intrinsic motivation as I myself gets motivated with the dreams which I
have set for myself.
Peer group: When your surrounding people like your family, friends, relatives and etc are doing
great for themselves, this also provides me a motivation for do good for myself too.
My achievements: The achievements which I have acquired work as a motivation for me as they
motivate or insist me to perform more good work and success for myself.
Personal development
Personal development is very much essential as it tells an individual about the skills and
knowledge which can help him in developing himself. The skills and knowledge which an
individual is required to generate can be examined through SWOT analyses (Palmer, 2017). In
SWOT analyses a person gets to know about the strength and weakness a person has in himself.
Apart from this he also gets to know about the threats which he might be able to face and the
opportunities which he has with himself. My SWOT analyses are as:
Strength: Weakness

 Good communication skills.
 Good analytical and reasoning skills
 Management as passion
 I am not quite good in leadership style
 Does not trust in delegating the work.
Opportunity
 Ample opportunities available for
management
 More areas or opportunities to grab
knowledge and skills.
Threat
 Uncertain changes which are coming
into the market place create problems.
 Increase in the level of competition
among people.
From the SWOT perform above, I analyze that I need to work more upon my leadership skills
more so that I can motivate my team to a particular direction. Also I need to develop a trust
among my team members so that I can delegate the work to them.
Employment goals
My employment goals are as:
Gain management knowledge: Through the employment my goal is to learn more about
management so that I would be able to manage all my work and create a proper balance in my
personal and professional life thoroughly (Park and et al., 2017).
Communication skills: The aim is also to develop a good communication skill so that I get
command on both the written as well as oral communication properly.
CONCLUSION
From the reflection presented above, I came out with many skills in which I need to work
upon for example on my leadership as well as delegating skills. This has also helped me in
setting the action plan for my career which I can follow up properly.

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