Personal Development Report: Career Goals and SWOT Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of personal and professional development, focusing on career goals within the hospitality and tourism industry. The student identifies marketing/sales, health, and hospitality as potential career paths, ultimately choosing hospitality due to its growth potential. The report details the student's current skills and abilities through a SWOT analysis, highlighting strengths such as hard work and teamwork, and weaknesses like emotional nature and time management issues. It explores options for progression, including leveraging LinkedIn for networking and professional development. The 'Way Forward' section outlines specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals for improvement, such as enhancing time management and decision-making skills. The report concludes that effective management of skills and abilities is key to future success, supported by references to relevant literature and an appendix including a SWOT analysis summary.

Personal development in
professional setting

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PART 1............................................................................................................................................1
Career goal..................................................................................................................................1
PART 2............................................................................................................................................2
Current Reality............................................................................................................................2
PART 3............................................................................................................................................3
Options for Progression...............................................................................................................3
PART 4............................................................................................................................................4
Way Forward...............................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Personal development is life long process, it way that people use to access their skills and
abilities. This helps to consider the aims in life and set goals in order to realise and maximise
their potentials. Personal development may take place over the course of ban individual that they
use in order to sustain the growth and ability (Cherry, Meyer, Mann, and Meersand, 2020).
Personal development of the person helps to shape future and goals and objectives. Also this
helps person to gain professional growth in life and achieve various goals and objectives.
Personal development also connected with the skills and abilities of the person. This report
include information about career goals and objectives, also it include information about current
reality of skills and abilities that can helps in better growth and achievement of goals and
objectives. Also this include information about various options that person have in order to gain
success and growth in the market. Also it include information about next three steps that specific,
measurable, attainable, relevant and time based.
PART 1
Career goal.
Career goals and objectives refer to the all the choices that person that could help in the
professional growth and achievement of success in life. As a student I select three main possible
career path that can provide me better growth and success in life. Marketing/sales professional,
health professional, and hospitality and tourism professional. My proffered option is hospitality
and tourism profession because in hospitality industry there is huge scope and growth that can
help to gain better career goals and objectives. My skills and abilities to work hard in effective
manner can help me to gain effective growth and success in this sector. Hospitality and tours
professional could help to enhance my career growth and development of my personality in the
competitive environment. Effective skills and capabilities will help to perform all the task in
most effective manner. Hospitality industry could help to enhance my growth and success in the
competitive environment. With the use of effective skills and abilities I can perform all the task
in most effective manner and enhance the level of career path.
Hospitality and tours professional can help me to gain effective working environment
where I can work in effective manner and in enhance my skills and abilities. There are various
profession that I can follow as a career path such as hotel manager, front office manager, food
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and beverage manager, restaurant and food services manager, tours and travel officer etc. this
professions could help in better growth and achievement of goals and objectives. Various option
in the hospitality and tour industry can enhance the level of effectiveness and growth in the
market. This career option can help me to build future capabilities and growth in the market.
Working in the profession hotel industry that can help to gain better future and professional life.
PART 2
Current Reality.
The SWOT analysis of my personal skills and abilities can help me to gain better insight
about the capabilities I have and weaknesses that can cause failure in the achievement of career
objectives and goals. Strength that emerge my career growth and abilities that can help to grow
better and increase the level of effectiveness in the future. SWOT analysis can enhance the level
of my future growth by effectively analysing the goals and objectives in the future. Whereas
analysing weaknesses can measure the effective plan and growth the future. Swot analysis can
enhance the level of effectiveness and growth in the future. My various skills and capabilities is
my strength that can help me to grow effectively and enhance my career path. Also my hard
working skills is my strength that helps me to work on all the task and requirements of the future
so that I can enhance my skills and capabilities in the future. Also my ability to work with the
other team members in effective manner can help me to gain better growth and proficiency in the
future. Also the consideration skills can help me to gain better growth in the market. Work with
the other team members effectively can enhance the level of growth and success in the future.
My weaknesses as per the viewpoint of my friends is I am very emotional person and this
become weakness for me. Also I always focus on perfection and this become time consuming
sometimes. Also according to my friends I have lack of time management skills that cause the
mismanagement of the things and work I have to complete on time. Various skills and abilities
can help me to gain better career goals and fulfil all the requirements of job responsibilities in the
future. To manage all the requirements in most effective manner the main objective of
enhancement and fulfil the gap of weaknesses that can help me to gain better growth in the
future. SWOT analysis and feedback from five friends helps me to understand about the features
and objective of my career path. Personal SWOT analysis also helps me to understand about the
various opportunities in the hospitality and tour industry and this could help me to get right
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career path and future growth. High level of competition in the hospitality industry can impact
the growth and my abilities to get selected in the appropriate job role. Enhancement in the skills
and abilities can help me to gain better growth and achievement of goals and objectives.
Fulfilling the gap between current skills and future growth can help me to gain better growth and
achievement of goals and objectives.
PART 3
Options for Progression.
In the path of personal and professional growth there are various skills and capabilities as
a person can help me to gain successful future and increase the level of effectiveness in the
career path. However there are many weakness or the gap between the skills and expected skills
that can impact my future growth and abilities in the competitive environment. Lack of time
management skills could impact my growth and career path in the future. Also being an
emotional personality it can impact my workplace practices and growth in the future. This gap
between effective future growth and ability can impact my growth and proficiency in the future.
Lack of knowledge and information can also impact my future growth and proficiency. To deal
with this gap I have to practices various task that can help me in the enhancement of goals and
objectives. It could also help to gain better insight about the career goals and objectives in the
market. In my current situation I have lack of time management skills and that could impact my
success as a professional worker. To overcome form the this gap I have to management time in
effective manner so that my future growth can be achieved and it could help me to gain better
insight about all the aim of future that needs to be fulfil.
To fulfil the gap between the actual skills and expected skills and capabilities that can
help to build effective career in the future. To engage my current network I have account on
LinkedIn that can help me to connect with the hospitality business and tours and travels company
to get effective training program that can help in future growth and success. The professional
profile on the LinkedIn could help me to gain better connection and get internship at hospitality
profession that can enhance my growth in the future. Also I have account on social media apps
that can enhance the level of effectiveness and growth in the future and increase the level of
networking and growth.
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PART 4
Way Forward.
Specific Measurable Attainable Relevant Time based
To work in
hospitality and
tour industry.
Enhancement in
the skills and
capabilities.
I have effective
communication
and decision
making skills that
can help me to
grow in the future
and work in the
specific job.
To achieve the
goal in the future
enhancement in
the skills can help
and increase the
level of
effectiveness in
the future.
Effective skills
and talent can
help to gain better
success in
hospitality
industry.
Improvement in
time management
skills can help in
better future
growth and
success.
Enhancement in
the IT skills also
can help in the
future growth and
abilities.
6 to 12 months.
CONCLUSION
From the above information it can be conclude that effective management of skills and
abilities can help in future growth and abilities of the person. Also personal development assist
the individual towards better success and growth in the market. SWOT analysis of the person can
help in the better growth and achievement of goals and objectives. Understanding the weakness
can assist person towards the insight about how to fulfil the gap between the actual skills and
expected skills in the future growth of the person.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Cherry, S., Meyer, J., Mann, G. and Meersand, P., 2020. Professional and Personal Development
After Psychoanalytic Training: Interviews with Early Career Analysts. Journal of the
American Psychoanalytic Association, 68(2), pp.217-239.
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Experience to Professional Development for Athletic Trainers Employed in the
Collegiate Setting. Athletic Training Education Journal, 15(3), pp.194-200.
Hodges, D.Z., 2020. Attend conferences for professional and personal development. Dean and
Provost, 21(10), pp.1-3.
Hui, Y.K., Kwok, L.F. and Ip, H.H., 2019, July. CRESDA: The possibility to personalize
professional development for computer science students. In 2019 International
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Pugh, M. and Broome, N., 2020. Dialogical coaching: An experiential approach to personal and
professional development. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and
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Trodd, L. and Dickerson, C., 2019. ‘I enjoy learning’: developing early years practitioners’
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Appendices
SOWT Analysis:
Strength
 Hard working skills.
 Ability to work with the team members.
 Effective decision making skills.
Weakness
 Lack of time management skills.
 Lack of proper knowledge and
information.
 Emotional and overwhelming nature.
Opportunities
 High growth in hospitality sector.
 Travel and tour operation abilities.
 Opportunity to work in high profile
hotels and tours and travel industry.
Threat
 High level of competition in hospitality
and tour industry.
 Global pandemic situation.
 High level of expectation in hospitality
industry.
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