Self-Reflection and Career Action Plan for Professional Growth

This report outlines a career action plan based on personal analysis and self-reflection. It begins with an introduction to the importance of personal and professional growth through skill development. A SWOT analysis identifies strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to career development. The career action plan details goals, necessary actions, support needed, and methods for measuring success in areas such as communication, time management, technical skills, problem-solving, and data analysis. The report includes a curriculum vitae (CV) highlighting educational qualifications, work experience, and personal skills. The conclusion emphasizes the role of academic and personal growth in achieving career success and satisfaction. Desklib provides similar resources for students seeking academic support.

Career action plan
and self reflection

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Personal analysis....................................................................................................................1
Career action plan...................................................................................................................1
CV...........................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................2

INTRODUCTION
For the career development and the personal growth, an individual learn various personal,
academics as well as professional skills to strengthen their knowledge, capabilities and self
improvement. Therefore, I have also learned many skills during my academics it made me more
efficient learner. When I have a good academic skills so it will help me in becoming professional
and I will get a good employment and higher salary . I will be less dependent on the other social
assistance. All the the skills which I have learned during may academics help me in building the
confidence level and improve my various skills. In this report I will discuss about the my
personal strength, weakness and the opportunities or threat I have through the personal analysis.
Thereafter, I will explain the career action plan or the skills which I need to improve for the
career development. Moreover, I will make my curriculum vitae to get the job in a reputed
organisation that will be shown in this report.
MAIN BODY
Personal analysis
This is the analysis which can help me in identifying the my strength, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats that I have or impact my career development. Therefore, I have
mentioned my SWOT analysis below to improve my weakness and grab the opportunities that
are around me this is the self evaluation and self reflection that is generally used in higher
education and at the workplace.
Strength Weaknesses Leadership skills: I am having good
leadership skill that can be valuable
asset fort the career development. This
skill help in motivating and guiding
others. It build up the confidence level
and help me in managing the people in
an organisation. This skill make me
able to assign the responsibilities to the
subordinates.
 Time management: I not good at time
management because the work that is
given to me, is not done according to
the time given time or schedule. I
always get late in completing such
work. This can be happen when I not
plan well or so not set the goals that are
prior.
 Problem solving skills: I am also not
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 Teamwork skills: I am good at
working with the team as it helps in
improving the internal personal skills
and provide collaboration with the team
members. This skill help me in sharing
the innovative ideas and the perspective
with the team which can help in
performing the work in an effective
manner.
good at the problem solving skill
because I am having lack of
commitment to solve the problem.
When I try to solve the problem so
sometime it happens that I misinterpret
the situation and which make me enable
to solve or using the the appropriate
method.
Opportunities Threats Manage time: When I learn the time
management skills so I can achieve the
goals easily and get assistance in
prioritise the important work. It also
reduce the stress of work and being
overload. It also prevent me to be
procrastinated and build up my level of
confidence and provide me improved
carer growth. Learn Multitasking: This skills assists
in doing the several projects at once.
This assists in taking the multiple
responsibilities and performing the
various task. This also make me able to
manage time and be more productive
and enable me to provide the positive
attitude to the complex problems. It
make me able to be flexible with the
changing situation and adapt with it.
Distraction : It is a threat for me that my mind
get distract while doing the work so it make me
not able to have good grip over the work some
time I miss the important highlights of the
project work. It reduce the efficiency of the
work.
Low confidence: Due to the lack of
confidence I get confuse while taking the
important decision and not able to perform my
work properly.
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Career action plan
The career action plan will help in identifying my goals that I want to achieve and the
areas that the want to improve and develop to meet the goals. So here, I have made my career
action plan that are delineated as under:
What so I want to
learn?
What do I have to
do?
What support and
resources will I
need?
How will I
measure success?
Target time for
review
How to acquire
effective
communication
skills?
I have to register
myself for the
personal
development
class where I can
get the
opportunity to
listen others and
their opinion as
well. I can read
blogs and various
books which help
me in changing
my perspectives.
For registration I
will need
monetary help so
that I will be able
to join the classes
whether it is
online or offline.
Moreover, I will
need some books
which can assist
me in improving
my
communication.
I can make
evaluation of how
much I have
learned or
improved and this
can be done with
the help of my
friends and
family members
whop make ne
aware about my
skills.
Furthermore, I
well ask my
coach of tutor
about the skill
which I have
learned.
I will take 2
months to
improve my
communication
skills.
How to learn time
management
skills?
Firstly, I need to
make plan and
prepare to do list
I need to set the
tasks correctly
under the
I will make
comparison of the
actual time taken
For learning time
management skill,
I need 2 months.
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of the tasks which
I have to perform
in a day and I will
prioritise my task
which is more
important to
work.
guidance of my
mentor so that I
enable myself to
complete the task
in time.
with the standard
time to measure
the difference and
also take
feedback from
the mentor.
How to improve
technical skills?
To improve the
technical skill, I
need to join the
computer skills
and ask to the
developer to set
sites through
which I can learn
coding.
I can take the help
of the developer
and join the
online tutorial to
embrace the
knowledge of
variety of
software.
I can take the help
of the developer
to analyse my
learning skills and
get his feedback
to improve my
skills.
I will take 1 year
to learn the
technical skills.
How to develop
problem solving
skills?
It is important to
be an active
listener to analyse
the problem so
that it can be
solves easily.
Therefore, I need
top focus on the
core trouble
which provide
assistance to me
in identifying the
better solution of
the problem.
To analyse the
problem I have
requirement of
the books that
help me in
concentrating on
the single
problem which
can provide hint
to solve it.
I can analyse my
skill with the
assistance of the
instructor or by
solving the case
studies in the
books.
To develop the
problem solving
skills I will
require 6 months.
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How can I adopt
data analytical
skills?
I can learn this
skills by
participating in
different types of
projects that are
based on the data
analysis. All this
provide me clear
framework to
start and learn.
I can join various
online classes or
can learn direct
under the
guidance of the
data analyst.
Therefore, I have
to learn various
tools to get the
analytical skills.
I can work on the
projects and get
feedback from the
guide to know my
deviations and
how much I need
to improve
myself.
This is a critical
thinking skills so
in need at least 1
year to learn.
How can I
improve my
public speaking
skills?
I can take online
classes top learn
public speaking
skills so that it
can help in
building my
confidence level
and encourage me
to confront
people.
I can join some
events like Ted
Talks or
Toadmaster
international to
become a good
speaker. I can
also purchase the
books of the
famous author
like Garr
Reynolds to be a
good or
professional
speakers.
I can evaluate my
performance by
giving the
presentation to
the set audience
which can
provide their
feedback. This
help me to
improve where I
lack.
This skills need at
least 8 months to
be a good and
professional
speakers.
CV
Curriculum vitae
Personal details
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Name: XYZ
DOB: 01-01-1995
Address: London, UK
Email Id: xyz@ info.co.in
Marital status: Single
Mobile no. : [phone]
Summary
Professional Finance manager having knowledge of financial analytics with effective leadership
skills, technical skills and communication skills.
Educational qualification:
Finished MBA from the Oxford University with specialisation Finance
Finished bachelor degree from university of London.
Finished senior high school from international school of London
Finished junior high school from international school of London
Working experience:
Worked as junior finance manager in Toyota company
Personal skills:
Leadership skills
Communication skills
Teamwork skills
Analytical skills
Technical skills
Problem solving skills
Declaration:
I hereby declare that the above mentioned information is true to the best off my knowledge and
belief, if any of the information is untrue I solely liable for that.
Name: ________
Place:_________
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CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it has been concluded that the person growth is essentials for
every students because it helps in career development. This improvement can be made by
learning various skills at the academic level that will also assist in the professional development.
Therefore, the academic skills help the individual in enhancing their skills and cognition which
help in getting the good employment in a reputed organization. The academic skills improve the
confidence level and make me competent to to do the things effectively. The report has stated the
personal analysis of myself which help me in improving my weakness and convert it into the
opportunities. I have also discussed my career action plan which help me in learning the various
skill that provide assistance in developing my career and future growth. The having good skills
make the person successful by achieving the desire skills and the competencies. It also provide
satisfaction when I get the job in a reputed organisation after attaining the learning objectives.
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