Professional Portfolio: Career Development Plan and CV Analysis

This report presents a comprehensive professional portfolio, detailing a career development plan, job-related information, and a CV. The career development plan outlines short-term and long-term objectives, identifying necessary skills and qualifications. The report explores various sources for job information, such as networking, referrals, career websites, job fairs, company websites, and the internet, highlighting the importance of a proactive approach to job searching. The report also includes a sample CV, showcasing the candidate's skills, experience, and education. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of a well-organized portfolio for career advancement, summarizing the key components discussed throughout the report and their significance in achieving professional goals. The report is based on the provided assignment solution by a student for Desklib.

PROFESSIONAL
PORTFOLIO

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
i. Career Development Plan.......................................................................................................1
ii. Job related information...........................................................................................................3
iii. CV..........................................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Professional Portfolio is collection of organised documents and facts which clearly
reflects talent and skills of an individual along with professional growth. It includes personal
working portfolio which is in details and another is Professional Presentation to fulfil specific
need (Grant, 2017). In this report career development plan will be prepared to identify potential
skills and qualifications along with sources for new placements. At last, CV will be prepared so
that response will be send to identified job information.
MAIN BODY
i. Career Development Plan
It is a written document which identifies short and long – term objectives which an
individual have for existing and future job profiles. It is planned and sequence list which contains
formal and informal experiences helps personnel in attainment of personal and professional
growth (Owen and Watson, 2015). The purpose of Career Development Plan is helping
individual in accomplishment of their objectives which also helps organisation to retain
workforce.
Current Education Actions required Time
duration
Required education
School graduation Completed in 2013 N/A Graduation in related
field
High School certificated Completed in 2015 N/A Graduation in related
field
English Language certificate Pending In 3 months Fluent in English
Current Skills Actions required Time
duration
Required skills
Analytical Skills: This is I will be joining online 3months Analytical skills so
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related to ability of analysing
business environment and
identifying opportunities for
growth and development. I
have effective analytical
skills to analyse the situation
and take actions according to
that.
course so that my
analytical skills are
improved. Test will be
conducted at the end of
course so that my
learnings can be
measured.
that a base can be
created to solve daily
and complex issues of
organisation and have
personal and
professional growth.
Problem - Solving Skills:
While working with team and
other subordinates in an
organisation it is important
for team leader to posses
skills related to problem
solving and conflict
management (Middleton,
2019). I have natural
capability to handle issues
and solve problem between
employees and management.
It is required that
personnel come across
more and more issues and
problems in an
organisation so that this
skill can be improved.
For this observation and
conflict management
related skills are required
which can be learnt
during working at
workplace.
N/A Being motivator for
team
Team player: This skills is
related to making decisions
on spot and taking suitable
course of actions to achieve
it. It is required that team
leader know how to be
effective in taking decisions
so that it has positive impact
on team and organisation as
well (DiPaola and Wagner,
There is a need that team
leader is effective in
every situation so that
opportunities can be
exploited which will
resultant as profit for
business and its
operations. Thus for this I
will be attending training
session and seminars to
2 months Good people skills,
conflict resolver,
supervisors, etc. and
all related job profiles
are fulfilled with this
skill.
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2018). enhance my group
dynamics skills and
knowledge.
Excellent Communicator:
This is ability to
communicate formally and
informally so that
information required is not
hindered and workflow is
smooth. My inter-personal
and communication skills are
excellent which has helped
me to communicate
effectively.
To enhance this at
greatest extend it is
required to attend
conferences and practise
public speaking so that as
a team leader I become
more effective.
1 month Public speaking,
motivator, leader
requires good and
effective
communications skills.
ii. Job related information
In old days it was difficult to find a job or information related to it but in present era it
becomes easy to locate job profile for future career (Bala and Venkatesh, 2015). There are
different sources by which job related information can be find out easily, some of them are as
follows:
Networking: There are professional associations which have job information that are not even
advertised on different portals. Some of the tools like LinkedIn, have networks of professional
that gives job profiles and new job openings (Morgeson, Brannick and Levine, 2019). For this
individual need to analyse these sites and have network with these professionals so that they get
complete information about the new jobs.
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Referrals: This is type of incentive that organisation provide to employees for referring
candidate and placing it successful. This is type of invitation that individual gets without even
searching for new jobs. This is win-win situation for employee as they get referral incentive and
organisation without much trouble gets an employee suitable for hob profile.
Career Websites: There are number of career related websites that post new jobs on daily basis
like Monster.com, CareerBuilder.com, etc. These are virtual job boards which are present online
and vast number of job openings can be find out at single websites. Authenticity of job posted
needed to be checked by individual before selection process and there are number of cases of
frauds so individual needs to be cautious (Marivate and Moorosi, 2017).
Job Fairs: These are targeted for particular industry with the help of some recruitment fairs and
contains number of organisation. Such companies gives opportunities to candidate by conducting
interview and selecting individual. There are many options available with candidate to choose
from and work with business so that they have effective growth in their career.
Company Websites: In this individual can make list of organisation they wants to pursue their
career in and visit its official website to find out job profiles. This is one of the effective way to
contact organisation directly and have more chances of selection. There are many companies
who have outsourced their recruitment process and does not post new openings. Thus it is
important that candidates select more than one sources to search for job positions.
Internet: There are number of search engines that contains job openings and related information
so that candidates can find it with less difficulty (Jarrett and Blake, 2017). These are easily
accessible and most widely used for acquiring information related to job profiles and
organisation involved in selection process. I have opted for this source as well so that complete
information about the advertisement post can be identified and I will be able to contact the
recruiter as well.
I came across a job advertisement of Team Leader in KFC with the help of internet
source and find out all relevant information required. The advertisement contains job roles and
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responsibilities, salary structure, incentives, skills and knowledge. This helped me to apply for
this job and send my CV to the recruiter.
iii. CV
CV is short form for Curriculum Vitae which contains information required to get a job
and gives a hint to employer about skills and experiences individual posses. It also outline
personal details which helps recruiter to find out hobbies, interest and other information related
to background of candidate.
Jane Doe
Customer Assistant Melt Room, London, UK
[e-mail]
202-555-1066
Highly motivated and accountable personnel who is reliable, hard - working, trustworthy team
player with excellent management, inter - personal and communications skills. I have good
command over English, Spanish and Arabic with high adaptability and quick learning skills
along with high interest in restaurant business.
Expertise
 Excellent inter - personal and communication skills
 Good team player and leader
 Effective in problem solving and conflict management skills
 Good in analytical skills
 Excellent customer assistance skills
Professional Experience
Crew Trainer
West One Food (McDonald's) London, UK
May 2015 – November 2017
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Achievements:
 Worked in overall operations of business
 Quality and health or safety controller
 Customer complains handling
 Cashing and counting safe
Team Leader
Andrews House Hotel London, UK
September 2015 – February 2016
Achievements:
 Responsible for customer service
 Trainer for new customer service employees
 Working with management for effective flow of information
 Performing market research
Customer assistance
Melt Room, London, UK
November 2017 – Present
Achievements:
 Assisting in food preparation
 Controlling quality and hygiene
 Customer service
 Ensuring high standards of quality and services for customer
 Controlling and Replenishing stock
Education
 Certificate of school graduate from IES Monte Miravete, Spain (2009 – 2013)
 High School Certificate from IES Beniajan, Spain (2013 – 2015)
 English Language certificate EtL Recruitment London (2015 – Present)
Additional Information
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 Arab and Spanish spoken
 reading different novels and newspaper
 Responsible and positive attitude
This CV will be forwarded to KFC official websites as I have personal interest in restaurant
business and want to pursue for future career in this sector as Team Leader.
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from above report that Professional Portfolio is organised documents
which reflects skills and knowledge of individual which helps them to get career growth. Career
development plan is written document that helps personnel to develop skills required for job
profile in an organisation and also include actions taken to achieve the same. There are different
sources by which job related information can be obtained like internet, referral, company
websites, job fairs, etc. CV is written documents which represents skills, knowledge and personal
information of candidates for employee.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Bala, H. and Venkatesh, V., 2015. Adaptation to information technology: a holistic nomological
network from implementation to job outcomes. Management Science. 62(1). pp.156-
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DiPaola, M. and Wagner, C. A., 2018. Improving instruction through supervision, evaluation,
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Grant, J., 2017. The good CPD guide: A practical guide to managed continuing professional
development in medicine. CRC Press.
Jarrett, J. and Blake, M. B., 2017, June. Interoperability and Scalability for Worker-Job
Matching across Crowdsourcing Platforms. In 2017 IEEE 26th International
Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
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Marivate, V. and Moorosi, N., 2017, August. Employment relations: a data driven analysis of
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Middleton, H., 2019. How to build your professional portfolio (and why you
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Morgeson, F. P., Brannick, M. T. and Levine, E. L., 2019. Job and work analysis: Methods,
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Owen, K. and Watson, M., 2015. Building your portfolio: the CILIP guide. Facet Publishing.
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