Self-Reflection Report: Professional Practice Preparation Module

This report provides a comprehensive self-assessment, exploring the student's strengths, weaknesses, and professional development needs. It begins with self-reflection exercises focusing on personal goals, values, attitudes, responsibility, competitiveness, self-confidence, leadership, persistence, and employability skills. The student identifies key personal attributes, including organizing, socializing, communication, creative, and cognitive skills, along with identified strengths. The report then details areas for professional development, such as managing pain and anxiety, gaining team experience, and improving English language proficiency, and proposes strategies to address these challenges. The analysis is geared towards preparing the student for a career as a Business Analyst and emphasizes the importance of self-awareness in career planning.

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Professional Practice Preparation

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Self-Reflection Exercises...........................................................................................................3
Exercise for Personal Goals...................................................................................................3
Exercise concerning Values and Attitudes.............................................................................3
Exercise for Sense of Responsibility and Competitiveness...................................................3
Self-Confidence Exercises.....................................................................................................3
Leadership and Persistence Exercises....................................................................................3
Exercises concerning Employability Skills............................................................................4
Personal Attributes and Employability Skills............................................................................4
Identified Strengths....................................................................................................................6
Professional Development Required..........................................................................................7
Summary....................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
Self-Reflection or Self-Assessment earns needed significance in tracing one’s career path in
that the self-assessment activity contributes in understanding an individual’s strengths and
weaknesses. It also helps to understand and evaluate one’s interests, potentials, attributes,
expertise and certain other innate qualities that thereby help the person in effectively making
the right career choice. Informed choices made regarding one’s career in terms of matching
skill requirements with one’s ability and interest potentially contributes in generating needed
productivity and efficiency in the long run.
Self-Reflection Exercises
Exercise for Personal Goals
The exercise for personal goals contributed in evaluating and matching my goals with my
personal profile. It helped me in matching my interests with the goals in focus.
Exercise concerning Values and Attitudes
The exercise concerning values and attitudes helped me in evaluating that the degree I am
pursuing is very relative for helping me get a Business Analyst job in Turkey. It also helped
me in prioritising objectives and in maintaining an effective study-work-life balance.
Exercise for Sense of Responsibility and Competitiveness
This exercise helped me in evaluating my leadership traits during my study tenure and
reflected my potential in shouldering needed responsibility. It also reflected whether I was
acting in a competitive and coordinated fashion.
Self-Confidence Exercises
This test helped me in understanding my level of self-confidence while interacting with
others and in dealing with life.
Leadership and Persistence Exercises
This test helped me in evaluating my leadership and persistence qualities while working out
with my study, personal and work life.

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Exercises concerning Employability Skills
This exercise focused on evaluating and judging my personal attributes and other personal,
interpersonal, organizational, communication and a host of other skills.
Personal Attributes and Employability Skills
1. Organising Skills
I have developed different types of Organising Skills that are enumerated as follows.
1.1 I have learned how to manage and allocate time for conducting of different tasks
pertaining to an organisation.
1.2 I have also learnt in setting of goals and objectives, designing of targets and also in
allocating needed resources for helping in its effective accomplishment within a
stipulated period.
1.3 I have also understood the fashion through which the work can be detailed along
different steps and procedures such that effective focus can be given along each step.
1.4 I have also developed the ability in taking decisions in a precise and efficient manner
to avoid the chances of disruptions.
1.5 Further on, I have developed my skill and ability in coordinating and managing work
through working based on a bird’s eye view. It thus helps me in overseeing the tasks
from different aspects.
1.6 I have also developed the ability in not only managing but also in motivating others
for steady and effective fulfilment of departmental and institutional objectives.
1.7 I have also gained the ability of planning and scheduling the work and thereby in
leading and directing the actions of subordinate staffs for its needed fulfilment.
1.8 I have also become apt in signing and also in initiating different work contracts.
2. Socialising Skills
2.1 I have developed on skills in encouraging subordinate staffs and thereby also in
monitoring, evaluating and also in criticising their actions for bringing about needed
perfection regarding meeting of group and institutional goals.
2.2 Moreover, I have also developed on networking and partnership skills with different
external parties for faster accomplishment of tasks.
2.3 I have also developed my ability for dealing and communicating effectively in group
settings.

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2.4 I have also encouraged the growth of teamwork and also operating in a collective and
cooperative fashion in the organisation.
2.5 Further, I have also learnt the manner by which the responsibilities concerning the
accomplishment of different tasks can be rightly shared between group members.
2.6 I also understood the significance of gaining feedbacks and suggestions from
colleagues and subordinate staffs regarding the accomplishment of complex tasks.
2.7 I have also developed my skills regarding evaluating and assessing the actions of
others for the fulfilment of departmental and organisational objectives.
2.8 I have also learned the process of countering and dismissing the emergence of
internal conflicts and also in empathising with the needs and wants of others.
3. Communication and Linguistic Skills
3.1 I have developed needed confidence in expressing to others my own opinions, views
and feelings.
3.2 I have also developed my orating skills for communicating effectively in verbal
fashion to members in large and middle sized groups.
3.3 I have also learnt to become an active listener to feedbacks and suggestions rendered
by group members and thereby also render counter feedbacks to them.
3.4 I help in clarifying the doubts and queries brought about by subordinate staff
members and also act in a non-verbal fashion in cues along certain moments.
4. Creative Skills
4.1 I constantly have a perception of likeliness in things that are apparently not the same.
4.2 I have developed the ability in dealing with analogues.
4.3 I have also developed certain intuitions that help in formulating visions.
4.4 I have also learnt in not being reactive but proactive and also developed my intention
in learning from others.
5. Cognitive Skills
5.1 Gained the ability in collecting, selecting and even in ordering the data.
5.2 Analysis of the information gained
5.3 Ability to discriminate and to judge and evaluate.
5.4 Developing on brainstorming and problem solving skills
6. Contingency Skills
6.1 Having the capability to respond effectively to external changes
6.2 Adjusting and adapting to new changes and changes in group settings.
6.3 Capacity to improvise

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6.4 Applying new ideas and concepts.
7. Self-Managing Skills
7.1 Increased self-awareness
7.2 Ability to operate in an independent manner
7.3 Development of self esteem and self confidence
7.4 Evaluation and appraisal of self.
Identified Strengths
Strengths
 Aggressive in conduct
 Friendly and Socialising
 Prioritising on meeting of objectives
 Flexible and ability to coordinate
Demonstration of Strengths
 While working as a manager I took an
aggressive decision of changing the
supplier for generating needed
savings. Though my action spurred
needed controversy initially yet
subsequently my superior agreed with
me for being able to save.
 I can easily and readily interact with
strangers and this helps me in gaining
new insights for developing on my
career.
 I can effectively plan on meeting
objectives both regarding my
domestic and professional fronts. This
helps me in meeting the needs of both
family and organisational members.
Similarly, I strike a balance between
my study and work life to excel in
both.
 I focus on maintaining an effective
work-life balance. I effectively
managed and coordinated between 12

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 Leadership ability
 Personal Motivation
 Ready to take up responsibility
 Working honestly and in a
manipulative manner
 Good communication and convincing
skills
times of swimming training per week
with studying and also in taking care
of needs of family member. Similarly,
between studies I effectively manage
around 2-3 hours daily for feeding
birds in a row of 5 times.
 When as a student, I generally played
the role of a group leader and thus
managed the activities of the group
for fulfilment of group objectives.
 I personally motivated myself to work
in a stricter and harder fashion for
training myself to become a good
swimmer. I have worked tirelessly in
a self-motivated manner.
 I am always ready to take up new
responsibilities without waiting for
others to come forward for
shouldering and sharing the tasks.
 I focus on working in a honest
manner for setting example before
others. However, I also focus on
acting in a tactful and manipulative
fashion for effectively meeting task
objectives.
 I can easily communicate and share
effective ideas with other group
members and also help them in
earning insights from diverse
experiences. I also can judge and
evaluate interests and expectations of
individuals and thereby convince
them to act in fulfilling stated
objectives.

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Professional Development Required
1. Problem regarding Pain Control Management
I am suffering from potential pain for which I had been taking pills for a long time. I
have become addicted to Codeine. Sometimes can’t go to classes or work without
taking Codeine. Along with pain I suffered from needed anxiety regarding controlling
and reducing it. It affected my study leading to failure. Of late I have reduced the
number of pills and have passed the level.
Strategy
I need to join yoga and meditation classes which would help in reducing the pain and
also reduce the level of anxiety. It would help in increasing productivity and
performance.
2. No experience in studying and interacting within a team.
I do not have prior experiences in performing within a group or team setting like
studying in groups or in getting involved in community activities.
Strategy
I need to join scouts and cadet groups such that working with them would help me
gain needed experience in performing within a group. It would help develop my
cooperative and interactive skills.
3. Learning English in an effective and professional manner.
I felt it quite hard to learn English during the initial stages, however subsequently it
became quite easy for me though I still need to develop more.
Strategy
Need to join some Business English education programs conducted by British Council
or to enrol for programs like IELTS and TOEFL to enhance the language skills.