Professional Study Skills: Career Goals and Development Analysis

This assignment is a comprehensive self-assessment and development plan focused on professional study skills. The student conducts a personal and professional development analysis, identifying strengths (like a patient and calm nature, innovative thinking) and weaknesses. It outlines current and future academic and career goals, with an emphasis on acquiring skills essential for a marketing manager role, such as communication, decision-making, and customer interaction. The assignment details academic, professional, and transferable skills, including principles of accounting, marketing management, and leadership. It includes a personal analysis of strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and results, along with a professional value statement, personal mission, vision, and values. An action plan with timelines and resources is provided, along with short, medium, and long-term goals, all aimed at achieving success in a marketing career. The student emphasizes honesty, ethical conduct, and customer-centric approaches, with references to relevant academic literature.

Running head: PROFESSIONAL STUDY SKILL
Professional Study Skills
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
Author’s Note:

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I want to be successful in life and establish myself at one of the very well known and
established corporate position like a marketing manager. I will be acquiring a set of person al
and professional skill. I will have to make an in-depth personal and professional development
analysis in order to know the areas of strengths and weaknesses that are present within my
personality (Nash 2015). There are many different skills like the professional, transferrable
and academic skills. This assignment has dealt with the academic, career, personal and also
the professional skills that are already present within me and the ones that I want to acquire in
the future (Morschett, Dchramm-Klein and Zentes 2015).
Skills required for achieving current goals
Skills needed Current goals
Patient and calm nature for learning all the
lecture materials
Domain knowledge
Working over the confidence level Decision making capacity
Current academic and career goals
year Current
academic goal
Current
career goal
Future
academic goal
Future
Career
goal
recommendations Time
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To work over
the
communication
skills
I have to
work over
my
interaction
skills
To study all
the skills that a
modern
marketer needs
I will like
to make
my
customers
very
happy
I will be taking
part in many of the
communication
classes as this will
be helping me to
grasp the
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with my
work
communication
skills.
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Solving the
customer
complaints
In order to
do this I
have to
work over
my domain
skills as
well.
I will be
studying about
all the skills
like product
specification,
sales
communication
skills and
others.
I will be
trying to
solve the
customer
complaints
without
taking
help from
my
colleagues
In order to do this,
I will be making
sure that I am
enriching my
domain skills.
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Increasing my
innovation
skills
I will have
to work
over my
decision
making
skills and
also make
sure that I
am being
able to
suggest
many
newness
My academic
goal for the
future is to
make sure that
I am learning
all the ways in
which I can
become
innovative and
dynamic
I will try
to develop
new and
dynamic
scientific
methods
of
marketing
and
customer
handling
I will try to learn
all the methods of
online interaction
with the
customers.
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and
dynamic
ideas for
the
marketing
approaches.
Academic, professional and transferable skills
The academic skills are a good proficiency in the field of marketing and management.
I will be using all the study guides and lecture notes in order to understand how to be a good
marketing manager. The professional kills like punctuality, honesty, marketing accounting
and others will be very essential for me. The transferrable skills that I have received are
diversity, innovative nature, leadership and management and others. Academic skills that I
have learnt are basic principles of accounting, marketing management, contemporary
business management and many other such contemporary marketing issues.
Lifelong journey and meet you future goals.
In the lifelong journey I will be doing a personal analysis of the strengths, weakness
and the opportunities that can come in future. I will be moving forward in a step by step
manner in order to know that I am being able to achieve the skills.

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Personal Analysis
STRENGTHS OPPORTUNITIES
This will surely help me in the long run. I
think that in order to be contemporary
marketer, it is really very important to make
the customers comfortable (Gerken,
Beausaert and Segers 2016). This is also one
of the most essential lessons taught in the
business studies. In order to become good at
business, I must make sure that I am being
able to develop the methods in which I have
to carry on the business.
I will be using this opportunity to ensure
being capable of using all knowledge that is
enlisted in the contemporary text book. I will
try to use all the modern methods of customer
communication like the snap chat and other
such tools. As far as the business
management studies are concerned, it is
important to make the right use of the
methods that are taught in the class (Bell,
Bryman and Harley 2018). In order to make
use of the lessons, I have to make sure that I
am using all the opportunities like the
valuable tips from marketing officials and
others.
ASPIRATIONS RESULTS
I will try to ensure that I am putting forward
all possible efforts to achieve the position of
a very successful contemporary marketer
(Sultana 2017). In order to do that I will have
to make myself much innovative in order to
make sure that I am being able to connect
This will always help me in improving my
personality. This will help me in providing
the best possible service to the customers.
Bringing about more innovation in the field
of marketing I will; have to deal with all the
modern approaches of connecting with the
customers like snap chat (Morschett,

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with the customers and serve them well. Schramm-Klein and Zentes 2015). This is the
modern scientific methods that will help me
to take the proper feedbacks from the
customers. I will be able to digitalize the
entire process of marketing.
Professional value statement
Personal mission statement
I will ensure that I am always staying true to the rules of the modern marketing. This will
help me to establish myself as one of the good and trusted marketer. I will make it a point
to move forward in a step by step process. As I am a student of business studies, this will
help me in order to become popular among my clients. I will be taking care of the interests
and the desires of my clients and my co workers as well. I will always try to blend the
modern marketing approaches keeping in mind the welfare of the clients.
Personal vision statement
I will make sure that I am not making my own needs superior than the needs of my
customers. I will try to improve my domain skills by making an intense study of all the
lessons that are being taught in my contemporary marketing classes (Gerken, Beausaert
and Segers 2016).
Personal values
I would like to work over my accountability skills so that I can maintain a proper sense of

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responsibility. I am also of a very empathetic nature. This will be helpful for me as I will
be able to take care of all the needs and the requirements of my customers. This will help
me in developing a proper connection with all my clients. I will try to work over my
communication skill (Cottrell 2015). This is one of the most essential personal values that I
need to work upon. This will help me in order to succeed in the long run. This will be very
useful for me in order to flourish in the long run.
(Phadermrod, Crowder and Wills 2019).

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Action Plan
What do I
want to learn?
What do I
have to do?
What support
and resources
will I need?
How will I
measure my
success?
Target
date for
review of
results.
Time
frame
over 12
months
I want to learn
proper
communication
skill
I will be taking
part in the
communicative
classes and
regularly
converse with
my colleagues.
I will be using
several
resources like
concentration
increasing and
meditation
classes.
I will ask my
friends
10th May.
Feedbacks
to be taken
on 25th
June
3months
I will be trying
working over
the decision
making
practice
I ensure that
working over
my decision
making power
I will try to
work over my
level of
confidence. I
often suffer
from low
confidence.
Thus I will try
to work on the
I will ask my
friends and
my
colleagues to
rate the
progress that
I am making
over then
months
11th May,
2022
Review
Date on
24th June,
2022
3months

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same.
I will work on
my honesty.
As a marketer,
I will be
studying all the
business
management
tactics
properly. I will
be able to
make sure that
I will never
become
greedy in any
of the works
that I am
taking up. The
business
management
study always
stresses on the
code of ethics
and how to
work on the
same. The
study of the
business
management
has taught me
that I have to
maintain a
transparency
within my
personal gains
and my
I will be
collecting
proper
feedbacks
and reports
from the
colleagues
This will help
me to make
sure that.
Within 20th
July.
It will be
reviewed
on 23th
July.
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clients. In
other words, I
must not use
any dishonest
means to
satisfy my
interests.
As a modern
marketer I will
have to work
over my
knowledge of
handling the
scientific tools.
taking part in
many of the
scientific hand
ling and
scientific
management
tools
Work over all
my
drawbacks.
Maintaining
track of
performance
record.
10th April,
2020
Review
Date on
24th May,
2020
3months
Personal Objectives
Short-term goals (next four months)
In order to do that I will have to be of a very convincing nature (Burns and Dewhurst, 2016).
I will have to make sure that I am not playing with the emotions of the customers just in order

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to increase my sales. I will have to maintain the ethics of contemporary marketing and make
sure that I am being clear in describing about the details of a product.
Medium Term Goals (next 2 – 3 years)
I will have to work over my level of courage. This will help me to speak for that what is right.
I will have to learn to stand for my own sake and also for those that are right. I will not back
step just in order to save my own personal interests.
Long Term Goals (following 3 to 5 years)
I will make sure that I am working on myself to develop the qualities of commitment and
honesty towards my work. In the long run, I will make sure that I am being able to make
myself much more organized and capable. I will try to work over all the weakness that are
present within my persona and make sure that I am being able to establish myself as an able
contemporary marketer. As far as the business study is concerned, commitment is one of the
major aspects. This is useful because without proper commitment and honesty it is not
possible to go forward in the long run. In order to carry on the business properly, I have to
make sure that I am keeping up my loyalty and my honesty on my work. I will make sure that
I am not harming the customers in any way. On the other hand, I will make sure that I am

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staying honest to all the endeavours that I am putting forward in the long run.

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Appendix
What are my
development
objective
Activities I
need to
undertake
Resources I
need
Target date
I will learn the
modern means
of marketing
Go through all
the
contemporary
marketing
materials
Books and
lecture notes
7th june
Working over
my
accountability
I will undertake
many group
and project
activities
Projects and
group based
activities
9december
Develop my
empathetic
nature
Team
communication
, interpersonal
communication
Group
discussions.
8thnovember