BMSK4005: Professional Career Development Report for Security Officers

This report delves into the professional career development of a security officer, outlining the essential skills and knowledge required for effective performance. It examines crucial skills like creativity, communication, and teamwork, alongside knowledge areas such as basic security principles, fire inspection procedures, and the use of technical security equipment. The report further explores employment readiness, emphasizing self-sufficiency and career decision-making. It also emphasizes the importance of understanding personal strengths and areas for improvement, culminating in the establishment of employment goals and the development of a comprehensive personal development plan to enhance skill sets. The report provides a detailed overview of the security officer's role, the skills needed to succeed, and the steps required to achieve career progression within the field.

Professional Career
Development
(Security officer)

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Skills and knowledge needed for working effectively................................................................1
Readiness for employment..........................................................................................................4
Understanding of personal strength and areas for further development.....................................6
Further development...................................................................................................................7
Establishing employment goals and develop a personal development plan...............................8
Personal development plan.........................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Professional career development is considered as a most essential aspect of life of every
individual because it determines the step where an individual is progressive with the reference of
one's career (Yarbrough, 2017). In order to initiate entry within the professional work area it is
essential for the personnel in order to possess some required skills and well as knowledge along
with the competencies. These skills are needed to get better access to the professional work area
ans these are essential traits that needed to be possess in an individual's personality to supply
them help in operating businesses in the confines of industry. Several skills are involved in it that
are necessary for individual's in order to execute tasks of organisations. It includes
communication, team working, negotiation, emotional intelligence, conflict negotiation, public
speaking, researching, time management and so on. All these are needed to be have in an
individual so that they can effectively work within a company in a well mannered. In addition,
leadership, strategic through process, presentation as well as many more that are termed as an
advanced skills. In this report the skills and knowledge area which will be required while
opening a company so as to work a security officer will be considered. This report also considers
the readiness for employability as well as personal advancement through which the
determination of strengths and areas of personal and professional development. Lastly,
employment goals are developed in order to develop personal action plan in order to enhance the
skills sets.
MAIN BODY
Skills and knowledge needed for working effectively.
Professional defined as a person who is equipped along with the skills and knowledge to
execute tasks at working premises. Through the increased knowledge as a part of academic life,
it can be said that professional get a chance to showcase their skills at a time of performing in an
organisation (Bocciardi, 2017). This helps individuals to get elevated in their interest field. By
this individual are able to develop their personal as well as professional life from the starting of
corporate life or world. The security officer is needed to be developed their skills and knowledge
as it helps in climbing the ladder of their success. Some of the skills and knowledge of security
officers are discussed as follows:
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Skills
The job role of security officer is difficult to perform as they are expected to deal with the
various situations as they occur and their job is different as per the different industry. For this,
they need several skills for performing their job role. Some of these are as follows:
Creativity:
It is the key requirements of people within the professionals working in every field as it is
required for executing their roles and responsibilities in an adequate manner. It is related to that
kind of traits which shows that people take initiates in order to come up with new and innovative
ideas so that problems can be solved effectively (Savickas, 2019). Being creative at working
environment provides various advantages for professionals because it provides an ability to
develop specific solutions by making use of creative thinking as well as past experience along
with the better usage of information and resources. Creative thinking is termed as a capability of
professionals which looks towards the unique ways to come up with new ideas by the concept of
“out of the box”. Thus it is important that i have creative thinking skills so that i can take my
businesses to the new heights. It will allow me to work within the businesses by devising several
ways to address the issues which emerge during the performance of work. This will facilitate
unique moves and productive directions to the businesses and extremely helpful for me. It
mainly lead towards the saving of cost, efforts and time that helps businesses in enhancing
products and service quality.
Communication:
Professionals operating in the corporate world which requires to have an effective skills
of communication and it is termed as a basic skills which every manager looks up to while
choosing persons to work in their organisations. For performing my job as an efficient security
officer it is important that i have good communication skills that can help me in delivering
information in my company effectively(Neureiter and Traut-Mattausch, 2016). Effective
communication will help me in building a trusting environment in my company so that all the
employees can trust my decisions and all can work together in achieving company’s objectives.
These skills are also required so that information related to security can reach to the concerned
authority on time and will also help me in building a strong brand image of my company.
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Team working:
It is termed as a person’s ability who are effectively working in a team along with the
proper coordination and cooperation with other members of a group. The main aim of all the
members is to accomplish common objectives and goals of entire team by the support and
interest of all members. It can be seen that team working is an essential skill which is needed to
be owned by almost all people who so ever is thinking to work in a corporate world or
environment. As it helps businesses in getting their short and long term goals by implementing
their core skills and strengths of all the team members while working jointly on a single project
(Haslerig and Navarro, 2016). This skill promotes loyalty as well as friendship within the
organisation as it develops strong and positive relationship with all the group members. It will
ultimately result in the motivation of employees in regards of hard work, put additional efforts
for accomplishing organisational goals as well as make them to work in a common direction with
the specific objects so that goals can be achieved quickly. It develops a feeling of support and
cooperation among workers and respect towards each other as they all believe that this type of
skill and behaviour is termed as a key of their growth and success. Thus it is essential that i
develop team working abilities in all the employees who work in my company so that they can
work together in harmony and can help in achieving company goals which is to increase the
safety of all our clients.
Public speaking:
Every kind of corporate jobs like security officer needs specific level of public speaking
as it is not essential that a person requires to provide presentations on a daily basis but it is quite
evident that individual is engaged in a business that has to voice their thoughts as well as
opinions while doing meeting. Public speaking is termed as a required skill that is needed while
communicating information to the huge number of persons in the organisation. All individuals
should have ability to speak with others and present their information clearly in detail to all as
per the requirement of company. It is considered as a imperative trait that must have in an
individual while working in any kind of field and face large number of audience with the full of
confidence. It is thus important that i build my public speaking skills so that i am able to give
information to all my clients confidently without hesitating. This will help me in gaining the trust
of all clients in my company thus building strong reputation of company.
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Knowledge areas
Security officer is responsible for securing the premises and personnel through patrolling
so that buildings, equipments and other valuables can be protected and the safety and security of
premises can be enhanced (Makarenko, Oliinyk and Kazakova, 2019). Knowledge is the
familiarity and understanding about something like facts, information, skills etc. Following are
the knowledge areas of a security officer:
Knowledge of basic security
It is the knowledge which can help security officer in providing safe and secure
environment by protecting the equipments, buildings, institutions, property etc. by having a basic
knowledge about relevant equipments, policies, procedures and strategies so that a secure
environment can be created. It is important that security is promoted so that people working or
living in an area can be protected from any of the discrepancies or foul actions done by unwanted
social elements like thieves, burglars, miscreants etc. (Vondracek, Lerner and Schulenberg,
2019). This can help in preventing mischievous actions from these miscreants like theft of
equipments or other valuables, break ins, murders, abductions etc. It is important that i have a
basic knowledge about how security can be installed in an organisation or premises so that a safe
environment can be created which will help in promotion of healthy, safe and secure working
environment or living premises. It is also required that i develop knowledge about how, where
and when to patrol the areas where i have been appointed to give security. This will help me to
patrol efficiently and secure the environment from any discrepancy.
Fire inspection procedures
It is important the security has knowledge regarding how to prevent and protect building
and premises from fire so that equipments, lives, stock etc. can be saved from burning down
which can lead to loss of inventory of company, loss of lives or valuables etc. in fire. I must thus
have a basic knowledge about fire safety regulations so that these can be followed strictly which
can help in preventing the premises from getting caught in fire (Beerli, 2018). The officer must
also know how to perform the basic safety checks like suppression, electrical checks, flammables
and fire exits. It is also important that the inspector looks for any hazard which can occur due to
fire like inspecting fire lanes, storage of flammable goods, fire protection equipments like smoke
detectors, fire extinguishers etc. so that the risk of fire can be minimised. This knowledge is thus
important which makes officer more capable of protecting premises and doing their
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responsibilities more efficiently. It can be said that while opening a company i must have this
basic knowledge so that the trust if stakeholders can be gained.
Ability to work with technical equipments
The security officer must have a knowledge on using the security technical equipments in
an efficient manner like closed-circuit television, walkie-talkies etc. This can help them in
keeping an eye on any activity which is done by people both inside and outside the premises and
reporting any deviation in the normal behaviour of people to the higher authority so that
appropriate actions can be taken (Furnell, Fischer and Finch, 2017). The CCTVs can help
security officers in monitoring the premises in an efficient manner through effective surveillance.
Walkie-talkies can be helpful in reporting any misshapening within time and to the right higher
authority so that effective steps can be taken in ensuring security of the premises. It is important
that i develop a basic knowledge on how to use the security equipments and techniques so that i
can provide security to all.
Readiness for employment.
Employment readiness defined as a ability of individuals in order to find, gain as well as
maintain the relevant jobs together along with the transitions of new jobs when it is required. It is
considered as a model that is thereby based on some general assumptions that are for becoming
“Employment ready” (ERS?, 2020). There are mainly three goals that are related to the
employability readiness such as follows:
1. Being self sufficient on four factors of employability which prepares security officer
to manage their work life:
 Skills enhancement or can say that individual having skills as well as education for their
work which they want.
 Career decision making or based on knowing that what kind of work is most suited for
them.
 Job search or related to having skills in order to find work.
 Ongoing career management or can say that being able to manage their further changes of
work life.
2. Being strong on five soft skills which help security officer to manage challenges and
perform effectively in their work life:
 Self efficacy or it is related to the sense of being capable to perform in a well manner.
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 Social support means their networks as well as capability to get help and support.
 Job maintenance or it is related to the having a specific set of skills in order to keep their
work once found (Sennewald and Baillie, 2020).
 Outcome expectancy or says that whether or not officer expect to succeed as well as they
are willing to take responsibility for creating that success.
 Work history or related to the feelings of them which they have performed well in their
prior work contexts either paid or unpaid.
3. Understanding the stresses or challenges that they face while working:
 Personal challenges means usually they can address themselves.
 Systematic challenges or can say that they have to be self-addressed on the basis of
community.
 Environmental challenges or it is related to that security officer can manage the
assistance.
According to the above discussion on the employment readiness it has been reflected that
just being self sufficient in the four employability aspects is not adequate. Most of the
individuals encounter various issues as well as challenges that act as a stressor and that can be
impacted if these are not managed in well manner (Vellani, 2019). Security officer deal with
many challenges or hurdles without the proper assistance of handling them that are likely to
struggle in order to secure as well as retain employment if officer is successful in getting a
suitable job. There are five soft skills that help individuals to manage issues in order to perform
business activities effectively that are becoming more important for the better work life. Hereby,
it can be said that all the three models of employment readiness have equal importance that
needed to be considered while gaining access to the professional world.
Understanding of personal strength and areas for further development.
For gaining the access of professional world, an individual as a security officer need to
possess various skills, competencies as well as knowledge which helps in performing daily
operations and working their job role effectively and efficiently (Halibozek and Kovacich, 2017).
As for the professional career development analysis of personnel strength and weakness becomes
necessary for individual to undergo the detail analysis and complete view of their strengths as
well as weaknesses in order to analyse future opportunities and threats. This will assist
professionals in order to examine the improvement area and further construct an developmental
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plan for the purpose of enhancing existing level of those skills and knowledge. In order to
analyse these things the best tool is SWOT analysis that can be used by individual or security
officer. Such are as follows:
Strength and weakness analysis:
Strength and weakness analysis is termed as an essential tool that can be used by me in
order to know about my own strength and weaknesses as it will aid me in gaining the entire
knowledge about myself related to the personality and readiness that will required for getting
entry into the field of my work (Colbert and Kott, 2016). As I am a security officer I have
conduct my strength and weakness analysis to know about the skills which are present within me
so that I can easily deal with the complexities and issues that may emerges within the business
environment.
The analysis of strength and weakness of mine are as follows:
Strengths Weaknesses
 The creativity is one of the biggest
strength of mine that I involve in the
performance of each task in effective
and unique way.
 I have likeliness in order to deal with
the challenges that help me to become a
good person or shows my better
personality (Button, 2016).
 Working in a team oriented
environment is also considered as a
best skill of mine that have facilitate me
to work with team members along with
the better coordination and cooperation
with them.
 I am an enthusiastic kind of person
when it comes to work and I am able to
perform multi tasking with which I able
to complete tasks within the stipulated
 Communicational skill is considered as
a major weakness of myself as I am
lacking in the verbal and written
communication while I am working
that impacts on my personality at a
great extent.
 I was lacking in leading a team due to
the weak leadership quality and ability.
This was creates negative impact on my
strong areas of personality.
 I find out that I am average in problem
solving skills as my personality is
towards the acceptance of challenges
but I lack in solving problems in an
appropriate way (Logan, 2020).
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period of time.
Further development.
For the further development learning styles are need to be identified as it is a model that
was proposed by the Honey and Mumford which can be based on that my personality is more of
a type of reflector learner. It can be said that as I have more believe in observation and reviews
after that I reflect on that what is learnt by me through the experience. When I see others to
execute a specific task, I conduct analysis of it as it is the only then that I can repeat the same. I
do not considered myself as a spontaneous performer and I required huge amount of time in
order to so preparation beforehand (Peltier, 2016). I will use all the identified learning styles in
order to perform effective learning process. This will help me in increasing my level of
confidence that would be required for understanding the changes within the business
environment and thus work hard towards my job role of security officer in order to perform
better role and minimise all the weaknesses.
Establishing employment goals and develop a personal development plan.
Planning as well as development of individual career is most essential aspect of everyone
lives as it allows them to select a better and suitable career, enhancing their skills and knowledge
as well as shifts from one job to another by career development. With the examining of
personality, attitude and aptitude of individual the career development starts which emerges the
requirements to set up employment goals and objectives for the better and lucrative opportunities
for career (Obedgiu, 2017). Assumption of these kind of goals normally is comprehensive of
deciding the base of skills and knowledge that needed to be developed, assume financial
objectives, determination of requirement of stability as well as development of vision in order to
gaining several types of new experiences. It is requisites for all persons to set up some goals
before gaining the access in professional and career world. Employment goals that are
established by me in order to develop my skills and knowledge towards the effective
performance of security officer as a job role. It can be considered as follows:
“To improve my employability skills within 6 months so that I can be able to handle all
the issues and challenges that are being faced by me at a time of performing job role and
develop my entire career effectively.”
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Personal development plan.
Personal development plan refers to an activity or process setting up an action plan that
assist personnel in order to overcome from their weak areas as well as make more capable for
performing assigned job roles as well as responsibilities effectively and efficiently. It is termed
as a structural procedure in order to create action plans that is based on the person's performance,
achievements as well as learning (Klimoski, 2016). Through which personnel can appropriately
able to improve their personal and professional development. Along with this, it covers
challenges that is needed to be deal with those by an individual. As I have also prepared personal
development plan in order to increase communicational, leadership, technical knowledge and
problem solving skills. It can be considered as follows:
Learning
Objectives
Present
Proficiency
Targeted
Proficiency
Development
Opportunity
Criteria for
Judging
Success
Time
fram
e
Measure to
improve
Communicat
ion skills
I have quite
less
communication
skills thus I
face a lot of
problems while
interacting with
the colleagues
or with other
individual as
well.
I wish that I
could
improve my
communicati
on skills
while
interacting
with the
others and it
create more
easiness to
get to know
about the
different
issues and
problems
that was
faced by my
These
opportunities
could be
enhanced by
reading more
books, by
preparing
lectures
notes,
attaining
seminars and
workshops,
work more
on
grammatical
skills.
Judging
criteria
depends
upon the
feedback
that I get
from my
friend,
family and
colleagues as
per their
daily
judgement.
One
mont
h
Improvement
must imparts
more
alertness and
enhance the
level of
understandin
g that
decreases the
shyness and
results in
more
effective
outcome.
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colleagues
or other
known one
as well.
Problem
solving skills
I am quite
weak in
problem
solving skills
as it is hard for
me to know
about the
different
consequences
that has been
faced by the
other
colleagues.
It is
mandatory
and urgent
to get to
know about
the different
and
innovative
approaches
through
which I get
the solution
in an easiest
manner and
helps other
to resolve
their issues.
I think that
could be
increased or
improved by
gaining
knowledge
and
experience
while facing
different
problems and
situations.
It could be
judged by
the top level
management
and higher
authorities.
Two
mont
hs
It could be
improved on
daily basis as
by facing
different
situation and
after trying
so many
attempts to
solve
different
conditions.
Leadership
skills
It is the skill
that could not
be improvised
by the time.
There is a lot of
pressure
regarding to
work thus it is
quite hard to
I would
improvised
that by using
continuous
development
and by
trying to
solve the
random
It could be
developed by
performing
different
activities
within the
business with
full
commitment
That could
be judged by
the
leadership
approach
that I applied
in the
workforce.
Six
mont
hs
This skills
could be
measured
with the help
of time
management
with that I
could manage
all the
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balance the
different
situations with
the leadership
quality.
issues of the
public and
with that
also try to
motivates
other to
enhance
their
performance
.
and I would
also follow
the time table
thus result
become even
more
effective.
different
aspects of the
business.
Technical
skills
As everything
will be turns to
be more
digitalised thus
I felt more
uncertainty as I
have that
hesitation
while using
technical
equipments.
There are
different
technologies
up-gradation
for that I
would try to
gain proper
training and
then implies
continuous
development
within my
own skills.
Technical
skills would
be developed
further while
using
different
digitalised
equipments
on daily basis
and with that
usage I gain
more
knowledge.
This could
be judged
after a period
of time when
I will
enhanced the
usage of all
technical
equipments
on daily
basis.
Five
mont
hs
It could be
measure by
the me after
setting a
standard for
myself as
where I want
myself after
some period
of time.
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from the above report that professional career development is
necessary for the security officer because it is termed as a difficult and risky job as it is based on
the protection of individuals and property where they works. For this job roles personnel requires
a specific set of skills as well as knowledge so that they work in an effective and efficient
manner. Also, the readiness for employability is essential for the goals and further development
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through which an individual is able to analyse their strengths and further development scope as
well. On the basis of this they set up their employment goals as well as develop personal
development plan that will help in enhancing the skills and knowledge of them.
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