Academic Skills Development Portfolio: A Professional Review

This portfolio presents a comprehensive overview of professional and academic skills development. It includes self-reflection on personal learning approaches, identification of transferable skills developed and desired, and a personal development plan with an action plan. The SWOT analysis helps identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, guiding personal and professional growth. The portfolio also features a CV highlighting career goals, work experience, qualifications, and skills. Key skills discussed include communication, time management, teamwork, problem-solving, and leadership. The action plan outlines steps to improve these skills, enhancing the individual's potential in the HR field and beyond. Desklib provides access to similar solved assignments and resources for students.

Professional and academic
skills development-
Portfolio

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Self-reflection on personal learning and development, and the transferable skills.........................3
Identification and reflection on my approach to personal learning and development.................3
Identification of the transferable skills I have already developed by attending this module.......4
Skills I would like to develop during my academic studies, personal life and the workplace....5
Personal Development Plan.............................................................................................................5
Action Plan......................................................................................................................................7
CV....................................................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Professional skills are those skills as well as abilities that can help an individual to get
success in its job role. It describes personality trait, habit or the ability that favourably impacts
the performance within the workplace. Academic skills are those skills or approaches that are
applied to the learning process of a learner and are considered as an array that tackles the process
of taking, arranging and retaining new information. In this portfolio, there will be identification
and reflection on approaches of personal learning and development (Cotronei-Baird, 2020).
Along with it, there will be identification of transferrable skills that already developed or would
like to develop during academic, personal and professional life. Furthermore, personal
development and action plan are also going to be discussed in this portfolio along with a CV.
MAIN BODY
Self-reflection on personal learning and development, and the transferable
skills
Identification and reflection on my approach to personal learning and development
The process of reflecting is the deliberate consideration of examining and thinking in a critical
way regarding the experiences, emotions, attitudes as well as reactions and then explaining and
analysing them in order to get benefits. My learning has been in constant flux during this
academic module and especially thanks to the newly learned and acquired skills that I have
adopted while studying this module. Since, the beginning of the module, I have learnt of
different theories and analysis that can provide assistance to me in understanding myself and
engaged into other topics by conducting in-depth analysis that can benefit me immensely in the
future (Gamble and et.al, 2020). These theories have enabled me to reflect on my learning and
the skills that can make me stand out and hold me back.
The model of SWOT Analysis helps me in increasing my abilities to identify as well as
eliminate any weaknesses and threats I presently have or I am expose to so that I can enhance my
existing strengths and opportunities. I have created a table below which describes what my
existing strengths are and weaknesses along with my current opportunities I should think of that
can lead to my accomplishment of long-term goals and progress. By conducting SWOT
Analysis, I am able to identify what are the aspects in my life that requires change.

Strengths Weaknesses
 My strength is that I have patience and
stand out from the crowd with my
calmness.
 I am good at working under pressure.
 I am creative and like inspiring other
people with my ideas.
 I tend to overthink at times that can
push me back with my current affairs.
 Although, I am good at under
pressure, yet I sometimes tend to leave
my work for the last minute that can
be bad time-management as well as
leave me more stressed.
Opportunities Threats
 Internships for the business students in
the summer break are great
opportunity for me.
 Using internet network for gaining
insights into my career goals are
another opportunity that would help
me in staying ahead in this
competitive world.
 It can be a threat for me that people
who have more experience and
confidence in themselves can be
potential competitors for me.
 Being an introvert person can hinder
my good attributes to others.
Identification of the transferable skills I have already developed by attending this module
Transferrable skills are those skills as well as abilities that are relevant and helpful across
different areas of life like academic, personal and professional. By attending this existing
module, I have learnt various kinds of transferrable skills that are helping me and would also
facilitate me in my future time (Konstantinou and Miller, 2020). In this module, I have
developed communication skills, time management skills, writing skills, summarising skills,
researching skills, etc. which have been evolved through experiencing different situations within
my life. Effective communication skills helped me in expressing and sharing my views and
information to other people in such a way that made them understandable. Time management
skills facilitated me in managing my daily routine activities within a specific period of time.
With the help of this skill, I was able to save my time and energy from getting wasted and also
helped me in my study.

Skills I would like to develop during my academic studies, personal life and the workplace
Not only above mentioned transferrable skills are enough for me to stand out but also I
would like to develop some more skills that would helped me in making my future effective and
bright. The skills that I would like to develop are team working skills, problem-solving skills,
decision-making skills, leadership skills, and many more.
As per my knowledge within HR field, I recognise that profession of HR can give me
various opportunities that would provide assistance to me in making my successful future (Lin
and Magnuson, 2018). I completed my graduation in business management and within this
course I had learnt what kinds of skills and knowledge are required in this field for monitoring
and managing human resources effectively within an organisation. I also analysed that this field
requires a lot of skills such as leadership, analytical and critical thinking, problem-solving,
managerial, active listening and many more. I evaluated that I have potential skills to make my
career within the respective field as I participated in many programs where I can increase my
knowledge, skills and abilities related to this sector. While participating the role of HR in many
plays of school and university, I observed that my communication and leading skills was not
good. I also noticed that I was lacking in the skills of problem-solving and teamwork. For
enhancing these skills within me, I started interacting with other people because these skills are
highly required not only in HR but also in many other fields. I also identified some weaknesses
within me that created problems for me in making my career successful (Mitic and Okahana,
2021). So, I had also worked upon these skills that also facilitate in removing hazards related to
this skill in my future career.
Personal Development Plan
The plans that are used to analyse all the perspectives of an individual is referred to personal
development plan. It involves evaluation of the skills as well as abilities and identifying
weaknesses and taking actions in order to improve them. My personal development plan is
described as under:
Skills Priority Action plan Resources Timeframe
Organisational
skills
1 Organise work
so that I can get
prepared and not
leaving it to last
This can be
achieved by
creating a diary,
making notes,
Within 3 weeks

minute creating Gantt
charts or critical
path analysis.
Team working
skills
2 Working in
teams and
knowing the
roles and
behaviours of
team members.
By taking
training sessions,
I can improve
my team-
working skills.
Working in
campaigns with
other people,
training sessions,
teamwork
recognition
programs.
Within 2 weeks
Time
management
skills
3 Working on a
particular task
with a set
deadline for
managing the
time, prioritizing
tasks, scheduling
tasks and
deadline.
Prepared time
audits, alarms,
stopwatches,
using right tools
such as calendar,
note-taking
software, time
management
applications.
Within 1 week
Communication
skills
4 Having more
group or social
meetings for
adapting each
other’s learning
skills which will
facilitate in
speaking more
Reading books,
writing topics,
using
communication
applications like
slack body
language,
conducting
Within 1 week

confidently and
get my point
across.
communication
with others.
Action Plan
Skills Action Plan Resources Time
Communication
skills
For becoming an
effective HR in
future, it is important
for me to improve my
communication skills.
Listening properly
what other person is
saying, writing things
can also help me to
get understand things
and thinking before
speaking is also help
me to improve my
communication in
most effective
manner.
Resources that I
needed in order to
improve my
communication skill
is books, online
courses, mails and
messages and so on.
I needed maximum
three months for
improving my
communication skills
in order to become
good HR for an
organisation.
Leadership skills By taking many
responsibility can
help me to develop
my leadership skills.
Learning more value
and respect , handling
complex project,
inspiring and
motivating other and
The resource which is
required in order to
develop my
leadership skill is
business schools,
online training
resources, mentors,
advisors and coaches
I want maximum one
month for the
development of
leadership skill.

so on can help me to
develop my
leadership skill.
and so on.
Decision-making
skills
By making plan,
taking commands,
asking from expert,
setting deadlines,
trying experiments
and more learning
can help me to
improve my decision
making skills. This
will help me to
become an effective
and good HR for an
organisation.
Proper time
management,
teamwork, emotional
intelligence and
creativity is needed
for me to develop my
decision making
skills.
Within 2-3 weeks I
can develop my
decision making
skills.
Problem-solving
skills
Identifying problems,
defining the elements
of the problem,
examining possible
solution and act on
resolving the problem
can help me for the
development of
problem solving
skills which is most
important for an HR.
Proper research, good
communication,
active listening, team
building and decision
making abilities can
help me develop my
problem solving
skills.
I needed maximum 4-
5 weeks in order to
develop my problem
solving skills.
Interpersonal skills Establishing my
goals, keeping
focused on
interaction, by
Patience, flexibility,
teamwork,
responsibility,
motivation and
Between 2-3 weeks I
can develop my
interpersonal skills in
most effective

staying positive,
maintaining good
posture and many
more help me to
develop my
interpersonal skill.
leadership help me to
develop my
interpersonal skills
which are needed in
HR of the
organisation.
manner.
CV
Curriculum vitae

Human Resource (HR)Manager
Contact Details
areana, Ny 1431
(456)789-258963
[e-mail]
Career Goals
To be a certifiable HR career and accomplishing targets in creativity abilities, efficient
promoting plan of actions that will support in managing and monitoring human resources
and create abilities and will be an eligible HR manager.
Work Experience
 Perform the task with little manner of the group for creating self-assurance and public
presentation sections.
 2 years in HR department performing role in maintaining and monitoring human
resources of the company.
● Worked as Marketing Organizer in wholesale management
Qualifications:
● Bachelor degree in HR
● Masters degree in HR
● PHD degree in HR
Skills
 High term of communication and effective higher term of abilities
 Leadership and issue determination abilities.
 Creating an effective work situation and motivating key sections of staff faculty.

CONCLUSION
From above explanation of the report, it has been concluded that professional and academic
skills are very important for an individual as it facilitates in staying ahead of the competition. In
this report, that skills that have already been developed through studying module have been
discussed along with the skills that would like to be developed for future. Moreover, personal
development plan and action plan also have been described in this portfolio.

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