Career Planning Essay: Values, Capabilities, And Personal Branding.

Values and Capabilities

Question:

Describe about the career planning reflection.
 

In this assignment, we try to reflect how a person’s career is planned based on his values and the capacity that one is associated with it. Finally, we try to do a personal branding exercise where we try to project these values and goals. The person taken into consideration here is me and, the assignment is carried out on my aims and values.

The assignment mainly deals with three components that it has to cater to in which the first one being the Value audit followed by the Capability Audit and finally going to the step of Personality branding.

The values that I abide by are Respect, Friendship, Family, Loyalty and Teamwork. I am a very social person who has helped in building my friends circle, and I am always comfortable in working with teams and being loyal to the same.

My destiny in life is to settle in Canada with my family in the next ten years. To shed light on my education, I did my secondary school in India, and now I am doing my BBM in Australia to run my firm. While we make decisions, our values shape our decision-making process.

There are five main criteria which are mentioned which are used by employers to choose graduates. On those standards, I would relate to incidents in my life where I have shown these skills.

During my secondary education in India, I had opportunities where I used to take part in a variety of group discussions in my school.  In one such event, we were told to communicate about how a team should work. I was given the responsibility of leading the discussion, and I had to initiate the discussion also. I started off with explaining the topic and gradually split the details into buckets for the easier understanding of the group. By the end of my introduction, I was appreciated by the faculty as well as the students, praising the clarity that I could give on the topic.

During my education days, I had to be a part of the convening team of a national level technical symposium organised by our institution. The event saw participation from students of various institutes from all over the country. I had to take care of the logistics arrangement for the event, coordinate with judges of events and also had to look after the purchase of the prizes. To do all these, I convened smaller teams and had told them to report to me on a regular basis and provide updates. This made my work easier and the process efficient. 

As mentioned above, I have always been preferred for a team due to my dedication as well as my motivational skills to push a team forward and work in sync. Similar to this, as mentioned above while I was given the lead for individual teams in the symposium, I also worked as a team member with them to get the work done properly as well as contribute my inputs for the betterment of the output. By doing so, I obtained excellent results and the desired outputs which aided the outcome of the event to be a grand success. 

Opportunities and Threats

The participants who visited for the fests and symposiums had to be provided proper guidance when they visit other institutes. Keeping this in mind, during our institute’s fest, after having completed my administrative duties, I also took it on myself to take time for the guidance of other students. I worked on the reception desk and also provided directions to the participants to the places they wanted to go to from our school. This evoked a lot of positive response from them, and I was appreciated by the faculty convenors for my timely help to the students from other schools.

At due courses during my secondary education, I had to work on multiple projects that would yield me recognition as well as learning. While doing those, I had to juggle numerous journals as well as various theories related to the different projects, and this made me multitask a lot. Still I could efficiently do that and see these; my mentors gave me great feedback. I was also praised by my teachers for the results I produced and my projects had turned out to be a realist. My teammates had also put in efforts, and we coordinated well to get those results.

Having been brought up in a conservative background, I worked very hard to break the shackles of the society I grew in to become what I am today. I put in all my efforts to secure a good secondary education where I displayed multidimensional skills in all the fields and excelled in most of them to earn credits and laurels to myself as well as my institution. Carrying forward the same momentum to the institute I am in today; I learnt the static as well as the dynamic aspects that this Bachelors degree had to offer. The diversity of students widened my learning as well as sharpened my problem-solving skills to a very great extent. These skills that I imbibed were not taught only in the classroom, and quite a few of them are imbibed from my fellow mates. This proves that I am a person who is open to learning from all sources and I do not bind myself to theory. The projects I have taken up show my analytical as well as my problem-solving skills, both as an individual and as a team player. I have always been ready to take up challenges, and my keenness to lead teams has also been visible in the positions of responsibilities that I have taken up. Combining all this, I come across as a strong and dynamic leader who asserts himself into the role of a team player and creates solutions for problems and improves the efficiency of the solution. 

Conclusion

Catering to the requirements of the assignment, I have done a value audit, capability review and a personal branding pitch for myself. During this assignment, I realised what values I stick to and how these values are the ones who shape up my decision making as well as provide me with the necessary push in times when I am low. The SWOT analysis provided insights as to the places I am strong in and the places that I should work on to better me as a person as well as an individual who can adapt himself to the dynamics of his surroundings. Also, I learnt that to be useful in one's work; one should have a commitment as well as dedication to succeed in it. This was a key feature that I had imbibed in me, along with team work, to succeed in whatever activities I take up. 

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