Personal Attributes and Skills Paper

Final Professional Development Reflective JournalThere are three important outcomes of your Final Professional Development Reflective
Journal:
1. To generate self-awareness of your strengths, attributes, and abilities
2. To identify your career preferences and choices, leading ultimately to career decisions and
identity.
3. To prepare you for reflective writing in your future profession in performance appraisals,
promotion, and career changes.
What you will do
You will reflect on all your Professional Development Reflective Journals and produce one
Final Professional Development Reflective Journal discussing your strengths, attributes and
abilities and how these match your career choice. Throughout your report you will cite the
readings that you used each week and make additional citations from the reading list.
This will be done by:
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Reflecting on what you have learned about yourself through those self-evaluation
questionnaires/activities and weekly Professional Development Reflective Journals.
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Showing how these self-evaluation questionnaires/activities and Professional.
Development Reflective Journals have influenced your thoughts about your career
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Reviewing the career choices, you have made or changed because of these selfevaluation activities and Professional Development Reflective Journals
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Demonstrating how reflective professional journaling has assisted you now and for
the future.
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Explaining how you have incorporated the research to inform and assist your
journaling.
You may use these headings:
Step 1. Introduction (approx. 150 words). Draft an introduction paragraph to describe:
Step 2.
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Your initial career plans/ideas/thoughts at the start of MGTS7621.
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The purpose of each self-evaluation activity.
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The purpose of this final reflection in developing your career including your
developing thoughts about your career direction.
My self-evaluation results and my learnings (approx. 1,000 words)
a. Results
The results of the self-evaluation activities and my growing self-awareness. These are your small
stories taken from and discussed from items 1-5 of each PDRJ. Please note – the final journal is not
merely copying and pasting from the sections mentioned above
Example PDRJ 1.
Example Results
1.
2.
3.
Your name and date of this
PDRJ
Title of the selfevaluation/questionnaire
activity that you
completed.
Seminar number
1.
2.
3.
My Self-evaluation and results
4.
Summarise your selfevaluation/questionnaire
results here.
4.
The results of the self-evaluation activity I completed this week
are:
Add the full results as an
appendix below where
necessary.
50 words
5.
Describe in your own
words your response to the
selfevaluation/questionnaire
activity results.
100 words
PDRJ 1.
Results
PDRJ 2.
Results
PDRJ 3.
Results
PDRJ 4.
Results
PDRJ 5.
Results
5. What I have learned about myself in this selfevaluation/questionnaire
My overall learnings from PDRJs 1-5.
b. My overall learnings from the self-evaluation results
Under this heading and using item 5 from each week you write about what you learned about growing
self-awareness and how you need to manage your career using the readings from each week.
Remember to synthesise the weekly results rather than copy and paste them.
Step 3. The impact of the PDRJ results and reflective writing on my
career ideas and plans. How this process has influenced my career
decisions. (approx. 300 words)
This is from item 6 of each PDRJ
Step 4. The plans I have made and the actions I have taken following
reflecting on each PDRJ. (approx. 400 words)
This is from items 7 and 8 of each PDRJ
Step 5. Current thoughts on my career choice decision and the value of
reflective writing. You may have changed your career decisions
throughout the duration of these PDRJs. (150 words)
This is from item 9 of each PDRJ
Step 6. Reference list in APA