Reference no: EM134002419

Internship, Learning and Development Plan

Assessment - Personal Development Plan

Task
You are required to perform a skills gap analysis and prepare a professional career and skills growth plan that demonstrates advanced thinking.

Assessment Description
This assessment develops your ability to plan and manage your own professional growth. You will identify a future career role, analyse its key requirements and prepare a Learning and Development Plan that bridges your current skills with those expected by employers. The assessment also helps you apply business and management frameworks to guide your development, demonstrate self-awareness, and propose innovative solutions to workplace challenges. Through this process, you will learn to align your career and skills growth goals with organisational outcomes and stakeholder expectations. No AI shortcuts — Get genuine assignment help from experienced, real tutors.

Learning Outcome 1: Implement a comprehensive plan for personal learning and development
Learning Outcome 2: Apply business-related theories, concepts, models and principles in a real work environment
Learning Outcome 3: Analyse business problems and deliver innovative solutions in a complex work environment
Learning Outcome 4: Evaluate personal work-related strengths and limitations in the context of stakeholder management and employer expectations

Assessment Instructions
In a Word document, you are required to include the following:

Step 1: Job Advertisement
A copy of a job advertisement for a role you would like to perform as a graduate.

Step 2: Role Breakdown
Identify and separate essential elements:
Personal Attributes & Employability Skills: Employers value both personal attributes and employability skills as together they play an important role in workplace success. Attributes describe how you tend to think and behave, while skills describe what you can demonstrably do. Personal attributes include things like resilience, initiative, adaptability, and reliability. Employability skills include things like communication, problem-solving, teamwork, collaboration, and digital literacy.

Education & Professional Requirements: Employers expect candidates to hold the formal qualifications and credentials required for the role. This might include university or vocational study, industry-recognised certifications or mandatory licenses and registrations. These requirements demonstrate you meet the professional standards of the field.

Career Experience: Employers value evidence of practical experience and achievements that show you can perform in the role. This could involve previous jobs, internships, projects or volunteer work that highlight how you've applied your skills, delivered results and built relevant industry knowledge.
Highlight explicit and implied requirements.

Step 3: Skills Gap Analysis
Identify at least 5-6 key skills or requirements from the job advertisement. (Consider both technical skills and soft skills)
Show which are your strengths (already developed) and which are your gaps (need improvement).
Provide a brief example or evidence for each skill.
Explain the impact on how you work with others and on meeting employer expectations.
You may present this section in a table (recommended) or in dot points. See examples below

Dot Point Example (1 strength + 1 gap):
Strength: Excel and data analysis: I have strong Excel skills from university and part-time work, which help me produce accurate reports and meet deadlines.
Gap: Presenting to non-finance staff (Low): I have little experience presenting findings to people without a finance background, which may limit my ability to communicate clearly as employers expect.

Step 4: Learning and Development Plan
Use the gaps identified in your Skills Gap Analysis
Focus on the main 3 priority gaps for your plan.
Explain how you will develop these skills during your internship.
Apply a recognised development framework (e.g., SMART Goals, GROW or another suitable theory/model) to structure your plan.
Show how your plan will help you meet employer expectations. Example: Work more effectively with others (e.g., communication, teamwork, collaboration)

Step 5: Workplace Problem and Solution (150-200words)
Analyse a problem/challenge you are likely to face in your chosen role.
Propose an innovative solution, showing how the skills you are developing through your Learning & Development Plan will help you address it.
Where relevant, you may also refer to workplace observations or supervisor feedback to support your analysis.

Step 6: Referencing:
Correct GenAI refencing as per KBS guidelines.