PDP

Assignment 1
Template
 Cover Page
Suitable title
Usually a few words or a short sentence
Student ID
 Introduction
What is this presentation about? Purpose of
the presentation. What are you presenting?
What are the aim and objectives of this
presentation?
Field of interest and the job of interest.
Professional field of interest
• Choose a Particular professional field. For e.g. Marketing, Finance, HR, IT,
International Business, etc.
• Why did you choose this field?
• What do you want to achieve in this field? (focus on a job position in the
field e.g. Investment Banker, Marketing Manager, HR Manager, IT
consultant, Business Consultant etc)
(Discuss about the scope of your chosen field in your notes in general)
Identify your
competencies/qualities
Discuss and Analyse your career planning

• Conduct a personal SWOT analysis (strengths, weakness are internal

• opportunities and threats external come from the analysis of the field of
choice (Smith, 2019)
• should be related to your field of choice

In notes you can discuss how SWOT analysis can help set short term and long
term goals in general.
Discuss and Analyse
your career planning
• Create a graph to illustrate your career map.

Where are you now career wise and where do you want
to be in the future?

Identify career opportunities and requirements

Link your skills and strengths

Discuss and Analyse your
career planning
• What are your career goals?

• Long term goals (e.g. progressing and promoting to higher level,

etc)
• Short term goals (e.g. learn new skills related to your
aspired career, etc)

(on notes you can discuss about the short term and long
term goals and their importance)
Discuss and Analyse
your career planning
• How are you going to achieve
your career goals?
Link it with your short term and
long term goals and create an
action plan. Include things related
to cv, job search, etc.
Identify Possible challenges and discuss how you
can overcome them with your strengths

How are you

What challenges
going to
might you face in
overcome these
your career path?
challenges?
Conclusion
• Summarises on the key points discussed in the main discussions. No
new information should be presented in here.
 References
At least 8 - 10 references including
books, journal articles and credible
websites