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What Are Personal Development Plans and How Can You Use Them?

19-01-2022
Job seeker advice

Personal development doesn’t happen overnight, it is a lifelong process, it includes developing various skills that can contribute to both physical and mental states. Learning about self-improvement from various experiences will help create a multi-skilled, well-rounded individual in both professional and personal circumstances.

How does this affect your career?

Using a Personal Development Plan will help you reach your full potential, identifying and enhancing your skills will prove beneficial to reach your career goals and your chances at reaching your career prospects.

Having a diverse set of skills will help your chances of placing an interview (at least!) within the highly competitive engineering industry. You will be dedicating time to your self-improvement and are commitment to learning, this will look very appealing to employers / recruiters.

Show your ambition through this process – create a portfolio or CV that showcases your development and continuous discipline.

First things first, take into consideration your current situation. Are you ready to take the next steps of development, and do you have a clear goal that can been obtained? We have various materials that can help with goal setting. Ask yourself the right questions that will help in your personal development. Are you happy with your current situation? Where do you want to be in months or years to come? This will give a clear objective to how you want to begin your self-development journey.

Try focussing on your strengths and weakness, how are you going to turn your weaknesses into strengths? Having weaknesses isn’t shameful, we are only human. Working on improving your weaknesses displays and eagerness to constantly learn and improve to any potential employers. In simpler terms, if you struggle with negotiation read and practice new techniques learning from your trials and tribulations. A variety of approaches can be taken, consider taking a course to strengthen your skills.

Be open-minded to try new opportunities! Keeping an organised development plan for serval years, it easy to reflect upon. Consistent retracing of steps will help you stay motivated, and look at how far you have come. Setbacks can be hard hitting and cause distraction to achieving your goals, but revisiting your mistakes you can gain insight into your strengths and weaknesses.

Our Engineering recruiters at Perfect Placement are enthusiastic to help you thrive through your career, they are always available to advise and assist in helping you take these big steps.

Contact us today!