D1: I will be evaluating the distance travelled in achieving the planned objectives of the career plan.
The research I have done in this unit to maintain my progress towards my career plan has supported me throughout which was to become a ‘Business Administrator’. I have carried out vital research and received help from my career advisor which also helped me alot. I also produced a skills Audit for my career plan and spoke about skills that I needed to develop and achieve and activities that would help me expand this skill. To track my progress I set myself achievable targets. As an individual, setting targets is really important when it comes to career plan. The reason why setting target is very significant is because firstly setting goals is a fundamental component to long-term success. Therefore the importance of setting targets is that it allows the individual to measure their progress, because you always have a fixed endpoint or benchmark to compare with. Also by setting targets, this is a key to motivation too and helps you stay focused and achieve the targets.
I set myself few targets that I needed to achieve to progress towards my career plan, one notable progress I have made in achieving my targets was my presentational skills, The progress I made to achieve was doing a presentation In front of the teacher and in front of the whole class. This way my confidence and self-esteem increased. However, one of the difficulties I encountered was when I was presenting my presentation I was really nervous and kept on staring at the paper to overcome this I would look at my class and talk to them instead of staring at the paper.
Another skill that I progressed in was my communication skills; my listening and verbal skills were very weak by achieving towards my progress I practised online tutorials on how to be a confident speaker, also I always sat in front of the