Professional Personal Business Plan

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Professional Personal Business Plan

Objective of Project 3:

This Logbook will be presented in front of your potential or current employer. It is a Professional Personal Business plan. It will help you be more focused in doing job interviews or applying for a promotion. It will teach you how to market yourself and improve your career path.
• Font style = Times new romans , Font size = 12 , Minimum number of words = 1500, Max number of words =4000
• For every section, you need to write an introduction using the vocabulary given in the section heading or section questions.
• Pay attention to the transition from question to another.
• Write full sentence by reusing the question words. Writing part of a sentence will lower your grade. YES /NO answers are not accepted.

General overview of Project 3

For this project, you will write a Professional Personal Business Plan and do a pitch in class highlighting how entrepreneurship and innovation could play a role in your personal and career paths. The entrepreneurial process is at its core concerned with "the pursuit of opportunity without regard to the resources already under control." This process is as applicable to your career as it is to starting a company. The goal of this assignment is to identify where you want to be in the coming 5 years and how you will get there. Do not worry about your current resources. Think entrepreneurially! The assignment should summarize the areas below, with a special emphasis on reflecting on a "failure."

This project will help set a professional plan for the coming next 5 years. Analyze deeply yourself, and where would like to see yourself in the future. Then set an action plan for your career.

Section 1: Vision and Opportunity

Write a paragraph. No bullets or points are allowed.

(a1)Write a mission statement for yourself that incorporates your values. ( /2)
You mission is presenting your values AT WORK ONLY. You are not supposed to talk about your family or personal life.

(a2) Write a vision statement for yourself. ( /2)
You vision is presenting your values AT WORK ONLY. You are not supposed to talk about your family or personal life.
You need to make a difference between goals and vision. Goals are oriented towards actions you are planning to do in the future while vision is discussing the main values behind your future actions.

(b) Define 3 career and/or educational goals AFTER graduating from ZU. ( /6)
Write a paragraph. No bullets or points are allowed.

Apply for a job goal: Why did you choose this goal? Specify which job are planning to choose ? What is the company name? What are the requirements to be accepted in this job? For how long are you planning to work there ?
Apply for a degree / certificate /diploma goal: Why did you choose this goal? Which university did you choose ? Why did you choose this university ? Why did you choose to continue your study ? What are the requirements to be accepted at this university? For how long are you going to study ? How are you going to cover your fees?

SMART goals are:
• Specific: Well defined, clear, and unambiguous
• Measurable: With specific criteria that measure your progress towards the accomplishment of the goal
• Achievable: Attainable and not impossible to achieve

• Realistic: Within reach, realistic, and relevant to your life purpose
• Timely: With a clearly defined timeline, including a starting date and a target date. The purpose is to create urgency.

(b1) Career and/or educational goal #1: ( /2)

(b2) Career and/or educational goal #2: ( /2)
(b3) Career and/or educational goal #3: ( /2)

(c)List 3 key questions that guide your choices. ( /6)
Write in paragraph. No bullets or points are allowed.
You can do a personal SWOT analysis (see appendix B). It will help you answer the following questions.
(These are essential questions that serve as touchstones to direct your life and work)
Example of Key Questions: You can choose 3 questions from the following ones or you can create your own questions.

1. How can I have impact?
2. What do I love?
3. What am I good at?
4. What do I fear?
5. What am I passionate about?
6. What do I want to leave behind when I'm gone? Why ?

While answering these 3 questions, you need to show the reader how your personal skills will have a positive impact on your career and/or educational path.

(d)Provide 3 examples from the current job market and/or professional development opportunities available. ( / 3)
Write it in form of bullets or points.

Do a search online and find 3 job opportunities matching your profile. Write the name of the company, the job title , and the requirements for this position.
This is the only section , you can copy and paste it. However , if the requirements are too long, choose the most important information .
Examples should align with your goals, and take into consideration the opportunities to make a difference. ( /1)
Discuss how these market opportunities are aligned with your goals. Don't restrict yourself to matters of career or work; think more broadly about your opportunities to make a difference.

Section 2: Marketing &Implementation Strategy

(a) Create a marketing positioning statement directed at hypothetical employer, industry, organization or world at large. ( /3)

Marketing positioning statement should be complete and correctly structured.

You might have not done yet something special in your life. While writing this section, try to state your plan that will help you be a special and unique employee in the future. DO NOT write untruthful information. You can write about things you are planning to do or learn in the future.

(b) Describe the compelling or cumulative added values that you offer to employer/society. ( /3)
Summarize all the added values you might have discussed before in your logbook in BULLETS FORM. Do NOT write a paragraph.

(c) Explain how you are different from other UAE students or population. ( /4)
Write a paragraph. No bullets or points are allowed.

You need to discuss sentence #2: Uniqueness in detail. Write a paragraph about it using more qualities and strengths you already have/did or you ARE PLANNING TO DO OR LEARN in the future. Do write untruthful information. Try to think positively what do you need to do to improve your CV in order to be competitive in the job market after graduation. Try to plan for a rich CV.

Section 3: Risks and Mitigation

(a) How do you define success? ( /1)

It is your OWN PERCEPTION of success . You are not supposed to copy the definition from google. Try to think about yourself. When do you think you are a successful person in life or at work? There is no right and wrong definition because it is your own definition.
Write a paragraph. No bullets or points are allowed.

(b) List 3 EXTERNAL factors/risks that might affect your success in achieving your goals (educational goals/career goals). You need to write a short paragraph. ( /3)
Write a paragraph. No bullets or points are allowed.

You need to create either a Journey Map or SWOT analysis (check the appendix) to pinpoint your risks and mitigation strategies.

Sample External Risks that might have a negative influence on your career:
(1) Family risks : being a mother , having family responsibility of my siblings because .... , being in charge of a sick family member, ....
(2) Market risks: limited or saturated job market, competitive and demanding market , ....
(3) Financial risks: How to cover my university fees ? find an alternative.
(4) Economic risks: such as COVID 19 impact on the country economy and the job market.
(5) Cultural risks: My family does not accept to let me travel abroad for work or for studies, cultural shock ...
(6) Environmental risks/ Natural risks: Storms , pollutions, floods ....
(7) Emergent technology risks: The occurrence of new technologies in the market
(8) Political risks: laws and legislations
(9) Lack of support from workplace, family ...
(10) Negative environment from friends , colleagues , ....
(11) Limited opportunities for advancement at work
(12) Changing working environments

(c) Describe 3 contingency/risk mitigation strategies. Discuss 3 possible solutions for the previous 3 risks. Try to find an alternative if possible ( /3)
Write a paragraph. No bullets or points are allowed.

(d) Reflect upon a failure you have experienced in life, what lessons you learned from it, and how these lessons can be applied to future plans. Write a short paragraph. ( /3)
Write a paragraph. No bullets or points are allowed.

Section 4: Ethics and Inspiration

Write a paragraph. No bullets or points are allowed.

(a) Choose three ethical principles needed in your major or field of work. Explain how you will practice these ethical principles IN YOUR DAILY FIELD OF WORK. Give practical examples.
Hint: Ethical values varies from on major to another. Search online "ethical principals in ......." your major.
Example:
Ethical principals in education .
Ethical principals in international relationship.
You need to paraphrase anything you find online.
Choose three ethical principles and give real examples on how you will be implementing it at work later on. ( /3)

(b) Mention 2 mentors who you know personally, and explain why they were selected. ( /4)
You can NOT choose someone you NEVER met in your life or someone who did NOT give you any advice or guidance. There is a difference between role model and mentor. I am NOT asking about role model. It is better to choose a mentor related to your field of work. S/he might have given you guidance and mentorship for a short or a long period of time. If you did not find someone in your field of work , you can choose any person who mentored you in real life such as any person from your family , relatives, friends, senior student, teacher, advisor, ...
If you could assemble any two people to advise and mentor you, who would they be?

(c) Summarize your Personal Business plan in 6 words that are applicable and relevant.( /3)
Similar to popular "six-word story" exercises, please summarize your personal business plan in six words (e.g., "humanist engineer, global citizen, caring teacher").
Hint: You can do a search online about your major characteristics or your major strategies ....
Search online for " Career Summary for .........." Or "professional summary for ......".
Example : Career Summary for psychologist .

Attachment:- Project Template.rar

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