CAREER GOAL AND CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
Present Accountabilities
Being the Administration Manager in an real estate agency for 3.5 years, I have become one of the crucial player to maintain optimal business functioning for the company by hiring and training personnel, evaluating employee performance, communicating with different departments and scheduling meetings. My main tasks are responsible for high complexity and ambiguity, such as to provide solutions to administrative business challenges and participates in development of tactical plans and programs for the company. I also need to help develop or analysis of budgets, project proposals and write reports on employee performance.
Three Years’ Career Goal and Aspiration
To be a Human Resources and Administration Department Head will be my next two years goal. I am now to establish myself in my current task and to develop my management skills. According to Drucker (2005), he mentioned that working to my strengths, better understanding my performance and having well self-awareness are very important. To complete the MBA in UniSA to equip myself with the tools to make my success as part of my goal.
Furthermore, my next three-to-five years goal is to claim up into a top management position in regional sector to further exploit my pragmatic experience strengthen my area of expertise from administration management to a wider range of business management and build up a network of associates that will bring me to the success.
Career Opportunities in the Marketplace
My existing company is investing in developing company capabilities via staff development, my company encourage “Theory O” styles (Beer & Nohira 2000), such as positive employee behaviour & attitude and comm...
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... to my peers, in my organization and my responsibility has increased rapidly ever since I have joined the organization. I have demonstrated leadership potential at various levels and I have the knowledge, vision and courage; high ethics; empathy with, and understanding of others; ability to motivate and orchestrate teams and individuals. I have a far-reaching international outlook and spent time living outside my country of origin, working for UK retails giants and this stay has diversified my work and cultural experience. I have excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work well in diverse teams. I have the desire to learn and contribute to the learning of others. I have strong values and unwavering integrity and I can courageously make difficult decisions and lead responsibly. And the most important, I have the drive and dedication to complete MBA from Broad.
Mintzberg(2013, P.44) stated that managing combines all these skills, like leading ,doing, thinking, and deciding and more, together, not applying individually. A good manger should be able to mater all these skills to fulfill the job of management. But the thing is what helpful competencies should a manager have to be able to fulfill? Mintzberg stated his own theory which is managing can be known from on three main aspects : information, people, and action. For the information aspect, a manager should be able to communicate and control; for the people aspect, a manager should be able to lead and link; and for action aspect, a manager should be able to do and deal. These are the good methods for a manager to actually manage something well.