The personal development plan (PDP) is a document that outlines your strengths and
development areas and the goals that you want to achieve in the short, medium, or
long term (glassdoor1, 2021). The PDP will help guide you on actions to take to
improve your development areas and reach your goals successfully.
The PDP process (per the self-development and self-management definitions in your
learning material online) identified the following five steps that must be completed for
successful accomplishment of your goals. Each of the steps set out below should be
completed as per the instructions provided in the online course material.
For questions and feedback, please contact your assigned e-tutor.
Part A of this activity will be completed for step 1 only.
Step 1: Identify
strengths and
development
areas
Step 5: Maintain
accountability in
Step 2: Set
achieving goals by
goals
monitoring
progress
Step 4: Take
responsibility Step 3:
for goals - Prioritise goals
action plan
1Glassdoor team. 2021. How to create a personal development plan. [online]. United Kingdom: Glassdoor.
Available from https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/blog/guide/personal-development-plan/ [accessed 9 May 2022].
, Part A: Identifying strengths and development areas
Student number:
________________________________
Required:
You are required to source a job advertisement for a newly qualified CA(SA). Consider
the skills (excluding technical “know-how”) that a newly qualified CA(SA) is required
to have.
From the selected advertisement, identify one skill that you consider to be your
strength and one skill that you consider to be your development area.
When identifying your strength and development area:
identify your strength and development area that is related to your application for
the selected job advertisement – such as “I have strong active listening skills in
communication” or “I would like improve my ability to work in a team”. You will
concentrate on improving these areas throughout the year, so make sure they are
things that are important to you;
you should identify one strength and one development area in total; and
keep it simple and realistic, as you will be required to explain how you intend to
enhance your strength or improve your development area by the end of the year.
IMPORTANT:
Your activities are graded by means of a rubric.
Students MUST NOT complete this rubric. It is for the MARKER to complete. The
rubric is provided to you so that you may know the criteria against which your activity
will be graded.
,Job advertisement for a newly qualified CA(SA)
Example:
Source of advert – Available at: Newly Qualified Chartered Accountant -
Urgent Hiring at Network Recruitment in Johannesburg, Gauteng - GrabJobs
(Accessed 30 October 2023, Newly qualified Chartered Accountant – Urgent
Hiring, GrabJobs.co.za)
, Insert a copy of your selected job advert here:
Source of advert – https://www.pnet.co.za/jobs--Newly-Qualified-Chartered-
Accountant-Johannesburg-North-Network-Finance--3796478-
inline.html?rltr=1_1_25_seorl_m_0_0_0_0_0_0
development areas and the goals that you want to achieve in the short, medium, or
long term (glassdoor1, 2021). The PDP will help guide you on actions to take to
improve your development areas and reach your goals successfully.
The PDP process (per the self-development and self-management definitions in your
learning material online) identified the following five steps that must be completed for
successful accomplishment of your goals. Each of the steps set out below should be
completed as per the instructions provided in the online course material.
For questions and feedback, please contact your assigned e-tutor.
Part A of this activity will be completed for step 1 only.
Step 1: Identify
strengths and
development
areas
Step 5: Maintain
accountability in
Step 2: Set
achieving goals by
goals
monitoring
progress
Step 4: Take
responsibility Step 3:
for goals - Prioritise goals
action plan
1Glassdoor team. 2021. How to create a personal development plan. [online]. United Kingdom: Glassdoor.
Available from https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/blog/guide/personal-development-plan/ [accessed 9 May 2022].
, Part A: Identifying strengths and development areas
Student number:
________________________________
Required:
You are required to source a job advertisement for a newly qualified CA(SA). Consider
the skills (excluding technical “know-how”) that a newly qualified CA(SA) is required
to have.
From the selected advertisement, identify one skill that you consider to be your
strength and one skill that you consider to be your development area.
When identifying your strength and development area:
identify your strength and development area that is related to your application for
the selected job advertisement – such as “I have strong active listening skills in
communication” or “I would like improve my ability to work in a team”. You will
concentrate on improving these areas throughout the year, so make sure they are
things that are important to you;
you should identify one strength and one development area in total; and
keep it simple and realistic, as you will be required to explain how you intend to
enhance your strength or improve your development area by the end of the year.
IMPORTANT:
Your activities are graded by means of a rubric.
Students MUST NOT complete this rubric. It is for the MARKER to complete. The
rubric is provided to you so that you may know the criteria against which your activity
will be graded.
,Job advertisement for a newly qualified CA(SA)
Example:
Source of advert – Available at: Newly Qualified Chartered Accountant -
Urgent Hiring at Network Recruitment in Johannesburg, Gauteng - GrabJobs
(Accessed 30 October 2023, Newly qualified Chartered Accountant – Urgent
Hiring, GrabJobs.co.za)
, Insert a copy of your selected job advert here:
Source of advert – https://www.pnet.co.za/jobs--Newly-Qualified-Chartered-
Accountant-Johannesburg-North-Network-Finance--3796478-
inline.html?rltr=1_1_25_seorl_m_0_0_0_0_0_0
