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)
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)
