Description
Personal SWOT Analysis
Based on your internship performance, your site supervisor evaluation, and your overall academic performance, outline your personal SWOT. For each section, list at least 3-5 items that you can discuss in detail.
- Strengths – What do you do well? What unique resources can you draw on? What do others see as your strengths?
- Weaknesses – What could you improve? What are others likely to see as weaknesses?
- Opportunities – What opportunities are open to you? What trends could you take advantage of? How can you turn your strengths into opportunities?
- Threats – What threats could harm you? What is your competition doing? What threats do your weaknesses expose you to?
Personal Road Map
Using all of the reflections and evaluations completed so far, define your personal road map over the next 1 year, 5 years and 10 years of where you would like to be at within the sport, recreation, tourism or hospitality industries. This is your opportunity to determine the goals you would like to personally achieve over this timeframe and where you would like to be in your career. For this exercise you should review job descriptions of similar roles that you aspire to get to in your road map. Look at the job qualification sections to shape the “How will you get there?” question. Each question should have several sentences of narrative that explains your rationale/thinking behind road map.
One (1) Year Post-Graduation
- What would your ideal company type/industry/position be?
- Where would you like to be (physical location)?
- What training/additional skills would you need to achieve this position? Include any additional certifications / education needed for this
Five (5) Years Post-Graduation
- What would your ideal company type/industry/position be?
- Where would you like to be (physical location)?
- What training/additional skills would you need to achieve this position? Include any additional certifications / education needed for this role.
Ten (10) Years Post-Graduation
- What would your ideal company type/industry/position be?
- Where would you like to be (physical location)?
- What training/additional skills would you need to achieve this position? Include any additional certifications / education needed for this role.
Career Contingency Plan
When exceptional circumstances happen in life it is important to critically self-reflect and develop an action plan of where you would like to take your career in unplanned situations. In sudden and unexpected situations (economic recessions, global pandemics, etc.) it is important to understand your skillset, so you can temporarily pivot into different positions and industries as necessary. These sudden changes may force you to enter positions that are not desired in order to support income requirements.
- Using your identified skillset strengths and weaknesses (Personal SWOT, Road Map, etc.), what are some specific industries, markets, and job roles you could transition into? These roles may not be within the sport, recreation, tourism, or hospitality industries.
- While you may go into a non-STHM related industry, or in a STHM related department that is not desired, what are specific tasks/actions that you could undertake to make yourself a future viable candidate for your desired position?
