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INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Q. As a professional, what are the things that you want to be known for when you pass out of your MBA program?

Think of adjectives that would best describe you. Some examples are “Data-driven”, “Result-oriented”,
“Charismatic”, “Innovator”, etc.

Q. As a professional, what are your short-term (0-2 years), medium-term (2-5 years), long-term (5-10 years) career aspirations?

Short Term Career Aspiration

[Write about your short term career aspiration here in less than 60
15 words] This could be a target role like “Marketing
Executive” or could be financial “Earning 50,000 a month” or could be goals like “own a retail outlet”, “start-up a
business”

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Q. What are your current strengths that you have that can help you achieve your short-term career aspiration? Provide examples
of how you have demonstrated these strengths.

1. Effective Communicator – I can communicate ideas very well. A recent instance of this is my participating in the Chennai Idea
Forum where I presented my idea on starting up an app-based business.
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Q. What are the skillsets that you would be needing for you to achieve your short-term career aspirations? On a scale of 1-10,
rate yourself on theses. (1 being least effective and 10 being highly effective).

Skillset Description of why this is important Self-Rating

Defining Value It’s important as this skill set will help in recognizing selling 5
Propositions points for products and accordingly create my marketing pitch
Q. What steps do you want to take to gain exposure and identify opportunities to demonstrate the skillsets that you have
identified as important?

Skillset Development Action Timeline

Defining Value 1. Take Real Products, define their value proposition and practice my pitch with Jan 2018
Propositions a mentor
2. View videos of 5 Apple Product Launches and write out my observations and Dec 2017
present to my class