HOW PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN HELP IN CAREER PLANNING?

All of you have written your personal development plan in your dissertation paper, right? Can I ask one question? Why you write your personal development plan in your dissertation paper? Can anybody answer me?

Well, it is obviously to show our research planning, research experience to our readers so they can get understand about the possible issues related to making dissertation or survey in market. We also write down our issues faced while working in dissertation or surveying in market to show our problems in front of our readers and make them experienced about.

Ok… then tell me now, do you believe personal development plan can help in your career planning? Don’t be surprised. It is not out of the blue but if you get real life experienced through personal development plan, then why it cannot be used in your career development?

Obviously, it used and work too. You just have to stick to some basic rules that will lead you towards your successful career. Below are the rules that you must have to stick on.

Aware of weakness: The first benefit you get through personal development plan is to make yourself aware about you weakens. Yes, it is the biggest positive point that leads your life towards making successful career. As you get aware of your weakness, hopefully, you will try to overcome it in between your student life that t may not be a hindrance towards your career.

Realize strength: Like binary opposition, you also get aware of your strength. Sometime it happens that we find ourselves wrong in prediction that what is our strength and what is our weakness. Through personal development plan, this prediction we found correct because we already have an experienced on it. 

Revision of career: These both strength and weakness help you to revise your career again and stick to your goal. If I am not wrong, most of us realize later that we are unable to choose our right career track. We think we can do marketing jobs easily while we realized it too hard in reality while career in finance or HR can be better for us. As we already have done a pilot study of these genres in market through personal development plan, therefore, choosing proper career for us became easy. 

Decision making: I think this is a good thing that you earn through personal development plan. Right? Yes, I am because lack of decision making sometime lead us towards back while if we are getting confidence over it, our career planning will be easier.

So, now you can understand why Personal Development Plan is not only for academic purpose. Make it use for your career development. Yes, we study for this only and let implement our knowledge to build us better career for ourselves. Let’s start! Start from now onwards… 

HOW TO CHOOSE DISSERTATION TOPIC?

Is it seriously needed? Guidelines for topic selection? It’s quite funny yah. So let me say about how do you select your research topic? Opps! I forgot. Your professor has selected topic for you in your Graduation. Right? Ok, no issue, then just tell me how do you select your topic for assignments? What are the basic criteria?

Simple, finding an issue with our related field, gathering information about that issue and framing topic. Only three steps are enough. It would be better if we analyse that issue based on some case studies. Well said but for dissertation, only these three steps are not alright. Don’t forget you are appointed as a role of researcher and your duty is to point out the actual situation with proper justification in front of your readers. Your approach will be realistic and all data must be dynamic. So, you have to work too hard in case of choosing your dissertation topic.

Look, ‘dissertation’- the term itself is very serious that we cannot take it as in casual tone. So, selecting a dissertation topic is not an easy task for students especially those who are possessed their Master Degree. It is difficult because here your professor is not supposed to frame your thesis topic on behalf of you. That part was done in your graduation year but in advance studies like Master's level or Ph.D. level, you have to frame your topic by own. Another thing is, based on that research topic; your entire academic evaluation will be rated. So, choosing any simple and easy topic will not help you in getting good grades in final examination. So, you have to be very careful and realistic at the same time while going to select your dissertation topic. Below some points are given to help you in selecting your research topic.  

Choose favorable field: Always select your favorable filed to select your research topic. Look, research paper requires your own point of view, analysis, justification. So, if your topic will be out of your knowledge, then it will be difficult for you to draw proper conclusion. So, your topic must be from your favorable field.

Select your interesting genre: Your interested genre must be reflected in your research topic otherwise, you can’t be able to analyse your research paper and its appearance will be very fishy to your readers. Suppose marketing from MBA is your favorable field. From this, you are interested in branding genre. Then your selected research topic must be from this genre

Do market research: Do a detail market research about your favorite genre. It requires otherwise you cannot find out the issue faced by market or companies. Suppose, you have found an issue in branding genre in demographic segment while it was working well in other market segments. So, you can select your issue from demographic segment only based on which your research topic will be framed.

Find out the issue: Now the time is for selecting your research issue to frame out your research aim, objectives, questions. Your issue must be realistic and informative. Any kind of vague information will be losing authenticity of your dissertation.

Select your variables: One independent and one dependent variable must be there on your research topic otherwise, you cannot able to draw a valid conclusion for your dissertation. Based on these two variables, your statistical analysis and regression will be calculated. 

Frame your dissertation title: Now, you can frame your dissertation title. Make sure, your title must include all above-mentioned points like variables, issue, interest. Title must be short but catchy. Don't frame your title in 20 or 50 words. It will be maximum 8-10 words.

So, now you can understand the basic criteria of choosing dissertation topic. Now you can present your research draft to your professor for approval. Hope you will do your best.    

HOW REFLECTIVE JOURNAL HELP IN CREATIVE LEARNING?

Are you interested in story writing? Are you enthusiastic in posting new events on your social media sites? If you are interested more in such creative activities, then why are you not trying to prepare your own reflective journal? Its not too tough task. Yes, reflective journal is basically your own thoughts on a particular event or past incidence faced by you. You have to just present your views and thoughts to your readers regarding that event with thorough analysis and arguments.

I know you are bit confused between reflective journals and argumentative essay writing style because both needed personal opinion to establish the rational outlook. Let’s inform you reflective journal is 40% similar to argumentative essay and 40% with reflection report. Rests 20% is your own opinion that how will you frame your paper, how the data will include in the paper and all. Not understand yet? Ok, let me explain you in detail. Start from its first similarity. It is 40% similar to argumentative essay; right? First, think what are the basic key points in argumentative essay? 

• ·         Key thesis statement
• ·         Theoretical arguments of scholarly authors
• ·         Your own justification

Second, 40% similarity is regarding your reflective report. What do you want to project through your reflective report?

• ·         Your issue with dealing the subject
• ·         Guidance to overcome those issues
• ·         Key Learning’s

Look, here I have segregated main points from your each 40% similarity. How we have to find out the common concept that has in both these two projects. What are they? First, it is the issue. Second, it is your key learning. So, reflective journal is nothing but your own reflection about your discovered issue that must be presented in different format that rests 20%. First 80%, you know how to write and proceed. For rest 20%, just follow our below-mentioned points. 

Useful background details: Your journal must carry useful information about your present event. Always remind, you are going to tell your readers about your experienced event or anything in which you have found interest. So, detail information with proper rationale must be presented in the first few paragraphs in your journal to make your readers aware of why they are learning your paper and what knowledge they should gain after learning this. It is like rational section of any dissertation. Without having that rationale your readers will never understand why are they study your dissertation paper. Similarly, if your background information is not sufficient and well justified, then your paper will lose its weight.

Justify your rationale: Justify your answer with more realistic way. Here is the difference between reflective journals and argumentative essay. In case of argumentative essay, your justification will support by various scholarly articles and their views. But here, in reflective journal, you have to present your own real life experience with supportive case studies to prove your justification towards readers.

Ananlyse your actions: Now it is your part. You have to justify your taken action in that situation that you have mentioned in your journal. Make sure, your actions must be ethical otherwise; it will create negative impact on readers. You also can support your taken actions by giving relevant case studies.

Share your thoughts: Share your thoughts like why are you taken those actions, why you observe that event like that way and something that. Mind it, your given thoughts will generate a new viewpoint towards your readers and that’s why your thoughts must be ethical and realistic. No fantasy will be accepted here.

So, if you have experienced with some interesting event, then don’t waste your talent on posting those writings on social media sites. Make your own reflective journal and share your creative thoughts with others. Always remind, knowledge sharing can enhance your learning capacity. Then don’t waste your time. Start from here. We will wish you a very ‘Good Luck’!!!

GUIDELINES FOR WRITING ARGUMENTATIVE ASSIGNMENT

Most of you can find maximum similarity between research project and argumentative assignment. For primary view, it is true. But don’t get confused. It is true regarding its justification and analysis but both research project and argumentative assignments are totally different with each other from structure. Research area in research project is limited but in argumentative assignment, your area should be broad. Research project is very shortened area of argumentative assignment that project the actual issue happen in the society while in argumentative assignment, the broader area will be disclosed. So, let’s learn something new about argumentative assignment. Please follow the below points that you must have to include while writing argumentative assignment.     

Clear thesis statement: Make sure, your thesis argument should be mention clearly in the first paragraph of your argumentative assignment. Readers have to know what is the main arguments of your assignment and what knowledge should they derived after learning your paper. So, a clear and justified thesis statement should be in introductory part of your assignment.

Enough background information: More and more information will require justifying your argument in that assignment. It is not any creative writing competition that you can write whatever was in your mind. But you have to prove your arguments by giving supporting evidence. Therefore, proper and authentic information should be required in your assignment. It is just like your literature review. Therefore, you have to show arguments and relevant models of scholarly authors to justify your point of view. Similarly, you have to place this literature review concept in this argumentative assignment in smaller way.

Detail research: Detail research is required to collect authentic information for your assignment. Argumentative essay is the smaller version of any research project. Differently is between there structure. So, to justify your arguments and point of view, you have to research a lot. You also can collect samples like dissertation to justify your analysis towards readers.

Arguments between scholarly articles: Argument between scholarly articles must be proper in your assignment. You have to project arguments between selected models or theories, between concepts and at the end, you have to justify which concept you have selected in this paper and why. Proper evidence can increase grade of your paper otherwise, it will be valueless towards readers.

Justify your arguments: This section is yours that can be applied while concluding the assignment. Yes, you can project here your own concept and point of view to show readers why they read our paper. Is it for learning something new or just for time pass? As an academician, your first and foremost target will be to increase knowledge of your readers and for that reason; you have to establish your arguments with suitable examples, authentic information, and supportive evidence. Rest is Reader's opinion.  

LET’S LEARN ABOUT ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bibliography we all heard. But about annotated bibliography??? How many of us know about it? OMG!!! Ok, let me answer how many of us heard about this bibliography? Now it is satisfactory. We all heard about it but don’t know its application in academic services. Basically, annotated bibliography used mainly for writing scholarly papers, Ph.D. dissertations to show why the writer has selected those resources for their advanced study. So basically it is advanced and elaborative form of bibliography. Writer or researcher has to project the critical outlook of their chosen reference briefly.

Wait Wait Wait! Are you getting confused between annotated bibliography and abstract? Ok, let me clear this confusion first. The abstract is the overview of your written research paper while annotated bibliography is the justification of your chosen references used in our research paper or assignment. Simply saying, space of abstract is based on your research paper or assignment On the other hand; annotated bibliography is open-end writing of your used scholarly papers. It will increase authenticity of your research paper. So lets’ start to learn about writing annotated bibliography. Please follow our below steps:

Select all sources first: First step must be your resource collection. Gather all your primary and secondary resources to prepare your bibliography list. Make sure your collected resources must have a link with your assignment or research paper. Invalid resource is not required to prepare annotated bibliography.

Prepare Bibliography list: After collecting all relevant resources, now time is for preparing your bibliography list. Make sure, your bibliography list must be according to your required referencing style i.e. Harvard style, Chicago style, MLA style and all.

Identifies the arguments: Now its the time for preparing annotated bibliography. After preparing your all reference list, first find out the argumentative statement of your each selected resource. Write down each argumentative statement against of your each resource to show readers critical outlook of those selected papers. Make sure, it is not literature review, so don’t link each statement with other resource’s statement. Just point out your critical overview of your each reference and write it down clearly.

Discuss the relevance of your used sources: Make sure, after writing critical statement of your each reference, the next paragraph should be your evaluation i.e. why you have selected those references for to your study. Please follow the below example format of annotated bibliography,

Gulle, K. (1995). International marketing, 3^rd Ed. Oxford: London.
This book states …Here the relevance of this book is to …

Prepare list according to referencing style: Your reference list must be followed the required referencing style that you have mentioned in your college semester question paper. So prepare it accordingly. Each referencing style required different format of annotated bibliography. For example, MLA referencing style must have 3 paragraphs for each annotated bibliography. First paragraph is for summary of that text, secondly is for evaluation and third is your own reflection about that text. 

On the other hand, Chicago referencing style of annotated bibliography can be done through one single paragraph that contains both the summary and evaluation of your text. All are depended on for different referencing styles.

Now you can understand how to write about annotated bibliography. So, if you are assigned some project that requires annotated bibliography, just do it. Simply follow above steps. Your annotated bibliography will be completed easily.  

HOW TO WRITE A BUSINESS REPORT?

What do you want to be in future? Market analyst? Financial analyst? Business Development manager? Well, whatever your wish is, you must have to know technical things otherwise, you cannot sustain in these positions. No no wait wait, please! Technical things does not mean about learning technology but metaphoric technical things that will help you to sustain in your desire position. Yes, I am talking about business presentation, writing business report. Before going to the presentation, you have to learn about business report first otherwise, it cannot be explainable to your board members and obviously to your college members and this ‘business report' has too many metaphoric technicalities to solve business issue mathematically. So, here we are giving some useful points of writing a business report for both for your college semester and your official purpose.

Brief your business issue: Identifies your business issue in the first paragraph of report. Note that in practical field, you have no other options to rectify yourself. So, in college semester, it is your only opportunity to learn everything about preparing business report. So whenever, you assign yourself for writing this report, think practical. Your management board does not have so much time to listen to every words of your report. So, it must be short, specific, informative but practical in sense. So, identify your issue in first paragraph. 

Provide supporting evidence: Evidence is must and must necessary whenever you are going to work in practical field. So, apply this sense in first step that is from your college semester. Though that evidence will be not so much needed to your professors but if you worked in collecting evidence from first step, and then it will be helpful for you to present your views in business presentation. 

Think it just a research paper. Before stick on a specific issue, you have to prepare the literature review of your dissertation. Similarly, this business report also needs some specific and business related evidence that will support your presented issue.

Present market condition: Yes, market analysis is more important to prove importance of your business report. One question should be rising that what the basic difference between evidence and market analysis is. Well, market analysis is the second part of your evidence collection. Before identifying the issue, you first have to collect all evidence. In addition, after analysing the present market situation with that evidence only that identified issue is accepted in market. It is similar to any case study assignment. You have to relate your case study with present market conditions and before that, you have to collect necessary information f your case. Simply, business report is real case scenario of your present company that you have to present towards your board of directors with supporting evidence and market analysis.

Justify your findings: Now, the time is come to present your intelligence towards board members. Yes, this is the section to show your critical views, analytical mind and understanding nature of market. Give your own viewpoints to justify that business issue. 

Use financial tools, graphical presentations that will visually help your board members of instructor to understand the entire scenario and raise their hands for you.

Suggest recommendations: One recommending section you must have to require in this business report. Identifying the problem is not good enough rather than suggesting some way-out resolve that issue. Make sure your recommendation must be realistic and fruitful otherwise it will get down your company position along with your grades in examination.

Proof read: Proofread your paper thoroughly. This is very much technical writing any single mistake can create biggest hindrance to your growth. So be careful in this case and make sure, your paper is plagi free. 

TIPS FOR START-UP BUSINESS PLAN

Its sound too interesting. Yaa? Obviously, because it has a feel good condition. We verbally became entrepreneur in our own imagination. So, students appeared in MBA who are interested or aimed to be acted as an entrepreneur in near future, must be focused on this topic. It is because, through learning business plan, you can get necessary essence of how to be a successful entrepreneur. But wait, please! Though it sounds good but its implementation, in reality, is too hard. It is too technical to use in every step in contemporary market and get your desire result from it.

For suppose, you want to be a café owner. Then, your primary targeted customers must be between ages 15-45. Here I have used ‘primary’ word because these age groups are fond of coffee and more or less everyday they visit their nearest and favorite, friendly café. Therefore, your café location must be in any posh area or in any college or university campus. Right? But, if your café will open in any slum area or local areas then? No, it doesn’t work good and not give you desire result. So, before starting up your business, planning of its technicalities are too much important otherwise single mistake is enough to shift your dream into ash. So, please go through with our following tips before planning your start-up business. 

Select start up business: First look into your passion. What you want to open and why? Ask yourself first are you ok with your planned business. Have you all those support that you need for your future business. Select your business after getting answer these entire question otherwise, it will demolish in its first move. Try to get answers from your insight and plan your business accordingly.

Do market analysis: Next thing is proper market research. You must have to know your planned business could get any appreciation in contemporary market or not. If yes, then plan for next step but if not, then start from beginning. You have to select other business options. Other than that, you can do a little survey that why your previous entrepreneurs are failed to start up your planned business. Is there any loopholes in their strategy or the market itself not needs that. Analyse your previous entrepreneur’s strategy first and try to find out their strategic issue. If there any issue, then try for a demo project. If not, then you have to plan for something else.

It is like your research paper. When you try to find out any issue, you first have to complete your literature review to know previous author’s viewpoint. Market analysis is similar with literature review. After getting understand previous entrepreneur’s viewpoint, only after you can proceed to next step. 

Select targeted customers: Check once, are there any targeted customers for your start up business or not. Please be specific for your targeted customers. Start it from their age groups. Try to fix your target in specific age group. It will helpful for you to continue your start up business. It is too similar to pilot study in dissertation. Through pilot study, you can get understand the possible outcomes of your entire research paper. Similarly, through targeting any specific age group, you also can be understood possible success of your business plan.

Check financial support: Now its time for checking your financial support. Survey a lot that how much you need to start up your business and then check your fund. If you have not sufficient, then you have to manage it before implementing your business plan.

Project financial condition: Yes, here is the section to apply your all-academic knowledge that you have learned through finishing your finance assignment or report. Budget analysis, profit and loss statement, break even point development all are needed to be projected in this area that will indicate whether your project will be successful in near future or not. Whatever you may do, just remind it must and must be realistic.

Build your management team: Its time for building your management team for your start up business. Please remind your MBA module guide and assignments. Whom you are needed? Yes, accountant, human resource, market analyst and one IT person. One or two of these members must be experienced otherwise it will be difficult for your to continue your business. Project your financial analysis to them. Take their views. If all, are they agreed then you may start your business. However, just remind, always don’t rely on other’s statement. Here is the phase to apply your won knowledge and academics in real implementation.

Develop company description: Now, the time is come to develop your company description. Design your website and prepare your company description. It’s the tome for preparing newsletters and sending mail burst. Rest is ‘waiting for your best’.

Be ready. Time is come to fulfill your all desires and dreams. it’s the time to project your capability towards the world. Plan properly; be confident and implement your business plan. Hope you will do your best. Good Luck!!! 

HAVE YOU SUFFERED FROM EXAM PHOBIA??? NO WORRY! JUST RELAX…

Why are you worried so much? Only a few days you have to prepare yourself for exam? So what? It’s not too late. Still, you have few days. Opps! sorry… more hours, more minutes and seconds you have. Then why are you wasting these times to be worried? Come fast and let’s prepare for your exam. Yes, you can do. Believe me, it will not get you any sleepless night or you never be haunted by exam nightmares. It is time for utilization. Nothing is impossible in the world. Just bring confidence on yourself. Don’t get nervous! We are here to assist you in your preparation. Just follow our given points. We guaranteed you will be well-prepared yourself for your test.

1. Just keep calm and relax first. If you are too much worried, then you cannot be able to keep concentrate in your preparation. So just, let down all your nervousness and stay relax for some time. Bring confidence on yourself.

2. Have you your final syllabus? Have a look into that. Just check once that are you familiar all with those topics given in your final semester syllabus or not. If yes then it is ok but if not, then please sort out all critical topics and keep them aside first. First, prepare yourself with your familiar topics. If you get time, then you can start one of those critical topics for better study but always take decision according to your time shortage.  

3. Sorted out your all critical subjects. In those you are felt difficulties, please give time on them to make yourself prepared. It does not mean you can neglect others, those you think easy to manage. No… Don’t do this mistake. Manage your time by going through all subjects daily; at least once in a day otherwise you cannot fix out your issues.

4. Are you faced trouble in managing time? Don’t worry. Follow our instruction carefully. First, check your semester routine. Noted down the date of your hardest subject. Plan your preparation schedule accordingly. If your hardest subjects are in the first week of your exam, then start with it first and give more time on that to bring confidence on yourself.

5. Prepare schedule chart for your daily time management. Keep your maximum time for exam preparation. Keep 8 hours daily for sleep or relaxation and more 5 hours or break. Prepare yourself for rest 11 hours for exam. I think this is too much time for any students to get themselves prepared for their upcoming exams. 

6. Go through once with your class notes. Keep in mind, your instructor or professor wants to know have you ever listened to their words or reminded their guidance or not. So, if you overlook your class notes then, get ready for your fewer marks. 24*7 hours study also not brings you highest marks if your class notes are ignored. It is because you have made your professor realized that you listen nothing his/her lectures or not ever attend his/her, class. So, don’t do this mistake. Just once, tally your class notes for final preparation.  

7. Check previous year’s questions once. It will help you to understand important topics for your current exams. Also, try to solve your previous year's question paper to manage time for your upcoming exam.

8. Try to understand important ones. Make your eyes prepare to check important topics for your current year examination. Try to follow class notes. Check once what your professor has taught, in which point he/she has emphasized more. Take note carefully. That topic will be your important topic for upcoming test.

9. Take brief notes of your study. Make simple points and subheading to keep remember your learned lessons. Writing immediately after reading that lesson will help you to keep that subject in mind forever.

10. After done with your notes or sample tests, please revise it once. Continuous revision can help you to not forget your learned lesson and assist you in getting good marks in exam.  

11. Last and finally, avoid unnecessary phone calls to your friends. It does not mean to detach yourself with your all friends but avoid unnecessary phone calls. It will hamper your continuous and serious study. If you are getting irritate with too many calls and chats, then switch off your phones for some time or off your mobile data connection for some time. Prepare yourself first and then chat with your friends to get some breaks. But all must be on your planned schedule. 

So, what next? Be ready for your exam and plan your time management. It is utterly important to concentrate in your study to get good marks in semester. Last, we can wish you all the very best. Good Luck!!!