Clear understanding of employability and SME

2 Questions

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION '..........................................................................................................................1
Essay 1 ............................................................................................................................................1
Clear understanding of employability ........................................................................................1
Explain two main 21st century skills and two personal attributes that make you employable
and justify why they are valuable in the workplace....................................................................1
Explain how could you develop one or more of these skills to be ready for the future
workplace ...................................................................................................................................2
Essay 2 ............................................................................................................................................2
Clear understanding of SME ......................................................................................................2
Two major challenges that can stop an SME going global ........................................................3
Possible solutions to overcome these problems .........................................................................4
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION '
The following report includes two essays. The first is one is related to employability. It
includes two main 21st century skills and two personal attributes that makes an individual
employable. This includes how can an individual develop one or more skills for future success.
Other essay is based on the topic SME. It consists of major challenges that stop SME to go
global and different solutions to overcome these problems.
Essay 1
Clear understanding of employability
The term “employability” is used in different contexts and meanings. Employability is an
important aspect of higher education and it is defined as a set of achieving understandings, skills
and personal attributes that will help in making graduates to become employable and successful
in the organisation (Benson, Morgan, and Filippaios, 2014). Employability is not something
which is only related to getting jobs. It includes broader skills and attributes which helps in
enabling graduates to be more successful in their working life. There are different skills that are
used by employers and employees for working appropriately within the organisation. The
different skills included in developing employability opportunities are teamwork,
communication, problem solving, learning, self management, technology and planning and
organising. All these skills must be fulfilled so that effective working of the employee in
organisation is attained. The main objective of working of an employee successfully in an
organisation includes having all these skills and doing job in right manner.
Explain two main 21st century skills and two personal attributes that make you employable and
justify why they are valuable in the workplace
The 21st century skills required by an individual for developing his employability skills
are learning skills. These are universal needs of any career and these vary in terms of value and
career aspirations of an individual (Collet, Hine, and Du Plessis, 2015). These skills include
creative thinking, creativity, communication and collaboration. Critical thinking is defined as an
important quality for someone to do job role in an effective manner. Creativity is also an
important skill that is equivalent to means of adaptation. This helps in empowering students for
analysing different topics that leads to innovation. This skill related to innovation is most
important as it helps a lot in success of the company. Collaboration includes working together