Academic and Employability Skills - Sample Assignment

Academic and
Employability Skills

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK ..............................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTION
Employability skills refer to the transferable skills which required by the people seeking
for employment and employing talented employees. Mainly, it is related with the important
abilities that includes in the overall development of the knowledge and mind-set of the workers
at workplace (Simatele, 2015). In addition to this, employability skills is also considered as an
important aspect for every business organization to attain success. Present report will outline
employability skills which help employee and employer to attain future opportunities within the
organizations.
TASK
Employability skills plays a vital role in developing as well as enhancing individual
abilities to perform their task in most effective manner. The skills help employer and employee
in executing and managing responsibilities to attain set targets. Mainly, employability skills
highly depend on the knowledge, attitudes and skills that help employee to effectively perform
their task and involve in workplace activities. Along with this, it is essential qualifications of
applicant seeking job opportunities to attain positive outcomes. Thus, it is important for every
individual who work in organization have best and effective skills which may directly contribute
in making employees able to accept challenges at workplace for accomplishing positive
outcomes.
Apart from this, employability skills are related with the capabilities that contribute in
gaining employment and retaining talented employees within the organization (Riebe and
Jackson, 2014). Toddy's time every people tries to enhance their skills for attaining growth in
their career. In context of this, employability skills are related with those aspects that support
individual ability to recruit appropriate candidate according to workplace. With the assistance of
this, they can easily enhance their productivity level. As there are some employability skills that
help employee and employer to make them able to perform their best.
 Communication skill: It is one of the important skill that is important for every
employees and employer to share their viewer and ideas in effective way. Mainly, it is
referring to being clear about what the employees mean and what they want to attain.
With the assistance of this both employee and employer can easily execute its activities in
most effective manner. If employee have appropriate communication skill than they
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easily share their views and opinion with their employer and team members as well.
Mainly communication skills include nonverbal communication such as body language
that they use. In addition of this, it considers as an ability to explain their thoughts with
others by using written and spoken form.
 Team working: It is also an important skill through which employees can easily perform
their task in a group for attaining common goals and objectives (Essential employability
skills, 2013). Along with this, employee also responsible for making better coordination
among team members for making them comfortable. This is the crucial skills which helps
employer in deriving individual ability to coordinate with other staff members. With the
help of this, all the team members easily perform their task and at the same time allotted
time frame. Mainly, it is related with the building positive working relationship within
the team that may contribute in attaining predetermined target in systematic way. In this
context, employer of the company is also responsible for motivating as well as
encouraging their workers to take participate in the group activities. By this they easily
increase involvement of the employees at workplace. This will directly contribute in
enhancing the efficiency level of the company and aligning employee efforts towards one
common goal.
 Problem solving: It is important employability skill for every employee to find out the
appropriate solution when they face difficulties at workplace. By this skill individual can
easily resolve issues and obstacles. In accordance with this skill, it is important for
employee and employer to have understanding and patience to derive right and wrong of
different business situation to identify the main cause behind the issues. With the
assistance of this, they can easily improve their overall performance level at workplace
place. This type of skill is important for employee and employer as well because both
play vital role in managing as well as executing business activities. Thus, problem
solving skills of applicant is essential for employer because it helps in in reducing the
chances of un necessary issues at workplace. Self-management: This type of skill refers
to those characteristics that help employee to manage productivity in own
performance. . With the help of this, individuals can easily manage their task and
activities in systematic way. Mainly, this type of skill is related with clear
communication, problem solving, time management and many more (Cottrell, 2015). All
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these aspects helps employee at the time of performing their activities at workplace. This
will directly contribute in improving efficiency level of the employees within the
organization. Self-management is another employment skill which is considered by
employer at the time of recruitment because it denotes individual ability to work
effectively regardless of dynamic work situations.
 Planning and organizing: It is one of the important employability skill that help
employees to effectively prepare a plan for performing best. In addition to this, planning
and organizing is related with work management ability of employees like how to do and
what need to be done, etc. By this skill, employer and employee can easily develop
overall schedule that support them to attain objectives. This will help them in attaining
predetermined target in allotted time frame. Under this, as a manager it is important to
effectively make plan for entire activities that may help business organization to achieve
set goals and objectives in specified time frame.
 Technology: This type of skill is also important for employee to execute task. Mainly it is
related with the computer word processing (Ibarraran and et. al., 2014). Thus, it is vital
for worker to have proper knowledge accessing basic technical equipment. With the help
of this, they can easily handle all the aspects related with the technology. Apart from this,
it also includes applicant ability to use social media, web designing and many more that
used in the business organization to operate all the activities in systematic manner.
 Learning: It is all about understanding new things that may help them in quick adopt to
changes. By using this type of skill help employees can easily accept changes and also
tries to operate activities accordingly. It supports both workers and employer to
effectively manage their own learning towards the specific areas and activities as well.
All these are the major employability skills that make individual able to execute their
activities at workplace. If workers have all these skills than they easily make critical decision and
also resolve all the complex situation. Along with this, it is also may contribute in making
workers able to attain predetermined targets. From all the mentioned skills, technology, self-
management, planning and organising are the best skill which may help me in handling all the
issues and situation in effective way. With the use of all these skills, I can easily handle all the
activities and situation that arise at workplace. This will beneficial for me to accomplishing
future opportunities in the business organization. On the other side, there are some skills which I
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need to develop in the future to gain credibility to attain best employment opportunities. In this
context, there are some skills that can be understood by following skills:
Communication skill is not effective in me as sometime I fail in convey clear message to
the other person working wt workplace (Ito and Kawazoe, 2015). Thus, it is important for me to
effectively improve my communication skill so that I can easily interact and communicate with
manager. For developing skill, I needs to using blogging and social media, preparing as well as
making oral presentations that make able in attaining positive outcomes. Along with this,
working on customer’s service is also effective for developing skills of mine at workplace. By
this I can easily share my views and opinion with the employer at workplace. This will increase
the efficiency level of mine at workplace.
Problem solving: For developing skills and knowledge, it is important for me to improve
mu skill for handling complex situation. With the assistance of this, I can easily attain future
opportunities at workplace (Jackson, 2014). For improving this skill, I need to undertake research
with the aim of determining the main cause behind the problem. With the help of this I can easily
improve my problem solving skill at workplace. Along with this, by communicating with another
people is also help me in determining the way to resolve the issues that they faced at workplace.
Team working: For attaining common goals, it is important for me to develop my skill to
effectively attain the predetermined goals. For attaining the same, I need to perform assignment
in a group which may support me in analysing as well as understanding team work. By this I can
easily increase the chances of attaining positive outcomes and at the same time also build
positive relation with all the team members.
All these are more effective for me to developing the future opportunities to gain
credibility at workplace. The main reason behind this is skilled employees which help business
organization to attain their set target. If employees have sufficient knowledge and skills than they
easily coordinate with all the business activities in order to make all the function appropriate.
Furthermore, employability skills are not only important for employees but also
necessary for employer because both contribute in making overall performance of the company
more effective. If employer also having all these type of skills than they easily manage and
control entire activities. This will directly contribute in enhancing the chances of accomplishing
goals. For example, if employer has better communication skill than they easily communicate
with their staff members over common goals and values of working (Ju and et. al., 2014). By
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this, they identify issues and concern of the workers and also tries to provide them better
solution. The focus of employer is on employability skills to employer develop positive and
healthy work environment which is beneficial for coordinating and cooperating efforts of
workers.. On the other side, if manager is able in team working than they motivate and
encourage their workers towards the allotted task. It helps in making them able to accepting all
the complex situation in appropriate way (Pinto and Ramalheira, 2017). Problem solving skill is
also effective for employer to look out the issues that faced by the employees at workplace. For
this, employer needs to communicate with employees with the aim of analysing their issues and
at the same time also provide them appropriate ways to resolve problems in most effective
manner.
CONCLUSION
From the above mentioned report it has been concluded that employability skill play vital
role in improving overall performance of the company and its employees as well. In this context,
various employability skills are there that help employee to attain their targets at workplace.
Communication skill, problem solving skill, team working skill, technology related skill, self-
assessment skills and many more are the major skills that are required by the workers to execute
and implement business activities in systematic way. In addition of this, it is also important for
employer to focus on applicant having all the employability skills so that they can recruit new
talent for business organization. All these skills of employees and employer directly contributes
in success of business organization.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Cottrell, S., 2015. Skills for success: Personal development and employability. Macmillan
International Higher Education.
Ibarraran, P. and et. al., 2014. Life skills, employability and training for disadvantaged youth:
Evidence from a randomized evaluation design. IZA Journal of Labor & Development.
3(1). p.10.
Ito, H. and Kawazoe, N., 2015. Active learning for creating innovators: Employability skills
beyond industrial needs. International Journal of Higher Education. 4(2). p.81.
Jackson, D., 2014. Testing a model of undergraduate competence in employability skills and its
implications for stakeholders. Journal of Education and Work. 27(2). pp.220-242.
Ju, S. and et. al., 2014. Employability skills for entry-level employees with and without
disabilities: A comparison between the perspectives of educators and
employers. Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation. 40(3). pp.203-212.
Pinto, L. H. and Ramalheira, D. C., 2017. Perceived employability of business graduates: The
effect of academic performance and extracurricular activities. Journal of Vocational
Behavior. 99. pp.165-178.
Riebe, L. and Jackson, D., 2014. The use of rubrics in benchmarking and assessing
employability skills. Journal of Management Education. 38(3). pp.319-344.
Simatele, M., 2015. Enhancing the portability of employability skills using e-portfolios. Journal
of Further and Higher Education. 39(6). pp.862-874.
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Essential employability skills. 2013. [Online]. Available through:<https://career-
ready.blogs.latrobe.edu.au/2013/08/16/8-essential-employability-skills/>.
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