Key Learnings from a Successful Presentation

ACADEMIC AND
EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
SECTION 1......................................................................................................................................3
A brief overview.........................................................................................................................3
Screen grabs of the presentation.................................................................................................3
Key Learnings while delivering a successful presentation.........................................................5
SECTION 2......................................................................................................................................5
Skills required.............................................................................................................................5
Self Evaluation............................................................................................................................6
SECTION 3......................................................................................................................................7
Short as well as Long term Goals:-.............................................................................................7
Action Plan..................................................................................................................................8
SECTION 4....................................................................................................................................10
Backup Strategy........................................................................................................................10
Time Management and Organization........................................................................................11
SECTION 5....................................................................................................................................13
PDP implementation.................................................................................................................13
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LinkedIn Profile........................................................................................................................15
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................15
Recommendations.....................................................................................................................16
SECTION 6....................................................................................................................................17
Skill Evaluation Questionnaire.................................................................................................17
Personality Test Report.............................................................................................................20
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................22

INTRODUCTION
In this report, various skills that an individual should posses before venturing for higher
education or for employment i.e. working in the professional; environment has been discussed
upon. This report will analyse the skills of a student who is aiming to develop his skills preparing
himself for both the stated above and involves implication of an academic and professional
approach for their development (Sala and Gobet, 2017).
MAIN BODY
SECTION 1
A brief overview.
My name is Will Byers and I have recently completed my school education by passing
Year 13 or Upper 6th. I now intend to go for higher education i.e. en route to college and then
ultimately find a job. For this purpose, I need to prepare myself with required skills which will
help me in achieving good grade at the college and finally help in obtaining an excellent job.
Screen grabs of the presentation.
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Key Learnings while delivering a successful presentation.
I identified that while giving presentation, I was:-
 Experiencing a great deal of nervousness and I even forgot my lines initially.
 I was able to keep the attention of the audience as I spoke what was relevant and kept it
up to the point.
 I learnt that I was not using hand gestures and could not decide the movement that I
should implement while giving a presentation.
 I also learnt that eye contact is an extremely important issue while giving presentation as
I could not make the eye contact with everyone and only focused on my lecturer's face.
This irked him and he reprimanded me in front of everyone.
SECTION 2
Skills required.
There is an extremely assorted set of skills that are required while planning for higher education
or preparing oneself for employability :-
Higher Education:- When a student steps in a university, normal behavioural tendencies are no
linger implied and a student needs to adapt himself. A student must:-
 Develop communication skills along with empathising with them rather than asserting
your own viewpoint.
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 Develop ability to work in teams successfully and integrate with other students, teachers
etc. This also includes taking other along while progressing rather than focusing on
individual development (Messum and et.al., 2017).
 While studying in an university, it is extremely important to integrate one's own
ideologies with those developed by the institute. This will help the student in achieving
success as per the parameters defined by the institute and therefore take risks in a
calculated manner. Lastly, it is also important to increase and develop your networking skills an d join
different clubs and societies as per the aims of an individual like a student aiming to
become and editor or writer can join book reading clubs etc.
Employability Skills:- Getting a job is only an initial step because an individual needs to perform
the job in order to establish themselves and should develop following skills:-
 Teamwork. This helps an individual in collaborating in a better manner and also avoid or
mange conflicts rising at the workplace (Hart and et.al.,, 2016).
 Critical thinking which will help an individual in adequately analysing the situation or
problem faced and hence develop appropriate and relevant interpretations and
conclusions.
 Ethics. When an individual enters a workplace, he is expected to comply with the norms
of the organization and maintain the integrity towards the company.
 Communication. It involves various type of communication i.e. oral, written, listening
ability etc. which helps an individual in understanding what the other person is saying
and interpret accordingly.
Self Evaluation.
After going through the skills that an individual aiming for higher education or
employment should have, I think I can clearly analyse the skills that I have distinguishing them
as my strengths and weaknesses.
Strengths:- I recognized that out of all the skills required, I have good comprehension and
evaluation skills as I can understand and interpret things in a better manner. This signifies that I
will be able to analyse situations more correctly while working in a professional environment
also. My ability to handle critical situations is also extremely well and I can take important
decisions handling such crisis well. The writing skills are extremely developed which will help
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