Academic and Employability Skills BMSW 401

ACADEMIC AND
EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Employability skills.....................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
The report is on academic and employability skills. It gives a personal reflection of oneself and
the employability skills present in an individual. This ultimately helps in achieving the
professional goal which has been discussed. The employability skills are those which help a
person in achieving the goal one has aimed for in life. These are the ones which an organisation
considers suitable to have in a person for a job. The report also uses Gibbs reflective cycle as an
approach in skill development and discusses 4 Ds of time management.
Employability skills
Time management
It is the process involving planning and controlling strictly the required time for being spent on
every activity needed for being performed in a time frame given. The aim of the controlling and
planning is for increasing effectiveness, efficiency and productivity. The system involving the
time management is the summation of techniques, tools, methods and processes. Time
management is made of most prominent five elements that involve an environment which is
conducive, setting of priorities, eliminating of non – priority, goals setting and forming of right
habits. The biggest merit of successful management with the time available is to be efficient
highly in time spending by establishment of effective control.
This skill, I am developing in myself over the years and shall assist in any organisation for
employability. My idea is to prioritise the tasks to be completed first and then schedule
accordingly. As I go through their completion, it helps me gather confidence in self to achieve
my aim. I have linked self-confidence with this skill. If a person knows what he can achieve in a
certain time frame, it builds up confidence in one’s abilities (Suleman, 2018). I have learnt this
skill through experience in my college assignments and presentations when we had to achieve
their completion on deadlines. Also, we had to make the assignment in groups where it was to be
decided on the parts one has to complete. Making of schedule by dividing work in time frames
help gets the work done. I will be taking example of my assignments at college in which I
allotted time frame for different subjects in view of completing them. In case I exceeded time on
one assignment, I used to reduce time on another to make up for the time and thus, complete
them for submission (Di Gregorio and et.al., 2019). It happened once that an assignment had to
be made in two days which otherwise could have been done in a period of a week. All of us in

class were abuzz with the same topic as to how the topic has to be done. We discussed the
possible measures in which the assignment could be completed. All of us were confused how to
go about the project to finish it in time allotted. It was here it started roaming in my mind about
getting the difficult task done first which was of numerical. I prioritised it and made a time frame
for the same to be done the day itself. The theoretical part of the assignment I kept for the other
day, I discussed the strategy with my friends. They agreed with my opinion and we went ahead
with the project the day after classes got over. I told my friends that we will be scheduling time
for each numerical and we had to achieve completion in that time. We worked in time schedules
planned and got our work done of numerical that day. Next day, we were at a bit of ease with
theoretical part remaining and it was divided amongst us to study the lessons and explain the
summary of them to each other to know what we had to write. As planned, we could complete
our work as scheduled. The assignment could be thus completed due to proper scheduling and
time management. Also, it can be said it was a result of our team efforts too.
The 4 Ds of time management which can be followed are:
a) Do: Working on tasks which can take some time for completion.
b) Defer: Temporarily pausing a low priority task (Suleman, 2018).
c) Delegate: Reassigning task which is essential to somebody else.
d) Delete: Removing tasks which are unnecessary from schedule.
Finding information/ research skill
I have always been interested in finding different sources of information whether it is internet,
books by renowned authors and journals. The information age is being currently present and it is
the current norm to be ahead in information (Di Gregorio and et.al., 2019). I have always
believed that gaining information is one different thing and another is learning and application of
the same. It is more important to apply the information. I developed this skill in my school
intermediate where I was doing science as my subject. We had practical in it and had to be in
know of information about various machinery tools used in physics and chemistry. The tools had
to be utilised for making projects and machinery parts had to be joined in a manner of co-
function. Thus, I gathered information from various sources how to make the apparatus where
the machinery could be made functional. I had conversation with my seniors of how to go about