Academic & Employability Skills Report: Analysis and Development

This report provides an in-depth analysis of key employability skills, including communication, problem-solving, time management, and presentation skills. The introduction defines skills and highlights the report's objective to identify and analyze these skills for personal and professional development. The main body delves into each skill, defining its importance in the workplace and providing context on how these skills contribute to achieving organizational goals. For instance, effective communication is emphasized for fostering relationships and teamwork, while problem-solving is presented as a crucial ability for addressing workplace issues. Time management is discussed for its role in productivity, and presentation skills are highlighted for their impact on confidence and overall professional image. The report also discusses barriers to effective skill utilization and the importance of continuous improvement. The conclusion summarizes the significance of each skill and their combined impact on professional success. The report also includes a comprehensive list of references, including books and journals, supporting the analysis of employability skills.

Academic & Employability Skills

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Skills is considered as an ability to carry out task or activities with pre-determined results
or objective during the given period of time (Jackson, 2014). The main purpose of this report is
to identify and analyse various employability skills such as communication skills, teamwork,
problem solving along with presentations skills which I need to develop or I generally pursue.
The major aim is to identify the prescribed skills to understand the scope of development in the
future for both employee and employer.
MAIN BODY
Now a days, skills and traits of an employee become important and significant so as to
enhance maximum results & targets. Here, the discussion will be made regarding the various
suitable skills such as communication, time management, problem solving along with
presentation skills in an employer context The discussion is as follows:
Communication skills: This skill is defined as an act of conveying or interacting with
one particular message from one entity to another entity for bringing the mutual consent and
enabling effective relationship with peer, friends, collogues and employer. Communication skills
is useful, because it led to an effective and purposeful relationship in the workplace and
organisation to achieve pre-determined goals and targets. It is good to have this skill in
workplace, because it would helpful in converting worst relationship into the ethical connection
between an employer and employee (Rosenberg and et. Al 2012). In employer context, this skill
is helpful in bringing the right co-ordination, team work spirit along with potential to every work
as individual decision taker in their work or task. There are various benefits of an effective
communication skills in context with workplace: it led to improvement in the morale, efficiency
and enhancing the working relationships. In the current time, business entities are suffering with
an issue of improper and ineffective communication power and skills to achieve organisational
goals and objectives. Along with benefits, there are various barrier to an effective
communication of an employer such as arrogance, behaviour and anger. These barriers are
required to be overcome in order to achieve targets and goals effectively. There is also the point
what if particular employer don't have proper communication skills. As a result, it would be
difficult for that employer to perform or contribute his best efforts in accordance to my morale

and confidence. Also, it would be tough for any employer interactive or eye-contact with peer,
employer, friends and other employee in the office.
It is important for key employer to have morale and purpose before being communicated
to others. Suppose, if any high level managerial person don't have correct interacting and
communicating skills, that person or employer would be morale and confidence would brought
down in comparison to the desired one.
An employer or team leader need to pursue this skill properly and also very confident
over this. In context to the workplace, change and continues improvement is a need, because
communication skills with no change and improvement looks like inappropriate and useless. An
employer should have pursue this skill and competency to act in he positive manner and also
directed towards the achievement of goals or targets of an organisation. But every skills and
ability needs continuous change and improvement over an appropriate period of time. Generally ,
employer have this unique and desired skill, because they want to achieve and accomplish my
pre-defined goals and make them more confidence and highly motivated. To be very effective
and strong, continuous change and improvement is required along with learning and
development on an daily basis. For better and effective development need to improve this skills
to get better work or job opportunity in the future or pursue higher responsibility where
communication is desired to obtain it in the shorter period of time. Communication has been
considered as desire aspects in every organisation, because it has led in building an effective
relationship and trust among people in an organisation.
Change and improvement in the communication skills can be achieved by regular
learning, training and development, practices over the weakness in context with such skills etc.
Effectiveness and efficiency in this skill can be obtained by self-evaluation, make
communication proper by daily and regular practice etc.
Problem-solving skills: This type of skill is determined as source of platform to solve
problem & issues and to find effective solutions. In the workplace, problem-solving skills is
considered as most important and useful technique to solve queries & problems of the person as
well as an employee to make them perfect and appropriate for the job. It is identified as the
separate skill in relation to other skills (de Guzman and et. Al 2013). It is important and suitable
to have problem solving skill in the workplace to maintain effective work relation, accountability
and confidence & interest toward the goals and targets of an organisation. For the effectiveness

of the workplace, this skills is helpful in there are several issues and problem in relation to work
or any conflict with other employer. In such situation, employer or any other senior person needs
to be well-equipped with problem solving abilities and potential. It is important to have this skills
and potential to solve queries and issues in the best possible time. If an employer don't have this
skill, it would be difficult for that person arrive at any solution of the problem or issue. Problem
solving skill never come from reading any kind of books or magazine, it basically comes from
daily practising or problem solving situation in an organisation. Along with this, an employer
need to be confident about their accurate problem solving skill. Suppose, if an employer have
this skill because they need to finding problem or critical issue everyday in workplace. It makes
them competent enough to deal with any circumstances to be full-fledged developed. It has been
noticed that every skills or competencies needs daily practice and learning to make it more
suitable and best for future improvement in the workplace. Improvement and effectiveness can
be arrived from training and development, continuous leaning and regular practice. An employer
and team leader need to have this skills, because, it will lead to effective and positive changes in
their personality and behaviour along with goal achievement.
Time management skills: It is defined as process of planning and executing conscious
control of time spending on several activities. It is considered as most important employability
skills. It is helpful in increasing the efficiency, effectiveness and productivity. In the current
scenario, time is important to manage and arranged for different aspects of life, but its
management is similarly crucial and important. It is necessary to time management in both
personal and professional life. In personal life, person should have to arrange time for their
family, spouse, hobbies and other activities. But in the professional life, employee needs to
manage time to give equal importance and value to both work and personal life. In an employer
context, the key managerial person always use to give importance to time management, But in
the present scenario employer generally believed that time is less and opportunities/work are to
much complete. In context with workplace, this skill is necessary and suitable for both employer
employee to complete their task and work on time and encourage it for accomplishment of goals
and organisation. It is good to have time management skills in an organisation to increase work
efficiency, goals accomplishment and effectiveness in the business environment of an
organisation. The key employer or person without time management skills is ineffective and
incompetent not fully, to some extent that he/she would not been able to manage their task and

goals effectively. In layman language, an employer without this skill mostly not able to
accomplish their targets and goals on time or with available resources.
In technology scenario, employer have to pursue this specific skills because they
completely believed that time management along with planning and execution is useful and
necessary to achieve pre-defined goals and objectives of an organisation. If an employer don't
have this skill, it would be tougher and critical for them to accomplish set targets and goals of
personal as well as organisational level. In current time, employer generally have to pursue this
skill because it would make these employer to be competent and able to increase their own
efficiency, effectiveness, accountability and confidence to accomplish organisational goals and
targets. Apart from this, this skill would raise their accurate and perfect personality along with
attitude level at an appropriate level to sustain in an organisation. Now a days, an employer
needs to practice, enhance their learning to make their skills at the bigger level. Such skills can
be improved by preparing time table for particular task and work, effective time dividing in such
a way that person would his/her task in short span and duration of time and duration. There are
various measures through which an employer can improve and promote their skills and
competencies at an optimized level namely divide the work or goals into the short span of time
and duration, prepare & formulate time table for the assigned task and goals of an organisation.
Presentation skills: It is considered as most important and required academic skills. It
includes interaction skills, speaking skills, dressing and talking skills etc. (Andrews and Russell,
2012). In both personal and professional life, this skill is necessary for an employer to become
competent enough to face every challenge and difficulties in an organisation. It is important and
necessary to have this skill in the workplace to become confident, develop personality & attitude
etc. If an employer don't have these skills and traits, It would be difficult for them to show their
positive and negative points to an employer and organisation. As a, result, it will effect my
performance and potential to showcase my self in front of my senior to gain targets and goal
achievement in an organisation. In today's time, every employer needs to have this relevant skills
to enhance my attribute such as speaking in the public meeting of the workplace, represent
company and establish themselves as glowing personality and stable attitude. Apart from such
perfection, an employer need to make these skills and competencies at the greater and higher
level by pursuing training and development, regular learning and continuous development

through simulation, classroom, observation etc. It also noticed that this skills has proven most
appropriate for every growing employee and employer both.

CONCLUSION
From the above assessment, Communication skills has been proven as necessary skill to
raise the confident and interaction of an employer to the greater and higher extent. Problem
solving skills has been proved suitable to enhance logical thinking power and potential to
achieve organisational goals and objectives. Apart from this, time management has made
understand about the value and importance of time and its role in the entire organisation. Lastly,
it is concluded that presentation skill of every person it is important and necessary to consider
and improved at the greater extent and level.

REFERENCES
Books & Journals
Andrews, G. and Russell, M., 2012. Employability skills development: strategy, evaluation and
impact. Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning. 2(1). pp.33-44.
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.
Rosenberg, S., Heimler, R. and Morote, E. S., 2012. Basic employability skills: a triangular
design approach. Education+ Training. 54(1). pp.7-20.
de Guzman, A. B. and Choi, K. O., 2013. The relations of employability skills to career
adaptability among technical school students. Journal of Vocational Behavior. 82(3).
pp.199-207.
Deeley, S. J., 2014. Summative co-assessment: A deep learning approach to enhancing
employability skills and attributes. Active Learning in Higher Education. 15(1). pp.39-
51.
Fallows, S. and Steven, C., 2013. Integrating key skills in higher education: employability,
transferable skills and learning for life. Routledge.
Speight, S., Lackovic, N. and Cooker, L., 2013. The contested curriculum: Academic learning
and employability in higher education. Tertiary Education and Management. 19(2).
pp.112-126.
Poon, J., 2012. Real estate graduates’ employability skills: the perspective of human resource
managers of surveying firms. Property management. 30(5). pp.416-434.
Dhiman, M. C., 2012. Employers' perceptions about tourism management employability skills.
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