Business Essential Study and Employment Skills Audit Report

BUSINESS ESSENTIAL STUDY AND EMPLOYMENT SKILLS
PART 1- Study and Employment Skills Audit Report
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Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction..............................................................................................................................3
2.0 Audit and Evaluation of Key Skills...........................................................................................4
2.1 Examination and evaluation of skills developed through the formative exercise.................4
2.2 Assessment of individual contribution and the overall team performance...........................8
2.3 Demonstration of self development with specific examples and evidences........................8
3.0 Conclusion...............................................................................................................................9
References..................................................................................................................................10
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1.0 Introduction
The report presented is a reflection and extension of the group exercise undertaken by the
learner. As a part of the formative task for helping the learner develop the necessary skills, the
learner took part in a group exercise. This group exercise focuses on the giving the student the
opportunity to gain an understanding of employment skills and to gain an experience of
teamwork, which is one of the significant skills of employment currently. The exercise involved
the team to conduct a survey of 30 students from the campus. The topic for the group exercise
was to research on “Students views on part-time working while studying” and the research
was conducted in a systematic manner in various stages.
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2.0 Audit and Evaluation of Key Skills
2.1 Examination and evaluation of skills developed through the formative exercise
The term “formative assessment” or “formative exercise” comprises of diagnostic testing
and a variety of informal and formal assessment processes that are conducted by teachers
during the learning stage of the students for modifying the teaching process and various
learning activities associated with it for enhancing the attainments of students (Fisher and Frey,
2015). The exercise is based on the qualitative feedback of the student and teacher highlighting
their performance. As already mentioned in the introductory section, my formative exercise
required me to take part in a group exercise were my team and I were given the task to conduct
a survey of 30 students from the college campus. The topic for the survey was “Students
views on part-time working while studying” and was conducted with the help of effective
teamwork. Hence, all the tasks related to the survey project were equally divided among team
members and each of us had allotted equal duties, responsibilities and tasks to ensure
everyone is given a fair chance. My team comprised of 5 individuals including me.
The entire group activity was conducted in ten stages, starting from selection of survey topic
and ending at presentation of findings with the help of power point. In these ten stages we
performed various tasks, some performed by specific individuals, whereas some performed by
all the team members. As mentioned by Sweet,(2016), the success of a team is largely
dependent on the trust among the members, their commitment towards assisting their
teammates, effective communication and level of collaboration. Our team strongly believed on
these values, due to which few of the tasks, which was performed by a single team member
only, was effectively executed. Apart from the group tasks performed, I had also undertaken the
responsibility of individual tasks, which I could execute as per survey requirement due to the
confidence and trust the other members of the group had on me. The entire group activity with
tasks like formulation of questionnaire, conducting background research on the topic,
formulating the aim for the research or developing the topic for investigation has been
challenging. In addition to these, interacting with the students, conducting the survey, creating
an excel sheet for collected data from the survey, entering the data from the survey, creation of
charts for graphical illustration of the data and creating a power point presentation have helped
me and my team mates acquire and develop various growth skills. These skills have been
examined and my development of these skills has been evaluated below:
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