Career Development for Professionals

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Career Development for Professionals
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Career Development for Professionals
With just a year to graduation, a preferable extracurricular activity to indulge in will be
sports clubs and the music club. The sports club entails sporting activities with different sporting
games like basketball football, athletics, and baseball, while drama club is an extracurricular
activity designed for students passionate in learning theatric aspects which include music, acting,
and music festival activities. The eligibility aspects required for sports club and music club
include self-discipline, time conscious, and determination (El Mansour, and Dean, 2016, p.6).
Participating in the sports and music club will enhance my targeted KSA proficiency because,
through the sporting club, one can gain leadership skills, which, will impact my curriculum vitae
and improve my employability. Music club enables one to acquire creative skills which are
essential for every basics KSAs for better proficiency (Mislevy et al., 2017, p.9). Joining
extracurricular activities allows a person to impact lives and their institution through recruiting
more members by that one leaves the extracurricular club a better person than he or she was. By
recruiting more members one can be a leader and be able to gain the leadership skill by
mentoring other members, establishing new activities and coordinating projects (Oliveri,
Lawless, and Mollo, 2017, P.2).
The UNISA site provides student governance, where one becomes a student representative,
which will assist in building a graduate for future employability. Eligibility for participation in
student organizations includes previous experience in leadership in secondary school, church,
and any other. An aspirant must be a performer; failures are not allowed to vie. Through
participating in student governance, a student will attain confidence, problem-solving skills,
communication skills, and analytical skills to diversely handle different individuals from varied
cultural prospects as well as leadership skills (Oliveri, Lawless, and Mollo, 2017, P.5). And in

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every employment opportunity, the listed skills are essential; for instance, the leadership skills
acquired in college will be used as stepping stone whenever one is seeking for employment.
Previous leadership skills provide a better chance of landing in an employment opportunity
quickly. Therefore students should know that extracurricular activities are essential
(https://i.unisa.edu.au/students/experience-unisa/unisaplus/participating-in-unisaplus/leadership-
and-enterprise/2019).
Since web scrapping is too rampant in different companies, it is vital for an applicant to ensure
he or she submit a hard copy of the application even if he or she has applied through a website so
that if web scraping occurs their data isn't detracted but remain enhanced. Because the online
application data can be scraped off due to data scrapping to be on the safer side, hard copy
submission will be the most reliable idea (Wilson, ETAL, 2016, P.8).
Q2
In Australia, several job advertisements websites are making it easy for graduates to access
diverse opportunities in their practice field. Since we can't explore the various sites at once, I will
narrow down my examination to "Grad-Austria" job website. It's among the providers of these
jobs more so the job hunting category of graduates. What catches the eye under the category is
that the qualification seems to be universal in that the stringent necessities that push away
graduate job seekers seem to be kept aside. By this, the environment welcomes all without
discrimination. In spite of the above, they also offer some enticing promises like gaining
knowledge, stipends accompanied by bonuses. For example, IBM Client Success Associate
(Early Professional) seems to be eyeing for personnel whose aim is to build a career for