Employability and Study Skills

This article discusses the importance of employability skills in today's competitive job market. It explores the skills that employers look for in graduates, such as communication, teamwork, problem-solving, self-management, planning and organization, technological, lifelong learning, and business and enterprise skills. The article also includes a personal SWOT analysis and an action plan for improving employability skills.

EMPLOYABILITY AND STUDY
SKILLS

Introduction
With the rapid advancement of the association, conflict between organizations is widening,
alumni are at the heart of the degree and more attention is being paid to their employability
skills. To win over their competitors in fierce conflict, managers need to bring graduates with a
wide range of abilities to the workplace and who need the multi-talented producers to perform a
variety of jobs. (Helyer, 2007). So graduates entering the world of work need to take on
managers.
To make us more risky later in the job market, we should first find out what employment ideas
the company needs for graduates, and then based on employment skills do the research
Individual SWOT and take business agreement to develop us.
Discussion of employability skills
What skills do employers want?
Employment skills are identified as skills necessary not only to build a business, but also to
progress within a business to realize a person's hidden potential and effectively contribute to key
business conduct (Pitan, 2016).
Today, despite the degree, organizations take more into account the employment potential of
alumni, but the level of employability is not the same. The employment skills that alumni should
have depends on the actual working situation of the organization and a number of organizations
have different rules. Through a wide range of writing analysis, the work skills output required by
organizations is nearly identical and can usually be broken down into the eight essential skills
that accompany them: Communication Skills, Teamwork Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Skills
self-management, planning and organization skills, technological skills, lifelong learning skills
and business and enterprise skills.
Why do companies want these skills?
Communication skills
The forecast for the CIPD relies on the latest quarterly CIPD / KPMG labor market forecasts, a
review of more than 1,400 UK leaders, the key skills that credit managers are looking for in
leaving pupils relationship skills ranked among the top three application attributes), hard-

working attitude (39%) and character (32%). (CIPD, 2006) Communication always takes place
in the workplace, with strong interpersonal skills we can have a close relationship with
colleagues and leaders, so it can establish a proper workplace and our help to complete work
more efficiently. Similarly, excellent interpersonal skills can not only make current customers
more satisfied with the items and administrations our organization provides, but can also attract
more customers which will help us.
Teamwork skills
In today's population, precisely because individual work capacity is not sufficient, an increasing
number of individuals need to come together to end up together. Working in collections can
speed up work and conceptualization to make the organization think better.
Problem solving skills
In this real world, organizations can go against various issues at any time, addressing the issue
effectively empowering the group that is strong in the temple or will come to an end.
Self-management skills
Similarly, organizations require graduates to have self-management skills to complete the job on
their own or practically on their own, without the requirement that someone continually have to
stand on top of the representatives and tell them they need to.
Planning and organizing skills
Leaders need graduates to make arrangements and resolve limited resources to achieve short-
and long-term organizational goals.
Technology skills
In the age of innovation, innovation capabilities become more and more important, the
organization needs the ability of employees to use broadcast PCs and communication facilities,
understand current patterns and advances in monitoring data through innovation.
Life-long learning skills

For the organization to develop in a rational, representative and sustainable way, learning simply
needs to allow the organization to keep up with this fast-paced creative association, and
employees with ingrained learning skills can benefit the organization.
Initiative and enterprise skills
The representatives chosen by the group are multi-talented, the group can visit their staff to move
to different offices and take on different roles within an organization. (Heather and Peter, 2006)
This therefore requires the employee to have the skills of action and daring to adapt to new
situations and be able to accept the situation quickly.
Personal SWOT Analysis
After identify the employability skills that needed by companies, I make a personal SWOT
analysis based on actual experience and self-assessment test through the internet.
Strengths
I have great collaboration and potential. As you can see after my self-assessment test, I have an
incredible appreciation for human power and empowerment. In the collection work I can extend
the ideas to different people and usually as a group starter I make mistakes with the people I
meet to make sure everyone is valuing the promises they make (Payne and Whittaker, 2006).
I am authorized to autonomy. I can set the table well and all without being pushed. I usually
record what I have to do and resolve it as indicated by the importance and time group. After that
I will keep in touch with the timetable so that I know clearly what and when I should do it
immediately.
I am doing well in learning. I am ready to invest energy and energy to learn new skills. As a side
note, in addition to the module I am also attending the free English lesson and the smaller
Assessment Center module than expected to develop myself.
I have innovation skills. I have the necessary PC skills and the use of special programming
packages. Since I chose the featured business option in my first year and am now also learning
the application management and display option, they all need to use the specific programming
packages so I figured out how to use them in the course.
Weaknesses

I have no knowledge of the work, not even low maintenance professional training.
I am weak in critical thinking; when I deal with problems normally, I can't see all of them and I
can't fix them properly (Thompson and et.al., 2013).
My communication skills are weak. I'm a responsible person and I can't talk to other people. I
feel mediocre when talking to strangers.
Opportunities
I can access a low maintenance line through the "future" of our school to learn new skills to
develop my CV.
I am more employed than others with the possibility that I will not be able to find a job with the
UK. 65% of companies in the world show that they are all ready to use it. They are also ready to
enlist graduates with work experience abroad (Wilton, 2011).
I have the opportunity to find a good line of work on the possibility that I will never return to
China after graduation. China is generally expected to transform into the world's largest human
resources market at a later date, requiring a dangerous number of talented experts. Organizations
seeking to recruit returnees from Mainland China: raised in China, meditating / working in the
US or elsewhere in Europe and later relocated to China. They offer global knowledge as well as
linguistic and social skills, but they are difficult to obtain "(Cottrell, 2019).
I can appreciate the combination of special arrangements for foreign substitutes provided by the
Chinese government if I return to China.
Threats
In recent years, “explosive” growth trends of Chinese overseas are deciding to turn back, which
will oppose the landing situation in China.
Pressure at work in both China and the UK. ‘It’s not just Chinese scholars for tense hunting,
British scholars have a similar problem. Job shortages have been blamed for a "significant
increase" in the number of unemployed alumni in previous years, creating further labor market
tensions in 2010 (Clinkard, 2018).

Personal Action Plan
After I finished the personal SWOT analysis, according to my own situation I make an action
plan base on SMART
Skill to be improved
Communication skills:
Specific Actions:
Participating in the activities that organized by school community or involving in the school
community directly.
Make a lot of friends.
Take the initiative in making acquaintances.
Do not feel nervous when talking to strangers
Next month
Take the mini module about communication that provided by the “future” in our school
Presenting and participating in class discussions
Semester 2
Measure:
Through the IELTS test to improve my English speaking, writing, reading and listening skills.
Take the IELTS test
Target date: Christmas holidays
Problem solving skills
Specific Actions:
Apply for the volunteer opportunities provide by the “future” Helping people solve problem
while improving my problem solving skills.

Become a volunteer
Semester 2
Measure:
Analysis the requirements of school assignments
Meet the assignment requirements of teachers
Target date: Deadline of assignments
Initiative and enterprise skills
Specific Actions: Find part-time jobs in our school or become a volunteer
Get part-time jobs, become a volunteer
Measure: Semester 2
Become a trainee of a company for 1-2week
Work in a company as a trainee
Target date: Christmas holidays
Teamwork skills
Specific Actions: Working on group assignments
Measure: Do the Group work assignments
Target date: Deadline of group assignments
Planning and organization skills
Specific Actions: Arranging study and daily lives at university
Measure: Make plans every day and do thing according to plans

Target date: Everyday
Self-management skills
Summing up the gaps in skills and knowledge
Specific Actions: Do self-reflection when teachers give assignment feedback
Target date: At the end of semester 1
Learning skills
Learning new skills that needed by employers
Specific Actions: Attend courses and finish courses
Target date: Semester 2
Technology skills
Specific Actions: Learn something about Photoshop or database.
Participate the relevant courses
Target date: During semester 2
Conclusion
There is no guarantee that manufacturers with a reasonable degree will increase a noticeable
start-up rate, as a reasonable step helps employees open the door to a new line of work, which
however, a degree alone is not enough companies need much more from alumni representatives,
employees need to benefit the organization and allow the organization to be in an inaccessible
position during the wild conflict. Through a large study I have summarized eight types of
occupational skills that organizations generally need. Also, I did a separate SWOT study based
on work skills and a self-assessment test through the web and a real encounter that made me
reveal more interesting than myself. After that I made arrangements for the activity for myself. I
will stay on the course and trust it will help me develop my employability once completed. And I
found a good line of work in the hard work market after graduation.

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