Employability Skills Assignment - (Solved)
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Employability Skills Assignment - (Solved)
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3KNOW YOURSELF.......................................................................................................................3Brief overview of business management and carrier aspirations ..........................................3Appraisal of Clifton Gallup Strengths and Johari’s Window theories with respect to careerdevelopment...........................................................................................................................3Identification of key strengths in my carrier based on the above theories.............................5Application of these elements in achieving career aspirations...............................................6KNOW YOUR SECTOR................................................................................................................6Comparison of two companies of retail sector.......................................................................6Extent to which elements of these companies align with the elements of my company........7Job description and person specification................................................................................7CV...........................................................................................................................................9Identification and analysis of professional qualification that could be acquired along thedegree...................................................................................................................................10LET THEM KNOW YOU.............................................................................................................10Importance of networking in increasing awareness in retail sector.....................................10Reflection on the networking events....................................................................................11Reflection of performance in mock interview based on the STAR method.........................11Reflection of learnings through this module........................................................................11CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13APPENDIX....................................................................................................................................14
INTRODUCTIONEmployability skills may be defined as a skill that need to be possessed by a person whiledoing a job. These skills are very essential because employers at the time of recruitment payespecial attention on them. These skills comprise of skills such as communication, team work,hard work and problem solving (Collet Hine and Du Plessis, 2015). The study will include abrief overview of career aspirations as well as Clifton Gallup strengths and Johari's windowtheories. Apart from that, comparison of 2 companies of the same sector and analysis ofprofessional qualification would be done. Moreover, importance of networking in the sector andreflection of performance in the interview would also be discussed.KNOW YOURSELFBrief overview of business management and carrier aspirations The skills that are grabbed through studying the business management course contribute alot towards taking the business to new heights. The course prepares to take a step forwards incarrying out a business, which may be of others or personal. The basic motive behind studyingbusiness management is to get a deep insight of the realities of managing a business. It isessential to have intense knowledge about managing a business in order to achieve the objectivesof the business efficiently and effectively. This course not only helps in grooming the skills andknowledge in business functions but also helps in understanding how the organisation works(Devambatla and Nalla, 2015).My carrier aspiration is to have my own business. Basic motive behind my idea to startmy own business is that; I would be own boss. This would not only give me the freedom to carryout the business in the way I want but would also eliminate the frustration of working as per thewish of the superiors. Hence, in order to start a new business and run it smoothly; I am workingvery hard to groom my business management skills by studying this course.
Appraisal of Clifton Gallup Strengths and Johari’s Window theories with respect to careerdevelopment.Appraisal of Clifton Gallup strengths with respect to career developmentConsistency – Consistency is concerned with treating people equally, having stableroutines and clear rules or procedures which could be easily followed by all thepeople of the organisation. Consistency play a very important role in carrierdevelopment because changes are not easily accepted in the organisation. Thus, ithelps in increasing the comfort by maintaining consistency and avoiding changes.Furthermore, consistency helps in keeping our carrier organized which in turn helpsin achieving the objectives of the company effectively.Empathy – It is very important for carrier development to understand the feelingsand emotions of workforce. If the feelings are understood, then if becomes easy tosympathize with the people which in turn is helpful in creating of sense ofbelongingness in the mind of the customers. Thus, this will help in retaining theworkforce in a company for a longer duration of time (Lim and et.al., 2016).Harmony – another important strength of Clifton Gallup is harmony. This helps inreducing the conflict and creation of job satisfaction in the mind of employees. Thisin turn helps in motivating the employees so that they work better towards achievingthe goals of the company smoothly.Responsibility – Responsibility is very essential for carrier development as it helps inbuilding up the confidence by taking the responsibility for their own actions. This inturn helps in improving the productivity.Includer – a person can grow in his/ her carrier if and only if it makes each and everyworker of the company work hard and make efforts to combine them properly so as toget maximum results. Appraisal of Johari’s Window theories with respect to career developmentIt is a theory that is used in order to understand the relationship between self and others.This theory has 4 elements:
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