Employability Skills and Gallup Development Assignment

Running head: EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS
Employability Skills
Student’s name:
Name of the university:
Author’s note:

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Table of Contents
Journal entry 1: know yourself........................................................................................................2
Journal entry 2: know your sector...................................................................................................3
Journal entry 3: Let them know you................................................................................................4
Reference list...................................................................................................................................6
Appendices......................................................................................................................................7

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Journal entry 1: know yourself
It is worth saying that goals, education and interests play a pivotal role in developing a
career but strengths can be recognized as an important part in case of career considerations. In
that particular situation, Gallup development basic is a great starting point. Gallup developments
can be defined as a personality assessment that helps one to improve oneself along with a
positive focus. A number of studies show that one cannot be successful alone in life and
therefore one should have to criticize one’s own strong and weak points (Rigoni and Asplund
2016). The situation is not different for me. With the help of Gallup development test, I was able
to understand my own strengths that help me to develop my career on my own ground. The first
strength is that I am a planner and it helps me develop plans in career and in my future
workplace environment as well. My career is based on business management and thus, such kind
of strength will help me to develop pre-plans for various projects. In developing plans, it is
necessary to learn from the others and I think, another strong point of mine is that I am a good
learner. With the help of this, I was able to develop my own weak points. Along with this, the
ability teaches me how to focus on the situation as you can learn from everything. My listening
strength falls into the category of strategic thinking and I think that without listening to other
peers you would not be able to focus on positive thinking. Besides these, competitive mind helps
me to have career growth in terms of success as competition has that potential to explore
opportunities. My final and last strength are all about responsibility theme that forces me to take
psychological ownership of anything I committed to and therefore I feel emotionally bound to
complete the given tasks. Therefore, I think that all these strengths of mine help me in career life.

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Journal entry 2: know your sector
I am going to take business management as my career and networking will be helpful in
this condition as in this particular career it is necessary to build a strong relationship with
customers and other stakeholders. According to the viewpoint of Poon and Brownlow (2015),
networking is an important tool for managers in developing a relationship and it all about sharing
knowledge and trust with one another towards ultimate objective.
Shared knowledge
Networking can facilitate the share knowledge and ideas. Whether it is discussing your
point of view or asking for feedback, networking will help to expand knowledge and allow
taking things from different perspective. Along with this, with the help of networking, I will be
able to avoid some of the most common pitfalls my peers have already experienced.
Connections
Business management is not all about to gain exposure to the people in the room and
therefore, networking will help me to build connections with the other's network too. Therefore, I
can say that networking helps me to develop a chain with the stakeholders and I will be able to
improve the business in terms of productivity and financial profitability.
Confidence
One kind of networking is the strategic networking and is most important because I want
to become a business leader. As mentioned by Masterman (2014), strategic networking will help
a manager to see the bigger picture and develop own visionary approach.

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The requirements of any kind of business are to satisfy customers and the, therefore,
commercial awareness is all about to make money from the business. In addition, networking
helps a business to recruit potential candidates who are able to bring new ideas to the business.
Therefore, I think that networking will bring new opportunities in business along with new job
openings.
Journal entry 3: Let them know you
I am doing B.Sc Business Management course and I want to be a business leader in near
future. Earning business management degree will open various doors in my future after doing my
graduation. There are numerous types of management designations out there. Thus, with the help
this course, I will be able to be a business analyst, sales trainee, account manager, financial
analyst, human resource manager, sales representative, sales support, sales manager and some
other (Forsman and Temel 2016). As I have analyzed my strengths, this course will help me to
develop my skills in these careers. The fast-paced business management course offers a number
of opportunities to flourish my career from small planning development to large projects. In
future, I want to be a business leader and for this purpose, I want to this business management
course. In case of business management degree, I am learning about planning skills along with
professional training that helps me to develop business priorities and balance consumer demands.
Along with this, the program teaches me how to stay calm in a hectic situation while handling
conflicts among the team members. In my career life, I hope that this kind of subjective
knowledge will help me to be an efficient and professional business leader in a top organisation.
In addition, this informative degree will eventually provide me work experiences and excellent
resources to learn.

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Reference list
Forsman, H. and Temel, S., 2016. From a non-innovator to a high-innovation performer:
Networking as a driver. Regional Studies, 50(7), pp.1140-1153.
Masterman, G., 2014. Strategic sports event management. Abingdon: Routledge.
Poon, J. and Brownlow, M., 2015. Development of students’ commercial awareness within the
curriculum of professionally accredited courses: A case study of property courses. Education+
Training, 57(4), pp.405-428.
Rigoni, B. and Asplund, J., 2016. Strengths-based employee development: The business results.
Gallup Business Journal. 2(1), pp.34-45

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Appendices
1. List of 5 Gallup strengths
1. Planning
2. Learner
3. Listener
4. Competition
5. Responsibility

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2. Evidence of attending two events
Figure: Seminar Ticket
Figure: Seminar Ticket

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3. Select and map 6 transferrable skills to the essential skills required for a job in management
CW1 Star Method
Skills
Situation Tasks Actions Results Further, Development
Required adding to
PDP
Sales skills Last year, I was in an
internship programme
in a small company
where I had to
represent a
presentation in front
of some foreigners.
This situation helps
me to understand my
sales skills.
The project was
critical as they talk
some different
languages and had a
lot of knowledge
about the recent
economic condition
of the company.
I learned social media
techniques in order to
impress the customers
with some of the
recent affairs of the
organisation.
Customers bought the
project and the
company made near
about 3% profit from
the product.
1. I need to
improve y
communicatio
n skills
2. I need to
manage stress
3. I have to gain
more
motivational
skills
Communication skills While completing my
internship, I was
asked to take a
meeting and there I
was responsible to
give a presentation.
I knowledge was
ABC about team
meeting at that time
and I was not so
prepared as the
manager gave a
notice for a very short
time.
I prepared myself
within few hours by
searching through
Google. I consulted
with my peers as
well.
After ending the
meeting, everyone
clapped for my
amazing
performance.
Communication skills
Emotional control
Interpersonal skills Last year, I had to
communicate with
some of the external
clients of the
company. Before that,
I did not have the
experience to
communicate clients.
Therefore, it was
challenging to me.
I had to communicate
with the clients about
the current pre
launching product.
I had to take phone
calls and listen to
clients
As a result of this, my
interpersonal skills
improved and
managers influenced
by my performance.
Confidence while
communicate
Non-verbal skills
while communicating.
Team workability While working in my
internship, we had to
manage a launch
event in my
organisation but the
team was unable to
The work was tough
as to launch a
program, some kinds
of event management
skills were required
We develop a team
where everyone
understood about
their own
responsibilities. I
worked in
Within three days, we
were able to develop
a particular launch
event though the
budget was low.
However, we
Listening skills
Respect to others
Reliability

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develop an event
efficiently.
collaboration with
team member
managed.
Leadership and team
management
In my college life, I
had to develop a new
finance module for a
cultural program
The project was
difficult as it involves
a lot of marketing
investment and the
time was very short.
By using analytical
skills and networking,
I took actions
directly.
I have now been
promoted as a leader
and the party was
successful within the
budget
Motivation
Creativity
Delegating
Positivity
Work ethic While working in my
previous company,
there arose a
conflicting situation
as my peers started to
arguing about
generation gap within
the workplace
environment.
I was asked to
manage the team so
that, it would be
possible for the
company to have
employment
retention.
I communicated to
each of the team
members so that; it
would be possible for
me to understand the
exact situation. I have
arranged a meeting
where everyone came
to an understanding.
Everyone understood
that workplace
demands every
generation for
improvement.
Positivity
Emotional control
Motivational skills