Employability Skills and Professional Development

Employability Skills and Professional
Development
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Aims and objectives.....................................................................................................................3
Rationale......................................................................................................................................4
Continuous development plan.....................................................................................................4
PDP..............................................................................................................................................7
REFLECTION...............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12
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Topic – To develop employability skills for performing functions of HR trainee
INTRODUCTION
Employability refers a quality or set of qualities which makes people able to get
employment or make them suitable for paid work. There are several job roles which require
having some skills such as communication, decision- making, flexibility, time management,
critical thinking and others (Taylor, 2016). It makes an individual or students able to get job as
per their requirement and field. For HR trainee there is requirement of having organizational
skills, training and development skills, communication skills and decision-making skills. People
do not posses all these skills as they have some areas which they need to improve. For that
improvement it is important for them to have knowledge about all those areas. With the help of
strategic analysis, they can identify their both areas in which they are good and in which they are
not effective. Communication skill is one of the main skill which this study will discuss as how it
makes people able to interact with different types of people and influence them. It also makes
them able to solve problems of conflicts by decreasing situations of misunderstanding.
This present study is going to show some ways of identifying own strengths and weaknesses
in order to remove all weaknesses and increasing skills. It will show importance of continuous
professional development as it makes people able in describing their learning activities as well as
skills which can make them able to become a successful professional. With the help of
professional development plan an individual can improve their strengths and decrease their entire
weaknesses fort making them able to perform their functions effectively. This study will also
show all those skills in detail which are required to have for HR trainee in order to support
company in gaining their goals (Philippaers, De Cuyper and Forrier, 2019). By developing skills,
people can improve their career and make them able to take advantages of all external
opportunities in the future. In this context, it can also be said that experience of an individual
plays an important role as it helps them out in performing their activities in an organization and
deal with problems which they had already face before.
Aims and objectives
Aim- To critically analysis of own strengths and weaknesses and develop skills required for HR
trainee.
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Objectives
 To identify all skills which support HR trainee in performing their functions.
 To critically analyse area of improvement for becoming successful HR.
 To implement ways of improving areas of weaknesses.
Rationale
Employability skills play an important role as it makes students and people able to perform
activities and functions of their job role. By developing portfolio, all skills can be identified
which are required to perform functions related to HR in an efficient manner. Employability
skills not only make people able to gain employment for their required job role but it also makes
them able to grow their career and make growth in the future (Tsitskari and et.al., 2017). There
are several common skills which allow people to accomplish their goals and make them differ
than others. This portfolio will focus on my learning experience within the organization like
skills that have been developed during that visit, things that have been learnt by me during that
visit.
Continuous development plan
Skills learnt Importance Goal required to be
achieved next
Ways in which it can
be improved
One of the most
important skills
learnt by me
during my time
at university was
Team working
skills
Team working skills is
extremely important for an
individual in order to
enhance their overall
performance and
productivity. Working
within teams also helps an
individual to feel valued and
enhances our relationship
with others (Bogam and et
al., 2016). It further helps an
individual to share our
knowledge with others and
reduce chances of errors or
Team working skills also
helped me to realize that
I need to bring
improvement within my
Time management
skills. There was no
doubt that I was able to
complete my work within
a team activity of task
with excellence but I
faced difficulty in
completing that task on
time because of which it
is important for me to
By prioritizing work,
developing a schedule
and setting up
deadlines is one of the
methods through
which I can develop
my time management
skills.
Try to attend seminars
or training so that I
can identify ways in
which difficult or
stressful or time
consuming task can be
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