Employability Skills and Professional Development

Employability Skills
and Professional
Development

Table of Contents
Table of Contents.............................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................5
TASK A1.........................................................................................................................................5
Conducting Skills Audit in the context of my personal role and responsibilities and
Performance objectives within my organisation..........................................................................5
TASK A2.........................................................................................................................................5
Identifying some key interpersonal and transferable skills and analysing tools and techniques
to enhance these skills.................................................................................................................5
Conducting my Personal SWOT Analysis for determining my strengths, weaknesses and
learning and development opportunities......................................................................................8
Using appropriate Performa for carrying out my Individual appraisal within my organisation. 8
TASK A3.........................................................................................................................................9
Preparing and implementing a Personal and Professional Development Plan with clear aims
and objectives, areas for development, resources and activities, timescale, etc. based on
personal and organisational objectives........................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
APPENDICES...............................................................................................................................12
Skills audit.................................................................................................................................12
Personal SWOT Analysis..........................................................................................................12
Individual self-appraisal............................................................................................................13
Personal development plan........................................................................................................14
TASK B.........................................................................................................................................18
Reflection on my Personal and Professional development based on the actives carried in
TASK A.....................................................................................................................................18
What did I do well in the completion of my development plan?...............................................18
What were the problems which I faced in my personal and professional development?..........18
What do I want to further improve for my future in my personal and professional
development?.............................................................................................................................19

INTRODUCTION
Employability skills are those transferable skills which are needed by an individual to make
themselves employable. The individuals education and experience make then eligible for
applying for a particular job role but to be successful in most job roles the individual needs to
you have particular skills that are developed overtime. Some of the skills which are being
developed by the person will be specific to the job but majority of skills will be e used in any job
or employment sector and are known as soft skills (Adeyinka-Ojo, 2018). This soft skills which
are developed by the individual overtime while working in a particular organisation of their
choice are known as employability skills and these are the skills what makes an individual
employable. In general employers are always billing to teach the person the specific job related
skills which are essential for completing the particular job role. However they usually want to
see that the other soft skills are already being developed by the individual before hiring them as
they are time taking and very hard to teach (Artess, Mellors-Bourne. and Hooley, 2017). The
report is develop the on Aldi, which is a two German family owned discount supermarket chain.
The organisation was founded in 1946 By Karl and Theo Albrecht offering grocery and
household essential to the customers. Aldi is headquartered in Germany but serves to the
worldwide locations with over 10000 stores. The report focuses on employability skills and
professional development as the organisation is planning to expand its operation at a dynamic
rate throughout Europe, North America and in Australia. This means that organisation requires
employees and largest number of workforce within 12 months for meeting its requirements of
current exceptional sales growth and new store openings. The report is divided into two parts one
segment focuses over skill audit, SWOT analysis, interpersonal and transferable skills and a
individual appraisal Performa. along with it a personal and professional development plan is also
developed with clear aims and objectives. The second part of the report is a reflective essay
about the personal and professional development plan and activities carried out by the individual
for their personal development for becoming employable. In this section the areas which are
examined are the activities performed in completion of personal development what are the
problems faced and what are the further improvements required.