Employability Skills for Business Development Manager

Running head: EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS
Employability Skills
Name of the student
Name of the University
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Executive Summary
This report discusses about the key strengths that I have in relation to the professional
position of Business Development Manager. It appraises elements from Clifton Gallup
Strengths along with Johari’s Window theories. It discusses about companies in my sector
like PwC and UHY Hacker Young. It discusses about the values and the ethics of these
companies and whether they align with my views. It also elaborates on the importance of
networking that can help an individual in becoming commercially aware about my sector. It
also reflects on the networking events that I attended and the skills that I was able to learn
with the help of these events.

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Table of Contents
Section 1: Know Yourself..........................................................................................................3
Section 2: Know your sector......................................................................................................5
Section 3: Know Yourself..........................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................8
Appendices.................................................................................................................................9

3EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS
Section 1: Know Yourself
I am currently studying B. SC Honours in Accounting and Finance in University of
Leeds. My desired career choice is the professional position of Business Development
Manager. Gallup Clifton Strengths can help an individual in application of the greatest talents
along with strengths in the everyday life. The key strengths that I have in relation to Clifton
Gall Up strengths is consistency, adaptability and empathy. The significance of Gallup
strengths lie in the fact that it can help people in focussing on the areas of strength that can
help an individual in leading an excellent life. These skills are crucial to the position of
Business Development Manager and these skills can help me in my professional
development. Developing of the aspect of empathy will help the Business Development
Manager in developing products along with services for the customer. It will be able to help
the individual in observing how the customers are using the services that can help a business
in making profit. I have got consistency that can help me in communing messages in the
proper manner that can help the people working as my subordinates in the organization.
Consistency will be able to help the Business Development Manager in building the element
of trust in between the subordinates and the managers (Delaney et al. 2017). Consistent
values can help an individual in maintaining priorities that can increase the efficiency of work
in an organization. The managers and the leaders in the organization being consistent in their
behaviour can help in setting an example before the subordinates that can help in the arena of
effective delivery of performance (Schillebeeckx et al. 2016). Adaptability would be able to
help the Business Development Manager in adapting the business to the changes taking place
in the external environment. One can get a lot of advantages by being flexible and it can help
an individual in responding to the changes taking place in the environment. The element of
adaptability would be able to help the Business Development Manager in opening the mind to
the new ideas that can help in augmenting performance of an organization (Block 2016). I