Employability Skills: Journal Entries on Self-Awareness and Career Development

Coursework 1
EMSK5012 Employability Skills
Summer 2018
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Table of Contents
Journal entry 1: Know yourself.......................................................................................................3
Identify what you consider to be some of the key aspects of the Gallup Strengths theory.........3
Reflect on a minimum of three of your strengths........................................................................4
How can you apply these to achieve your career aspirations?....................................................5
Journal entry 2: Know yourself.......................................................................................................6
Critically appraise two of the theories from this module (are there any flaws?).........................6
Journal entry 3: Know yourself.......................................................................................................7
Reflect on how you can apply elements of these theories to your future career development?
How will you own them?.............................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................8
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Journal entry 1: Know yourself
Identify what you consider to be some of the key aspects of the Gallup Strengths
theory
Gallup strength theory focuses on the personality assessment through measuring the strength. It
focuses on building up the strength instead of focusing on weakness. According to it, there isa
certain number of the fixed universal personal character attributes that together result in an
individual tendency for developing the skills to become effective inanother field (Johnson,
2018).
By identifying the strength of the individual will help in improving the progress of the members
of the organisation. I can apply this and can utilize to more suiting position in the organisation. It
helps in developing required skills and reduces the turnover through improving the morale and
overall performance.
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