Importance of Employability Skills: A Reflection Using Gibbs Reflective Cycle

Reflective Journal

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
TASK ..............................................................................................................................................3
Gibbs reflective cycle..................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERNCES:..................................................................................................................................7
Books and Journals:....................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
This essay aims to identify the employability and study skills which are required for a
student to enable growth In future. A student learns many skills from their university which
makes them capable to achieve success and fulfil career aims. Communication, time
management, team building, problem solving are the key skills set which makes a student
capable to cope up with workplace challenges and be an inspiration for others (Adeani, Febriani,
and Syafryadin, 2020). This report is going to discuss about the importance of employability
skills through providing own experience. It will be provided through applying Gibbs reflective
cycle.
MAIN BODY
TASK
Gibbs reflective cycle
This model is a best tool to analyse an experience in both positive and negative manner.
It is an effective framework for reflecting upon self working activities which shows whether it
went well or require improvements. It gives step by step evaluation of the whole experience that
includes description, feeling, evaluation, analysis, conclusion and action plan. The main purpose
of applying this cycle is to learn from the experiences and apply it in future growth. For the
students, there are many experiences takes place during the studies like team building, group
presentations, class room activities and other work criteria that showcase own skills. It gives rise
to further learning and development activities which did not went well.
Description: This stage evaluates a whole description about the experiences. It includes
events, programmes and practices took place, who are the people involved and what happened
in overall situation. It gives an insight about the whole activity to drive a better conclusion. In
my own experience of university lectures and programmes, we were a part of green house group
in which, there were 6 members in each group in which work is divided among all the 3 group. I
was the group leader to assist and support my team members. We were handling a task for
preparing presentations, preparing research on Eco-friendly environment issues and how it could
be minimises (Ezezika, and Johnston, 2022). We were working on a team presentation in which
I need to know about each individuals capability and strength. It was a huge project that is going
to represent in inter college competition. So we wanted to make it success. We had decided to