Reflective Report on Employability Skills

Academic and
employability skills

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Employability skills.....................................................................................................................1
Personal development plan on each skill:....................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills are those that boosts the ability of an individual to read, write, retain as
well as recall the information which facilitates in passings exams. These types of skills help in
encouraging the students in becoming more efficient learners. Employability skills are those
skills that are transferred and needed by a personnel to make them employable. The competition
between the companies are also extending with a fast development of society. The employer not
only concentrates on the degree of the graduates but also pays more attention on their
employability skills. In the competitive world, employers within the company want those
graduates or personnel who are having a wide variety of skills to bring working environment
within an organisation. The employers need employees who are multi-skilled that facilitates the
company by playing different roles. In order to make myself become more competitive in future,
it should be find out what employment skills are needed within an individual to work effectively
in a business. In this portfolio, a reflective report is going to be conducted on how the learning in
existing module has helped me in developing a wide variety of employability skills. It is to be
done with the help of a reflective model and according to that a personal SWOT analysis and
personal action plan will also be going to be considered to improve myself.
MAIN BODY
Employability skills
The skills that are required not only to gain the employment but also helps in making
progress within a business for meeting organisational objectives and contributing to strategic
directions of an organisation in a successful manner.
Within this module, I have learnt employability skills and for this I will apply Gibb's
Reflective Cycle for writing a reflection on my academic and employability skills. There are five
main stages within the respective model including description, feelings, evaluation, analysis and
conclusion. Gibb's Reflective Model on learning academic and employability skills within the
existing module is described as under:
 Description: In present module, the lecturer has taught me different concepts and aspects
on academic and employability skills. In task 1, he taught me several strategies to time
management. There I studied the process of developing and using my development plan,
ways to maximise my time from a view of student. I also studied the process of becoming
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