Employability Skills: Importance and Models for Development

Employability skills

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................3
Kolb’s reflective cycle...........................................................................................................3
Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle:........................................................................................................5
Employability skills...............................................................................................................7
CONCULUSION.......................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
For the student’s academic life, employability skills are the most important aspect for
the student to get the higher qualification and higher skills in the future. Employability must
be defined as the different chances of acquiring and marinating the different employment
opportunities. Employability skills are include the soft skills that allow the student to
coordinate and work with the others (Divan and McBurney, 2016). These skills also called
the professional skills which help the student to get out from academic life and work under
the academic professions and these skills help the student to job-readiness skills. For this a
student must have the some common skills like good communication, ability to work under
the pressure, team leading skills and many more. These skills improve the confidence of the
student to work in professional work. For this assignment the two models are Gibbs reflective
model and Kolb’s learning style. Furthermore it include the basic academic report on the
various skills and knowledge which is gained by the different topics of employability.
MAIN BODY
Employability skills help in student’s career to elaborate more their professional life
and get the success in the life. I learned various points from the module which enhance my
knowledge and future in the professional life. The models which are using to summarise the
employability skills are Kolb’s reflective cycle, Gibbs reflective models and Driscoll’s cycle
as these three models are explaining the best way to employability skills.
Kolb’s reflective cycle
It is the theory which is synthesis the goal directed and behaviour learning of the
value process. This model is the highlighted the reflection component in the learning cycle of
the student life. This model give the knowledge to student which allow them to get the
process of what happened during the experience gain. As the student can recount and
evaluate their experience. This theory is represented by the four stage of the learning cycle
these steps are: Concrete experience; which means a new experience gained by the student.
Second step is reflective observation; here a student can link their experience with their
understanding, their expectation and the outcome of the experience (Dupuis, 2020). Another
step is abstract conceptualization; after analysing the understanding, the new idea is
generated or the modification of an existing abstract concept. And in final reflection is the
active experimental stage, here the student create plan for further learning experience. Kolb
show the effective learning style again in four steps; Experience, reflection, conceptualisation