Developing Essential Skills for Higher Education and Workplace

Study Skills for Higher
Education
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
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Assessment 1....................................................................................................................................3
Choose four of the suggestions mentioned above and discuss them in more detail...............3
Personal experience: Are you happy with your CV? Why/ why not?....................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................3
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
Assessment 2....................................................................................................................................4
Choose eight skills which students develop at university and discuss why they are important
in the workplace.....................................................................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................4
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Introduction
The outbreak of Covid- 19 created many challenges and affected individuals ability to get
jobs. In this there are number of strategies such as taking use of digital technology and
communication networks through which they can understand the current trends prevailing in the
industry (Jackson and Wilton, 2017). The report discusses the suggestions which is essential for
a student to boost CV, if they didn’t have any work experience. Along with this report discuss on
my own expectations with my CV.
Assessment 1
Choose four of the suggestions mentioned above and discuss them in more detail.
The sudden outbreak of COVID-19 not only created adverse impact on organisations but it
also created challenges in front of individuals to have a successful professional growth or career.
There are number of challenging experiences faced by individual such as cancelling work
experience and reduction in the number of labours in the workplace which leave thousands of
students to chase a shrinking number of opportunities. This created aggressive form of
competition in the labour market in which it is essential for a person to boost CV, if they can’t
get work experience. The outbreak of COVID-19 created dramatic competition in which students
needs to enhance their skills if they did not have any work experience. In this they needs to
emphasise on certain aspects such as they need to understand the importance of skill audit, as it
allows them clearly have an insight of this skills which is needed for them to efficiency of their
career (Jackson, Sibson and Riebe, 2014). It also allows students to plan to how to land their
dream job. Skill audit is essential as it helps in determining the gap in the skill set which allow to
implement certain strategies to improve and develop areas of weaknesses from the given
suggestions. The one of the most important strategy mentioned above is to start with skill audit.
This aspect plays important role as it helps in determining the current gap which effectively
saves time in future as this make students to only emphasise on those skill which is really needed
to grab job opportunities (Jackson and Wilton, 2017). In addition to this the other efficient
suggestion is to get experience online. During or after the outbreak of COVID-19 the
importance of digital technology and virtual internship has gained its height (Feldman, 2021).
Remote work experience is also being embraced by many organisations around the world, along
with this government of various nations are also making organization to have a hybrid work
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culture to overcome from uncertain challenges in the future. In this students with the help of
having experience online can have use of virtual internship which helps them to boost their CV
(Bowen and Pennaforte, 2017). With the help of virtual internship students can enhance their
effectiveness in the competitive work environment, internship encourage students to work on
real projects with the help of virtual tool and technology. This also plays essential role for
students to have professional training online such as workplace skills in low cost. In addition to
this from the above mentioned suggestion the other most efficient one that students can have to
connect with peers. In this they need to use their communication skills to enhance their career
network this plays important role through which they can have more accessibility and can
understand the industry knowledge (Naslund, Marsch and Bartels, 2016). With the help of
conversation with pears they can identify the companies who are in need and can contact with
career department. This will help them to find work in less time as compared to the long process.
Furthermore the other strategy that will help in boosting the CV, if students did not have
any work experience is to make their own experience. In this they can undertake use of
performing a role for local business this will help them to be problem solving and enhance their
experience effectively. From the above analysis with the help of taking use of these suggestions a
person or student can boost their CV, if they didn’t get work experience these will help them to
understand the industry trends and develop their skills accordingly (Cheng and Chau, 2016).
Personal experience: Are you happy with your CV? Why/ why not?
As per my personal experience I am relatively unhappy with my CV for which I am working
to develop the skill gap with the help of virtual training and online courses. Along with this I
taking use of assistance with my seniors and peers to gain feedback on the things which is
essential for me to perform better in the workplace environment. However I possess various
skills such as communication, collaboration and teamwork etc. In this modern competitive world
it is essential for an individual to be highly skilled and efficient in order to stand out from others.
This makes me to be unhappy with my current CV as to get professional opportunities in
multinational organizations I need to work on my skills in more effective way.
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