Essentials of Employability

ESSENTIALS OF
EMPLOYABILITY

INTRODUCTION
Employability skills can be defined as those skills which can make an individual
employable. In this employee needs to possess good technical skills and high amount of subject
knowledge so that they can be recruited. Employees who have adequate skills can increase the
productivity in work which is been performed by them. This can assist then in achieving their
personal as well as professional goals and objectives. Employability skills also provide support
to employees in analyzing the problems and bringing creative solution to it. These skills can
support an employee in growing. Present skills will lay emphasis on skills that needs to be
developed by me after taking the test. It will also focus on areas on which I am lacking.
MAIN BODY
Professional network-53%
 To develop professional network in order to have proper understanding of business.
 To have professional network in order to have better career advice and support.
My main aim and objective is to increase my professional network so that I can have proper
understanding of the business facts which are pertaining in travel and tourism industry. When in
joined the university I have no knowledge about how to strengthen the business connection than
my tutor gave me the idea on working on my professional network as this will assist me in
building up my confidence because of which I would be able to achieve my career goals and
objectives. It will help me in growing and building up my self-esteem. It is really essential for
me to get more creative idea and procedures which my tutor told me can be built with the help of
increasing my professional networking skills. So I am laying emphasis on developing this
technique. It will help me out in excelling in my career.
Suleman, (2018) stated that professional network is solely based on interactions related to
business. In this employees are being engaged in strengthening up their business relations They
have also mentioned that new opportunities can be created when employees are being engaged in
developing the professional network. This finding has assisted me in knowing about the various
benefits which professional networking provides to individual.
In order to improve my professional networking skills, I must be engaged in taking help from
my tutors. I also need to engaged in taking time for building up relationship. I have also analysed
that to strengthen my quality of work and build a professional network it is really essential for
me to set up goals so that I can work upon it and achieve it.

There are various problems which has been faced by me while developing a professional
networking skill when I discussed it with my tutor. Like I was not confident enough while
interacting with other peer. Also I sometimes go off the track because of which people get
annoyed or offended so I really need to work upon it for my growth.
I need to work upon all these aspects so that I am able to gain perspective from different
aspects. This skill will also assist me in making better bond with my peer, it will help me in
developing my maturity level. As I want to work in travel and tourism industry to make my
business grow it is really essential to have professional network. It can assist me in building up
my career path. Professional network will also assist me in developing self-confidence. Training
and certification garnered from networking builds self-confidence and promotes self-esteem
Industry experience-63%
 To make better decision related to career path
 To improve chances of getting higher degree result
I went through the essential of employability test and I realised that it is very necessary for
me to improve my experience related to travel and tourism industry. I found out that industry
experience is one of my weakness at 63%. Industry experience basically involves working won
real time project which increases the knowledge related to subject matter. This experience is
really needed if employees are applying for any kind of job. I need to develop this as I have
earned really low percentage on this skill. It will assist me in making better decision so that I can
choose a better career path (Azmi, Hashim and Yusoff, 2018). It will help me in growing and
boosting up my confidence level. It will also help me in working with a better company or
industry.
If I have developed the industry experience, this will support me in better analysing the
problems that is being faced by company. It will also support me in developing various kind of
transferable skills. It will make me more employable. So it is really necessary for me to develop
industry experience for my career growth. Also this skill will assist me in making more
productive decision in my life. Also with the help of industry experience I would be able to make
better choices and also my knowledge related to industry will be increased.
In order to improve this skill, I need to work with business tycoons so that I can learn from
their experiences. This will assist me in having a better career path. It will also assist me in
bringing out the creative and innovative solution to the problem which is being faced by me.