Learning Log: Skills Audit, Career Development, and Employability

Part 1 - Learning Log

TABLE OF CONTENTS
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Introduction to learning contract..................................................................................................3
Skills Audit..................................................................................................................................5
Career development and employability.......................................................................................7
PDP and Reflection......................................................................................................................9
Professional development portfolio...........................................................................................10
Feelings..........................................................................................................................................13
REFERENCE.................................................................................................................................16

MAIN BODY
Week 1
Introduction to learning contract
Learning is the way with the help of which a student can learn and understand new things
on daily basis. Learning involve the process of gathering, recording, organizing new ideas and
information along with understanding, remembering and using such ideas. The learning contract
in the course of MBA in hospitality management involves the following factors which help me in
achieving my goal of becoming event manager in top hotel companies.

What do I expect from the
university?
 Best hospitality management
study materials
 Face to face and digital
lectures, webinars etc.
 Conducting workshops,
seminars and events.
 Organising career
counselling with industrial
experts.
 Conduction debate
competition which help me in
improving my
communication skill.
What might stop me?
 Poor presentation
and
communication
skill.
 Lack of attention
and cultural
awareness.
What’s in it for me?
 Time management
skill.
 Academic writing
and reading skill.
 Multitasking and
adaptability skill.
What do I want from this
course?
 I want to improve my
critical thinking and
communication skills
which help me in
improving my team
performance.
 I also want to improve
my presentation skill
which help me in
providing trainings to
my team members.
 I also want to improve
my interaction with the
large public.
What am I prepared to do?
 I need to attend lectures
daily.
 I need to visualise and
adapt different strategies.
 I need to write essay daily.
 I also need to visit library to
read and understand new
books.
 I need to learn PPT
presentation.
Learning Contract

Week 2
Note-taking and time management skills
In the note taking skills I learned how to cover the key points while making notes of any
lesson or lecture. I learned active note-taking skills which help me empowering my notes content
along with saves my time later. It helps me to capture, re-order, understand and remember useful
and important information and concept. Time management skills help me in completing my all
task and work on time and also on regular basis. This also help me in improving exam grades.
Week 3
Teamwork skills
Teamwork skills help me a lot in developing myself for the future success. It is quite
challenging for me because of my ineffectiveness in the communication. But in process of
developing the skill realize me that before becoming effective it is important for all the team
member to go through a learning curve. The project work gave me this opportunity to work in a
team and coordinating with team members. It also help me in developing my self concept
because of supportive environment of the team.

Week 4
Presentation Skills
In this week, I have learnt about skills of presenting in front of audience and the content, its
preparation and presentation which must be an attractive, understandable and eye catchy one. A
presentation involves three steps that is designing, delivery and confidence. Design must be an
attractive and understandable one and while delivering it voices of the presenter must
appropriate, body language such as eye contact and posture and wording should be clear and
simple. And the last one is confidence which I can improve by improving my thinking process,
emotional mood and behaviour. The most important factor that helps in building confidence is
practice because it is a common fact that “practice makes a man perfect.”
Week 5
Academic reading skill
Academic reading skill help me in improving my understanding level of the concept that
I am reading. For this, I use the regular reading of emails and message task and complete the task
on time with effective and efficient way. The average reading capacity of mine per minute is 600
words with 60% comprehension. It is because of the eyes fixation and eye jumps which causes
slow down in my reading speed. But on the other hand, this skill help me a lot in speeding up my
reading speed with accuracy and I become more successful at my university and also at my
workplace. This also help me in gaining more knowledge and better comprehension.
Week 6
Academic writing skill
Because of the academic writing skill I am able to fulfil the expectation of my lecturer
and able to produce essay writing in the proper and correct structure. After completion of my
skill lecture I am able to cover the logical content in my essay along with that I cover the
concept which are mechanically correct and clear. The structure of the essay or report that I
follow is includes three step introduction, body and conclusion. The introduction structure that I
followed include hook, background and outline of the particular topic. The main body structure
of writing essay includes topic sentence, supporting sentence and concluding sentence which I
followed to complete my essay.