How Mini Project Workshops Contribute to Employability

This report discusses the role of mini project workshops in enhancing employability by developing skills such as problem-solving, critical thinking, and time management. It explores the importance of skills like presentation, time management, and reflection in improving performance and sustainability in the corporate marketplace.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................2
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................2
How and why the mini project workshops contributed towards development of employability..............2
Documents...............................................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
E portfolio also known as digital portfolio is the sum or collection of electronic
evidences that is managed by user, usually on the web (Aaker, 2020). Such kinds of electronic
evidences includes the input text, electronic files, image and many more. Respective report is
based on the various kinds of electronic evidences that provides knowledge and information by
adding values in individuals life such as referencing, skills that make employable, plagiarism
and many more. Further it consisted the way mini projects contributes towards the development
of individual’s employability.
MAIN BODY
How and why the mini project workshops contributed towards development of
employability.
Project based learning is very much important for an organization as well as individual,
as it provides the opportunities for the students to accumulate or drive their own learning
(Bianchi and Tallon, 2019). Mini project workshops also teaches the skills that is very much
significant for employability includes problem solving in addition to develop the additional
skills in the future includes critical thinking and time management. With the help of respective
skill set I can be able to think in critical manner while interviewer put the questions respective
set of skills contribute in potentially in given one of best answers. In the 21st century to remain
always competitive required some sort of skills and capabilities such as personal and social
responsibility, planning, reasoning and creativity. With the help of mini projects that not only
build creativity in the by understanding the cross cultural understanding as differ kinds of
individuals meet to get success in the defined goals and objective in potential manner. from the
above discussion it has been evaluated that for an individual mini project workshops directly
contribute in the development of employability by taking the active participation in respective
projects.
Documents
Reflection: Personal reflection helps to explore the personal experience, feelings and events in
order to evaluate the set of skills and abilities in potential manner. with the help of Gibbs or
colb’s reflective cycle an individual can evaluate the experience of about specified event and the

way it improve the learning to remain competitive in business environment. Gibbs provide the
systematic path to move in the definite direction in order to achieve the desirable goals and
objectives.
Time management: Time management skill is very much potential for an individual to manage
the time and work by setting prioritize for achieving the desirable goals and objectives (Bismuth,
Guéant and Pu, 2019). it is very much potential for a student to note down all the activities and
specified time required to accomplish the same in order to achieve the desirable goals and
objectives. by effectively allocation of time and resources as per the specified event an individual
can enhance productivity, accuracy and can be able to achieve the desirable outcomes.
Presentation skill: Respective skills are the effective way to deliver the knowledge and
information to engage variety of audiences to the information. Respective kind of skill concerned
with the number of areas such as structure of presentation, designing and informative content of
slides, tone of voice and body language that directly attract the audience to fulfill the objective in
potential manner (Dunst, 2019). it is very much potential for an individual to put focus on
enhancement of respective skills as it contributes in engaging with the business goals and
objectives by defining works and activities. For a student it is very much potential to develop the
presentation skill in oneself as it enhance the chances of employability in near future.
SWOT analysis: SWOT is the internal analysis tool that used in context of both the organization
and for individual to acknowledge the internal strength and weakness to improve the abilities.
Respective tool proved very much beneficial for accessing the business environment for building
effective kind of strategies and tactics to remain competitive in business environment. For a
student to make oneself employable required to adopt the SWOT analysis by using it an
individual can evaluate one’s skills and capabilities and areas of improvement in potential
manner.
Note taking: Note taking is one of most important skills in today’s very hectic world, as people
surrounded with number of activities. Due to lot of work and schedule they sometimes forget to
pay attention on important aspects. In that situation note taking skill proved beneficial in setting
the prioritize and allot specific time to accomplish the tasks and duties in potential manner. in the

same manner it used in corporate world to make notes of important aspects and way to
accomplish the same in order to remain competitive in marketplace.
Interview: Interview is the kind of structured conversation in which one participant ask
questions and other party provides answers of it. In common, interview is kind of one to one
conversation in between the interviewer and interviewee (Dybvig and Pezzo, 2019). To get
success in the interview required to develop some skills and capabilities such as develop level
of confidence, positive gesture and posture, appropriate dress up and many more. By developing
respective skill set an interviewee can make positive impression on the interviewer in potential
manner.
Academic writing: Academic writing is the writing for education that depicts the writing done
to fulfill the requirement of the college or university. Respective kind of writing also proved
beneficial for publications that are read by the teacher and researchers or for presenting at the
conference. It is potential for an individual to have the good academic writing skill as it
contributes in developing the knowledge about various subject matter to achieve the desirable
goals and objectives.
Plagiarism: Plagiarism is the important kind of practice of taking the others work or ideas and
passing them off. In other words Plagiarism is the kind of fraud in which involves the stealing
the work or art of others and use as its own (Guesmi and et.al., 2019). For the writer or artist it
not consider as ethical activity to enhance the validity of knowledge and information required to
use only validate data that assist in taking the appropriate kind of decision making. It come under
the academic dishonesty and breach of journalistic ethnicity. So it is very significant for the
student to acknowledge potential knowledge about it to remain refrain from any kind of fraud.
Skills that need to be employable: In today’s competitive world remain employable is very
much difficult task as demand of employer’s rises day by day. The number of skills required to
build distinctive image in the marketplace includes the critical thinking skills, effective
communication, leadership, adaptability skill, computer knowledge and flexibility. For an
individual to get sustainability in fierce competitive world required to embrace the new skills and
apply it in practical manner.

Referencing: Referencing is very much important for the writer as it not only simply used to
avoid plagiarism but also contributes in other sides. It allows to an individual to acknowledge
the devotion of the other writers and researchers in the work (Liu, 2019). Referencing in the
other words is the way to give credit to other writers from the individual borrowed the world and
ideas to enhance its viability in the marketplace. for the student it is very much important to
collect the knowledge and information about the work and contribution to make it in effective
manner. so have the acknowledgement of respective attributes proved beneficial for the student
to develop the one of best employability skills in oneself.
Characteristics of group: Group or teams is very much effective for an organization as they
work in collaborative manner for achieving the goals and objectives (Ma and Tang, 2019). to
build the effective kind of team, it required to have some sort of characteristics such as effective
communication, potential delegation of work and responsibilities, good leadership, focus on
goals and objectives and cultural diversity. It is required to have the knowledge for a student the
effective formation of team for obtaining potential kind of role and responsibilities.
Cover letter: Cover letter, covering letter or motivation letter is the kind of letter attached with
the other document such as with resume or CV. It is very important to have the knowledge of
subject matter included with the cover letter is specific knowledge of contact section, a salutation
the introduction of hiring manager and information regarding the reason an individual qualified
for the job, the closing and signature. For a student required to have the knowledge about cover
letter and its significance to achieve potential outcomes.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that for an individual it is very much crucial
to develop skills and capabilities that directly provides the opportunities to make oneself
employable. By availing the mini projects an individual can develop set of skills and capabilities
to perform in one of best manner to remain competitive in the marketplace. skills such as
presentation, time management and reflection cycle directly improve their performance and
sustainability in the corporate marketplace.

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