Developing Employability Skills through Mini Project Workshops

Preparing for Success
at University

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
SKILL REFLECTION.....................................................................................................................1
Employability Skills...............................................................................................................1
Reflection...............................................................................................................................1
Academic Reading..................................................................................................................2
Communication......................................................................................................................2
Presentation Skills..................................................................................................................2
Time and Task Management..................................................................................................2
Negotiation Skills...................................................................................................................3
Interpersonal Skills.................................................................................................................3
Self Efficacy...........................................................................................................................3
Academic Integrity.................................................................................................................3
Numeracy...............................................................................................................................4
Team Working Skills..............................................................................................................4
SUMMARY.....................................................................................................................................4
How and why has the mini project workshops contributed towards the development of your
employability?..................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Portfolio is termed as a formative combination of experience and learning that an individual
determine towards in particular period of tenure or while in completion of an activity. This
effectively benefit person in recalling their experience through which they can maximize
efficiency of their professional development (Jones, Fleischer, McNair and Masika, 2020).
Present report includes skill reflections on different type of skills for portfolio. In addition to
report involve contribution of mini project works from to employability development.
SKILL REFLECTION
During the tenure of studies in university there is different type of skills that has been
leveraged by me. Some of the skills were duly developed in the tenure of course work while
others or already possessed by me. Mentioned below reflective account of the skills are defined:
Employability Skills
Employability skills are basically transferable skills that are essential to be possessed by an
individual, as it allows them to make them self employable in a certain field of interest. In the
college tenure it has been identified that there are different type of activities through which I can
gain opportunity to develop my employability skills like technical skills, leadership skills,
problem solving skills, marketing, creative, collaborator working skills and more. All these skills
has been developed by me at college tenure that enhance by ability to get employment in
multinational entity
Reflection
It is termed as a practice of thinking in analytical way that allow individuals to reflect
certain situation by undertaking proper judgement of what they have learnt and experienced. At
the time of college lectures different type of model and framework that my tutor taught like
Kolb’s learning cycle, reflection on action, Driscoll model, Gibbs’ reflective model, Schon
reflection in action, John’s model for structured reflection through which one can reflect their
experience. It has been identified that in my college assignments I undertake use of Gibbs’
reflective model to undertake the practice of reflective cycle with the help of the scale I can
effectively able to reflect upon a certain activity or instances in an effective manner.
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