Reflective Report on Employability Skills and Academic Development

Reflective Report

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTION
Employability skills is refers to as a transferable skills that are required by an individual
in order to make them employable. As along with the subject knowledge, employer of an
organisation often outline the set of skills which they want in their individual for performing
particular set of job role in efficient manner (Jackson, 2015). This report is based on the
reflection of an individual in term of experience they gain throughout a module along with the
skills or capabilities they become able to develop while performing the set of class room
activities as involved within this model. For presenting the reflection over the experience and
learning of an individual the Gibb reflective model was used as it help in presenting the
reflection by taking step by step actions.
MAIN BODY
The academic skills are refers to the set of capabilities of writing, referencing and
presenting the information effectively in front of others which in turn results into several more
complex skills such as reflective practices and critical thinking. These skills help in creating a
base for the development of people in term of their future career. In addition to this
employability skills is refers to the set of those ability that an individual is required to have in
order to get a job or perform well at their job role (Deeley, 2014). These both are the category of
skills which are crucial for be to get developed in efficient manner for getting a job. Hence, this
module provided me with lots of opportunities to enhance my academic as well as employability
skills. This is so because throughout this module I went from number of class room activities that
bring several challenges to me but at the same time supported me in enhancing my skills and
capability for getting a better career pathway. Throughout this module I go through several class
room activities such as tests, group discussion, debates, group presentations etc. which supported
me in developing my academicals and employability skills like communication, presentation
skills, researcher skills, team work, team development, critical thinking etc. These all support me
in performing my job in effective manner. Hence, this modules brings up several sort of
experience to me which support in having a personal development which would be fruitful for
my career and my academics too. In order to reflect my experience throughout this module I
make the use of Gibbs model over a single activity i.e. class room group presentation activity
which is mentioned:
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