Research on Careers & Skills Development

A RESEARCH ON
CAREERS &SKILLS
DEVELOPMENT AMONG
PROSPECTIVE
EMPLOYERS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
FINDINGS ......................................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Skills are the capabilities of a person to perform a task in a extra-ordinary way.
Possessing different skills helps an individual in standing out from the rest of crowd. These
capabilities are of utmost significance as these shapes a career of a person. Organisations invests
heavy amounts in skills development of their employees for the growth of business enterprise
along with the professional development of an individual (Hooley and Dodd, 2015). For the
purpose of developing my skills, I chose to look into the skill development and training program
of Google and CISCO. These companies puts their considerable amount of money and time in
developing training programs for skill development of their employees. The motive is to groom
their human power for enhancing their efficiency and productivity. As their skills and dedication
towards Career provide chances to experience more growth in the company. It depends upon the
employees and individual to enhance their skill and knowledge in which sectors and accordingly
training are provided by the companies to commit work.
Google offers several internships programs for the young people who aspires to join the
company in which they provide the necessary trainings to the freshers which would help them to
progress in their career. One of the training provided by Google is Developer Scholarship
Program that provides an opportunity to the graduates to learn about the insights of the coding,
developing of software etc. The organisation offers room to its employee to grow and develop. It
is a famous fact of google that it allows its employees to spend 20 % of their work timings on the
personal projects. This training and development strategy has benefited the company in an
enormous as its popular products gmail and Adsense were developed due to this initiative
(L e a r n i n g a n d d e v e l o p m e n t s t r a t e g i e s o f t h e w o r l d ’ s l e a d i n g c o m p a n i e s .
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CISCO on the other hand, has CISCO university, this program facilitates its employees a
flexible development opportunities where they can learn, manage new skills for enhancing their
career development. Another training program of CISCO, is its Leadership series where
employers are given necessary training and are groomed for the next level in the organisation
such as position in senior management etc (Lerman, 2017).
These training and development programs provide useful benefits to the organisations as
well as employees. A survey was conducted by the LinkedIn, in which 94 % of the employees
said that they would prefer to stay longer in an organisation if it invested in their respective
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careers. The professional development training programs has helped the employees in learning
new skills, knowledge, expertise that has increased their proficiency in their work. The overall
job satisfaction increases on the part of employees, making them more passionate about their role
in the company. It also leads to development of soft skills such as communication, leadership,
time management, which helps the employees to collaborate more effectively with others at
workplace (Desimone and Pak, 2017). In addition these benefits, training and development
programs helps companies in the form of reduced employee turnover, establishment of learning
culture where employees are encouraged to grow personally and professionally, thus, providing
them soothing working environment. Efficiency and competency is achieved because of such
programs.
Skills are the major aspect for careers and through this ability one is liable to engaged in
job. Careers defines the journey of the individual which they have to choose to improve their
skills and enhance their capability for future growth (El Mansour and Dean, 2016). By looking at
the benefits of training and development programs in CISCO and Google, I want to develop new
skills as I will gain competitive advantage over my peers and colleagues and it will also provide
me a chance to learn new things which would help me to develop more knowledge (Hancock and
Walsh, 2016). Having those skills required by the employers would help me in getting the desire
role in those chosen companies which would boost my career development. Being a graduate, I
can take the online training programs of the Google which would give core IT skills regarding
the development of effective applications and software.
FINDINGS
The first finding which I came across regarding the skills and careers development to
employee is related to equality among the employees. As in case of Google company, they
mainly develop their employees interests in the organisation through not discriminating the
people and their employees which they recruit them to carry forward their work activities. As per
the research I came across various factors which affecting the skills of the employees and also
stop their career opportunities (Webb and Chaffer, 2016). Employees are discriminated on the
bases of Sex and colour and accordingly the jobs are preferred by the companies. Women are not
selected on such field where the work is dangerous and cause injury to the person. Under the
employment act, it is imposed that all employees are equal in eyes of law and same remuneration
is imposed to all the employees if they are committing same type of work. Google appoint
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