Skills Audit & Personal Development Planning Report

Skills audit & personal development
planning report

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
Identify and examine key study and employment skills for business students, referring to
suitable sources............................................................................................................................3
Self-evaluate and reflect upon your individual development......................................................4
Identify areas for improvement and research ways in which you can address these areas..........5
Research relevant.........................................................................................................................6
Stipulate how you will develop your skills through extra curricular activities...........................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
References......................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Skill audit refers to process of assessing skills of person through questionnaire and then
determining the potential knowledge gaps that might impact long term plans of an organization
or individual growth. It is key piece of information to know is what knowledge and skills people
have. Personal development planning is process of developing action plan that is based on values
awareness, goal setting and also planning for the personal development with context of
education, career and self improvement. There is a group exercise that included participating as
area in fundraising for Brain Tumor Charity that supports the children, families and young
people affected through brain tumor diagnosis. There will be discussion about the key study and
the employment skills for the business students. Determine the improvement areas and
investigate ways under which improvement area can be addressed in a detailed manner.
TASK
Identify and examine key study and employment skills for business students, referring to suitable
sources
The business student is an individual that obtained university degree in Business
Administration. The students graduating such degree mainly began career in business. The
students may get the business degrees at undergraduate and graduate. Employment skills refer to
transferrable skills which are required through a person to make employable. There is a need to
business students to have the technological knowledge or understanding, subject knowledge. The
skills, knowledge and the attitudes that help to get people work and move among jobs can be
described as employability (Assiter, A. ed., 2017). The 'information' element and skills of the job
can be the most measurable and most focused. In order to collect the fund for Brain Tumour
Charity, it is necessary to have some skills. There are some employment skills given below:
Team work skill- Teamwork is the willingness to work together with others through
discussions, tasks, meetings or other partnerships. The ability to communicate well, to listen
effectively, to be respectful and truthful depends on the team skills. It is important for strong
teamwork skills to be able to interact effectively and efficiently. It is crucial that volunteers
exchange specific ideas, ideas and valuable details while interacting with others.
Communication- It is the main skill that needs to have to all the volunteers which are
working for collecting the funds for the brain tumor patients. Under this, there is a need to
volunteers to speak clearly as well as directly to the people from which getting the funds. It is

necessary to share the information about the brain tumor Charity so that last number of people
can aware about it and give their contribution.
Problem solving- This is one of the effective skills that help in solving the issue at
workplace. It is helpful in solving the issues arising time of conducting the activities and task.
There is a need to show the Independence as well as initiative in determining the issues and also
solving them (Culpin and Scott, 2012). It is necessary for the volunteers and young people to
develop the practical solutions so that the issues can be resolved it is necessary for the volunteers
and young people to develop the practical solution so that the issues can be resolved.
Research planning skill- Research planning is an applied skill that uses empirical data to
establish and analyze plans or planning investigations. Access to multiple data sets and
coordination of research projects around a mixed methodology research approach is standard
practice in the research planning. In context to collect funds for people suffered from Tumuor,
there is a need to volunteer to research about the place from where they can collect the funds can
help the tumor people by using the Facebook group so that can recover rapidly.
Self-evaluate and reflect upon your individual development
It is necessary to conduct the self evaluation and reflect on the individual development. In
context to this, SWOT analysis need to be conducted. The SWOT analysis is mainly used for
determine the strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats. The personal SWOT analysis can
do similar to a person in pursuit of career objectives. This offers insights into strengths and
weaknesses of a person, the obstacles face and the possibilities have in the future.
Strengths Weaknesses
 In terms of my strength, I have a good
skill of performing a task individually as
well in a group. Moreover, I have good
communication skills and according to the
situation I use both verbal and written
form to communicate with the other
person.
 Developing a proper plan in order to
accomplish the goals and objective is my
prime strength.
 I have a terrible in doing things that are
related to some mechanism (Dowling,,
2014).
 Although, I am good in communication
skills but when it comes to speaking to a
large number of people than I feel
uncomfortable.
 In some context, because of my over
analyzing skill I spent a lot of time in
order to make sure that it is done
correctly.