Reflective Journal on Employability and Study Skills

TASK 2 – REFLECTIVE
JOURNAL

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................2
Reflective Journal........................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTION
Continuing professional development is process that helps in tracking and documenting the
existing knowledge, skills and experienced of particular individual. Learning is an important part
of life as it helps in enhancing skills and capabilities of individuals so that it can get higher
growth and success in future professional career (Corrall, 2017). This report is a reflective essay
related to employability and study skills such as teamwork, research, communication skills and
time management. So, in order to reflect on my skills Gibbs reflective model has been used that
included key stages such as description, feeling, evaluation, analysis, conclusion and action plan.
MAIN BODY
TASK 2
Reflective Journal
The reflective journal includes a detailed experience where an individual includes all the feelings
and emotions that were faced by them. Here I will illustrate that how engaged I was in the
completion of the entire module and the skills that I was able to develop consequently. I can
discuss this in detail using the Gibbs Reflective model that will help me in understanding
through different phases what was the key learnings that I was able to gain and the action plan
that I will be using in future. There are six stages in the Gibbs Reflective Cycle that can be
implemented in following manner:
Description: This is the first stage where all the bare facts and statements are stated regarding the
experience that was engaged in with. Here, no analysis is done regarding what was good or bad
etc. but only the entire situation and experience is detailed. During the completion of the entire
module, there were a variety of assignments and exercises that I was required to complete or
engage in (Mathew, Mathew and Peechattu, 2017)). I was included in various written and oral
assignments which further motivated me to work on analysis of the different skills and then draw
relevant conclusions from such skills. I was put into group tasks as well as individual tasks
which helped me in understanding that how I have to work with different people. Here we were
involved in a number of activities that helped in the concrete analysis of those skills that I have
already developed and the ones on which I need to work further.
Feelings: In this the feelings and beliefs that an individual experience during the entire
experience are detailed. During the completion of the module, I experienced a myriad of
emotions that developed my attitude towards the module collectively. Initially I was very
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