Academic & Employability Skills for Career Success: A Report

This report examines the crucial role of academic and employability skills in achieving career goals, particularly in entrepreneurship. It emphasizes the importance of skills such as critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and adaptability. The report includes a SWOT analysis to assess current skills, identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. A personal development plan is outlined to improve specific skills like creativity, professionalism, collaboration, and critical thinking. The conclusion underscores the need for individuals to develop both academic and employability skills to realize their career aspirations, highlighting the value of continuous self-assessment and strategic action planning to bridge skill gaps and achieve professional success. Desklib provides access to similar reports and solved assignments for students.

Academic & Employability Skills

Table of content
Introduction
Academic and employability skills
Importance of employability skills
Need of employability skills for intended career
Explanation of required skills with examples
SWOT analysis
Personal development plan

Introduction
 Academic and employability skills are defined as
the skills which are necessary for individuals in
order to get a reputed job (Walsh, Holloway and
Lydon, 2018). Core academic skills are the one that
gain from school and collages. The practical
application of academic skills in workplace
environment is tends to employability skills.

Academic and employability skills
 Academic skills
For every individual, it is necessary for them
that they need to develop academic skills.
Academic skills are refers to skills which
helps an individual to become an efficient
learners
 Employability skills:
Employability skills are defined as a transferable
skills that is necessary in every type of job.

Importance of employability skills
 It will helps in remaining competitive in the market which
assist in achieving the gaols that is decided for their career
(Dennis, Lemon and Louca, 2018). For a small cafe, it is
necessary that entrepreneur need to stay competitive in the
market.
 Employability skills are necessary for a person to open their
cafe in which they are able to use their critical thinking and
other employability skills. It makes a person successful and
their business can easily grow as they achieve their goals and
objectives.

Explanation of required skills with
examples
It is very necessary for an individual that they
need to clear out that what they have to be done
in future.
Collaboration and teamwork: In the career of
entrepreneur where a person wants to open their
small cafe needs to understand that they should
focus on collaborative an teamwork.
Adaptability: Adaptability is becoming necessary
as day by day the business environment gets very
dynamic in nature

Swot analysis
 In addition to this, a person needs to
analyse their current skills with the help
of tools and techniques. For analysing the
current skills a person should use some
important tools and techniques (Waldrop,
G.L., 2017). It is found that SWOT
analysis tool is an effective model which
person to analyse their current skills. It
consists of four important elements that
are strengths, weaknesses, opportunities
and threats. These can be analysed with
the help of below table:

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Strength Weaknesses
• I found that I am good at adaptability skills
which are necessary as an entrepreneur.
Adaptability skills helps to me cope up with
all challenges.
• My problem solving skills is also very
effective as I always consider to analyse
the situations firstly. Then I will take an
action.
• I found that I am lacking in collaboration
and teamwork which is necessary in
entrepreneurship. An owner cannot run
their business without teamwork as they
are unable to achieve their goals and
objectives.
• I also found that creativity is not as much
good according to the demand of
entrepreneur. It is necessary for
entrepreneur that they need to develop
some teamwork as a business have a
common goals. So the integration of
personal and organisational goals is
necessary.
Opportunity Threat
• In entrepreneur of small cafe, I have an
opportunities to use my critical thinking. As
it is very helpful in order to take right
decision in organisation.
• There is one more opportunities that I
found that day by day the environment get
dynamic and due to my adaptability skills I
will be able to take competitive advantage.
• Today's business environment gets very
complex in nature that arises many
problem and challenges for me. I have a
threat that due to this I will loose my
confidence.
• I also have threat as I have not enough
patience.

Personal development plan
Skills Why is necessary? How it improves? How it measures?
Creativity Creativity is necessary for
individual for the purpose of
effective solutions in order to
overcome with the
challenges.
This can be improve with the
help of engagement in
activities that demands
innovative solutions. In
addition to this, I need to
analyse the topic effectively.
For the purpose of measure, I
need to participate in
competitions in which I have
to give innovative solutions.
For measurement purpose,
the competition result is
effective.
Professionalism Today's professionalism
becomes very important in
business life as there are
many person who mix their
personal and professional
life. Due to this,
professionalism is necessary
for achieving the goals and
objectives of organisation.
For improving
professionalism, it is
necessary for a person that
they should take a class of
personality development. It is
an effective course that helps
people to separate their
personal and professional
life.
In order to measure the
professionalism, I will have
to analyse the feedback from
my subordinates so that I will
let top know that
professionalism is developed
or not.

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Collaboration and
teamwork
Collaboration and
teamwork are very
necessary in organisation
as it assists in achieving a
common goals. This is
necessary for
organisation that their
employees should need
to ready to work in
collaborative manner.
This can be improve with
the help of more
engagement and
motivation towards
achievement of
organisational goals. In
addition to this, it can be
improve when I will invite
people for participate in
decision making process.
This is necessary to
measure the
performance. This can be
done with the help of
analysing that common
goals achieve or not.
Critical thinking Critical thinking is a skill
in which a person is
analysing the situations in
an effective way. That
means they will look out
all the aspects negative
as well as positive.
Critical thinking is helpful
for taking right decision.
This can be improve with
the help of mediation as
it helps in giving peace to
the mind. So that a
person is able to think
more on them.
By analysing the decision
success rate.

CONCLUSION
 It can be concluded from the above discussion that a person should possess
employability as well as academic skills in order to accomplish their
intended career. In the case of entrepreneur, it is analysed that they need
some important skills such as critical thinking, creativity, collaboration and
teamwork, etc. These skills are necessary for an individual as they can
easily achieve their goals and objective with the help of these skills. In
addition to this, individual need to analyse their current skills and
knowledge so that they are able to know the areas for improvement. This
can be done with the help of SWOT analysis tool which results in effective
action plan. With the whelp of an effective action plan, a person is able to
develop all core competencies which makes their dreams in reality.

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