Report on Academic and Employability Skills: A Reflective Analysis

This report provides a reflective analysis of academic and employability skills, focusing on self-assessment and development. The introduction emphasizes the importance of people skills, thinking skills, and analytical power in personal and career development. The reflective part delves into the author's skills, including thinking and analytical abilities, and their significance for career advancement. The report identifies skills gaps, such as ineffective performance and a lack of innovative ability, and proposes a plan for improvement through learning programs and work-based exposure. The Gibbs reflective model is used to analyze the author's experiences, feelings, evaluation, conclusion, and action plan. The conclusion reiterates the importance of academic and employability skills for career success and outlines the need for continuous learning and development. The report also references Jackson (2014), Rosenberg et al. (2012), and Heimler (2017) to support its findings and recommendations.

Academic And Employability
Skills

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
REFLECTIVE PART......................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Academic and employability skills has played greater role in development of the person
and led an effective initiative to led any person into an productive and reflective mode. In this
level of skills, mainly are people skills, thinking skills and also analytical power to develop high
exposure of the person (Morote, 2012). In current time, academic skill are highly necessary to
led generate attitude and personality of a person at a greater level. This report will be carry on
reflective way and also analysis of self analysis and reflective to understand own level of skills.
In this report, discussion will cover two types of skills such as thinking and analytical skills,
which are highly required to develop career and develop own exposure at an utilised level.
Lastly, this essay based assessment will concluded on the basis of Gibbs reflective model and
Hooke report.
REFLECTIVE PART
Reflective way is a manner of higher level of writing, which generally used to written in I
and me style to do analysis of self in context of required skills and exposure which are required
to generate outcomes in an effective manner. This assessment will be written in self manner and
also developing style to bring effective performance of mine to build self skills & potential at a
greater and also on optimised stage of working. I have various skills such as people management,
thinking and analytical skills which are positively necessary for me to generate accurate results
in given period of time (Jackson, 2014). This skills are highly necessary for my career
development along with development of opportunities to develop own and self success for
pursuing long term career at an optimised an productive stage of working. I realised that these
skills is highly important for me to develop my exposure and experience at an productive stage to
generate growth for my level of prospective learning and development of the knowledge.
I noticed that I have academic skills such as critical thinking, power of analytics and skill
for thinking potential. These skills I have learnt through continuous level of learning and also at
an optimised level of stage of working. In my context thinking skills or competencies is highly
necessary for me to develop my own power and also potential to get develop my ability to raise
my career and working expectancy at an optimised stage of career and also role development.
Along with, academic skills, employability skills such as people management, confidence and

leadership are also necessary for me in process of learning and development of my exposure at a
bigger and optimised stage to built long term productivity at an utilised platform. I have grown
these skills with help of my working or learning outcomes to realise my way of accomplishing
targets and life based outcomes in given period of time. I learnt these skills with major motive to
develop my exposure, learning and of-course required skills to get productive success after this
defined learning at a greater level of sense. I have noticed that I need lots of concentration and
practice to led these skills or exposure at an optimised level to get benefits from career and work
based practices on an optimised stage of working, I need to develop these skills in further period
of time to get relevant outcomes or results for mine future based activities at an optimised stage
of career and job enrichment (Rosenberg, 2018). For my career development and sustainability
this will be prominent for my get higher level of work based skills in order to develop my way of
working or get equipped high level of learning to develop my career sustainability and survival
for higher period of time. I have gone through certain evaluation and observation round from my
relatives, peer's, boss, employer, family and colleagues on which they have majorly evaluated me
on priority of my wants or desire of my career on an higher and also long term basis, I also
realised that I have certain weakness, issues and problems related to my skills development,
which in reality shows that I am suffering with an issue of ineffective learning or skills
development at an optimised stage of working. I have found skill gap in my thinking,
management and analytical skills, which shows about scope of improvement for longer period of
time. This kind of skills gap will be fulfil with support of my continuous level of learning and
also work based exposure to develop scope for my career development and also work based
exposure to develop career based consistency on an higher and optimised level of working to led
productive outcomes in given period of time (Rosenberg, 2018). I realised various skills such as
leadership and confidence which is a part of employability skills, in which I have faced gaps
such as ineffective performance, attitude and also led effective working exposure on a higher
profitable basis. Failure of leadership group of people, lack of effective performance and lack of
innovative ability and capability to generate suitable over the given period of time to generate
suitable results over a given period of time. In order top overcome these, I have decided to go for
learning and development for building these skills at a higher and optimised stage of working on
a growth basis. Learning programme is the best option for me to develop these skills to generate

effective results over the given period of time. These skills gaps needs to be fulfilled with
measure to develop my work based exposure in given period of time.
I realised that, identification of skill gap is suitable and pro-active for me to get develop
skills on an develop and empowered basis. In skills gap, I realised that my analytical skill was
marked as 6 out of 10 by my peer, friends and families, on which I realised that learning is best
option for me to develop and also empower or develop this skill on productive stage. For this,
undertaking activities are role play, reading books & journals and solving critical games to get
develop skills or competencies and time period required for developing this skill is comprises of
time period of at-least I month to cover those activities to grow skills and exposure at a given
point of time.
Expected outcomes shows that my analytical skill would cover my skill gap by doing
daily based practice for longer point of time. In addition to this, these activities will continue for
longer period of time.
As, I also told that complete learning based is highly necessary for me to develop my
work exposure for longer period of time to get an effective working into my career and also work
based exposure for longer period of time. This can be prominent to use various reflective model
such as Gibbs reflective model, which is complete model for putting reflective portion on my
working at zonal level of developing my skills at a productive stage to develop my performance
at a zonal level of individual level (Heimler, 2017). To get an effective results out of the skill
gap, this will be prominent for me to use Gibbs reflective model which will highly used to
develop my skills or higher level of opportunities with ability to built other skills for my higher
career expectancy for longer period of time. The reflective explanation of this model is as
follows:

Sources: Gibbs' Reflective Cycle, 2018
Stage 1: Description: These skills of mine has been developed with some practices
which I have conducted or go through in future for given point of time. Given skills has been
developed with my long term efforts for the given period of time and also for I have done regular
based practice, which in reality has proved right towards development of mine working exposure
over a longer period of time. I developed both academic and employability skill with support of
my learning and development of my knowledge and also with help of conducting certain
valuable activities into the given point of time.
Stage 2: Feelings: Before development of these skills, I realised my weakness, which is
urgently need to be overcome in given period of time. Skills were majorly higher requirement for
me to develop my work exposure or durability to enhance suitable results over the period of
time. When I realised that, I have these skill shortage, on which I instantly look forward to go for
effective learning or development to led growth of these skills or competencies at a competitive
period of time. I feels that my weaknesses has been overcomes, I still needs to be work hard to
develop my academic and employability competencies at a greater stage to rid of my work based
shortage or competencies.
Illustration 1: Gibbs' Reflective Cycle

Stage 3: Evaluation: In this, situation, I positively realised that analytical, thinking and
people based of mine has been enhanced at a greater or productive situation at a greater level.
During the development of my skills, negative was my lack of patience which is necessary to me
to have to develop to get my efficiency and also performance at an optimised and associated
level of performance. My efforts were not at its potential stage to develop my skills or level of
skills and competencies at an optimised stage of development. My peer, families, friends and
colleagues have majorly contributed in my efforts to learn or develop skills at optimised position.
They had help me to develop my competencies by taking my test, conduct continuous evaluation
over given period of time.
Step 4: Conclusion: After this, I realised that, it should need to focus on my further more
skills or competencies such as building leadership skills, management exposure which is highly
important to generate relevant and suitable outcomes in context of skills or exposure. This will
be get develop with help of continuous basis of learning or development. I also have faced issues
or problem in context of working in an effective manner.
Step 5: Action: This stage involves taking decision at an optimised level for developing
skills and competencies at an optimised stage. In this, I personally needs to be go for structuring
my own plan or policies for the development and building of skills at an optimised period of
time. I identified various changes which needs to be made are as follows: building work based
exposure, assisting self into empowerment of exposure of higher level of major level of skills
and developing exposure for skills and also work based competencies in given period of time.
Training & development of mine is one most pro-active step for acquiring skills at a greater and
utilised period of time.
This has been analyse that skills or competencies are required to be made with clear level
of efforts or potential by me in order to get develop academic and employability skills on a
optimised stage of time. In this, I need to enhance my skills based on academic & employability
to acquire major goals or objective in a given period of time.

CONCLUSION
From the above report, it is highly concluded that academic & employability skill is
highly necessary to develop career of an individual on a higher basis. Development of these skill
are heavily important to gather suitable results or outcomes in given period of time. Academic
and employability skill are highly necessary to led knowing the scope and chances for getting
development of these skills to gather suitable career and development at a greater and also
utilised path.

REFERENCES
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