The Importance of Academic and Employability Skills: A Detailed Report

This report delves into the critical importance of academic and employability skills for students in higher education. It emphasizes the significance of skills such as time management, presentation skills, and critical thinking in enhancing future employability. The report highlights the role of feedback in skill development, the need for continuous improvement, and the impact of technology and the external environment on skill updates. A personal development plan is presented, outlining strategies for improving specific skills, including researching, time management, and critical thinking. The plan includes tools, techniques, and target dates for achieving each goal. The conclusion reiterates the necessity of these skills for students to improve their academic capabilities and increase their employability levels. References from academic journals and research papers are included to support the arguments presented.

Academic and Employability Skills
TASK 2

Introduction
In academic development of a individual there are certain
skill sets that play a major part on influencing the future
employability level of a individual. For this there is need of
skill development of an individual. For achievement of this
there has to be more focus on overall development of a
individual.

3 Employability skills
• Time management skill: Employers today are hiring employees
with ability to provide quality service punctually in a short
amount of time, to achieve this effective time management skills
are necessary.
• Presentation skills: Organisation and confidence are key factors
which help in development of presentation skill.

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Critical thinking skill: This skill is defined as the ability to
examine various statements with unbiased mindset and evaluate
every piece of information with the aim of checking various
claims made, and forming constructive arguments for or against
those claims by using relevant information. In this era of
information economy critical thinking is one of the main skills
required by various organisations.

Importance of feedback received through in
class activities in improvement of skills:
The overall feedback that has been collected through in class activity
has assisted me a lot in understand what has been my strength and
weakness all through my projects tasks. The feedbacks have lead
to developing a detailed overview of the major mistakes that have
been done me in the course of project work. It is going to assist
towards future recurring of mistakes.

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• I have to Focus on developing of my weak areas because
different employability skills are very the purpose of
understanding the major requirements of an employer.
• There are different aspects of employability skills that lead
overall development of personality of an individual. The overall
nature of Technology and the external environment has lead to
the process of updating overall employability skills of a student.

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Critical thinking is another skill that is related to the ability of an
individual to make some of the informed decisions by
evaluation of various sources that can be used to identify the
sources of information in a more objective manner.

PERSONAL development plan:
Personal development plan is a very effective tool that can be used by
students for the purpose of evaluating the areas where the performance is
weakness so that there can be use of some specific measures to develop these
areas and work on the weakness to overcome it. Present there is preparation of
a performance development plan for the three skills that have been mentioned
above and there is a time limit that has been set up to achieve the each target.

PERSONAL development plan
Tools to be used Evidence of achievement Target date
Researching skills Different techniques of
researching information based on
primary and secondary sources
have to be learnt.
Use of online articles, journals,
books to understand the
techniques of collecting only
specifically required information.
Way to preparer questionnaires,
survey Methodist, interview
questions,
Data interpenetration techniques
Distinction criteria achieve in
all the research prospects
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Time management Techniques to prepare time
table according to activities
have to be learnt.
Webinars on effective time
management will be
attended.
Timely completion of all
The assigned activities by
lectures
Classroom assignment is
according to the deadlines
specified.
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Critical thinker Theories of problem solving
will be learnt.
Team development
techniques will be identified.
All conflict and problems are
timely resolved.
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Conclusion
From the above discuss scenario it can be concluded that there
are different types of skills that are specifically required for
a student to enhance their academic and employability
capabilities. These skills are extremely crucial for the
purpose of increasing the employability level of a
individual.

References
Bhagra, A. and Sharma, D.K., 2018. Changing paradigm of
employability skills in the global business world: A review. IUP
Journal of Soft Skills, 12(2), pp.7-24.
Wandhe, P., 2020. Employability: A Review of Theoretical and
Realistic Themes. Available at SSRN 3701085.
Pinto, L.H. and Ramalheira, D.C., 2017. Perceived employability
of business graduates: The effect of academic performance and
extracurricular activities. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 99,
pp.165-178.