Analyzing Academic and Professional Skills for Career Development

This essay explores the importance of academic and professional skills for business students and their relevance in professional practices. It highlights the challenges students face and the significance of academic skills such as communication, critical thinking, and research, as well as professional skills including hard and soft skills. The essay emphasizes the value of personal SWOT analysis in identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and outlines actions to develop skills identified as weaknesses, such as increasing skills diversification and building a support network. The conclusion reinforces that academic and professional skills are crucial for career opportunities and staying aware of changing trends.

Academics and
professional skills

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
IMPORTANCE OF EFFECTIVE ACADEMIC SKILLS
IMPORTANCE OF EFFECTIVE PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
Skill that is particularly important – personal SWOT analysis
Actions that would be taken to develop skills identified as weakness in SWOT analysis
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION
 Academic skills encourage student to become well organized learner and fluent
communication in English.
 Academic skills are made up of fundamental skills which include presentation
skills, academic writing, oral and written communication, critical thinking, self-
awareness, planning and writing projects and assessment, researching
information and one of the most important academic skill is research.

Challenges faced by business
students and thriving in
professional practices
 Student faces some common problem after choosing a business
program such as-
 Adjusting to new surroundings
 Connecting with new people
 Learn to work in a team
 Balancing academics with other part of life

IMPORTANCE OF EFFECTIVE ACADEMIC SKILLS
 Academic skills are the ability, strategies and habits that can increase
productivity ans success. Academic skills are essential for successful study,
essential academic skills are independent study skills, digital and numeracy
skills, communication and writing. Academic skills include data analysis,
listening, reasoning, technical literacy,,conversational skills, presentation skill,
independent learning, reading and writing (Lanz,and et.,al 2018).

IMPORTANCE OF EFFECTIVE PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
 Professional skills are career ability and that are used in workplace that are
beneficial for job and help to succeed in job.
 These skill described person's habit, personality and ability that affect
performance at work place. Professional skills are a combination of both hard
skills and soft skills.
 Hard skills includes job specific duties that can be trained and soft skills includes
transferable quality like communication, leadership, team work and work ethics.

Skill that is particularly important – personal SWOT analysis
 SWOT analysis is the technique to examine the situation by looking at strengths(areas where
have an advantage over the other and have unique resources to use.), weaknesses(areas
where may be weaker than other and may find that other is better), opportunities(possibilities
that can take advantage of help to achieve goals) and threats(things that prevent from making
profit or achieving goals). It has been used by the businesses as a strategic planning tool. It
helps to give an all round view of the organisation. SWOT analysis are equally useful on a
personal level development as it is the way to identify the area for development and as part
of career discussion. A personal SWOT analysis may be useful on conditions to focus on a
specific goal or problem that want to be address. The skill is important personal SWOT
analysis :

Actions that would be taken to develop skills identified as
weakness in SWOT analysis
 It is not easy to face challenge of acknowledgement and overcome the weaknesses, but it is essential
in order to pursue success in career. In order to overcome personal or professional weaknesses, it is
crucial to understand the starting process, build the strategy of target area of deficit and work
steadily in order to achieve high level goal. There are few significant benefit that may need to work
on self and strengthening the weaknesses:
 Increase skills diversification
 Increased confidence level
 Set timeline goals
 Create support network to hold accountable
 Start to face challenges to push out discomfort
 Identify the change as long term commitment

CONCLUSION
From the above studies, it is concluded that academics and professional skills are
most important for developing knowledge and skills among the people that may
help in career opportunities and helps an employee to be aware of changing trends.
Academic skills encourage students in developing communication skills, self-
awareness, team working and critical thinking.

REFERENCES
 Amarasinghe, G.S., 2018. Teaching life skills through arts; an option for adolescent health
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 Davey, A.E., 2021. Skills for business and management. Journal of Learning Development in
Higher Education, (20).