A Comprehensive Report on Academic Skills and Professional Development

This report provides an overview of academic skills and professional development, covering employability skills, the Gibbs reflective model, and Harvard referencing. Task 1 reviews literature on employability skills, highlighting their importance in enhancing individual capabilities and career opportunities. Task 2 presents a reflection on a graduate cyber security analyst job advertisement using the Gibbs reflective model, discussing feelings, evaluation, analysis, and an action plan for skills development. The reflection identifies strengths, weaknesses, and strategies for improvement, focusing on decision-making and communication skills. Task 3 reflects on learning about searching skills and Harvard referencing, emphasizing the importance of these skills for academic and professional growth. The report concludes that continuous skill development is crucial for career advancement and personal growth.

Introduction to Academic
Skills and Professional
Development

Table of Contents
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
Task 1 ..........................................................................................................................................3
Task 2...........................................................................................................................................4
Task 3 ..........................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
Appendix .......................................................................................................................................13

MAIN BODY
Task 1
Entry 1- Nisha, S.M. and Rajasekaran, V., 2018. Employability skills: A review. IUP Journal of
Soft Skills,12(1), pp.29-37.
This evidence or the sources of information deliver define of the soft skills which is important to
increase the capability of the individual person in effective as well as efficient manner. The
sources deliver the idea oi obtaining more opportunity to the graduates and willing to bring the
effectiveness at workplace. The report delivers the information of the skills which are significant
for the individual person in order to deal with the various career opportunity and Mold the
career path. The evidences also acknowledge that the skills are the element which is responsible
for moulding the career path of the individual person and help in improving the personal as well
as professional life in an appropriate manner.
Entry 2 — Jain, V., 2021. A review on soft skills-an important key for employability in the”
shift to a service driven economy” era. Asian Journal of Multidimensional Research, 10(12),
pp.559-565.
These sources reflect light on the soft skills which is important for the employees in order to
enhance the economy and deliver huge support in bringing the effectiveness in the services roles
and responsibility. For increasing the economy or reproducibility it is impromptu to
acknowledge the cholers with these skills and knowledge. The sources indicate that in the
current period it is important to develop all these skills as the completion is high in different
marketplace.
Entry 3- Groeneveld, W., Becker, B.A. and Vennekens, J., 2020, June. Soft skills: What do
computing program syllabi reveal about non-technical expectations of undergraduate students?.
In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer
Science Education (pp. 287-293).
The presented sources acknowledge that for the programming of the technology soft skills are
required. The sources deliver the information on the skills which is essential to deliver to the
graduating student. It indicates some skills which is important for undergraduate students in
development of professional life. The determined skills include teamwork, ethics, different
types of communication as well as skills of presentation. The aim of this report is to deliver the
actual information or skills to the deserving right candidate for the further productivity.

Entry 4- Keevy, M., 2020, May. Effectiveness of delivery methods in the transfer of soft skills.
In 6Th International Conference On Higher Education Advances (Head'20) (pp. 113-122).
this source delivers the information on the perception of graduating on the effectiveness of
providing the method in order to transfer the soft skills in the academic programmes. According
to this source the soft skills are essential element for increasing the value and capability of
individual person. It is also responsible for unceasing the effectiveness of the individual
person. Along with that the source will deliver assistance in determining the skills which are
essential for enhancing the performance. Furthermore, it delivers the assistance in determining
the uses of soft skills in computer and technological programmes.
Entry 5- Yao, C.W. and Tuliao, M.D., 2019. Soft skill development for employability: A case
study of stem graduate students at a Vietnamese transnational university. Higher Education,
Skills and Work-Based Learning.
This source is based on the soft skills development for employability in which the source will
suggest that the faculty use the classroom practices to the scholar in order to deliver the
opportunity of increasing the soft skills that largely deliver the support in employability. This
will deliver assistance in computing gradates and enhance the skills and knowledge of the
individual person. Basically the source indicates the idea of contributing this soft skill is a result
of enhancing the capability of employees and improving the performance of the individual
person.
Task 2
Reflection
With the assistances of Gibbs reflective model, I will elaborate my experiences of job
advertisement which is graduate cyber security analyst by following the steps of model
mentioned as follow:
Description: I found a job advertisement regarding the graduate cyber security analyst by a
company of UK which is willing to boost the effectiveness of the company. With the assistance
of the job description I am able to determine that I capability to perform the job role and
responsibility of graduate cyber security analyst in effective as well as efficient manner. The
description of job advertisement encourages me to apply for the job and develop my own career
path in effective as well as effect manner. Basically I have talent to deal with the forthcoming
challenges associated with this kind of job advert. It delivers assistance in chimichanga my skills

and knowledge in effective as well as efficient manner. Along with that it acknowledges that I
have opportunity to smoother my career path and grab more opportunity in an appropriate
manner (Balula, Vasconcelos, and Moreira, 2019)
Feelings: during the analysation of the job advertisement I was so confident as I am having all
the skills and knowledge associated with that. Due to that I am able to perform the task in
effective manner. It brings the cup of postpositive for me. Along with that I was also glade to
know about the job roles and responsibility associated with the graduate cyber security analyst.
Apart from that during the job advert I realized that there are some skills which is essential for
performing this job role and responsibility and I have lack of that skills and need to work on that
skills as the area of improvement. Because of that have opportunity to improve my personality
and performances in personal as well as professional life. Along with that I feel like in need to
give more efforts for improving my performance in adequate manner. At one point I feel nervous
but I encourage myself to overcome with this issue to complete the roles in short period of time.
Evaluation: this analysation of job advert is one of the good experiences for me as it provides
the idea of becoming productive and using my talent as well as skills in something which is
valuable in my career path. I acknowledge that for the professionalism of cyber security analyst
some relevant experiences are required that consider a degree in cyber security or something
related to that. Information or knowledge of the tools which is used in the cyber security analyst,
understanding of XDR, any training course related to the security and 1 years of experiences in
any of the association. Beside this with the determination of job analyst I am able to determine
my strength and weakness of performing the task and accomplishing my personal as well as
professional goals in an appropriate manner. In context to that my biggest strength is that I have
capability to lead the people of the organization and provide the audiences of performing the
task. Along with that I have knowledge of understanding the client’s system due to which I am
able to improve the security and data privacy in an appropriate manner (Muhammadiyeva. and
Ibrohimova, 2020). Along with that I have capability of monitoring the performances of the
employees for the welfare of the organization. Along with that I have knowledge of the pre-
processor which is used to track the malicious hacking and malware activity it boosts my
confidences for moulding my career path. Basically this all is my advantages due to which I can
enjoy certain benefits which includes remuneration or salary on the regular basis, training
incentives, bonuses according to my performance at workplace, membership of local gyms,

annual lives and restricted holidays, pension programmes, organizations work wear will be
provided as well as free parking for the vehicles.
For enjoying all the benefits, I need to work on some of my skills which is essential for this
jobber role. For instance, decision-making skills which is essential in the cyber security. I have
lack of decision-making skills due to which I am unable to take the decision for the welfare of
the organization band bring the effectiveness in my performance. I need to focus on these skills
for the long term survival in the association. Beside this I have lack of communication skills that
is significant for performing the role of the leader in any of the organization. Without The
communication skills it is hard to intersect with the variety of the people and exchange the ideas
and views with the people. Due to that I am not able to bring the innovation and creativity in my
performance of completing the task. I need to improve these skills for delivering the competitive
advantages and increasing the competition at workplace. With assistance of these skills I am
able to perform better and bring the standard and quality of work at workplace. It will allow me
to grab more valuable opportunity in adequate manner (Past, and et.al.,2018).
Analysation: during the analysation my researching was too good, and I am able to detect the
software tools which I can use for bring the best quality of work at workplace. At the time of the
analysation. At that time, I test my ability of leading the people and power to develop the
strategies in effective as well as efficient manner. But at one point I feel like it was tactic for me
to lead the people as I have lack of skills which includes decision-making and communication
skills and feel like I should not apply for this job role. On the other hand, after thinking several
times I feel like no I can improve these skills with the assistance of some strategies in effective
as well as efficient manner. Along with that I feel that for the further development and progress
I can take many other initiative steps that will contribute in bringing additional skills in my
resume. Furthermore, I will become productive for the organization.
Conclusion: from the analysation it is concluded that the graduate cyber security analyst is the
most suitable job for me as I have adequate skills and knowledge. Along with that from the
analysation I have determined that I have capability to accomplish my personal as well as
professional goal in adequate time. Along with that from the analysation I determined the areas
of improvement which help me to resolve my problems and strengthen my performance and
values in the organization. Apart from that I am able to deal with the forthcoming challenges in

effective as well as efficient manner. Basically it will add values in my resume as well as career
path.
Action plan
Skills Strategy Resources Time bound
Decision
making
Discuss the issues with the
variety of the people and
observe the way of resolving
the problem. Along with
that I will solve reasoning
questions, read variety of
case study and go through
different strategies used to
solve the problem and
clarify each and everything
and will note down each and
every point
Notebook, pen mobile,
computer or laptop with
internet connection, variety
of the case study and
reasoning question in order
to enhance capability of
thinking.
1 week
Communication
skills
I will communicate with the
people, read books, watch
videos on internet to
improve my communication,
participate in debate
competition, making the
notes of the point which
need to consider for the
communication.
Mode of communication,
internet connection, books,
technological devices,
notebook, various sources of
information.
12Days
Task 3
Lesson 3

In the lesson 3 I have learned about the searching skills and Harvard referencing in effective as
well as efficient manner. This one is one of the best experiences for me because due to that I am
able to gain knowledge regarding the searching skills which is essential for performing the task
in adequate manner (McGill, Heikkila, and Lazarowicz, 2020). At the time of attending the
lesson 3 I was feeling so good to know about the various sources of information which I can use
in the further development and improvement. With the assistance of this lesson I bring the
effectiveness in my work and able to improve my academic as well as employability skills.
During the lesson I acknowledge myself for the better searching skills it is important to have
proper strategy for dealing with the challenges. Apart from that I learn about the actual meaning
and definition of searching skills. During that thine I determined my strength and weakness in
order to improve my effectiveness for long period. Therefore, my strength is that I am having
good searching ad researching skills for collecting all the information from variety of sources.
Apart from that meekness is that I consume lots of time in making research which leads to the
procrastination of work. I need to improve these skills as soon as possible. In the last I
reorganized the with the assistance of searching we are able to use someone else points in our
languages in order to avoid the plagiarism and bring out the effectiveness in the academic work.
For the improvement of this weakness UI will ogive more priority to my important work and
bifurcate the work into casual and important for completing the work on time and try to meet the
deadlines in short period. The process of improvement will consume at least one week with the
help of various sources like sticky notes, alarm, reminders etc.
lesson 9
during the lesson 9 I have read and learn about the way of interviewing and presenting yourself.
This lesson brings the lots of the changes in my lifestyle, so I consider as the learning
experiences which is quite productive. At that time learning I was hiving the anxiety issues and
instantiating in asking but aster all I was so confidences for that. It allows me to boost my
confidences for dealing with the forthcoming challenges in effective as well as efficient manner.
at the time of learning the lesson I acknowledge myself that for conducting he interviews in
potential manner I need to become the active listener, questioning skills and communication
skills. I personally determined that I have ability to exchanges my ideas and point of views with
the other people and develop the understanding with them. At the time of learning this lesson
my classmates and mentor help me out in clearing my doubts. Apart from that I have learned that

I need to focus on my conflict management skills in order to avoid the conflicts in the
forthcoming job roles and responsibility. At the end of this lesson I was confident enough to
deliver the resolution of the personal as well as professional life. But before that I have to work
on that skills as soon as possible. For the improvement of thy conflict management skills I will
read variety of the books and case study and determine the strategies which I can use in different
scenarios. Along with that I can observe the people that how they deal with the challenges and
issues related to them in adequate manner (Ulvik, Helleve and Smith, 2018.). Apart from that I
will note down the essential elements which I need to consider for the further improvement. It
will not take much time as if I give my total efforts I can archive and improve the skills in
approx. 2 weeks.
Lesson 8
at the time of learning the lesson 8 I acknowledge myself with the communication skills which is
important for us in the day to day life. At the time of lesson 8 I was so excited to learn about the
communication skills as it allows us to exchange our points of views, ideas and belief that is
useful for development of the knowledge. During that time, I observe that the communication is
equally important in the professional as well as personal life. That was one of the effective
lesson in development of my personality because it teaches me the criteria of formal and
informal communication. Along with that I collect the information associated with the different
modes of the communication that I can use to communicate with the variety of the people. Apart
from that for the communication it is important to have two or more than two people as the
sender send the message and receiver receive the message. The communication is in the form of
verbal, visual, vocal, written communication and body language (Macdonald, and et.al.,2020).
Beside that in my opinion I have good communication skills which help me in Bringing the
innovative and creative ideas in my performance. On the other hand, I observe he area of
improvement that is for the communication it is important to have coordination of the people
which I am unable to do. For that I need to work on my coordination skills. In context to that I
will interact with the variety of the people and exchanges the ideas to meet the same level of
understanding. I will try to cooperate with them people and cooperate with them.
Lesson 1
the lesson 1 is all about the personal skills, knowledge and attributes. At the time of this lesson I
come to know that it is the life long process which will help me out through my career path.

With the assistance of that I can develop the best career path for myself and bring the
effectiveness and changes in my life. This lesson delivers the great opportunity to learn and
improve my skills, knowledge and ability to perform the task. With the assistance of the
professional development I can improve my job performance and allow me to gain moor values.
I have learned that for the profession development it is important to bring the changes in the
personality with the assistance of professional development. For the professional development
the individual person required better communication skills, ability to deal with the challenges
and solve the problems of the employees or the other people. In the lesson one I increase my
confidences and bring self-motivation to bring the changes and develop my own personality.
During that time according to me my problem solving skills are not good due to that I am not
able to deliver the values in the professional life (Popover, and et.al., 2022). For resolving the
problem solving skill I can communicate with the variety of the people and resolve the reasoning
question that includes the solving of the problem and case study of the skills. Basically it helps
me in thinking in different way and bring the innovative ideas as well as creativity to resolve the
problems in an appropriate manner. Along with that for the development of these skills I have
opportunity to consult with the variety of the peoples that includes friends, family, and mentor.

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In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in
Computer Science Education (pp. 287-293).
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service driven economy” era. Asian Journal of Multidimensional Research, 10(12),
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