Report: Academic Skills and PDP and Employability Skills

This report delves into the significance of academic skills and personal development planning (PDP) in enhancing individual employability. It begins with an introduction highlighting the importance of various skills for career advancement, drawing upon multiple articles that analyze different employability skills. The report then discusses five articles focusing on the changing job market, the definition of employability, the importance of transferable skills, the impact of globalization, and the gap between degree outcomes and employability skills. The report also includes a self-assessment of the student's own employability skills, including commercial awareness, communication, teamwork, negotiation, problem-solving, and leadership, along with a sample CV showcasing transferable skills. The report concludes with a summary of the key findings and a discussion on how to bridge the gap between academic qualifications and workplace requirements, emphasizing the need for collaboration between universities and employers to equip students with the necessary skills for success in the modern job market. It highlights the importance of skills such as communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and adaptability. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of continuous learning and self-assessment for career success.

Academic skills and
PDP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Article 1...........................................................................................................................................3
Article 2...........................................................................................................................................4
Article 3...........................................................................................................................................4
Article 4:..........................................................................................................................................5
Article 5...........................................................................................................................................6
Analysis of own employability skills:..............................................................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCE.................................................................................................................................11
INTRODUCTION
There are certain skills that are very important for enhancing the employability of a
individual. It can be said that there are many different researches who have given various articles

that are based on analysis of different types of employability skills that are posses by a
individual (Bennett, 2019). Present report there is discussion of different skills that are part of
individual personality and are adopted for the purpose of enhancing employability of a
individual. Many researches have been conducted to understand the importance of employability
skills in life of a student and way it is going to affect their future career prospect and
employment opportunities.
Article 1
According to Teacher tapp, there is a a philosophy that workplace skills have become most
essential as a part of academic teaching. Almost 74 percent of catheters are willing to teach skills
such as public speaking and teamwork that will helps student is getting equipped with better job
opportunities. The survey is conducted that is based on providing 30,000 opportunities to young
generation of England to work and enhance their classroom learnings that consist skills in CV
writing and having a 90 hours of unpaid experience. According to John Yarham, CEO of Careers
Enterprise company is preparing and inspiring young generation in the fast changing
environment.
Nick bowne the executive Principal of Horizon community college has also rightly
pointed out that there can be anxieties & uncertainties that affects the important transition of
future study. Especially the present situation of COVID-19 because of which many countries are
dealing with the situation of strict lock-down has resulted into prevailing a situation of high
amount of unemployment to such affected countries (Frankham, 2017). Such as in June
approximately 750 schools & more than 100,000 young adults took the online lessons that is
equivalent to 10 years of work experience. Further according to Peter cheese, Chief executive of
CIPD there is need to use employability skills as a part of academic qualifications that can help
young people to move towards education to a workplace scenario. It will help in ensuring that
young generation has support & more opportunities of connecting with employers. The schools
are closed down so there is more Confusion and anxiety among students related to future career
growth after this lock-down will end. The researches shows that 71 percent of student have
decreased their level of engagement, 13 percent have deferred university entry and other 5
percent that there are more employment and apprenticeship offers that has been withdrawn
(Workplace skills now more important than exam results in post-Covid jobs market say teachers,
2020 ).

Article 2
According to views of Inge Romgens, 2019 in different literature streams employability
can be defined in different ways. There is use of a competence and a multi dimensional.,
approach. In the global Competitive environment change is part of everyday functioning there is
need to focus of educational institutions towards preparing students for higher job opportunities.
The pressure from economic, social and political scenario is compelling policy makers to
promote the employability (Coelen and Gribble, 2019). The human Capital consist of certain
host of factors that can influence the carer advancement possibility of a individual. It consist of
education, emotional intelligence, age, cognitive abilities and overall work experience. It consist
of the occupational expertise that refers to skills, knowledge and is part of overall professional
domain. Employability is a term that is adopted for differentiation between career related, job
related and development related categories of using resources (Unraveling the concept of
employability, bringing together research on employability in higher education and the
workplace, 2019).
Article 3
According to views of Simplileran, 2020, “employability” can be regarded as a approach
that is transferable skills that are required by a individual to increase their competence of
employability. The importance of employability can be regarded as it helps in building
connection with co workers, being a part of team & contributing effectively, being more
independent, making responsible choices and taking charge of career (Morley, ed., 2018). They
posses personal habits, attitudes and characteristics that influence the situation of interaction of
individuals. In toady's changing scenario employers are valuing employability skills as it helps in
enhancing the competence of workforce and their competitiveness.
Organisations are investing their resources in terms of amount, time that can help in
development of foundation & work readiness skills. There are many different skills that increases
the employability of a individual such as communication & interpersonal skills, self motivation
capacity, problem solving skills, able to handle higher work pressure, ingratiation skills in which
there is need to emphasize on work planning to meet deadlines, team spirit, learning skills and
valuing diversity where people in modern workplaces belong top different backgrounds of

religion, age & political opinion. Negotiation skill is also a very important aspects that is related
to having a better outcome to make certain objective decisions after all the opinions of
stakeholder are being considered ( Why are Employability Skills Important, 2020).
Article 4:
According to views of Nuryake Fajaryati, 2020, employability skills are indispensable
part of the Present situation of destructive and technological globalisation. Employers are having
a belief that insufficient skills amongst workers might lead to their inappropriate future growth &
individual development. Education provider have to provide the required support with skills and
knowledge that can help a individual be more competitive and increase their employability. The
researches show that approximately 50 percent of stakeholder are not able to find suitable
candidate for their vacant position and this is the reason why 80 percent of job seekers do not
provide a suitable job opportunity.
The situations of globalisation and disruption has lead to increase in challenges for
community as there is high amount of labour migration in search of suitable opportunity
according to present skill level. There are lot of changes that are taking place in the external
environment such as banking, business, social society, transportation and education sectors.
There is need to take disruption initiatives for new business model development. It is also said
that there is a shift towards digitalisation and technology up-gradations. This is leading to
generation of widespread problems and high unemployment is significant aspects of this
transformational process (Barton,, Bates and Donovan, 2019). The high amount of
unemployment is related with the education system that fails in generating graduates that are
having required employability skills and posses high amount of competitiveness. There is lack of
expertise in job seekers as there is high unemployment, there is also a skills gap among job
seekers that is related to education and quality education.
The biggest challenges is that educated graduate must posses higher academic skills and
ability of mastering technical skills with competence of balanced employability skills.
Employability skills consist of skill, knowledge & competencies that are required for
improvement of ability of a individual. Skills required focus on extensive training, education, its
practical application, ability to work in teams, solving problems, developing solutions. All these
skills have to be combined towards adapting to the dynamic environment of workplace (The

Employability Skills Needed To Face the Demands of Work in the Future: Systematic Literature
Reviews, 2020).
Article 5
According to views of Doctor Pualine Bremner, 2019 there is presence of a wide gap
between the learning outcomes of a degree and the presence of employability skills in a
individual. Various tools Busch as national student surveys (NSS) & the quality assurance
agency for higher education (QAA) has given certain benchmarks . These approaches together
help in course development, providing information to educators and provide student awareness
to meet the learning outcomes with the employer expectations & requirements. The economies of
countries are observing a Strategic change because of many external factors such as there is
digital transformation that is taking place across different parts of the world. This has lead to
requirement of a complete different type of skill set for individuals (Monteiro, Ferreira and
Almeida, 2020).
The data from this research clearly highlights that there is a significant gap in the digital
skills from employers point and the actual presence of skills in a individual. There is a need to
work towards closing such gaps by enhancement of degree outcomes in colleges. For this there is
a need for universities that they have to work towards symbiotically to close the gaps and
provide enough exposure in form of opportunities of self development to their student as a part
of their academic curriculum. According to further finding of the collected data it is concluded in
this article that there are mixed method approaches that has to be a part of employer inputs along
with universities efforts to ensure that a competent individual is available to get the required job
opportunity (Boffo, Gioli and Terzaroli, 2017). So, it can be summarised that there is a need to
have a collaboration between insights and employers is that there can generate a workforce with
the necessary employability skills. This will help in supporting the individuals to get wider
exposure towards better internship opportunities or inviting people from corporate world to give
insights about the professional requirements in universities. These small changes in overall
curriculum will lead towards growth opportunities for the young individuals who are the future
workforce (The gap between degree outcomes and employability skills. 2018).

Analysis of own employability skills:
For the purpose of self evaluating there is a need to make a detailed self analysis of the
present employability skills. Such as there are many skills that are part of overall personality of a
individual such as commercial awareness this skill is helping in understand the industry and what
a organisation is willing to achieve through its products & services in order to compete in the
market (Ortiga, 2017). Communication skill is also one of the most important skills as it is not
just about being more clear but to have habit of proper listening. Being a team player is also very
crucial to manage and able to delegate the relationship with others. It will also lead towards
building of a positive relationships with other in order to achieve laid down objectives. The
negotiation skill is not according to the laid down objectives as many items I am not able to
persuade what others are willing to convey. Problem solving skills are very important in order to
take logical decision. It ha helped me in having a approach to consider problems from various
other angles. Further leadership skills are crucial but I feel that I earlier believed that leadership
is all about assignment & delegation of responsibility but in recent years I have realised that it is
about setting timely guidelines and being a goofs example for other team members.
All my lecturers have made me understood the importance of transferable skills that is the
abilities to be in different jobs (Kinash,Crane and Judd,, 2016). This skill is going to help
employers in valuing their employees as it reflects the leaning from earlier workplace. Some of
the common transferral skills include time management, leadership, lightening to
communication, making timely research and analysing according to the available period of time.
Workplace environment is never constant it keeps on changing so another essential requirement
is to able to work under high pressure as a person has to remain clan and not become
overstressed at the time of working. I feel that I posses enough level of confidence that can help
in striking the balance to be more confident but to enhance confidence while working in the
organisation as compared to other colleagues. Some of skills that are part of my CV are
discussed below with the help of a sample CV that is drawn based on existing transferable skills
and makes eligible to be more employable.

Curriculum Vitae
Address : 681, Roamer street, London
Phone no.: 1154754124152
Email id: [e-mail]
Objectives
Looking for a opportunity that can lead towards use of my Present level of knowledge and skills
to get hired for human resource department of a organisation.
Work Experience
 Having a 1 year experience as HR assistant in Trans centre, London.
Qualifications
 Graduated in HR as specialisation from Rodney university, 2012
 MBA in HR specialisation from XYZ university,2015
 High school from XYZ high school, in 2009
Certificates -
 Certification in MS office software.
 Certification courses in transactional form of leadership.
Personal information
Date of birth- 28 April, 1992
Hobbies- playing badminton, Calligraphy.
Key skills
 Time management skills
 knowledge of prioritisation
 Good listener
 Effective communication
 Excellent leadership skills

CONCLUSION
From the above mentioned points it can be said that there are several skills that are
essentially required to be part of a individual in order to enhance their level of employability. In
the initial stages of academic career such skills must be part of the theoretical framework and
should be taught regularly to ensure that there is all round development in terms of enhancing
their employability skills of a individual.

REFERENCE
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