Developing Academic and Professional Skills: A Business Report

This report delves into the critical role of academic and professional skills in the career development of business management students. It outlines the challenges students face, such as adjusting to new environments, social networking difficulties, teamwork issues, and financial constraints. The report emphasizes the importance of academic skills like time management and critical thinking, which enhance understanding and communication. It also highlights the significance of professional skills, including building confidence and identifying career opportunities. A SWOT analysis is presented, covering strengths like time management and digital skills, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats such as academic pressure and the impact of COVID-19. An action plan is provided to address skill development, focusing on improving digital skills through online courses and technology utilization. The report concludes by reiterating the importance of these skills for career growth, acknowledging the challenges, and reinforcing the benefits of academic and professional development. The report includes references to support the information presented.

Developing Academic and
Professional skills

Table of Content
 Introduction
 Challenges of Studying business management
 Importance of effective Academic skills
 Importance of effective Professional skills
 SWOT Analyses
 Action Plan
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
 Academic and Professional skills play important role in
career building of students.
 Academic skills are those strategies and abilities that
helps students to learn and achieve academic goals.
 Professional skills refer to the competencies and abilities
used in work place that can be beneficial for any job
profile.

Challenges of Studying business
management
 New surroundings - Accommodation and adopting the new
environment can be the limitation to business students.
 Social networking – Many students while pursuing
professional course find it more difficult in socialising with
other batch mates.
 Team work – This can be a challenge for many students while
pursuing business management

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 Financial stability – Problems related to the expenses
during their studies is major challenge face by many
students of business management
 Balance of work profile – As a student of business
management course, many students face problems in
managing their daily work schedule with their
academics

Importance of effective Academic skills
 Time management and critical thinking are important factor
which helps in enhancing the performance of students.
 Academic skills help students of business management with
better understanding and response to lectures.
 Academic skills are important they provide better
communication skills and it includes factors like
information gathering, critical thinking and note taking

Importance of effective Professional skills
Confidence level
Career opportunities
Retention of employees
Efficiency level

SWOT Analysis
Strength
• Time management skill
• Career opportunities
Weakness
• Digital skill
• Lack of Confidence
Opportunities
• leadership
• Covid 19
Threats
• Academic pressure
• Communication skills
 I m week at digital skills

Action Plan
Skills Importance Action Time taken
Digital skills Technological methods for studying can
help me in better understand my abilities,
it can also help me in navigating new
challenges in management field. It can
also enhance my level of confidence to
use new technology for efficiently
studies.
To these skills taking online courses
can be beneficial. It can be improved
through online presence, educating
other about technological changes.
Frequently use of technology and
practising skills over time can be some
methods used to overcome digital
skills.
3-4 Months.

Conclusion
 From the above presentation, it is concluded that academic skills and professional skills
play important role in career growth of students.
 It also describes the challenges face by students while studying business management like
working in team, socialising to students with different cultural backgrounds, financial
issues and new environment.
 It further shows the importance of academic and professional skills of business
management students like confidence level and time management skill.

References
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 Bell and Et. AL., 2020. Service user involvement in professional skill development: Planning and delivering a
skills practice workshop. In The Routledge Handbook of Service User Involvement in Human Services Research
and Education (pp. 239-249). Routledge.