Employability Skills and Professional Development for Business

This report delves into the critical aspects of employability skills and professional development, crucial for individual career advancement. It defines employability skills as transferable abilities essential for employment and highlights professional development as a continuous process for enhancing skills and knowledge. The report focuses on organizing and managing formal business and group meetings, using Tesco as a case study to illustrate practical applications. It covers essential elements such as identifying meeting purposes, developing agendas, selecting participants, assigning roles, and utilizing decision-making processes. Furthermore, the report explores job search techniques, including utilizing job sites like Indeed, Reed, and Monster, as well as interacting with recruitment agencies. The report also discusses the significance of employer websites and other online resources in the job search process. The report emphasizes the importance of planning, organizing, and executing effective group meetings. This assignment provides a comprehensive overview of essential skills and knowledge for individuals seeking to enhance their employability and navigate the professional landscape.

Employability Skills
and Professional
Development

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTON.............................................................................................................................3
Main Body ......................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTON
Employability Skills is refers to as transferable skills which demanded by each and every
individual in order to become employable. It is also known as “Enterprise Skills” and
“Workplace Skills”.In employability Skills includes fluent communication, Leadership ,
motivation, emotional control, reliability , ability to learn and adopt etc. professional
development is consider as a tools, techniques and training for employees to enhance their skills
and knowledge effectively. Professional development is a continuous process that evolve
individual career. For professional development employees need to keep up to date with current
and relevant skills and knowledge. This report will cover how to organize and manage business
meetings in a formal way and also focus on how to plan, organize and become part of group
meetings. This report also deals with how employees learn job search techniques how to deal
with recruitment agencies and discuss about some online portals like indeed, reed and monster.
Main Body
Businesses refers as an organization and an entity that engaged with many commercial,
professional and industrial activities. Businesses consider organizational and individual efforts to
create , produce and sell products and services for maximum profit. Tesco company is chosen for
this report. Company conducting meetings for the discussion of business growth. Its mandatory
for all the members of the company to participate in business meeting. Company can conduct
business meeting in two way. Informal and formal business meetings. In Informal meeting,
company planed randomly according to the situation and there is no need of proper planning and
procedures. Formal business meetings is pre-planned and follow all the structure and procedures.
In this report, Tesco conducting formal business meeting for the purpose of cover up the losses
which is incurred by the company during covid-19 pandemic. Company shall cover the detail
considerations of a formal business meetings which discussed below-
Identify the Purpose of the Meeting, purpose is consider as an aim and goal of the
company which is important to complete company objective. Tesco company is conducting a
formal meeting so that it is important to understand the purpose of the meeting. The main
purpose of this meeting is to discuss about the present situation of covid-19 and how to manage
and cover all the loses which company got during lock down period. And, how to increase
company sell so that company earn more profit to balance the situation (AlHaidari, 2018).

Ensure that you really need a meeting, meeting objective is clear every one mind. The
first preference of the meeting to make sure every employees mind that why and how this
meeting is important. Tesco company give proper guidelines and information about this meeting
so that all the employees understand the need of this meeting.
Develop a Preliminary Agenda, agenda set all the list and items which is about to
discussed at a meeting. In which the purpose of the meeting and the problems and issues is going
to discussed in meeting consider. Tesco set a preliminary agenda of the meeting in a proper
layout and sequencing manner. Company plan time and give brief guidelines and provide context
and so that employees understand how much time taken by the each and every items (ates, G.W.
and et. al.,2019).
Select the right Participants, is mandatory for the meeting. Right participants help to
accomplish the meeting goal and it will be influenced by the meeting outcome. Tesco need to
identify those participant who are good in decision making and who have a knowledge about all
the aspects about the current situation of the company.
Assign roles to the participant, according to the meeting purpose and objective give role
to the participants. Assign role as per the participant ability and capability so that they can easily
focus and engaged with the role. Tesco need to assign meeting role to those employees who are
a facilitator, timekeeper, expert and contributor (Chan and Du-Babcock, 2019).
Decide the meeting location, in this consideration, its important to decide where and
when meeting hold because meeting location helps to set the mind of participants. Tesco need to
set a comfortable meeting space so that all the participants will give their better contribution.
Send the invitation to the key participants and stakeholders, make sure that all the
participants know the purpose of the meeting so that Tesco send a personal invitation to all
participants and stakeholders and also chatting in person to all the invitee to make sure that all
the participant will attend or not.
Send pre- report or requests for materials that may need preparation from
participants ,send pre- report in advance at least one or two day so that participant make clear all
the key highlights of the meeting.

Recognize the decision making process that will be consider in the meeting, select a
appropriate decision making process method so that company receive clear outcome from the
participants. Tesco selected majority vote method for decision making.
Identify and arrange and test any required equipment, some equipments required
during a meeting like GoodleDocs, audio and video recording, screen sharing services devices.
Tesco confirm the meeting location and then set up and also test all the equipments so that
meeting conduct smoothly (Choate and et.al., 2016).
Finalize the meeting agenda and distribute to all participants,confirm the meeting
agenda if changed and finalize it and share the agenda to all the participants. Tesco company
finalize meeting agenda and distribute to all the employees who are going to be a part of
meeting.
Follow up with invitees in person , if necessary, check that who haven't responded to the
meeting invention and who are going to attend the meeting. This is important for the productive
meeting.
Prepare Yourself, make plan and do preparation as per the meeting guidelines. Participant
need to practice their presentation and also remember about last minute quick details. Tesco
company employees prepare themselves so that it will boost participant confidence and meeting
will be successful.
Plan and Organise a group meeting, Before plan meeting it is important to set the
agenda of the meeting so that group meeting objective make clear each and every participant
mind. When the main objective of the meeting is fixed then it is require to understand the benefit
of the group meeting. Participant need to understand why this meeting is important. After this
company start planning and organising a group meeting. For instance, Tesco is going to conduct
a group meeting to accomplish the objective of the company according to this time situation. So
Tesco first need to set a agenda for meeting which make clear every participant mind that what
the reason behind this meeting and what the consequences will occur if meeting will not hold.
After that participant consider the benefits of the group meeting so that they will contribute their
better participation. After this Tesco start planning and organising group meeting so first step is
consider to plan a meeting is purpose (Dostal, 2016).
Purpose of the group meeting, First company need to identify the purpose of the group
meeting and make sure that all the group members aware about the meeting purpose. Tesco hold

the group meeting as per to achieve the company objective. If meeting will not conduct so
company will face many issues so group meeting is very important and beneficial for the
company.
Time of group meeting, set time according to the convenience level of the group members
so that they can attend meeting. Tesco is focusing more on time not more nor less. Meeting hours
would be small because in long hours meeting all the members are not taking more interest. So
Tesco set group meeting time as per the members and their work schedule.
Find a venue,meeting venue is more important for the company. A good venue leads to
attract large number of employees. Tesco company set venue as per the employees reach. When
company plan meeti8ng so its necessary to focus on where meeting will organise otherwise it
will create problems and less number of employees will participate in meeting so good venue
also important to focus on.
Letting people know about meeting,in this step, company make clear to all the employees that
why meeting is going to conduct and what are the advantages of this meeting. Tesco planning a
meeting to discuss about how company tackle from covid 19 situation so that company again
increase their product sell and demand ( Fahimirad and et.al., 2019).
Identify people for key role,in this step company must identify those employees who will
perform their role in a best manner. Tesco need to prepare a list of potential and talented
employees who will perform their responsibilities as per the company meeting instructions and
guidelines. It is mandatory so that during meeting time everything will arrange in a proper way.
Address different needs of meeting,it is necessary to address the various needs and
requirements before meeting. Some needs and requirements such as tools and equipments,
technical resources, proper lighting and sound anemometers, good seating layout, presentation
equipments etc. Tesco need to arrange all the needs of the group meeting before meeting so that
meeting will become successful and achieve the purpose (Kennedy, 2016).
Ensure that keep personal attend the meeting, in this step company need to make sure
that each and every group member will come to attend meeting. Before organise a group meeting
it is important to make clear that who is going to attend the meeting and also understand why
people do not want to attend meeting. Tesco make sure that all the group members will attend the
meeting because meeting is really beneficial and it will help to balance all the losses which
company incurred during lock down period like reduction in sales and low profit.

Send out meeting brief in advance, provide brief before meeting is necessary so that all
the group member become aware about the meeting agenda and prepare themselves as per the
meeting purpose. Tesco provide the little brief in advance to their employees so that all the
employees identify the whole purpose and as per the purpose members think and prepare some
strategies and suggestions which they will share during meeting ((Körkkö, Kyrö-Ämmälä and
Turunen,2016).
Ready for the meeting, in this step all the group members make sure that they are ready
for the meeting. Tesco need to ensure that all the members are ready for the group meeting. All
the members ready as per the time, venue , role and responsibility because meeting agenda is
very serious company is looking forward to improve their sell so that company will cover all the
losses and create maximum profit.
Hence, with the help of these steps Tesco company easily plan and organise group
meeting for their employees so that company effectively complete the meeting agenda and
manage and cover all the losses and improve sell
Job Search Techniques, are significant tools and every individual should know about
this techniques so that candidates easily search job as per their qualification. The proper
knowledge about job searching techniques help employees to get a good job. There are many job
searching techniques given which are discussed below-
Job Sites, it is also known as job boards. It is consider as a place where candidate can
search the availability of the job in their educational area. With the help of job sites, candidate
become aware about the job profile and location. For example, if anyone searching for
marketing manager job so candidate simple go to the job site and then type “ marketing
manager” and mention location “London”after that press “search all jobs” and then all the
marketing manager job make visible in that particular city. Indeed, Reed and monster are an
example of job sites where candidate can search job (Lehmann-Willenbrock and et.al., 2016 ).
Employer's Website, this is most popular techniques of job search. In this techniques,
candidate simple visit the employer's websites and then check the job openings. For instance if
any candidate are looking for marketing manager job them candidates should know about which

company require a marketing manager post so candidate can list the company and then visit their
website.
Social Networking Sites, in this time, social networking sites using by the companies to
assign right candidates for the right job. Some social networking sites like linkedIn , Twitter and
facebook.
Recruitment Agencies, act as a intermediary between those organization that is looking
to hire employees and candidate who is searching job. The main concern of the Recruitment
agencies is to find out most suitable and capable candidate for a specific job. With the help of
recruitment agencies, candidate easily and quickly get the job. Recruitment agencies responsible
for the right match of candidate to the job. Recruitment agencies helps all the organization
directly so that organization easily appoint employees and fill their job roles. Recruitment
agencies providing all the resources to the company and job seeker so that candidate easily take
advantage of new opportunities and also edit and modify their Cvs, as per the job requirement
(Messum and et.al., 2016).There are many benefits if candidate finding a job through
recruitment agencies. These benefits are – agencies provide advice how to write a CV and cover
letter, agencies offer expert advice and arrange interview coaching , give feedback from each and
every interview and other employees. Recruitment agencies give specialist suggestion for
candidate selected areas.
Online Job portal, in this current time online job portal is playing a massive role in
employment field. Through online job portal candidate easily get employment and it make easier
for those candidate who are still unemployed. Online job portal creates many opportunities for
each and every individual who are looking forward to build their career in their interested areas.
With the help of online portal, candidates have best option to choose suitable and good
organization. In this portal, recruiters and job seekers full fill their requirements. Recruiter
looking for the right candidate who is talented , qualified and fit for the job role. In the context of
job seeker, candidate work on that job role where they can apply their knowledge and skills and
establish their professional career. Candidate send their job application through online portal and
find job quickly. In job portal top companies listed so that candidate easily get the information
about the companies in which candidate wish to do job. Online job portal provide quality
services so that recruiter and candidate both take its advantage. Online job portal offer their

services in both way paid or free. If any candidate want to access pro and advanced services so
that they can pay for this other wish they will take benefit of free services. Indeed, reed are
famous online job portal ( Nisha and Rajasekaran, 2018).
CONCLUSION
As per the report it is concluded that comp-any need a proper plan and strategies to plan
and organise a meeting. In this report, there are many considerations discussed as per the formal
business meetings and company explained all the planing and organising details step by step. In
this report, Tesco company plan a meeting and the main purpose of that meeting to full fill all the
requirements and discussed how to overcome from the covid-19 losses and gain more profit and
generate more revenue. This report also highlight some job search techniques which knowledge
is necessary for every candidate who are searching job and also identify the benefits of
recruitment agencies and online job portal.

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