Report on Skills for Higher Education and Career Development

This report identifies crucial skills for success in higher education and career development, including communication, time management, coordination, presentation, decision-making, and leadership. It emphasizes how skills learned in universities, through activities like group discussions and presentations, translate into professional advantages. The report also provides recommendations for improving CV content, such as using tabular formats, detailing skill development activities, including a professional photo, regularly updating information, avoiding copied content, and ensuring all information is accurate. It concludes that skills acquired during higher education are invaluable for securing employment and fostering career advancement. Desklib provides a platform for students to access this assignment and other resources for academic support.

Skills for Higher
Education

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
Identify some skills require at universities and also helpful in career developing......................3
Recommendations for improvement of the content of CV..........................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................8

Introduction
Some of the skills are most important skills for higher education and these skills also
help to get good job for an individual. Some of these skills are communication skill, coordination
skill, notes making skill, time management skill, presentation skill and many others (Tan and
Laswad, 2018). It is helpful for a student to take participation in extra curriculum activities
which is held at their schools because they are the good source of teaching additional skills to a
student. By participating in such activities like sports, drama, skit, debate and many more helps
the student to learn some skills as well as apply them whenever it is required. Hence, the skill
which is learnt at higher school is important for making career because in the offices same skills
will help the individual to develop their professional life. The following report covers few skills
learnt at higher schools and their usage at professional fields. This file also covers essential
contents of CV which will make it more effective to represent in front of interviewer.
Main Body
Identify some skills require at universities and also helpful in career developing
Communication skill- These skills are essential for communicating in a good manner
with others. It includes how an individual represent their ideas and share information which
attract others toward the information. It is essential that the information which is shared must be
true and based on actual facts. This will help the listener to pay more attention that what has been
conveyed. It is also compulsory to give chances to others to speak. Hence, a good
communication skill also include a good listener who listen what others are saying and then give
their point of views on the topic (Peña Miguel, Corral Lage and Mata Galindez, 2020). Students
can learn this skill in their higher schools by interacting more with their classmates, teachers and
other faculty teams. Secondly they can also learn the way and expressions by attending seminars
and TED shows which is held at their universities. This will help them to learn how to express
their ideas in front of a crowd. Learning better communication skill also helps in gaining good
reputation at workplace. In professional career, it is essential to communicate properly and pass
essential information with co-workers. Having good communication skill at workplace also help
to gain good reputation and also avoid many disputes and conflicts which take place between

management team and employees. Hence, learning communication at universities in early age
also help in various ways in professional life and professional development.
Time management skill- It is also essential skill which help to manage time for
completing the task on time and this skill is learnt from very early age when teachers provide a
fix date for the submitting the projects and assignments (Hess, 2018). Hence, after receiving a fix
time, students manage their time accordingly and prepare their projects and submit it before due
date. Hence, this is how time management skill gets developed. In case someone is lacking
behind in learning this skill then that person is required to prepare a time schedule for their daily
activity and try to follow that strictly. It is also advised to make the priority list of tasks and
activities which help to complete those task first which is at the top of priority list. This skill also
helps in professional life because while working in an office it is essential that organisation goal
should be completed on time and this can only be done when task given to employees get
finished on time with effectiveness. Especially manager need this skill strongly because they are
responsible to allocate organisational resources to their employees for their need on time. In case
managers of an organisation become delayed in taking good decisions for allocating resources on
time then this will reduce overall productivity and also impact badly upon organisation. Hence,
time management skill which is learnt at schools and universities help an individual to develop
their professional career.
Coordination skill- This are the skills which help to work effectively in a team. It can
be learnt in schools and universities by taking participation in Group Discussion (GD) activities.
There are many other activities which help to develop this skill like drama, skit, class discussion,
sports and many others (Kolotouchkina and et. al., 2021). Here, it is essential to work as a team
and identify skills and talents of other group members and assign them tasks according to their
specialization so that this will help to get the work done 0on time with efficiency. Coordination
skill is also helpful in professional career where teams are made to achieve a goal of a project
where different skilled employees work together to complete a project. A good coordinating
employee involves communicating properly, give chances to other teammates to give their point
of views and ideas; they help each other in case of requirement and provide suggestions for
betterment of project completion. Hence, coordination skills learnt at universities are helpful in
professional areas also.

Presentation skill- It also essential skill which is learnt by an individual as an student
in their high schools when they are supposed to represent their presentation and projects in front
of whole class. It include personality that how an individual stand while presenting something,
what are their body language, their speaking tone, eye contact and many more. All these factors
are included in presentation skill. Hence, this is also essential in professional fields where an
individual should provide reports to their senior authorities in official meetings. Hence, here also
it is essential to have positive body language and a good tone or speaking and it also include
where the employer wants superiors to focus on specific things by raising voice on few specific
selected slides. Hence, presentation skills which is learnt at school time also helps in professional
fields to get success.
Decision making skills- These are the skills which are essential to make some good
decisions on time. It include to take those correct decisions which provide benefits to whole
group in case decision maker is working in a team and in case decision maker is working
separately then that individual is required to take those decisions which help them to complete
their task on time and develop their personality (Fox and et. al., 2018). This can be learn in
higher schooling when teachers ask to solve the case studies and answer the questions of case
studies and students provide best suited answers for the solution of problem in case studies. Most
of the time teachers provide corporate related case studies and problems and issues and then ask
students to make decisions that how managers will tackle the issue. This activity helps students
to develop their decision making skills. It is also become effective in job fields where individuals
are required to take good decisions on various topics such as how to solve disputes and conflicts
within an organisation, how to increase the performance of employees and co-workers, how to
complete the task on time and many others.
Leadership skill- These are one of the most important skills which is learnt at
universities where teachers make groups and teams for various activities and assign a leader in
each group to handle the effectiveness of their groups (Villachica and et. al., 2020). Sports at
schools and universities also help to develop the leadership skill because captains of different
sports fields act as the leader of their team and handle all requirement related to their team like
selecting new sports students, analysing performance of teammates and ask them to improve
their performance by practice in case the performance is not good, motivate the team to perform
well before every match, report to coach of additional facilities for the team and many others.

This is learnt at schools and universities and also helps in professional life because leadership
quality helps the individual to influence their co-workers easily to work according to the
technique which is effective and beneficial for workforce. In offices leaders are also responsible
to motivate their co- workers and help them to tell how their co-workers will improve their
performance. Hence, the leadership skills learn at schools and universities become helpful for an
individual to become a god leader in their professional life and grow well.
Recommendations for improvement of the content of CV
1. A good CV contains a good format and most of the information in tabular format so that
it becomes easy to understand and take interest to read carefully the CV by interviewer
(Abdurrohman and Febriansyah, 2019). It is good to provide data such as number of
degrees with their name in a tabular form and also the institute by which the degrees is
gained. Hence, tabular format must be followed by the candidates.
2. Everyone mentioned their skills and talents which are good but it is also essential to
mention the reason and activities which help them to develop those skills and talents. For
example, an individual writes in their resume that they are good at leadership skill but
they did not mention that how they learn this skill. Therefore, mentioning the activities
like holding sports captain batch at higher schools and leading the team helps to learn this
skill.
3. Many individual forgets to paste a professional passport size photo on resume which is
not good. It is essential for individuals while preparing their CV; they must paste their
passport size photo in a formal dressing on the top most of right corner of resume. It
helps to identify the personality of candidate when the CV is sent in companies through
online mode (Vavrek and Chovancová, 2019).
4. Updating CV on regular basis is also very essential. Sometimes many people prepare
their CV in higher education times and circulate the same CV for further 2-3 years in
different companies without changing the age and additional qualification and skills
learnt within those 2-3 years. This impacts badly upon interviewer and they interpret the
candidate personality as an irresponsible and lazy toward the work. Hence, it is essential
to update CV on regular basis mainly on age, qualification and skills criteria.
5. While making CV, most of the time many individuals use the source of internet to
identify the format of a good resume. That’s not bad, it is good to use internet sources for

the format of CV but with the format we copy content also and especially skills. For
example, while preparing a CV, an individual take the idea from internet that how a good
resume should be formed and that person also copy skills from the internet source
whichever they feel better for their resume. This spoil whole resume because whenever
interviewer ask about individual’s strong skills then it might be possible that he is not
supposed to identify those skills which is written in CV because it is copied not learnt.
6. It is essential that true information should be mentioned in an individual’s resume
whether there is no much qualification or no working experience (Deepak, Teja and
Santhanavijayan, 2020). It’s fine, it’s not a big deal but in case the individual mentioned
wrong qualifications, skills and experience and when interviewer ask questions on the
same information which is mentioned wrong then that individual is unable to answer the
questions because in intention to make CV more attractive they added those fields in their
qualification and skills on which they have no idea for answering the questions. Hence, it
is compulsory to have actual and true information on a particular’s CV.
Conclusion
From the above information it is clearly concluded that some of the skills which we
learnt at schools and universities are helpful in finding a good job and helps to develop
professional career. Few of such skills are communication skills, presentation skills, time
management skills and many others. It is also concluded that content of CV can be improved by
following few major points in mind which make the CV attractive and easy to understand by
interviewer.

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