Employability Report: Analysis of Employability Skills and Strategies

This report delves into the multifaceted concept of employability, exploring its various dimensions through three key tasks. Task 1 meticulously examines the purpose and significance of both person specifications and job descriptions within the recruitment and selection process, highlighting their crucial roles in attracting and evaluating potential candidates. Task 2 provides a practical application by guiding the creation of a Curriculum Vitae (CV) tailored for a marketing manager position, emphasizing the essential skills and qualifications required. Finally, Task 3 investigates the importance of teamwork and decision-making skills, showcasing their impact on achieving business growth and success. The report integrates theoretical frameworks with practical examples, offering a comprehensive overview of employability skills essential for career advancement. The report emphasizes the significance of these skills in the modern workplace, providing valuable insights for individuals seeking to enhance their professional prospects. The report also provides a sample CV for a Marketing Manager role.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1 ...........................................................................................................................................1
P1 Describe the purpose of person specification and job description.........................................1
TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................4
P2 Prepare a Curriculum Vitae(CV) for specific job role...........................................................4
TASK 3 ...........................................................................................................................................7
P3 Statement for Team-Working and Decision-making.............................................................7
CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
The term “Employability” can be defined as a capability of an individual in terms of
creating value while possessing work and improving the ability to work in future in an effective
way (Blom and Saeki, 2011). The meaning of employability is different for both employers and
employees. It refers to the bundle of skills and abilities that a person owns, which further helps
them in getting employed. In simple words, it means competency of a person in terms of his/her
skills and knowledge that makes them different from others. The given report talks about
purpose of person specification and job description within the recruitment and selection process,
which makes easier for the company to hire best personnel who efficiently attain business
objectives and goals. This assignment also covers the importance of knowledge and skills which
further assist in working effectively in an organisation.
TASK 1
P1 Describe the purpose of person specification and job description
JOB DESCRIPTION: It is a written document that defines roles & responsibility related to a
particular position. It mainly compromise of purpose, duties, working condition and scope of a
specified job along with designation, job title, to whom personnel reports, salary description etc.
According to Torrington, it is generally formulated through conducting job analysis which
compromise of investigating necessary sequence and task related to specified job. The key
consideration areas are knowledge and skills which is required for the particular job. It refers as
an informative document that enlisted all the important details related with company and the
candidate.
Recruitment & Selection is related with hiring best applicant from the pool of candidate
who have applied for a certain position available in the company. The role of HR is to critically
assess qualification, skills and knowledge of all the candidate and then select the best one. Job
Description is considered as the key element of successful recruitment & selection process. It
helps in developing interview questions on the basis of which company evaluates the ability of
an individual (Cottrell, 2015). It should sum up all the essential functions of different position's
available in the organisation and its role related with managing & supporting activities of
different department or unit of the company.
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Importance of Job Description:
The main importance of Job Description is from candidate's point of view as it provides
all relevant information related to specified job. Such details can help the person in deciding
whether the skills & knowledge they possess are applicable or necessary for this particular job or
not (De Vos, 2014). It is mainly consist of expected roles, responsibilities, qualification which
draft clear picture regarding the expectation of the company and HR manager from the specified
role.
The first impression of company is paint with the effective job description. It clearly
articulated what are the requirement of company, so that only those candidates can apply who
falls under their specified category. Effective Job Description helps the HR manager to select
only those candidate who possess all the necessary qualification related to particular job.
Components of Job Description:
 Job Title
 Salary range
 Duties & Roles related with specified task
 Education credentials
 Prior Work Experience is required or not
 Required Skill Set.
Advantages of Job Description:
 Highlights the company requirement in context employees which they want them to
perform.
 Helps in understanding work environment
 Workforce are aware of their roles & duties which makes them confident enough to put
their best.
Job Description Sample:
Job Title Regional Sales Manager
Location London
Description  Motivated and take decision on their own.
 Effectively defines sales quota and lead generation.
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Education Post Graduate in Marketing field
Experience Minimum 2 years
PERSON SPECIFICATION: It is somehow similar to Job Description but it is more specific in
terms of employees or candidate. It refers to the statement that possess personal attributes &
competencies desired in a potential applicant (De Hauw and Van der Heijden, 2011). These
attributes generally compromises of skills, knowledge, experience, qualification that a candidate
is require to possess towards specific duties or role in a company. Such specification derives
from company's job description which further serve as the foundation for the selection &
recruitment process.
Person Specification is considered as the most essential document which often plays
effective role in recruitment & selection. It allow the HR Manager to define specific kind of
person which they want to employee for desired position in an organisation. With this, HR
Manager can fairly assess all the candidate and select the best one who owns all the necessary
attributes related to particular job. Employer can compare applicants over each other on the basis
of their person specification.
Main purpose of Person Specification:
 It makes the process of interview much easier & refined.
 It means that managers have critically examine all applicant against specified attributes
which is already set in advance. Thus it helps in recruiting candidates successfully by
removing all the errors that causes problem in selection process.
 It ensures assessing applicant on the basis of abilities they possess individually related to
particular role or designation.
 It enables the managers to express their requirement and expectation and how candidate
fits in their specified criteria.
Once the applicant has been selected, the person specification makes the entire process of
training and on-boarding much easier and organised as manager are already aware about the
potential and capabilities of selected candidate. For instance, if a person is having great
command in computer language, then probably the manager would give you the role related to
computer networking (Green, 2011).
Key Areas of Person Specification:
 Competency level
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 Training & Education
 Knowledge & Skills
 Personal Traits & Qualities
 Necessary Experience
Sample of Person Specification
Qualification  Degree in bachelor of commerce
 Diploma in marketing or business
Experience  Worked as a Marketing Manager in Primark for
1 year.
 2 months training in sales department
Area of Expertise  Excellent communication skill
 Great command in computer languages
 Basic knowledge of digital marketing & SEO
 Performance management
Other Qualities  Act as a Co-ordinator
 Negotiation skills are good
TASK 2
P2 Prepare a Curriculum Vitae(CV) for specific job role
Marketing manager is the one who maintains or manages the business, products or
services in the field of marketing. These are the manager who are responsible for many
services/products. Qualities that should be in a manager is as they should be great in nature,
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spontaneous, Eye catching personality and when they speaks everyone concentrates what they
are saying and easily understands what they are trying to make people understand (Hinchliffe
and Jolly, 2011). They should be highly focused, Competitive, Goal Oriented within a set time
frame, Decision making power in difficult times, Communications skills should be excellent and
many more. Jobs related to this sector are Sales and marketing manager and Managing Director.
A Marketing Manager should be qualified not particularly to one specific course it could be of
any academic including marketing as some companies requires managers to have master's degree
and some asks for bachelors in general. An Experienced and responsible Manager can be known
as when the manager have the experience of 10 years of progressively more responsible in
marketing and most probably in a similar field.
Curriculum Vitae
Name : Jose Martinez
Address : Unit 150, Centennial Part, Centennial Avenue, Bradford, UK, FKC 5FG.
Phone Number : [phone]
E-Mail Address : [e-mail]
Career Objectives:
Looking for a job with designation as Marketing Manager in a leading company where can put
all efforts and skills at its maximum.
Academic Qualification:
 Bachelors in Business Administration from University of Cambridge,
 Master in Business Administration in Marketing from University of Cambridge.
 Diploma in Search Engine Optimisation.
 Diploma in Marketing Strategy.
 Diploma in graphic designing.
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Career Experience:
 2 Years of experience in Tesco Pvt. Ltd. (2006-2008) as an Analyst,
 2 Years of experience in Starbucks Pvt. Ltd. (2008-2010) As Assistant Marketing
Manager,
 5 Years of experience in Dunbia Pvt. Ltd. (2010-2015) As Assistant Marketing
Manager,
 From Year 2015 to current in IPMG Pvt. Ltd. As Marketing Manager.
Personal Skills:
 Analysis of Competitive Markets to find the challenges and trends
 Good in Presentation Skills
 Skilled in Strategic Planning
 Experienced in Channel Marketing
 Development of Employee and Business
 Strong Relationship building in between employees
 Innovative and creative thinking
Declaration: I hereby declare the above given information is accurate in the best of my
knowledge and I am responsible for the correctness mentioned particulars.
Date : December, 27, 2017
Jose Martinez
Place: Bradford, UK.
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TASK 3
P3 Statement for Team-Working and Decision-making
Team work is an important factor which help business to achieve growth and success in
their overall business operations. Teams are group of people who are working together in order
to achieve all set goals and objectives of business (Lowden and et. al., 2011). If people are
working in a group then it is beneficial for firms as they will develop new and innovative ideas
which are beneficial for them in order to easily expand their business operations all around the
globe. Team working results in establishing coordination among all the members and they will
cooperate with one another in order to achieve their set business goals and targets. This results in
developing health environment at business as people are helping one another in order to easily
complete all their business operations in desired times that have been allotted to them. Thus
firms will easily attain growth and success in their overall operations.
The STAR models are useful factors in order to establish team working at work places and the
major component of this model are evaluated below as:
(Source: Star Model, 2017)
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Illustration 1: Star Model

Situation: If employees are working together as one team then it results in facing any type of
difficult situations by them and they will find solutions which helps them to solve this problem in
effective and planned ways.
Task: As there is cooperation among all the team members so employees are able to complete all
their assigned task in desired time that have been allotted to them without facing any type of
difficulty. The employees are major focusing on achieving targets in right times thus achieving
success for business.
Action: As people are working as a team thus they are developing alternatives if they are facing
any type of issues and the problem is not solved easily.
Result: As there is positive environment at work place thus firms are able to achieve effective
results which helps them to achieve success in their operations.
Decision-making : It is considered as an integral part of the management. Every HR manager
takes hundred of decision regarding attaining organizational goal effectively (Nelis and et. al.,
2011). Decisions are generally made at every level of management that ensures various goals &
objectives of business has been achieved in a systematic way. Basically it can be defined as the
process of selecting best course of action among the available 2 or more possible alternative in
order to find out the best solution for the given problem (Pegg and et. al., 2012). In order to take
effective decision which results in accomplishing both long and short term goals of a firm,
managers are prior require define the problem, so that they can collect & gather data related to
that and choose the best possible options among the available alternatives which ultimately lead
to improve overall profitability of the firm.
The STAR framework is used by the HR Manager in order to make such decision which helps in
achieving the business objective in a systematic manner.
Situation: If company involves their entire workforce in their decision making process, it would
result in obtaining and developing effective decision that benefits both employee and employer.
Opinions of different people helps the firm to make effective & efficient decision.
Task: As the manager has taken decision with the consent of all personnel which results in
attaining company's goal in a better way as they feel contributed towards the success of
company.
Action: With the passage of time, they are modifying their decisions with the better alternatives
available (Schomburg and Teichler, 2011).
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Result: Employees feel motivated and confident.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be concluded that employability is a process in which an
individual works on certain project, gets paid for it and along with that learns and gain
experience. This boost confidence within an individual and uplift the morale level as well. It is
the duty of an organization to provide ways and platform of opportunities so that career of an
individual can be enhanced. There are certain things discussed above like job specification and
CV that helps in cooperating and uplifting everybody so that aims and objectives can be attained
in effectual manner.
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