Portfolio: Reflective Summary on Employability Skills Development

This portfolio provides a comprehensive overview of a student's journey in developing employability skills. It begins with an introduction emphasizing the importance of personal and professional development, highlighting communication, decision-making, and problem-solving skills. The main body includes sections on the development of employability, referencing workshops and skills gained at a UK university. It incorporates a reading log, time management strategies using a Gantt chart, and a photo log documenting various activities and workshops. A reflective section utilizes Gibb's reflective cycle to analyze a group presentation, focusing on body language and communication skills. An action plan outlines goals, strategies, and resources for continued development. The summary emphasizes the necessity of continuous improvement in skills like communication, time management, and decision-making for achieving personal and professional success. The portfolio uses references to support its claims.

PORTFOLIO AND
REFLECTIVE SUMMARY

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Development of Employability....................................................................................................3
Reading Log.................................................................................................................................4
Time Management.......................................................................................................................5
Photo Log.....................................................................................................................................6
Reflection.....................................................................................................................................8
Action Plan..................................................................................................................................9
SUMMARY...................................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
A person highly need to improve various skills in their daily life for own personal and
professional development. There are communication skills, decision-making skills, problem-
solving skills etc. are some major skill which a person has required to highly improve.
Otherwise, that person can’t achieve success in its life. Currently people takes various innovative
ways, methods and theories for improving their different skills or abilities. This portfolio
discusses actual value of different abilities in personal and professional development. There are
reading log, time management, photo log etc. aspects also have mentioned in this portfolio. At
the ending of portfolio, reflection, a productive action plan and final summary of this portfolio
has included.
MAIN BODY
Development of Employability
Mini project workshops are highly important in development of employability.
According to my knowledge these workshops has positively affected my personal life, because
through these workshops I was able improve or develop my employability attribute. I was got
this development opportunity in the UK university. I have taken many project workshops within
this university, now I’m able to show my effective employability skills at any place. There are
various skills we always need to develop or improve for developing our employability aspect
(Ruddy, Thomas-Hemak and Meade, 2016). On the basis of my experience, these workshops are
one of best resource to a person for developing its employability. Currently each business or
company is giving priority to only those candidates which has effective employability abilities.
Sometimes people not get their favourite job due to lack of employability abilities. That’s why
these skills or abilities which was learnt in the UK university’s workshops are very important in
personal growth. No one can achieve their targets and objectives in decided time period without
these abilities. I was putted huge efforts in university to develop my different skills, like;
communication, decision-making and problem solving etc. Now my mind-set is that I need to
continually improve or develop different abilities to gain positive results in the future.

Effective employability abilities will highly support me in abroad as well, because
currently in each place people understands the value of these abilities. In this situation, I believe
that, with the support of my effective employability skills I can highly grow myself abroad. After
attending different project workshops in UK university, now I’m able to say that I have
productive skills. Now I’m full confident because of my extra-ordinary employability abilities
(Rubens and et.al., 2018). According to my knowledge, I should use my various abilities in daily
operations for more improving them. I’m able to take huge advantages through these abilities in
abroad. If I will join abroad university, then I can easily impress existing people I that university
by showing them my extra-ordinary employability. Currently existing learners and professors
within different university give high value to such people who have specific and productive
research skills. In this situation, these skills are also major part of employability. Currently I’m
too good in research skills, so I enable to take very high appreciation to my colleagues and
professors of abroad university (Panaroni,Yee and Raje, 2017). I’m able to perform well in any
place through effective employability skills.
Reading Log
Author(S) Title Date Key themes/Summary
Klobes Maximizing the Educational
Investment with a Required
Personal and Professional
Development Program for
Business Majors. Journal of the
Academy of Business
Education. 19.
02/02/202 This topic which has given Klobes
supports me day by day improving
my different skills and abilities.
The Author said that, a person
highly need to put their huge efforts
for developing its personal and
professional life.
Rønnestad,
Orlinsky and
Wiseman
Professional development and
personal therapy.
15/02/2020 I learnt from this topic that, a
person is highly responsible to
develop own personality and
professionalism for achieving high
success in life.
Braidman,
Regan and
Humphreys
12 Personal and professional
developments. Wellbeing in
Higher Education: Cultivating a
Healthy Lifestyle Among Faculty
and Students.
24/02/2020 This topic is helping in developing
my personality and professionalism
through using different productive
resources.

Time Management
I have follow a specific time table to save my precious time. There is my day schedule
has been described below with the support of Gantt chart (Meijer and et.al., 2017). In this
schedule, I have decided to give some specific time to each productive activity. In a day, I need
to complete different task which has included in this chart. This chart is enough to show that how
I effectively manage my each and every minute through my extra-ordinary time management
skills.
Activities 8:30A
M to
9:30A
M
9:30A
M to
10:30A
M
10:30
AM to
3:00P
M
3:15P
M to
4:00P
M
4:00P
M to
5:30P
M
5:30P
M to
7:00P
M
7:00P
M to
8:30P
M
8:30P
M to
9:15P
M
9:05A
M to
5:00
PM
Bring kids
to school
Appointme
nt time
Work time
Pick kids
up
Feed kids
Study time
Use
internet
Take dinner
University
(Monday
and
Thursday)

Photo Log

I was attended various lectures where I has completed different activities. For example; I
has created a task list where I was write different tasks which should complete to improve my
exiting performance. I was created a chart where I mentioned my all strengths, because after
knowing self-strengths I am capable to take huge advantages from my various strengths.
Basically, I conducted SWOT analysis also for knowing my personal strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats. I used various technique for keeping stress free myself during different
activities. In the one workshop my all colleagues and me come together for group discussion on
various selected topic, in which that activity also has positively affected my different skills and
competencies. Currently these skills are helping me in making different portfolios. On the other
hand, in my one lecture, in was learning about “how to develop employability skills and
abilities”. In this situation, these employability skills are currently helping me to play an
effective role at any workplace. These all are some major activities which I have covered during
previous workshops, lectures etc.
Reflection
There are Gibb’s reflective cycle has used to reflect on group presentation (Sewell,
2017).

Description
I was attended a group presentation, in which that group presentation was learn me many
things. For example; on the time, when I was attending that presentation, I has realised that
effective body language is too necessary for presenting something in proper manner (Makovec,
2018). There are various skills I still need to more improve, like; conflict management,people
management etc. Currently I have different sources which can support me to improve these all
skills or abilities. Nowadays many trainers are also available in market which provides some
specific training sessions for improving different skills (Bond and Blevins, 2020). In this
situation, I’m able to choose this option also for developing various skills. When I have
improved my all abilities or skills, then my personality and professionalism will be automatically
improved. This photo log includes some photos which has based on different abilities or skills,
like; communication skills, management skills etc. Some photos have based on personal and
professional development and employability.
Feelings
Me, colleagues and audience etc. was attended in that presentation hall. and My one
colleague has ability to maintain effective and attractive body language while any group
presentation, group discussion, group conversation and meeting etc. I have learnt somewhere
that; a person always need to maintain an effective body language during giving any presentation
at any place. Reason is, with the support to proper body language a person can easily take full
attention of all audience.
Evaluation
In this situation, I have told to that colleague for informing me some productive tricks to
develop my body language abilities (Punnooseand et.al., 2016). Finally, colleague helped me for
improving my body language. I can fully understand actual value of effective body language.
Conclusion
I was gained great appreciations from my all colleague in that group presentation because of my
polite language and listening abilities (Welch and et.al., 2017). Reason is, I used very polite
language in that group presentation while taking to someone. Of course, these abilities are also