Academic and Employability Skills for Career Development

This report delves into the crucial aspects of employability skills necessary for professional success, focusing on the skills required in the hospitality sector. It identifies key skills such as communication, problem-solving, time management, technological knowledge, team working, planning and organizing, and a positive attitude, emphasizing their significance for career development. The report also examines the essential credibility factors that employers seek, including team working abilities, ethical and legal responsibilities, interpersonal skills, adaptability, a confident personality, dedication to achieving targets, and practical experience. By analyzing these skills and credibility factors, the report aims to guide individuals in enhancing their professional behavior and securing desirable employment opportunities within a competitive market. It highlights the importance of aligning personal skills with employer expectations to foster long-term career growth.

ACADEMIC AND
EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Relevant employability skill...................................................................................................1
Required credibility for employment opportunities...............................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Employability skills are the necessary aspects that an individual should have while they
are working in an organisation. These aspects are required to be analysed properly in order to
developing a professional behaviour. By identifying employability skill, individual can easily
enhance their present and previous working practices on the basis of new challenges that assist
them in grabbing desired opportunities easily (Jackson, 2014). This report is going to cover
relevant employability skills that I already have as well as major required credibility for getting
employment opportunities.
MAIN BODY
Relevant employability skill
Employability skills can be define as transferable skills and required in individual for
becoming employable. Along with, technical and subject knowledge, an employer often requires
some set of skills which they needed in an employee (Taylor, 2016). It is believed by the
employer's that employability skills help individual in performing their job role in better manner.
Respective skill playing a most important role in an individual's career development practices.
As a Supervisor, I need to analyse my skills and abilities which are needs to be based on my
working approaches for career development practices. These kind of activities assist me in
attaining several challenges easily. There are some of my core employability skill are determine
below as -
Communication – I am having good communication skills which is important as a
supervisor in hospitality sector for sharing important information or data with the employees
working in company. It is the skill which is required while handling large number of people in
group and also in solving staff member’s issues. Communication is two way process in which
one is sender and another is receiver but this entire process can only take place is when both of
them having good communication skills.
Problem solving – In an organisation of hospitality industry, several problems may rise
which have to be solved in proper manner so that it will not become big issue for anyone. Me as
an supervisor having good problem solving skills which assist me resolving issues through which
organisation or staff members are going on. Apart from this, it is necessary to solve problem so
that they will not become big issue and never give negative impact on the working of
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association. If issue of personnel will not be solved then it may result in increasing turnover ratio
and not achieving company's objectives.
Time management – Time play important role in life of individual as well as in
hospitality sector also for achieving goals and objective. With proper management of time
particular person can manage day to day activity in effective manner which result in success. I
have good time management skill which help me in managing mine as well as overall
employee’s work within required time period. Because in organisations of hospitality sector,
several projects come along with their dead line in this case time management play important
role in completing work within required duration.
Technology knowledge – It is the wide concept which update or advancement take place
in this on timely basis. As an employability skills it is necessary in individual to have easy
technology adoption so that things can be done in proper manner with the implementation of
latest technology. I as a supervisor have knowledge about technological factors which help me in
working and managing things in better manner, on required time period and also by maintaining
quality of products as well as services.
Team working – In an organisation team work playing important role in achieving its
goals and objective as well as in completing work on time in effective manner. In team,
employees are with different skills and knowledge help in doing work in more effective manner.
I as a supervisor have team working skills which assist me in doing things more effectively and
also in achieving goals as well as objectives. On the basis of this, I can easily manage my works
and others too.
Planning and Organising – It means what to do and how it will be done as well as
planning and organising include things like developing timelines of project and meeting its
deadline. I as a supervisor have planning and organising skills which help in managing particular
project or overall activity in better manner. Because without setting target no one can do work in
better manner and gain appropriate outcomes as per requirement.
Positive Attitude – It is important to have positive attitude in supervisor because shows
that I am ready to give my best for team. If supervisor have positive attitude in doing work then
team managing by him/her will also do things in better manner for gaining optimistic results. I
always try to react positively towards everything going in the company for gaining better results.
In hospitality industry, it is required that each employees having a positive attitude that assist
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them in providing higher satisfaction to service users. On the basis of this, I analyse that
employees of an organisation requires to have positive attitude toward their peers and customers
that aid them in building long term relations with them easily.
Above mention are the employability skills required in individual for getting better job
position in the competitive world (Pinto and Ramalheira, 2017). Without such skills it is not
possible to get better place in organisation as well as for meeting day to day target it is necessary
to have all these skills and knowledge.
Required credibility for employment opportunities
In an individual there is requirement of several skills for gaining better employment
opportunities. Recruiter is the person who hire employees for vacant position in the organisation
after analysing their skills, knowledge and qualification. Hiring person analyse all these things
because they want to fulfil vacant job position by placing right person at right place. Thus, for
me it is required to analysing their point view as well as required skill of mine for getting desired
opportunities as -
Team working – In hospitality industry, it is very important for employees to have
effective team that will increase the productivity and improve the performance (Collet, Hine and
du Plessis, 2015). As the recruiter of specific job role is also identified a team performing ability
in individual. Therefore, it is my duty to build an effective team that will work according to the
guidelines to achieve the goals and objective. It is my responsibility to ascertain the skills and
ability of mine properly that assist me in remain a effective employees in hospitality sector
company. Through this, I can allocate work to each employees according to their skills that will
increase the profitability of company. It will also help me in personal development and grow my
skill set to deal with any other opportunities arising within company.
Ethical and legal responsibilities – In hospitality industry, ethics and legal
responsibility play a most important role. Herein, organisation of this industry conduct their own
ethics towards employees and customers as well. Furthermore, The recruiter of hospitality
industry analyse individual's legal record before recruiting them in their organisation. They also
required ethical and legal knowledge related to companies. Thus, if I am working with
hospitality industry than it is my responsibility to use fair and true practice to conduct various
business activities and operation. It is my responsibility, that no confidential information is
leaked my by team member and other employees. By practising true practice I am able to
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maintain good culture in my company so that business task are performed well according to the
guidelines to attain the future goals. For getting further achievements, I needs to understand
Ethical and legal responsibilities towards organisation as well as my peers properly.
Interpersonal skill – In hospitality industry, it is required for each and every individual
that they have a effective interpersonal skill that assist them in performing effectively in
contingency situations (George and Munshi, 2016). Before getting employment opportunities in
this industry, it is very important for me to have a set of skills that assist me to impress recruiter
easily. I have lack of interpersonal skill that impact negatively upon my strong working points.
Thus, it is required for me to enhance several skills of mine. Through this I can easily get an
desired opportunity in hospitality sector. My interpersonal skill will also helping to my company
to run and manage their business operation in effective manner. I also have skill to communicate
effectively with my other employee and make them understand about their jobs and
responsibilities. With valuable communication I am able to provide necessary information to
team member and listen to their problems also. These skill set help me to develop more in my
personality and bring more efficiency to company operation.
Ability to lean and adapt – Business environment is dynamic on nature because of that
several changes take place which require that individual have to learn as well as adapt several
things. For gaining better employment opportunities it is important to have learning and adapting
skills so that new things can be learn and help in gaining better position in competitive market.
Confident personality – I believe that each an every individual should have a career
oriented personality that assist them to remain confident among others. This is one of the more
subtle factor which should be consider by recruiter while hiring a new staff member as well as
their commitment related to developing their own career and growing as a professional (Messum
and et.al., 2016). These kind of aspects assist in representing a positive impression in front of
services users. For working in hospitality industry, I needs to represent my ideas positively and
confidently in front of clients in order to getting their attention positively towards us. Through
this, I can develop a long term relationship with customers.
Dedication in achieving targets – For me, it is required to having a dedication towards
my target objectives that assist me to getting success easily. On the basis of this, I can easily get
a remarkable opportunity with well known organisation. Recruiter of hospitality sector, analyse
dedication of candidate sitting in front of him/her because in organisation day to day targets will
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be given to every employ which need proper dedication in achieving those. Without
concentration as well as proper dedication it is not possible for me to do thing in better manner or
as per the requirement needs. In simple terms, it can be said that without giving hundred percent
dedication it is not possible to achieve daily basis target in effectual manner. Thus, as a
supervisor, it is required for me to representing my dedication through my work at my
workplace.
Practical experience – While in an organisation, it is required for individual's that they
having proper practical knowledge on regard their job role. I also needs to pay my maximum
attention toward supervising activities in order to analysing working and operational activity of
organisation properly. Through this I can easily providing quality services to my customers. A
recruiter of hospitality hire those candidate who is qualified in both sense theoretical as well as
practical. Focusing on the practical experience of potential staff member is key because they will
be able to integrate themselves more quickly and become familiar with the job. Recruiter analyse
practical knowledge because it result in time as well as money saving when it come on the
training process. So I needs to enhance my practical knowledge for getting desired opportunities
my specific working areas. If an individual don't have required practical experience then he/she
will need more time for fitting in and learning all the nuances of the job.
All these are important and required for me gaining more and more employment
opportunities in the market area (Simatele, 2015). Because an organisation only place candidate
when they find something different or unique in his/her. Thus, there is requirement of several
skills for gaining employment opportunities.
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it has been concluded that there is requirement of some
employability skills in every individual for getting placed at better position in market place. It is
because while working in organisation, several tasks are assigned to individuals which require
them to have different skills and knowledge. For me it is required to analyse my core skill for the
effective improvement because through this, I can easily get desired opportunities in specific
workplace.
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Taylor, L., 2016. What is employability and what does it mean for you?. How to Develop Your
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effect of academic performance and extracurricular activities. Journal of Vocational
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Simatele, M., 2015. Enhancing the portability of employability skills using e-portfolios. Journal
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Messum, D. and et.al., 2016. Content analysis of vacancy advertisements for employability
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George, S. and Munshi, T., 2016. Making students eat their greens: information skills for
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