Employability Skills and Professional Development Assignment Report

This report delves into the critical aspects of employability skills and professional development. It begins by defining employability skills and their importance, followed by an exploration of tools and techniques for enhancing interpersonal and transferable skills, such as communication, empathy, and negotiation. The report then examines ways to improve learning and performance key skills for work, emphasizing the significance of self-assessment and continuous improvement. A significant portion is dedicated to the creation of a personal development plan, outlining aims, objectives, areas of development, resources, activities, and a timescale for achieving professional growth. The report further extends to formal business meetings, planning and organizing group meetings, and concludes with job search techniques, including recruitment agencies and online job portals. References are provided to support the information.

Employability Skills and Professional
Development

Table of Contents
Assignment 1..............................................................................................................................3
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Main Body..................................................................................................................................3
Tools and techniques for enhancing interpersonal and transferable skills.............................3
Ways of improving on learning and performance key skills for work..................................5
Personal development plan....................................................................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7
Assignment 2..............................................................................................................................8
Introduction................................................................................................................................8
Main Body..................................................................................................................................8
Formal business meeting........................................................................................................8
Planning and organising a group meeting............................................................................10
Job search techniques, recruitment agencies, online job portals..........................................11
Conclusion................................................................................................................................13
References................................................................................................................................14

Assignment 1
Introduction
Employability skills are transferable abilities which are required by an individual in
order to make sure that they are employed. There are a number of different skills such as
technological knowledge, decision making skills, time management skills, negotiation skills,
communication skills and perfection in different fields which are required by employees
when they want to get an employment. It is necessary for a person to have interpersonal skills
along with problem-solving skills which can be used as an initiative in order to successfully
complete the desired work of their employers (Suleman, 2018). Professional development is
important to enhance the skills as well as knowledge of employees which will help them to
increase their overall ability and also productivity for the organisation. The skills that are
required for employment are very necessary for growth and progress of individuals in
different standards. In the following essay the organisation of learning and performance of
key skills are defined. Along with it different tools and techniques to enhance interpersonal
and transferable skill are discussed. A personal and professional development plan is also
demonstrated in the essay.
Main Body
Tools and techniques for enhancing interpersonal and transferable skills
There are a number of different skills which are required by an employee in order to
make sure that they are doing their needful in the organisation. Enhancement of skills is
required and necessary in order to make sure that correct representation of work is done
within the organisation. There are a number of key skills such as interpersonal and
transferable skills which are necessary in an organisation for every employee. This will also
be modified with a number of different tools and techniques as mentioned below:
Interpersonal skill: Interpersonal skills involve various behavioral methods or different
tactics that are used by an individual in order to make connection with others and
communicate (Jeswani, 2016). It is necessary that one is leaving positive impact on mind of
others. When generally talking the ability of work in corporate sector includes
communication as well as correct listening in order to make sure that the attitude of everyone

in the organisation is towards attaining objective of the business. Some of interpersonal skill
development are mentioned below:
Communication: Communication skills involves personal way of sharing information with
each other in order to make sure that the work in organisation is complete and can be
successfully carried out in the given amount of time along with the quality of work. It is
necessary that a person is understanding the environment of business and then taking steps in
order to make sure that they are effectively transferring information (Tsitskari, Goudas and
Michalopoulou, 2017). It is necessary that effective communication is helpful to analyse
different ways of working in the workplace and also improve confidence of people while they
are performing different tasks successfully. It is often seen that communication in
organisation also helps in coordination as well as cooperation between various staff members.
It is necessary in a team for everyone to collaboratively work towards the goals.
Communication skills make it easy for individuals to successfully work together and achieve
qualitative as well as better outcomes according to the goals and objective of organisation.
Empathy: empathy is very necessary in employs in order to work properly. It is necessary
that employees in organisation are taking care of feeling of others and also thinking about
everyone while conducting their task. It is often seen that understanding problem of others
and being consistent in work helps in problem-solving skills and also generating good
outcomes for certain problems in the organisation. It is necessary that individual is capable of
understanding others’ feelings and also sharing their own experience successfully with others
in order to make sure that they can generate professional relationship in order to complete
their task successfully. It is also often seen that when a professional is successfully generating
relationship in the organisation it helps in improvement of their own skill. They can easily
ask for help from others if they have empathy and they can also explain their problem to
others in order to make sure that different skill of different employs in the organisation are
supporting each other to successfully attain the objective of business.
Negotiation: Negotiation is another important skill for an employee in order to make sure
that they are trading in the market with everyone successfully. It is often seen that an
employee has to deal with customers or suppliers on a daily basis. They need to make sure
that the decision while making deals is in their favour. In order to do so negotiation skill
helps in understanding all the terms and conditions along with influencing others to work
towards organisational goal. It is also often seen that there are a different number of steps
included in negotiation process. This involves preparation, planning, definition of different
ground rules, clarification and justification, bargaining, problem solving and then the closure

of negotiation and its implementation (Belwal, Priyadarshi and Al Fazari, 2017). Analysing
all the steps and bringing it in use will help individuals in an organisation to successfully
attain negotiation skill which can improve their performance of problems arising while
working on a date to day basis. It is necessary for the managers to understand all the factors
along with the core issues that are leading to a problem. When looking for a solution for a
problem it is necessary to take everything into account so that the best possible solution can
come out. However it is often seen that First employee will need to clarify specific problem
along with weighing the importance of the problem. After this the employees need to make
sure that the solution of problem can be successfully implemented within the organisation
without any problem. The results of applying the solution along with its benefit to the
organisation in long run are also to be studied by employees successfully so that they can
improve their problem-solving skills.
Ways of improving on learning and performance key skills for work
Improvement of on learning and performance is a key skill that will help in promoting
effective performance in education, employment as well as training. It is necessary that the
learners are provided with a structured approach to learning which will help in continuous
improvement along with self-management (Pouratashi, 2019). It is often seen that design of
own learning will accommodate the learner in order to achieve all their goals and objectives.
Improvement of on learning and performance develop valuable skills in an individual along
with helping them to work towards their goals and objectives successfully.
There are a number of steps which are to be followed by an individual in order to
make sure that they are successfully improving on learning. It is important for them to assess
all their qualities and skills and understand the areas on which one requires to work. When
taking employability skills into factor communication skills, negotiation skills, problem-
solving skills, time management skills as some of the important skills that are required for on
learning and assessment. It is necessary for an individual to understand the skills that they
need to work upon so that they can drive a plan which will help them to achieve all those
skills.
Along with improving on learning one requires understanding their targets and
keeping a track on whatever they are doing in order to make sure that the target is completed
on time. The essential requirements for the skills are management of time while attaining
those skills is also important. There are a number of ways such as taking feedbacks and
support in order to make sure that an individual is improving the quality of their work along

with the quality of their own learning performance. The guidance from bookmarks, skill
sheets, open learning courses are very necessary in order to make sure that when is improving
their self-learning.
When an individually have successfully developed a plan for self-improvement it is then
necessary by them to monitor their progress and also evaluate the strategies that can help
them to achieve their goals. In order to do so they required reviewing their current
capabilities and also the targets which are set (Nisha and Rajasekaran, 2018). The targets
need to be achievable and time bound it. Monitoring the progress will help in keeping a check
upon the continuous improvement process and making the changes in self-learning whenever
it is required. It is necessary that individual is improving skills and also successfully
assessing the results they have gained through self-learning. There are a number of courses
online as well as off-line which will provide help to individual for self-learning and they can
assess the results after the time for self-learning is completed in order to understand the areas
of improvement.
Personal development plan
Aims: The major aim of personal development plan is necessary to be understood in order to
successfully make a plan. An individual requires to conduct proper self-analysis which will
help them in understanding the skills and qualities they require. Here the requirement is to
develop leadership skills as well as management skills in order to successfully work as an
employee in an organisation along with influencing others. It is also necessary to understand
one’s own weaknesses in order to eliminate them in the process of personal development.
Will successfully help individual to increase their quality of work along with achieve all the
objectives.
Objectives: Major objective here is to achieve all the targets and goals which are set by the
organisation for an employee (Park and Hill, 2016). The basic knowledge of creating a vision
and reaching out the target in the given time period is important which can be reflected upon
a number of different grounds.
Areas of development: An individual is required to develop their area of interest along with
explaining all their strengths and weaknesses. One should understand the fact that there are
more than one skill that can be used by them in order to achieve personal development.
Social communication skills are important skills which are needed to be developed by
individual in order to successfully achieve leadership position in the organisation.
Enhancement of technical skills are also required as in this following technical market it is

necessary for an individual to understand the importance of growing technologies which can
help them to enhance their productivity as well as profitability for the organisation.
Enhancement of technical skills can also provide an individual with confidence and growth
opportunities. It can make them expert of certain field with the help of which they can attain
all the organisational goals.
Resources and activities: There are a number of resources which can be used in order to
achieve all the objectives of personal development plan. It is required by individuals to take
help from feedback of others about themselves along with taking professional help (Bhagra
and Sharma, 2018). There are a number of different online and off-line courses available
which can be used as resources in order to develop certain skills. Experience is one of the
major resources which will help in development of leadership skills and enhancement of
decision making skills as a leader.
Timescale: Timescale and time management is a crucial part of professional and personal
development plan. It is required that one is effectively dividing all the tasks and activities to
be performed in certain schedule according to the priority of work. It is necessary that time
management in personal development plan is used in order to make sure that all the tasks are
completed in the fixed deadlines and all the set targets for the planner achieved successfully.
Conclusion
With the help of the above essay it can be concluded that personal development and
on learning are very essential for an individual to successfully complete their job and remain
employed. When an individual is working on their own key skills it can help them to learn
different interpersonal and transferable skills with the help of which they can attain jobs in
specific organisation they require. Development of personal and professional plan will also
help an individual to attain all their goals and objectives in the stipulated time period
increasing their productivity and performance.

Assignment 2
Introduction
Employability skills are all those skills which are required in an individual to successfully
set-up their professional career. There are a number of different skills such as problem-
solving, negotiation, communication, leadership, time management and so on which are
considered to be important for employability skills (Wolff and Booth, 2017). In the following
essay discussion on different ways of conducting meeting in an organisation are considered.
In the current situation of COVID-19 collecting a number of people together in order to
conduct meeting is not a good idea due to which there are a number of different ways
developed to conduct meeting. The following essay contributes detailed considerations of a
formal business meeting along with all the requirements for such meetings. Along with this a
detailed plan for organising group meeting is also mentioned in the report. Description of job
search techniques, recruitment agencies and online job portals along with their advantages for
professional development and employability skills are discussed.
Main Body
Formal business meeting
Formal business meetings are the meetings which are specifically structured for a particular
agenda and every person who is involved in the meeting is successfully communicated about
the agenda of meeting. It can also be defined as a pre-planned meeting in which gathering of
two or more people is taking place in order to achieve a common goal that is usually done
through verbal interaction. The meetings are to be held for a specific time period and also the
place and venue along with agenda of the meeting are predetermined and decided by all the
members who had to be attending the meeting.
Below mentioned are the key considerations and features of formal meeting
Preplanned: Formal meetings do not take place without any planning. It is necessary that the
formal meetings are well planned in advance itself. These meetings are determined and
designed with a specific purpose in mind and it is usually to achieve a certain goal. It is
necessary that the meeting is successfully planned along with all the major considerations to
make sure that it can be successfully conducted within the organisation.

Predetermined agenda: Agenda refers to the objective or the aim towards which the meeting
is scheduled. It is often seen that there can be more than one agenda of the meeting.
Examples can be taken where all the directors of an organisation have gathered together in
order to understand the different ways through which organisation can gather the required
funding is for a new project (Griffin and Coelhoso, 2019). All the members who will be
attending the meeting or beforehand communicated the agenda of meeting and they are
prepared to meet the requirements of the meeting. This can also include special task or
committee meetings and each member in the group is successfully receiving a document
about the meeting and a person is taking minutes so that the group discussion which is taking
part in the meeting can be summarised later successfully.
Dress code: A formal meeting is taking place in a business organisation or a well defined
place. It is often seen that people can also be asked to dress specifically for this type of
meeting. When is usually asked to dress formal when attending a formal meeting. However it
is necessary that individuals are following the dress code in a formal meeting in order to
make sure that they have a good impact on others as they can also be certain presentation or
finding of ideas in a meeting and when one is dressed properly their impact on others will be
more.
Required defined roles: There are a number of people with different roles in a formal
meeting. All these roles of people are also predetermined while conducting the meeting.
There is a formal chairperson who will usually be the incharge of a meeting (Chowdhury and
Miah, 2016). The rest of the people in the meeting are considered to be attendees and they
have different roles which are based upon the hierarchy of organisation. Some of the
individuals in an organisation are also assigned to give presentation in a meeting.
Venue of meeting: It is often seen that formal meetings are taking place in the specific
location which is already pre determined. Most of the formal meetings are taking place in
planned location such as a formal room, office or a place in the organisation. It is necessary
that every individual who will be the part of meeting is given the information about the venue
of the meeting beforehand.
With the help of the above description the different considerations which are required
for a formal meeting can be analysed. It is necessary while conducting a formal meeting that
all the considerations including agenda, dress code, defined roles, venue or location, planning
or successfully done so that the objective of meeting can be attained by the organisation.

Planning and organising a group meeting
Group meeting refers to a family arranged gathering in which two or more than two people
are gathered together in order to reach to a certain decision. It is often seen that the meeting is
taking place in the organisation are predetermined and organised beforehand. An employee
requires to successfully having the skills to conduct meetings which can increase their
employability skills as well. There are a number of different reasons such as personal or
professional interest for which people are gathering for meetings (Ayoubi, Alzarif and
Khalifa, 2017). The purpose of meetings can be to pool or develop certain ideas, solve certain
problem, take decision, create or develop understanding, encourage or motivate others, create
a common purpose or so on. Content, interaction and structure are three major components of
a meeting which are to be kept in mind while developing a plan for meeting. On the other
hand group meeting can be of different times such as informal, problem-solving, making
decision, consulting and so on. In order to successfully plan and prepare for a meeting below
mentioned are the steps that are required to be followed:
 It is required by the chairperson of the meeting to understand the functions that are to
be conducted by them in the meeting (Lim and Ling, 2016). To be contributed by
them before and after the meeting. The first and major requirement is to plan, organise
and also control the decisions or subjects on which the discussions are made in the
meeting. It is necessary that the chairperson is continuously encouraging and
developing relationship with everyone in the group to smoothly conduct the group
meeting.
 There are certain decisions which are to be taken before the meeting is taking place.
These are also conducted by a chairperson which include the purpose of meeting,
meeting the appropriate requirement of the meeting, the plan of meeting, people who
will be attending the meeting, preparation for the required meeting.
 It is necessary to understand the agenda of meeting and outline all the people who will
be attending the meeting. Once decision on the people who will be attending the meeting
is made it is necessary to make sure that the place and time of meeting is decided. Once
the place and time of meeting is decided all the people who are required to attend the
meeting are provided with a notice or communicated about the meeting successfully.
 After everyone is informed about the meeting the required documents or the decisions
which are to be taken in the meeting had to be prepared. It is necessary to make sure that
everyone in the meeting is clear about the agenda of the meeting and also contributing to

the meeting. While the meeting is taking place it is necessary for the chairperson to
clearly communicate the agenda and begin discussion.
 A person is also appointed to take minutes on the meeting which will help in later on
summarising the discussion which have been taking place on the meeting. If any
presentation is required to be delivered during the meeting it is the duty of chairperson
to delegate the duty to the professional who is required to deliver the presentation.
 Once the meeting is conducted it is necessary to document the minute and keep it
safely for any further reference. It is necessary that everyone in the meeting is
provided with equal opportunity to put forward their ideas and be a part of the
discussion. While planning the meeting seating arrangements along-with other
requirements such as stationary are certain additional factors to be kept in mind.
With the help of all the steps that are mentioned above a successful group meeting can be
organised by an employee. It will help in meeting all the agendas and objectives for which
the meeting is conducted along with satisfaction of all the members those who are a part of
meeting.
Job search techniques, recruitment agencies, online job portals.
Job search techniques: Searching for jobs is an important factor for employees. It is required
by employees to have this skill so that they can easily seek for job they require. There are a
number of different techniques for job search which can be adopted by individuals as
mentioned below:
 Job sites: There are a number of different job sites available online on which an
individual can easily learn about different job openings. These job-sites provides an
individual with an idea of different jobs that are available according to their own
profile. Examples can be taken where a business analyst looking for job can simply
get hired in different organisation using various job sites that can provide with the
openings in their area.
 Employers website: One of the other technique for searching a job is visiting the
employer or the company in which an individual requires a job. It is often seen that
there are a number of organisations who are posting about vacancy in their
organisation on their online portals. It can help individual to successfully look for
vacancies in different companies.
 Social networking sites: There are also a number of different social networking sites
that are providing prospective candidates to fill out the job vacancies in different

organisation. LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter are very popular for searching jobs
(Sharma, 2018). One can easily take help from the sites and understand the
requirement of different organisations.
 Off-line networking: It is often seen that a number of jobs are not advertised and they
are successfully filled with reference. It is necessary that an individual is using off-
line networking and making connections with people in corporate world in order to
make sure that they can use their references and attain a job according to their skills
and abilities.
 Newspapers: Newspapers are considered to be an excellent resource while hunting for
job. There are a number of companies who are publishing their openings in the
newspapers and one can easily take help from it in order to attain a successful job.
Recruitment agencies: A recruitment agency is the middlemen who are communicating with
both employer as well as employee. The major aim of a recruitment agency is to help an
employer in order to find and hire talented people in the organisation. It is necessary that a
ride recruitment agency is chosen by a business in order to make sure that all the employees
that are working in the organisation are skilled and capable to perform their job roles
successfully. There are a number of organisations which have in-house recruitment. On the
other hand some of the small organisations that cannot afford in-house recruitment or taking
help from recruitment agencies. Recruitment agencies are successfully providing full support
for employers as well as the jobseekers (Pouratashi and Zamani, 2019). They are looking
towards different job vacancies which are available and the best suitable candidate who can
fit all the criteria for the job. There are a number of different feedback received on the
application in order to improve an individual which can also be provided by recruitment
agencies in order to make sure that only the best individuals who have all the required skill is
hired. Recruitment agencies also make the process of hiring faster. There are already a
number of people seeking for job available with them and the organisation those have
vacancies do not need to wait for a longer period of time in order to find a suitable candidate.
The specialist knowledge and higher quality of employees are also provided by recruitment
agencies. Their recruitment process professionals already have idea about all the candidates
and they can choose the best fit for the organisation from the available pool of candidates.
Along with this another benefit of recruitment agencies are that they also provide with
temporary recruitment and when a company is only hiring an individual for temporary basis
they can take help from recruitment agencies.

Online job portals: Online job portals are the platform which is connecting recruiters as well
as the job seekers. It helps in completing the goals and requirements for both the organisation
and the employee. With the help of this recruiters can look for the right candidate who has the
required qualification in order to handle all the efficiencies required for the job. Job portals
provide individuals with chances to send their job application online with the help of which
proper employees can be selected (Martínez-Cerdá, Torrent-Sellens and González-González,
2020). There are a number of job portals which are providing quality service to both
organisations and the people looking for job and due to these they are paid. The companies
which are present in job portals are also the best companies as not every company can join
the best job portals. The quality of service which is provided by the job portal is helping in
satisfaction for both the job seeker and recruiter. The process of registration in a online job
portal is also very easy and it can be carried out by individuals successfully. The presence of
online job portals can also be seen on social media along with which they only show the
current opening and are always up-to-date with time. Other benefits with job portals are that
they provide with certain training material to the jobseekers which can also help them to
improve their knowledge and skills.
Conclusion
With the help of all the information that is mentioned above it can be concluded that
there are a number of different skills which are required by individual in order to successfully
work in their job. Along with developing their own skills and individual also need to
understand the importance of communication in an organisation. Often this communication is
done through business meetings and an individual working in an organisation is required to
be knowledgeable about Waze and plans to organise different business meetings. Along with
this there are a number of ways in which an employee who is looking for job can search for
jobs. There are different job searching techniques along with recruitment agencies and online
job portals which provide jobseekers a platform to successfully reach out to the recruiters.
These are beneficial for both organisation and employ as the organisation can achieve skilled
individuals and an unemployed looking for a job can attain a job successfully.

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