University Employability Skills Journal: Career Development Plan

This employability skills journal presents a student's self-assessment and career development plan. It includes three journal entries focusing on self-awareness, sector knowledge, and showcasing skills. The student identifies personal strengths using the Gallup Strengths tool, emphasizing communication and leadership skills. The journal also highlights the importance of networking and commercial awareness within the student's chosen sector. Furthermore, it connects educational degrees with practical workplace challenges. The assignment includes appendices with the student's top five Gallup strengths, evidence of attending project meetings, and a mapping of transferable skills to event and entertainment management roles using the STAR method, providing a comprehensive overview of the student's career development process.

Running head: EMPLOYBILTY SKILLS
Employability Skill
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Notes

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Journal Entry 1: Know Yourself:
As a part of my career building, it is highly essential to evaluate all my personal skills.
This highly essential that every individual is able to build upon their personal career depending
upon individual talent and potential. The Gallup strengths is used as an essential tool to identify
individual strength that can be used as a part of career building process. As an individual is able
to identify their personal potential it is possible for them to utilise the same and work in the
process of dealing with the career improvement.
Hence, this process will help me to know myself better. This will help me to utilise all
my strength, which is in the department of communication. It is important to mention in the
context that communication is one of the essential skill that is needed in the present day
workplace in order to improve personal chance of improvement. This is also highly essential to
develop upon the leadership skill that can help me to improve upon the chance of career
prospect.
Few of the other of my Gallup strengths include the role of developer. Moreover, with the
help of my communication skill it is possible for me to provide proper command to every
workers. I also have the capability to adapt in every situation. This will help me to build upon my
career in diverse kind of workplace environment. My ability to actively complete will definitely
be helpful in the process of quick career development.
Most of the individual who are successful in their respective workplace is mainly due to
their capability to properly use their strength and overcome individual weaknesses. I do strongly
agree upon the fact that proper evaluation of the strength can definitely help me to improve upon

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my self-confidence. It can also encourage me to take up on high level of challenges that are most
likely to occur in the current day business scenarios.
The principle of success in most of the occasions are properly defined by individual strengths. In
the initial stage of career development, it was highly difficult for me to come up with the
workforce challenge. However, as I am able to identify up on my strengths, I was able to bring
about change within my personal career growth.
Journal Entry 2: Know Your Sector:
It is important for me to properly identify all the skills that are required in my respective
sector. Within the sector of networking, it is essential to properly communicate and understand
the opinion of every other colleague. With wide range of personal network it will be also
possible for me to deal with all kind of workplace challenges.
In the context, of the current day business environment, more number of individual
channels can definitely help in the process of dealing with all kind of professional challenges
(Chung et al. 2015).
Commercial awareness is I believe an essential part of developing workplace network. As
I am able to improve upon my awareness level, it is possible for me to identify all my further
potentials. These are also important in the context of getting the latest information related to the
workplace. The career developing network is also necessary to improve upon chance to get better
career development options of the future (Ebbers 2014)
Journal Entry 3: Let them know you

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It is highly important for me to make proper use of the educational degree at the
workplace. This is in context with the fact that the knowledge and skill that I have inherited
within the education degree program will help in the process of dealing with all kind of career
challenges.
The management skills set that is needed as a part of career building process will help
within the process of understanding the specific requirement for each kind of task (Dymond et
al. 2013). The communication skill need to be properly utilised in order to ensure that there is no
misconceptions within the workplace related to the mission and vision of the task. With the help
of communication skill, I can also send a clear message of my personal career development.
Improved level of self-awareness can help me to make proper use of all personal strengths. I can
also identify my personal weakness as I am able to communicate properly with all my working
colleagues.
It is also important to mention that theoretical degree program cannot be effective to deal
with the practical challenges that I am a face within the workplace. Hence, with high level of
personal Awareness it is highly possible to properly deal with all kinds of challenges of critical
situation that are likely within the workplace.

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Reference
Chung, H.F., Yang, Z. and Huang, P.H., 2015. How does organizational learning matter in
strategic business performance? The contingency role of guanxi networking. Journal of Business
Research, 68(6), pp.1216-1224.
Dymond, S.K., Renzaglia, A. and Hutchins, M., 2014. Career development: An experiential
model for developing basic work skills and employment preferences. The road ahead:
Transition to adult life for persons with disabilities, pp.107-136.
Ebbers, J.J., 2014. Networking behavior and contracting relationships among entrepreneurs in
business incubators. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 38(5), pp.1159-1181.

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Appendices
A) A list of top 5 Gallup strengths
 Communication
 Networking
 Self-awareness
 Critical Thinking
 Gathering Vital information

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B) Evidence of attending two events
Project Team Meeting
Deciding on Communication Plan
Venue: Metro Plaza (Manchester City)
Date: 30th November 2017
Time: 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Phone: [phone]
Business Communication Plan
Meeting
Venue: Community Hall (London)
Date: 1st December 2017
Time: 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Ph.: [phone]

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C) Select and map 6 transferable skills to the essential skills required for a job in event and
entertainment management job using the STAR method
CW1 Star Method
Skills
Situation Tasks Actions Results Further,
Development
Required
adding to
PDP
Self-awareness Internship
program
Execution
communication
plan
Social Media
Plan
Organization
was able to
improve the
communication
network
Need to decide
upon the future
communication
plan
Interpersonal skills I was able to
communicate
with wide
range of
people
Verbal and
digital forms
of
communication
Use of the
technology as a
part of the
communication
I was able to
develop upon
the
interpersonal
skills
Need to held
regular
meetings with
the official
staffs
Leadership skills I was asked
to lead a
team of
project
management
Assigning
tasks for each
individual in
the team
Evaluation of
weakness and
strength
Effective team
work was done
Holding
regular
meetings with
the team
members
Team working,
collaboration and co-
operation
The project
team was
assigned
with some
particular
tasks
Improving the
communication
and
networking
plan
Use of the
technology for
the social
media plan
Improved
network that
are formed
from the
communication
Improving the
infrastructure
of technology
for better level
of digital
communication

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Business
communication
Holding of
regular
meeting
Use of the
communication
strategies of
communication
Use of
effective
communication
strategies that
uses the
technology
Improved
client network
Use of the
advanced
technology as a
part of the
advanced
business
network
Negotiating/
influencing
NA NA NA NA NA