Key Skills for Success: University, Workplace & CV Recommendations

This essay identifies six crucial skills—public speaking, assertiveness, problem-solving, stress management, collaboration, and writing—necessary for success in both university and professional settings. It details how each skill contributes to academic performance and workplace effectiveness, emphasizing their role in communication, teamwork, and personal well-being. Furthermore, the essay provides six recommendations for students to enhance their CVs, including using powerful language, crafting a compelling personal statement, avoiding clichés, incorporating statistics, ensuring clear presentation, and highlighting personal growth. The report concludes that mastering these skills and refining one's CV are essential for navigating the competitive landscape and achieving career goals, especially with resources available on platforms like Desklib to aid student development.

INDIVIDUAL ESSAY
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Six skills that are required at university and the way they are important at workplace..............1
Six recommendation that can helps student in improving the content of their CV's...................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTION
Skills are the abilities and talent within an individual which helps them in order t
complete their job or tasks in most appropriate manner. There are various kinds of skills that can
help each person to achieve success at all aspects of their life whether in its personal as well as
in professional way. These are most crucial and vital element which makes each person more
confident and independent in their life (Acemoglu and Restrepo, 2020). It depends on individual
learnability to perform an action with discovered results with good and proper execution within
specific amount of time frame along with full energy. This report will describe six most
important skills that students require to become successful at university and also important at
workplace. Apart from this, the study will also highlight six recommendations that could enable
the student to improve their content within their resume.
MAIN BODY
Six skills that are required at university and the way they are important at workplace
In the day to day life, the development of skills and talent help students as well as
professionals to identify new ways of thinking along with problem solving behaviour. At student
level, tutors are the ones who recognise the skills among individuals and take actions
accordingly in order to make them responsible for the tasks that they are going to present at
student level as well as make them efficient for professional level (Zhu, 2018). They are the ones
who can able to generate confidence within them and thus generate or even exaggerate
numerous skills which will help them to achieve their life goals in their future terms. From
various studies, 6 skills that are identified as most crucial and significant skills for the students
ans well as for professionals are:
1. Public speaking: Whether giving presentations at college level or giving it in a team
meetings within an organization, public speaking is highly important activity or skill for
an individual. More or less, everyone has to speak in public from time to time manner.
Public speaking enables an individual to form a connection, motivate alteration along
with determine decisions. It is most important form of communication for students and
professionals both. With the help of public speaking, student will enable to share their
understanding and knowledge in front of other students as well as their tutors which
makes them realise the drawbacks in their understanding and thus the teachers are able to
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take necessary actions. Once the effective skill of public speaking generated, they are
able to motivate their listeners with effectual presentations at their workplace and share
their intentions or plans in order to complete certain assignments in appropriate manner
(Sharma, Guha and Sharma, 2018). Thus, it is important to communicate effectively as
they give an ability to convey information in a way that the listeners are able to
understand appropriately.
2. Assertiveness skills: It is a quality of being self assured and confident without losing the
patience level or without being aggressive. With the help of learning new skills the
person is able to enhance their understanding related to the world around them.
Assertiveness will enables the student or even a professional people to speak out their
mind in without any fear or blunt manner but not in rude way (Ahmed, Fakhry and Saad,
2019). There is a slight difference lies between rude and blunt way of speaking. Effective
way to communicate with others are highly significant in this modern world in order to
achieve success in their academic as well s professional career. Assertiveness will help
individuals to control stress level, anger and coping their skills in fruitful way. It explains
speaking out in a way through which expressions transform effectively along with
respecting rights and beliefs or others.
3. Problem solving: Students faces numerous unexpected problems and challenges in their
academic career and receive no solution in order to overcoming from them. With the
involvement of problem solving ability, they are able to solve challenges in creative
ways and to identify solutions to issue with no pre defined solution. At the students age,
the person is able to enhance their problem solving abilities by enrolling in activities that
utilises experiential learning rather than theoretical memorization (Gabrys, Arlene and
Lesgold, 2020). Effective problem solving helps the professionals to become creative,
logical, imaginative, determinant and lateral thinker at their work place. Thus, it is vital
skill for one's personal as well as professional life.
4. Stress management: Stress management skill among students are highly important as it
leads to depression and anxiety issues if left unaddressed. These situations can result in
worsening grades and loss of confidence among students. While these activities may
continue for longer duration and also affects at professional life as well. Such as reduced
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stress management skills refers to narrow down the abilities to think clearly and manage
the stress makes them happier and positive towards their work at office premises. Stress
is one of the major cause of absenteeism within the organization (Sasirekha and Suresh,
2020).
5. Collaboration: It has been identified that the team work is highly beneficial at all stages
of an individuals whether at academic terms for the student or for the people who are
working within an organization. It helps to complete the task or assignment in proper and
efficient manner as it includes division of work among various individuals according to
their talent and abilities (Da Fonte and Barton-Arwood, 2017). Collaboration helps to
build and maintain relationship among team mates as all people are doing work towards
the achievement of common goal of the organization.
6. Writing: With the help of improvement in writing abilities, one can able to enhance their
communication with the world. Having clear and specific writing skills helps an
individual to list out thoughts in more creative and logical manner. Writing skill is the
basic and primary vital ability that a student have within them as it helps them to makes
their thinking and learning visible in front of others. While at the professional workplace
as well, writing skills plays an important role to be persuasive and communicative with
friends and colleagues (Hoffman, 2019). It enables each individual to improve their focus
and connects with others in most efficient manner along with enhancement of cognition,
vision and creativity.
Six recommendation that can helps student in improving the content of their CV's
Curriculum vitae is document that contain personal detail or information pertaining to
skills, education or qualification and experienced that individual has and the way it will be
fruitful in getting better employment opportunities. Therefore, it is one two page documents that
has complete information related to whole course of career so that employers can take correct
decision to recruit particular individual within the firm (Pardo-Garcia and Barac, 2020). So, six
recommendation that helps student in improving the content of their CV's can be explained in
detailed as follows;
1. Use of power language or words: The student must make use of powerful language and
appropriate use of words in the CV in order to attract the attentions of the employer.
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Likewise, student may make use of words such as innovative, achieved, adaptable to
make CV better. Moreover, the student must use language that is easily understood by
the recruiter or employer so that it can take right decision to recruit the particular
candidate in the firm. Therefore, it can be stated that good language contributes in
motivating the recruiters to select the right candidate from other individual.
2. Summary or personal statement: Another point that needs to be kept in mind of student
related to adding the content in the CV is including the summary or personalized
statement. It will highlight level of experience, the strongest skills, qualities and
knowledge present in particular individual. Furthermore, it summarized more points
pertaining roles and responsibilities in which individual can perform for growth and
development of company. Likewise, it should include its strength and the way it will be
useful for company in achieve its objectives (Wan and Niu, 2018). So, presenting all
crucial points or characteristics related to person helps in taking right decision to select
particular candidate within the firm.
3. Avoid making use of cliches: Moreover, it can be stated that the student must try to avoid
making use of cliches or words repeatedly as it result in making the recruiters irritated.
Likewise, it has been observed that most of the student make use of words like hard-
working, fast learner, good communication skills, enthusiastic and experienced. But all
these do not add any crucial information to the CV. So the student instead of just staying
them should try to put the evidence that who your communication skills is good or the
way you are high enthusiastic and have experience in particular professional career. In
addition to this the student also needs not have to include words such as marital status,
gender and nationality related information on the CV. As they are considered invaluable
for the recruiters because as per the law it should not take decision to select potential
candidate on all this basis (Patel, Kakuste and Eirinaki, 2017). Thereby, all these
informations only result in filling up the gap or poor CV.
4. Make use of statics and numerical: Fourthly the student in order to improve their content
present in CV must focus on making use of numerical and statistical achievements. As
they act as evidence pertaining to the achievements that has been made by individual in
its professional career. They help in demonstrating the level of success that has been
achieved by individual through performing its roles and the way it impacts on operations.
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Therefore, the human resource manager while taking decision related to selection of
individual analysis its achievements that it have attained in its previous career and the
way it can be fruitful for future growth and development of company.
5. Tide it up: At the same time, it can be suggested that the student should also emphasis on
presentation of content so that it can be easily understood by the employers, who is
planning to recruit it within the firm. Such as try to avoid making use of long paragraphs
as it result in losing the attentions of the recruiter. Therefore, the student must break
information into different section with appropriate heading so that the employer may get
detailed about the candidate easily or within limited time frame (Dowling-Hetherington,
and Glowatz, 2017). Student may also make use of Italic, bold and underline but don't
make it much creative, along with it the CV should not have font size less than 10. So
that all the content can be visible and understand by the employer in appropriate manner.
6. Highlight the changes and growth: The another suggestion pertaining to improving the
content of CV for student is to highlight crucial points related to changes and growth that
person has achieved in its previous years. The way its roles and responsibilities have
changed, it has accomplished the desired goals through devoting more time and efforts.
As it result in leaving a good impression on the recruiter as it get to know about all the
things or achievements that has been made by the candidate in future circumstances.
Furthermore, the way it is highly committed and dedicated toward its duties and
responsibilities and will fruitful for respective organization (Succi and Canovi, 2020).
CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be concluded that there is high competition in
external environment so individual must have sufficient skills and capabilities to complete the
task in effective manner. Furthermore, problem solving, team working, assertiveness, writing,
public speaking and stress management are six skills that has to be present in the student to be
successful at university. All these are also important in workplace as it helps individuals in
completing their respective task in effective manner. Such as problem solving capabilities helps
individuals in easily resolve the problem or major issue face by company, or the way to work
with diverse range of people in team. At last, it can be concluded that student through abiding to
all the above recommendation can improve its content present in the CV and get employment
opportunities as desired for higher growth and success in future circumstances.
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