Effective Study Skills for Higher Education and Career Goals

This report identifies and discusses ten key study skills crucial for students in higher education, particularly within a business management foundation year course. These skills, ranging from reading and writing to note-making, research, communication, problem-solving, teamwork, leadership, and adaptability, are presented as essential tools for academic success and future career development. The report emphasizes the importance of these skills in enhancing learning efficiency, fostering self-improvement, and building professionalism. It concludes that mastering these study skills requires dedication and contributes significantly to a student's overall success in college and beyond, highlighting their role in developing well-rounded, capable individuals prepared for the challenges of the professional world. Desklib provides a platform to access this and many other solved assignments.

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Contents
Study skills of higher education.......................................................................................................1
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INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Identify 10 key skills which are mostly taught in the course and help the students to succeed in
their career.......................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
Books and journals......................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
Study skills are the abilities that every student utilise that to learn efficiently, no matter about the
field of a topic. All the scholars have that which is all about self-discovery, self-improvement,
self-purification and effective use. This skill will apart from being aids in college, but will also
assist for the success in life. Better study skills can boost the trust, ability, and respect. This file
is all about key skills which are very common and business management has been chosen as the
foundation year course which is being taught very efficiently to accomplish best results in all the
assignments and achieve good marks in the exams (Ichsan, Sigit and Miarsyah, 2019).
Identify 10 key skills which are mostly taught in the course and help the
students to succeed in their career.
This will help in developing all types of abilities that will utilise which is related to the career.
Mostly all the skills will come from educational incidents and some can increase with proper
understanding like traineeships, international studies and projects referred to as flexible ability.
Some skills will be grown and applied throughout the work. These are the base of
professionalism succeed, and it may be the most helpful ability that workers want for potential
workers. Whether persons are accomplishing training or doing half time, utilise a period to grow
these important capabilities. Complete this with general skills and attitude which are important
for an achievable performance. These are important capabilities for employment as these abilities
are the one which will make a person victorious in the job, whatever job a person is doing
(Sekarwinahyu, Rustaman and Widodo, 2019). Sometimes they are referred to as moveable
abilities because this will grow them double periodically and move with them as their progress in
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the career and think of it as their visa to succeeding for the future. They need to utilise their
professionalism understanding to provide proof of these capabilities.
Reading: This skill is all about learning about the things who overcomes hurdles aids inspiring
everyone to meet their objectives. The more they interact with the role and the more they seek
experience, the more likely they are available to take action. It aids students in many things to
make it important not only of the worldwide around everything but also with all individuals,
making community-emotional skills and obviously an interest. Reading reveals students to other
forms, words, genres, and other forms of written things. This skill is obtained from reading, like
comprehension, flow, and freedom. In case of business management, this skill gives people the
capability to give a clear definition of keywords on a paper (Iivari, Sharma and Ventä-Olkkonen,
2020). These skills are essential because we learn something in a certain way every day. It is an
essential part of this time of life.
Writing: Writing is an important kind of skill that permits a student to express the importance, be
satisfied, and talking with all companions and colleagues. Being capable to spread what they say
fast and effectively will do all the comparisons in their capability to see a satisfying and
successful related to the academics. Writing is the basic foundation on which human reading and
wisdom will be concluded. In case of business management, the capability to write provides
them with the capability to speak and to think. It also enhances their capability to articulate and
improve the views of others and self. This skill is a beneficial part of communication. Writing
skills are particular skills that assist the author to articulate their ideas. In words in a logical way
and psychological communication with the message, there are different meanings of writing
described by different people.
Note making: If students are making notes carefully in the class, this will help them to
concentrate and fully appreciate all the basic things of all lessons. Proper writing skills also
increase their way of writing, confinement, and listening while helping students to better
remember what they see and hear. Making good notes in class is an important part of the success
of college courses (Lambrechts, Van Liedekerke and Van Petegem, 2018). Taking notes actively
during the class can help you to concentrate and better understand the main points. Taking good
notes will improve your busy listening, critical comprehension, and detainment. Making a note
force students to pay attention and helps them to concentrate on the classroom or while reading a
textbook. In context to business management, it helps them to learn and reading research has
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shown that be busy actively with the part by listening and summarizing what students are hearing
assist them to understand and learn the whole data afterwards. Making notes is an ability that a
student can utilise and continuously to filter throughout their work. These good notes will aid
them to learn beneficial information, put tasks first and create records of important ideas that
students can look back to as they need them (Colvard, Watson and Park, 2018).
Research: Research a skill means the capability to search, find, taking out, edit, check and
utilises or current data which is perfect to a specific part. Educational research is a form of
research which is a systematic study of how to work in a particular field of study. In relation to
business management, research skills are important for employers because they aids the
company to develop new products or services, recognise the requirement and wants of their
consumers, increase their performance and compete in their markets.
Academic: A dedication to achieving more during the time of class. Openness in learning new
concepts. Improving good reading and writing ways. Seek professional help if a student need it.
In case of business management, Academic excellence is the degree to which a scholar, teacher
achieves their short-term or long-term academic objectives. Completion of academic benchmarks
such as school diplomas and bachelors show the academic achievement (Broadbent, Panadero
and Boud, 2018).
Communication: It involves hearing, word and expressing. Workers want to view that are able
to express their beliefs and schemes distinctly and efficiently. Being sympathetic refers to the
attempt to recognise the emotions of other people for constructing a powerful relation and
solving all the fights. In case of business management, having strong resources for this skill in all
features of life from professionalism of lives to the own life and everything in between. Better
communication skills are very important to permit everyone and make understand all information
more perfectly and very fast. Proper communication can assist someone to solve many problems
and answer all issues (Yavuz and Arslan, 2018). This is the cause in which one should be
capable to talk in a well manner. This skill is important to grow the capability to talk or
connected with every individual. And capable in sharing all thoughts and reaching out to others.
Problem solving: Challenges will rise in all the jobs everyone has which results in arising many
issues. Everyone wants to be able to analyse the problems, making better decisive abilities and
solving all issues. This skill permits to see workers who are well-versed in managing whatever
their job flips at them. Problem solvers can look, judge, and react fast when problems arise when
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they do it naturally. In case of business management, managers with the abilities of solving all
the issues that has the capabilities to motivate, dare and motivate others to carry on with the
chase of outstanding issues and to create innovative answers to sustain organizational
development and upcoming succeeding (Kurt, 2017).
Teamwork: Mostly positions need to perform the entire task with everyone and respecting each
other, whether they are associates or consumers. Workers are looking for the person who can
establish a good part in other people. This skill will assist to answer hard issues. It is a best
chance for a team to change concepts and fall about the best innovative methods to do all tasks.
When doing tasks with each other, teams can search answers that work very well. In case of
business management, teamwork skills are qualities and abilities that permit everyone to interact
well with others during discussions, tasks, meetings or other interactions. Being able to work as a
team is interdependent on the capability to talk in a better manner, to hear everything actively
and to be responsible and loyal (Monari, 2020).
Leadership: Through interpersonal ability, leadership to train and develop others. With the
addition of this, a person can utilise ability of working together to fill courage, arrange,
precedence and allocate the job. Leadership is an important part that assists to straight an
industrial asset to increase effectively and accomplishment of all objectives (Voitovska and
Tolochko, 2018). Efficient leaders give transparency of motive, inspire and lead the firm to
achieve its goal. In case of business management, main motive of this skill is to inspire others
and encouraging other people for different tasks which is an essential part and a part of inspiring
the workers which are good for the company and do more best for their firm. Leadership is an
essential skill because it chooses a clear view and talks very efficiently with their subordinates. A
clear view provides them a better chance of organizational path and also realizing their character
and importance.
Adaptability: This is related to adapting a new situation. It is essential for workers to be capable
of altering strategies and modify to fresh ideas for being a successful person. Properly
concentrating on these important abilities results in the sale of additional posts and, possibly,
increment in wages. Many workers will query ethical things during the interview to assess the
capability to exercise these abilities. Making the most of vocational task by watching for all the
chances for continuous improvement and interaction. In case of business management, if they are
looking for various chances to begin the growth of skills and get more information on the
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preferred job, stoppage by Career Services to get out, or arrange a meeting. This skill will help in
the increment of capabilities to hold an interchange, regardless how serious the thing it is, but
there is an ability to handle (Tee, 2018). Alternatively, wasting the time effecting to alter the
whole situation, it will change everyone internally, thus succeeding in whatever problem a
person can find themselves from inside.
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CONCLUSION
It is concluded from the above report is that the importance of study skills is to aid students in
growing a procedure of learning. This will need a great time and importance for the student to
achieve school success. Objectives: This will assist in designing and aid students to grow and use
study skills that will assist them to become a successful students.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Ichsan, I. Z., Sigit, D. V. and Miarsyah, M., 2019. Students’ higher order thinking skills in
environmental learning: develop assessment based on green consumerism. Journal of
Educational Science and Technology (EST), 5(1), pp.9-19.
Sekarwinahyu, M., Rustaman, N. Y. and Widodo, A., 2019, November. Problem-based learning
skills and reflection skills of biology education students through the problem-based online
tutorial. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 1280, No. 3, p. 032004). IOP Publishing.
Yavuz, O. and Arslan, A., 2018. Cooperative Learning in Acquisition of the English Language
Skills. European journal of educational research, 7(3), pp.591-600.
Kurt, G., 2017. Implementing the flipped classroom in teacher education: Evidence from
Turkey. Journal of Educational Technology & Society, 20(1), pp.211-221.
Monari, J. M., 2020. Higher Order Questions for Higher Order Thinking Skills. International
Journal of Education and Research, 8, pp.1-8.
Voitovska, O. and Tolochko, S., 2018. Modern trends in the development of the US teachers’
skills in the system of postgraduate pedagogical education.
Iivari, N., Sharma, S. and Ventä-Olkkonen, L., 2020. Digital transformation of everyday life–
How COVID-19 pandemic transformed the basic education of the young generation and why
information management research should care?. International Journal of Information
Management, 55, p.102183.
Tee, W. J., 2018. Project-Based Learning for Building Work and Life Skills in Line With TGC
and Purpose Learning. In Preparing the next generation of teachers for 21st century
education (pp. 109-125). IGI Global.
Lambrechts, W., Van Liedekerke, L. and Van Petegem, P., 2018. Higher education for
sustainable development in Flanders: balancing between normative and transformative
approaches. Environmental Education Research, 24(9), pp.1284-1300.
Colvard, N. B., Watson, C. E. and Park, H., 2018. The impact of open educational resources on
various student success metrics. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher
Education, 30(2), pp.262-276.
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Broadbent, J., Panadero, E. and Boud, D., 2018. Implementing summative assessment with a
formative flavour: A case study in a large class. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher
Education, 43(2), pp.307-322.
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