Report on Academic and Employability Skills for HR Manager Roles

This report delves into the critical academic and employability skills necessary for personal and professional growth, with a specific focus on the Human Resources (HR) manager role. It begins by defining academic and employability skills, highlighting their importance for career development and organizational success. The report then identifies key skills for HR managers, such as communication, administrative expertise, proactivity, coaching, and time management, emphasizing their significance in recruitment, selection, and employee management. A performance development plan (PDP) is included, outlining strategies to enhance skills like team management, listening, and communication. A SWOT analysis is also presented, evaluating the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to the individual's skills in the context of an HR career. The report concludes by summarizing the importance of academic and employability skills and provides references to relevant literature.

Academic And Employability
Skills

Table of Content
 INTRODUCTION
 Academic and Employability skills.
 Importance of academic skills.
 Importance of employability skills.
 Important Skills for HR manager
 Performance development plan (PDP)
 SWOT Analysis
 CONCLUSION
 REFERNCES:

INTRODUCTION
 Academic and employability skills are very necessary for personal and
professional development of a person. It is very important for an individual that
they should develop and generate important skills so that they can build their
bright future. It can be possible with the help of understanding of academic and
employability skills (Husam and Abraham 2019).

Academic and Employability
skills.
 Academic skills refers to the skills that develop during the stage when a student
continues their academic study. It is the collection of skills in which it includes
time management tools, study habits and learning strategies in order to understand
and learn school lessons.
 Employability skills are the skills which assists in enhancing and increasing the
productivity of the employees in the particular job role. It includes adaptability,
critical thinking, collaboration, written and oral communication, problem solving,
teamwork, etc.

Importance of academic skills.
 It is identified that learning skills are necessary not only for schools or collages
but also for life.
 It assists in increasing of self confidence, self esteem and competence. It helps in
reduction in anxiety.

Importance of employability
skills.
 Employability improves the efficiency of candidate so that they can improve their
performance level at their workplace.
 It is necessary for the success and growth of organisation as well as for employees
(McGunagle and Zizka, 2020). The chances of career growth can rise with the
help of employability skills.

Important Skills for HR
manager
 Communication Skills
 Communication skills are very important for a person as it assist in transferring
the message to other person effectively. It is identified that due to
miscommunication between person they are unable to understand the message. It
creates many conflicts between candidates. So that's why it is very necessary for
an individual that they should make their communication skills effective in order
to remove conflicts between members (Nisha and Rajasekaran, 2018).
 Administrative Expert
 It is the important part of the HR role as they can administrate overall organisation
so that they cannot create any ambiguity between employees. It is analysed that
administrative experts is not an easy skills as it requires lots of knowledge of
organisation and their operations so that they can deal with the employees.

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 Proactivity
 It is not actually a skill as it is more considered in traits. It can be developing
in the long timer when a person can work in that position. It is very necessary for
HR manager as it assists in spotting potential problems. Coaching
 Coaching is very necessary for new employees so that they can understand
their job roles and responsibilities. It is identified that in the organisation, that HR
manager need to provide training and coaching sessions so that they can
understand their duties and perform their best.

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 Time Management Skills
 It is very necessary for every person that they should manage their time
effectively so that they can achieve their objectives with efficiency. Time is very
important as it plays a significant role in the life of people. If the person cannot
understand the value of time, then they are unable to achieve anything.
Listening skills
 It is identified that if a person has not effective listening skills then they are
unable to perform their duty as it cannot understand the motive or purpose of
message.

 All skills are necessary for an individual's career in the HR manager. As HR
manager plays a crucial role in the organisation and it is the only person who
makes strategies in order to recruit and select the best talented employees (Wolff
and Booth, 2017). As I choose HR manager for my career.
 For that purpose, I need to use SWOT analysis tools so that I can know about my
strengths and weakness which assists in analysing the skills that I have already
possess and those which I need to develop. In addition to PDP is also important
for making an action plan that how I can improve and develop news skills which
are necessary for a HR manager.

Performance development
plan (PDP)
Skills Importance of the skill Measures to enhance the skill Time-frame
Team management skills It is vital for a HR Manager to have team management skills
as I have to manage various employees that are part of
organisation. I have to formulate teams and manage them.
Team management skills first of all I will work in teams and try to
understand each and every person's taught. Also I will also
maintain transparency and will encourage my team members so as
to manage the team effectively.
1 month
Listening skills Listening skills are most important inn the role of HR
manager as the person has to listen to all the employees and
to understand them to take further actions.
To improve the listening skills, one of the way is to communicate
with various people. As regular interaction and trying to understand
the people.
15 days
Time management Skills It is important to to manage the time so that all the work is
assigned on time. It helps to achieve the goals and objectives
on time.
By setting a schedule and timelines and working according to
them, time management skills can be improved. Also by working
on time and following the deadlines I can enhance my time
management skills.
45 days
Communication Skills For hiring and recruiting new people communication skills
are important. For understanding the person and
communicating them to the employees.
To enhance communication skills it is important to interact with
people. Also by listening to others and understanding their point of
view is important.
20 days
Problem solving skills There are various problems that arise ion employees and it is
important to solve those problems. A HR manager should
have good problem solving skills.
The best way to solve problem is to empathize both the parties and
treat them equally. By understanding the problem and then taking
actions will enhance the problem solving skills.
25 days

SWOT Analysis
Strength My communication skills are strong and that will help me
interact with employees and understand them. I am punctual which helps me to complete the task on
time and able to manage time and work. It will help me
to achieve my goals and objectives.
Weaknesses My problem solving skills are not strong. I am unable to
solve the conflicts of people. This is a weakness that I am
facing. Another weakness is that I am unable to manage team. As
I have never given opportunity to manage a team.
Opportunities By working more on my communication skills I will be
able to interact effectively. Also by eliminating my weakness by making efforts to
improve them. I will be able to get more career
opportunities. All this will help me to grow in my career.
Threats If I will not work on my weakness and ill not be able to
understand the problem of others and solve them. Then
this will become hindrance in my career. Also it is threat for me if I will not work on my team
management skills how will I become a good HR
manager.