Professional Development Assignment: CV, Skills, and Time Management

This assignment delves into various aspects of professional development, offering a comprehensive overview of essential skills and concepts. It begins with an exploration of core components like CVs and cover letters, emphasizing their significance in the job application process. The assignment then addresses academic integrity and writing, highlighting the importance of ethical conduct and scholarly communication. It also examines constructive learning experiences, online resources for employment, and the crucial skills required for securing employment, including communication, problem-solving, and time management. Furthermore, the assignment covers referencing, SWOT analysis, plagiarism, and effective presentation techniques, providing a well-rounded understanding of professional development strategies. The document concludes with a list of references and related books and journals for further study and research.

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Lecturer
1. C.V –
This means curriculum vitie, that is a document which is prepared by someone’s to tell the
qualifications and apply for employment. It works as resume and provide all detail and
information regarding a person. This should not be lengthy by involving all important
information that are required to get job.
2. Cover Letter
This is a letter of application and document which is send along with resume to provide
additional information regarding skills and experience to an employer. This letter intended to
provide letter of information that helps to get a job accordingly. This also provide detailed for
applying a job opportunities.
3. Academic integrity
It is consider as moral code and ethical policy of academics. This helps to maintain the
ethics in people behaviour by involving values such as plagiarism, avoidance of cheating,
maintenance of academic standards, honesty and rigor in research. This complete assignments on
given time by using skills and talents.
4. Academic writing
This is scholarly writing that is nonfiction writing that is produced as part of academic
work. It is consider as report on university research which are produced by university students.
This writing uses to scholar analyse culture and purposes that helps to maintain new theories and
working styles.
5. Constructive things learned in first semester
This means skills and knowledge which is getting by individuals and group of people in
order to improve their learning and face the challenges which arises while reading. The meaning
of constructive thing is developing of new ideas and thoughts. As I was in first semester I started
to focus on my learning and skills that become constructive for go ahead.
6. Online sources which can support students in employment process
In current environment, technology is becoming a part of human life that helps them to
live their life by working online. People who have knowledge and skills can use online sources
to complete the process of employment. Such as Linkdin, Facebook, Naukri.com, company.s
websites etc. are consider as online sources that uses in employment process.
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7. Major skills required to be employment
Skills and competencies are important for all person that are uses to get employment as
they wants. This increases the people learning and get them chances to work effectively. For
employment qualification, communication, problems solving skills, interpersonal skills,
management skills, leadership, time management and others related field skills are important that
can help to perform the job responsibilities and increase the workings.
8. Referencing and its importance
This refers as knowledge that contributed by other scholars and researchers in their work.
This states that which writer has written about particular topics and uses as citations by others. in
other words, it is the way that provide evidence to support the assertions and claim in
assignment. This is important to conduct proper research and get information about writters and
give credit to such scholars.
9. SWOT Analysis
This is a tool which is used by organisation and individual to get their strength, weakness,
opportunities and threats. For organisation it is required to analysis the internal environment so
all business activities can be maintain properly. By using this, a person bring ideas and
innovation to overcome threats and weakness then convert in opportunities. This helps to
increase the organisational productivity and profitability by conducting proper research and
collecting information.
10. Time management
Time management depicts as process of planning and organisation the activities which is
required to person every place. According to this, all activities and working should be complete
in certain period of time so organisation and people can get benefits of it. In other words, an
activities that covers time spent on specific task for the purpose of increasing productivity,
profitability and maintaining efficiency. For instance, whenever a person is going to introduce
something then it is require to follow time management process so all activities can be complete
in ceratin period of time.
11.Plagiarism
This states as representation of other author language, thoughts, expressions and ideas as
someone’s original. In other words, it is dishonesty activity which is done by some people by
coping other’s text is called plagiarism. Whenever, someone has copied of thoughts, ideas and
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texts for the purpose of representing in front of others in same language is plagiarism that is
unethical activity.
12. What makes a presentation effective
An effective presentation makes the uses of relationship between audience and presenter.
While presenting something it is important to have full knowledge, clearance of topic, proper
language, diagrams and graphs, confidence and proper eye contact that are important to make
good presentation. This attracts audience and encourage to show their interest.
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REFERENCE
Books and journal
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