Professional Development: Employability Skills Report, SWOT & PDP

This report provides a detailed overview of employability skills, emphasizing their importance in personal and professional development. It includes a SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, followed by a personal and professional development plan (PDP) to improve weak skills. The report covers essential skills like communication, time management, and problem-solving, offering actionable steps for improvement and outlining how to measure progress. The conclusion highlights the significance of these skills for career success, supported by references to relevant academic research. This report is designed to help individuals enhance their employability and achieve their professional goals. The student has contributed this assignment to Desklib, a platform that provides AI-based study tools and resources, including past papers and solved assignments, to help students excel in their studies.

Academic and
employability skills

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Table of Content
• Introduction
• Importance of employability skill
• SWOT analysis
• Personal and professional development plan
• Conclusion
• References

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Introduction
• An individual is required
to focus on their personal
and professional skills
well which can help them
to develop their
personality and
recognition within the
society.
• The following presentation
covers the concept of
understanding the personal
and professional skills and
which is essential by an
individual to develop for
their better professional life.

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Importance of employability skill
• Today most of the organisations seek for those
candidates who have combination of these skills.
• Hence, it is essential for me to gain the knowledge
about these entire skills well and work upon my weak
skills to convert them into my strengthening skills.
• Employability skills are those skills which help an
individual to become effective employee of any
organisation.
• There are various kinds of employability skills like
communication skill, time management skill, problem
solving skill and many others

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SWOT analysis
Strengths-
•Presentation skill
•Leadership skill
Weaknesses-
•Time management skill
•Problem solving skill
Opportunities-
•Applying for internships
•Attending events and seminars
Threats-
•Competitors
•COVID pandemic

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Personal and professional development
plan
Skills need to
improve
Actions taken to improve weak skills How a individual get to
know that he/she has
learned the skill
Time limit for
learning the skill
Time
management
skill
It is essential for me to prepare time table which
consist of my daily activities and mentioned time
limit to complete those activities appropriately.
Preparing priority list can also help me to analyse
which work should be done before and which
should be done after.
When I start completing
my entire task on time and
submit all my academic
reports, projects and
assignments on time than
I will consider that I have
learned this skill well.
I need 8 months
to learn this skill.

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Continue...
Skills need to
improve
Actions taken to improve weak skills How a individual get to
know that he/she has
learned the skill
Time limit for
learning the skill
Problem
solving skill
This skill can be learned by solving various kinds
of case studies related to corporate sector. This
will help in analysing the issues well and suggest
a solution to specific business problem mentioned
at the bottom of each case study. Secondly, I get it
checked by my teachers that whether I have given
a good solution to the mentioned problem or not.
When I start
understanding the root of
the issues and make
effective decisions to
mitigate the problem then
I can consider that I have
learned this skill well.
I need 6 months
to learn this
skill. .

From the above information it is concluded that employability skill is essential for an
individual to learn to develop their personal as well as professional life.
Communication skill, time management skill, problem solving skill and many others
are employability skills. SWOT analysis is done to identify the strengths and weakness
of an individual. Whereas PDP is the framework which is used to identify weak skills
and the action plan required to improve these weak skills.
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Conclusion

References
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Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, 9(1), pp.63-88.
•Di Gregorio, A. and et. al., 2019. Employability skills for future marketing professionals. European management
journal, 37(3), pp.251-258.
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perspective. Higher education, skills and work-based learning.
•Benzaghta, M.A. and et. al., 2021. SWOT analysis applications: An integrative literature review. Journal of Global
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•Körkkö, M. and et. al., 2020. Developing teacher in-service education through a professional development plan:
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