Professionalism Presentation: Communication, Skills & Employment

This presentation delves into the significance of communication skills in both academic and professional settings, highlighting their crucial role in securing employment and fostering effective interactions. It emphasizes how strong communication abilities enable individuals to articulate ideas, understand others, and influence outcomes. The presentation further explores various graduate employment opportunities, emphasizing the importance of skills like creativity, problem-solving, and time management in navigating the evolving job market. It also evaluates resources useful for academic and employment purposes, and stresses the impact of technology on job roles. The presentation concludes by summarizing the key takeaways, reinforcing the vital connection between communication, professional skills, and future career success. References to academic sources and journals are also provided.

Professionalism
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................3
LO 1...................................................................................................................................3
Effective communication skills applicable to academic and professional context.........3
LO 3...................................................................................................................................4
Evaluation of resources for academic and employment related purposes....................4
LO 4...................................................................................................................................4
Graduate employment opportunities in the future..........................................................4
CONCLUSION...................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES..................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTION
This presentation is going to show importance of communication skills in getting
employment opportunities and interacting with others and make them influence. It will
also show several graduate employment opportunities which people can take by
increasing creativity, communication and other skills.
LO 1
Effective communication skills applicable to academic and professional context
Communication skills refers ability to communicate exchanging different types of
informations in an efficient manner. To understand informations and views of others as
well as make listener understand about own views shows an effective communication
skill. It plays an important role in all fields and specially in professional context.
Having an effective skill for educators is vital as it can help them out in teaching
to young learners. Teaching to young learners is quite difficult which requires to have
patience and with the help of listening skills, verbal and non-verbal skills, an educator or
professional can provide excellent teaching services to learners. In other profession and
job role, communication skills play an important role. For example: A marketing
manager is mainly responsible for attracting wider range of customers by influencing
them about company's products. They require to make them aware about products'
features and for this purpose, they require to have an effective influencing and
communication skills. The way of talking, the way of listening customer's queries make
them able to accomplish their goals.
It can also be said that communication skills is not only limited or associated with
speaking and listening but it is all about body language, facial expression, gestures etc.
All these factors plays an important role as it helps an individual to improve its
communication skill and make them able to talk and listen efficiently. Tone of voice,
pitch is important for educator to keep in mind while teaching and speaking to children.
An educator or other professionals require to use all those words which have pleasing
sound and can make listener influenced and respected.
Importance of communication skills: An individual or professionals constantly
interact with other people and express their views. For making listener understand that
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what a speaker want to say, it is important to have communication skills. Lack of
communication skills, tone of voice can decrease relationship between employers and
employees. Misunderstanding sometimes become the reason of conflicts and poor
products quality which can create other several problems. So, it can be said that
communication skill is essential in academic and professional context.
LO 3
Evaluation of resources for academic and employment related purposes
Covered in PPT
LO 4
Graduate employment opportunities in the future
An individual can get several employment opportunities in required field if he/she
has knowledge and different skills such as communication, problem solving, decision-
making, time-management, team working. There are several opportunities available in
the future for graduate people whcih have different skills.
In addition, for the future employment opportunities, it can also be said that
technology is giving new career path to people. On the other hand, with increasing use
of technology, it has disappeared some jobs or replaced human resources with
machines. But if an individual have effective professional, creativity, critical thinking,
interdisciplinary and mental elasticity skills then he/she can get effective employment
opportunities like he/she can get job in marketing field, educators, HR manager etc.
Technology has give birth to new industries which is increasing competition and for
competing with other companies, organization are searching employees who have
effective creativity and communication skills. There are several reasons which shows
importance of skills in getting employment opportunities in the future as well as some
job opportunities such as:
Land a job: Communication and creativity skills can help an individual land an
interview and getting that job. In the interview process, interviewer identify whether
interviewee have ability to articulate all knowledge which he/she posses or not. With the
help of communication and creativity and by giving all answers, an individual can get
employment opportunities. After selecting in the first interview process, employees
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require to prove themselves their worth everyday by interacting with customers,
colleagues and manager. On the other hand, creativity skills help them out in performing
activities in an efficient manner and improve their productivity.
Meet employer's need: It is one of the important factor which companies
consider while employing people at job. For an individual and graduate people, it is
important to have all those skills by which they can satisfy needs of customers as
satisfied customers are the key of the success of the business. With the help of problem
solving, communication and creativity skills, an employee can make her/himself prove
that he /she has ability to get promotion and desired job in the future.
So, from the above it can be said that with having skills and knowledge an individual
can get employment opportunities in the future.
CONCLUSION
From the above presentation it has been summarized that communication and
other skills played a vital role in getting employment opportunities in the future.
Communication, creativity and other skills makes an individual able to perform activities
efficiently and prove his/her worth. It has also shown some resources by which people
find out academic and employment opportunities.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Alsabbah, M.Y., Malaysia, U.S. and Malaysia, U.S., 2018. The Influence of Training
System on Employees’ Hard Skills in the Palestinian National Authority. Open
Access Library Journal. 5(01). p.1.
Arnold, E.C. and Boggs, K.U., 2019. Interpersonal Relationships E-Book: Professional
Communication Skills for Nurses. Elsevier Health Sciences.
Burke, C. and Scurry, T., 2019. Graduate Resilience: A review of the literature and
future research agenda. SRHE Research Awards.
Heang, L.T. and et.al., 2019. University Education and Employment Challenges: An
Evaluation of Fresh Accounting Graduates in Malaysia. INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC RESEARCH IN BUSINESS AND SOCIAL
SCIENCES. 9(9).
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