Employability Skills: Self-Assessment for Career Success and Planning

This essay discusses the importance of employability skills for career success, focusing on identifying a desired career path and conducting a SWOT analysis. The author aims to start an online luxury curtains and blinds business, highlighting the need for interpersonal and time management skills. The author identifies strengths like self-confidence and product knowledge, and weaknesses in interpersonal skills and time management. Opportunities include enhancing communication skills through customer interaction, while threats involve effective time management. Tools like note-taking software are used to improve time management. The essay concludes that employability skills are essential for enhancing individual performance and increasing the chances of securing the desired job. Desklib provides past papers and solved assignments for students looking to further enhance their understanding.

EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS

INTRODUCTION
The employability skills is defined as the kind of skills and capabilities
required by an individual in order to be successful at the workplace, also
it is the kind of skills required in order get the desired job at the desired
place.

WHAT JOB YOU WILL WANT TO DO
I have analysed that as a career path I want to start my own production and online sale of
Luxury curtains and blinds as I have analysed that in order to grow and develop in the future it
is very essential to have clear and well defined career path, having a clear business idea will
help me to have clarity of my career goals and the strategy needed to be followed by me in
order to achieve my career path. Also the skills required by me in order to achieve this career
goal effectively and efficiently, with increasing number of competition in the job market starting
my own production and online sale will be the best career option for me also with increasing
use of various online platforms I will be able to grow my business among the target customers
effectively.

SKILLS REQUIRED
• Interpersonal skills
• Communication skills
• Time management skills
• Team management

MY SKILLS
• Self confidence
• Product knowledge
• Leadership skills

SWOT Analysis
Strengths: -
• Confidence: - My biggest strength is that I has good level of self-confidence and is
the most necessary thing required for every career. As I am aiming to start a
production and sales business on online basis, my self-confidence would help me a
lot. Through this, I would be able to explain about my product in a more efficient
way to customers.
• Product knowledge: - Another effective strength which I had was the product
knowledge. I was having good knowledge regarding luxury curtains which was
beneficial for me in starting my new career in that. If any person ask about the idea
of my business then I am able to give full and efficient information regarding that.

Weaknesses: -
• Interpersonal skills: - It is a weakness of me as I am not much effective in active listening. In
terms of establishing a new business, it is essential that we efficiently access what are the
needs of consumers and what kind of product they should be offered. On the basis of it, it
became very important for me to improve my interpersonal skills so that in future I can start
my business in a positive way.
• Time management: - During my career, managing the time was the major weakness about me.
As I am planning to start a new business in production and sales, it was important for me to
properly manage the time in order to increase both productivity and sales.
Opportunities: -
• There are several opportunities that an individual gets in terms of starting a new business. One
of the biggest opportunity for me was to enhance my communication and interpersonal skills
while interacting with large number of customers. So, while starting up a new business of
online production and sales, it was an efficient chance for me to communicate with public in a
positive way.

Threats:
Time management tools
• While starting any new business, time management is the main strength which is essential for
everyone. My aim was always on to do online production business and for this I need to have
effective time management skills. I used different tools which helped me in building up my
career. I always used the help of note taking software as it was very much beneficial for me in
fulfilling my aim. As managing the time is very much important so with the help of one note
software, I can tag the crucial data and information for follow up.

Analysation of employability skills
In terms of building up my career aspects, I analysed that I have effective
employability skills in terms of leadership, team work and so on. Due to such
abilities, I was getting more positive with respect to my career goal. It is
significant for me to make the usage of good tools and techniques so that it can
help me in not only building up my career but also increasing the chances of
success in my future business. With the help of note taking software, I was able to
increase my time management skills also as I was doing everything in proper time
period.

Specification of skills
My aim was to start an online production and sales business in the field of luxury
curtains and blinds on the basis of which I need certain skills and I have already
some of them. The most important skills which are needed for this business is
interpersonal and time management skills. The main reason behind this is that in a
business there are many tasks involved so proper balance is required across each
activity. At the same point of time, there are some skills which I already pursues
and these are that I have effective product knowledge and good level of
confidence which help me a lot during my career perspective. To start a new
business, certain skills are required as well as improvements in the current abilities.
As my aim is to start an online production business, several abilities are needed in
order to deal with current competitors.

CONCLUSION
From the above discussion it has been concluded that employability skills
plays an very essential role in enhancing the overall performance of the
individual and also enhancing their chance to get the desired job in the
job market, there are number of employability skills present that can be
taken into consideration by the individual in order to enhance their
capability

REFERENCES
• Alrashed, G.H. and Doblas, M.P., 2019. The Moderating Effect of Socio-
demographic Profile to the Influence of Vocational Training on Employability
Skills among Selected Retail Bank Employees in the Kingdom of Bahrain. IJO-
International Journal of Business Management, 2(09), pp.80-85.
• Brice, A., 2018. How Service-Learning Affects Employability Skills, Empathy,
and Civic-Mindedness of Computer Science Students. Cardinal Stritch
University.
• Courtois, A., 2019. From ‘academic concern’to work readiness: student
mobility, employability and the devaluation of academic capital on the year
abroad. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 40(2), pp.190-206.