Skills for Higher Education: CV Improvement and Workplace Readiness

This report provides a detailed analysis of the essential skills required for success in higher education, focusing on skills crucial for university and workplace environments. It identifies six key skills: communication, self-care, adaptability, collaboration, critical thinking and problem-solving, and informat...Read More

Skills for higher education

Table of Contents
Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Skills required by students to be successful at University as well as discussion of why it is
essential for workplace...........................................................................................................1
Recommendations that help students to improve content for their CVs................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Study skills are generally termed to be doors skills that are required by students in their
educational life. These are the skills that manage information as well as retain it that could be
beneficial for students in terms of learning their assessments as well as tasks. As study skills
generally consists of reading, speaking, listening and so on. This skill plays an essential function
in carrying out a study as well as education in life of a learner (Garcia-Esteban and Jahnke,
2020). As study skills also supports a student in terms of their building of professional career in
corporate world. This Report is based on study skills for higher education of an individual. This
report includes identification of skills that are required by a learner in order to be successful at
university level as well as how they are essential to be at workplace, conditions which could help
students for improving their content of CV along with its conclusion.
MAIN BODY
Skills required by students to be successful at University as well as discussion of why it is
essential for workplace
As in order to sustain educational life in universities students should be aware of different
skills in an effective way so that they could be able to keep their profiles when effective in
university level along with they could be able to perform their work task with their higher level
of efficiency. As in student’s point of view there are some of his skills which are required by
learners in order to keep their survival in higher institutions in order to perform their different
task with an effective level. As six skills that are required by a student in order to be successful at
university level are as follows:
Communication skills: As this is skill is said to be most effective skills that could be
importantly present in each individual (Khlaisang and Songkram, 2019). Communication skills
benefits are learner in interacting with each another in an efficient way so that their ideas as well
as messages could be shared in terms of effectiveness without having any confusion.
Communication skills are important for every student as it provides them an ability to interact as
well as communicate with each other without having any hesitation. As the capability to
communicate essential information correctly it is necessary that communication skills are to be
effective through a student so that use skills could be maintained. It assist to make better
relationship with the others that also aid to advanced and build better working practice by which
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productive outcome is achieved with suitable clarity. It also improvise the working suitability as
with this ability to get over from complex situation as by making sustained solution is deprived
in ordinate manner.
Self-care skills: As further it is essential to carry self-care so that they could be able to focus
on more elements in college as well as University Life along with building a career. Healthcare
skills are continuous operations which are to be performed by a student in order to be ready for
taking up a part in life activities (Shmeleva, 2019). These skills are generally term to be as
activities of daily living like that are to be performed by a student. As there are some of self-care
techniques like developing a constant sleep routine, taking lunch break on regular basis,
objective of being a healthy diet on continuous basis, for walk and other activities. It is also be
helpful for an individual during working practice as well in which individual learn about self
care through which ability to learn something new at constant basis is also developed with
regularity.
Adaptability: It is a skill set with this an individual become comfortable at every situation
and through this working possibility and its attentiveness both get embraced with perfection. It
develops certain range of benefit that assist to make flexibility in terms of personal and
professional lives. It is essential that learning must be acknowledged on repetitive basis as same
as tidal waves in which both upstream and downstream comes with certain experience. In
addition, the new changes and its working both get affected with its higher suitability in this it is
necessary that individual must get able to manage themselves in all the different surround that
prepared a constant success and growth within competitive marketplace (Tseng, Yi and Yeh,
2019). It also survive with the new ways that comes in a life as per future preceding in this
suitable challenge is also faced by individual for this adequate strategies are developed in clear
manner. There are a lot of opportunities that is generated within marketplace that more often
bring positivity among working standards.
Collaboration: In support of this skill individual have learned about the effectual relation
that is developed between others so that work is processed with perfection and in systematic
manner. It also improvise the group working within this physical and virtual basis both get
developed as by encompassing leadership values, communication and empathy. It develop
moderate fluency through which productive outcome is attained in ordinate mode. It improvises
certain rate of credibility that offer numerous benefits as an individual under which both soft and
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hard skills get developed with clarity. It is beneficial at working place too as with this teamwork
get incorporate with support of daily practice in this crucial decisions are taken while making
collaborative working.
Critical thinking and problem solving: It is a skill that is used to enhance productive
brainstorming through which possibility to advance working suitability and its attentiveness both
developed in productive manner (Karim, 2019). It is also being processed with clear aim and
target for this future success and ability to think more as responsibly, productively and
separately. It makes possible influence in overall personality that affects and advance through
personal and professional experiences. These both collectively survive and thrives sustained
ability to resolve complex problems in which better realization is achieved to encounter all
different challenges. It is helpful within working place as there is a random based challenges that
is comes over regular basis and to get over from these problems it is required to having adequate
knowledge and experience so that suitable solutions are developed in progressive manner.
Information management: In this an individual not only learnt about the reservation and
utilisation of different information but also to make adequate support of information as per
timely constrained also processed with perfection. It is a validate skills that is used to acquire
suitable skills through which ability to discard in between spurious and questionable is processed
with adequateness (Griffith and et. al., 2019). It enhances the productivity, useful and genuine
information that is used to implement at certain basis with this proper attribution is resulted
towards long term success. It is even essential at working practice too as assist to conduct proper
research before proceeding basic task and activities on regular basis.
These are the skills set that is required to be learn and adapt by an individual during its
university learning as with this ability to perform certain task with proficiency is advanced. It is
even more helpful while working in a workplace as collection of different skills makes the
person perfect and with this sustained outcome is achieved with perfection.
Recommendations that help students to improve content for their CVs
CV (Curriculum Vitae) is a Performa that is used to provide or transfer basic information
such as skills, educational qualification and background, knowledge, personal information,
hobbies, learning etc. With this it is easy for the interviewers or management to make clear
judgement about selection or rejection of candidate on the basis of official requirement (Ehlers,
2020). It is a document that is comprised of positive impact over reader and also encourages
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getting better job position as regard of attainment of market opportunity. It is required and
essential that CV must be effective so that it is easy to grab attractiveness of interviewer. In this
there is some recommendation about improvisation of CV and it is as explained below as:
Break up text: It is required that all the text must not be in repetitive or continuous mode
in regardless of it the content is distinguished in between different breaks (Murillo-Zamorano,
Sánchez and Godoy-Caballero, 2019). As the usage of lengthy and wordy blocks are not used as
it is the easy way to reduce complexity and to enhanced proficiency among presentation. As the
recruiters usually seeing hundreds of resume on daily basis thus it is necessary that CV must be
more attentiveness so that ability to get in list of recruiter is advanced in supportive manner.
Research targeted roles: It is an aspect with this probability to target towards the roles
and requirement that is needed by an organisation. It is used to make adequate support to tailor
the choice of recruiter accordingly with this profitable balance is maintained in respective mode.
The individual is having different skills, knowledge but to represent or sharpen it as per
requirement is a tactic. It is not possible to represent overall skill thus it must be reflect as per
requirement of company and its management. It is way to grab adequate response and attention
with this probability to fit as in certain job place is also improvised in balanced manner.
Include voluntary work: The voluntary work is related to the effective and efficient
working that is performed or done as by following passion. It draws certain attention about skills
that is done in measurable manner with this gained knowledge is highlighted that reflect extra
working proficiency with profitability. It especially underlines effective work that accountable of
significant time in towards employment (Madani and et. al., 2019). The management also looks
forward to hire an employee having sufficient skills with this working proficiency and its culture
both surpassed collectively.
Avoid cliché: It comprise of certain framework of sentences that make vagueness with
this attentiveness towards work also affected. It consist of words as “self starter”, “hardworking”
as these are exceptionally more common and make similar to others. As the recruiter see these
set of framing and its paraphrase many times in a day. Thus CV become more effective and
responsiveness if some improvised words are used in replace of cliché as it engage the writing
and others with excellence. To make productive ending it aid to uncertain and unrequited phrases
so that it is easy to make clear interpretation of skill and knowledge.
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Highlight changes and growth: It is a prospect that is used to make clear basis as
changes and growth is positive aspect of learning and development that implement long term
success in ordinate manner. Thus it is required that changes are mentioned with highlight as it
shows positive change and turn into overall personality under which proficient measured are
taken towards success (Razinkina and et. al., 2019). The growth is always belongs to different
initiative that is taken to improvise working proficiency with this positive outlook is perceived
that is a combination of past experiences and emphasis the present working standards.
Customize for the job you want: It is related to the efficiency that is required to shown
from the resume while targeted certain job position. The curriculum vitae bring active response
towards job description as it is a basic element towards sustained understanding about job
profile. It also demonstrates the reflective basis in which education, skill, knowledge and
learning is representative in flexible manner through which possibility to perceived higher
competitive advancement is required. It helps to make itself a better candidate that assist
management as well to make perfect match of vacant job position and candidate with exactness.
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CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the above report that study at higher education is responsive
of certain activities that is performed on regular basis such as academic learning, curriculum
activity, presentation skills and many others. It collectively makes an individual more perfect and
balanced and thus it is easy to make improvised learning in terms of both personal and
professional efficiency. Furthermore, there are several bases that is supportive for an individual
in order to improvise its CV content through which ability to attract attentiveness of management
is processed with easiness and comfort.
(Garcia-Esteban and Jahnke, 2020) (Khlaisang and Songkram, 2019) (Shmeleva, 2019) (Tseng,
Yi and Yeh, 2019) (Karim, 2019) (Ehlers, 2020) (Murillo-Zamorano, Sánchez and Godoy-
Caballero, 2019) (Madani and et. al., 2019) (Razinkina and et. al., 2019) (Griffith and et. al.,
2019) (Galán-Mañas, 2019)
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