An Analysis of Study Skills, CV Building and Professional Development

This report delves into the significance of study skills in higher education, emphasizing their role in enhancing academic performance and facilitating career opportunities. The initial section examines strategies for CV improvement, including gaining online experience, networking with peers, creating personal work experience, and prioritizing skill development over credentials. The report then presents a personal reflection on the student's CV, highlighting the impact of lacking professional skills and experience. The second part of the report identifies and elaborates on eight crucial skills developed by universities, such as adaptive thinking, communication, problem-solving, and creativity. It underscores their importance in the professional sphere and explains how universities foster these skills in students. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and emphasizing the importance of study skills and professional development for academic and career success. This report is a valuable resource for students seeking to improve their academic and professional prospects.

Study Skills for Higher
Education

Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
Choose four of the suggestions mentioned above and discuss them in more detail....................1
Personal experience: Are you happy with your CV?...................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Discuss eight skills along with their importance that are developed by universities in students.
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CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Study skills are the skills that are general abilities or capabilities of a student that helps
them in enhancing better study experience and helps an academic student in getter better jobs or
dream jobs in new future in order to enhance better way of living (Cottrell, 2020). This report is
going to be a brief discussion on the measures that can be taken place in a pupil in order to get
better jobs. Some of these measures that will be discussed are get experience online, connect
with peers, making own experience and focusing on skills over setting.
MAIN BODY
Choose four of the suggestions mentioned above and discuss them in more detail.
Get experience online and working with other companies who provide online jobs can
help a student in improving their CV in many ways. Getting experience is never a waste of time
and it helps a students in many ways such as it enhances professional skills of the individuals, it
influences the professional behaviour of students and also they can earn money through it (Chen
and et. al., 2020). A firm or a company prefers the personnels who have worked behaviour as it
makes it easy for firm to manage these professionals as they know a basic structure of how an
organisation operates in the market. It will help the personnel a lot while getting a dream job or a
better job through which better way of living can be enhanced. And also online or virtual jobs
will be easy for a student to handle as it would not consume their much time and can be easily
managed in their academic sessions. Along with getting online job, Connecting with peers will
also help an individual in developing their CV and their study as well as professional skills there
are many firm that supports this method. Contacting with peers and getting knowledge about the
basic working of desired job or company will help the personnel in judging better task for them
and also enhance the companies in smooth management of the respective employee as they
already knows enough about the respective job and the firm which will attract good impression
of the personnel towards the organisation (Schraeder, 2019). Connecting with different working
professionals in doing the same or substitute jobs in same or homogeneous company of the same
market will help the student in various ways that will push them towards success in best possible
way. On the other hand, Making own working experience also helps the personnels towards
pushing them to a better job (Litsardopoulos Saridakis and Hand, 2021). Doing own work as a
side profession or a hobby that can be considered as a commercial activity can enhance a pupil's
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CV and better chances of getting a job can be enhanced. Organisations are likely to hire more
candidates that has previously maintained their own business as it gives the candidates the
knowledge and importance of hardwork which will directly lead on to getting efficient and
effective work from their hired employees. Making own experience will also help the personnels
in choosing what is best suited for them and will help them in making better judgement about
their future. When a student has previously maintained a business, it will not only get a better job
for them but will also help them in choosing if they want to start again their business with all the
experience they have gained while working in an organisation as an employee. At last, Focusing
on skill than setting is one of the other measures through which one's CV can be enhanced. A
student should focus on their skills and abilities and should work continuously on improvements
of their skills as companies these days prefer skills over degrees and academic knowledge
(McNerney and et.al. 2020). Skills in a student can be considered as their professional abilities
and capabilities that differentiates them from other professionals. These skills can be anything
that can be used by them or the company in order to get better effective results.
Personal experience: Are you happy with your CV?
Currently, I am not that happy about my CV due to various reasons. Some of the reasons
are that in the beginning I thought that academic sessions and focusing on gaining bookish
knowledge is the only thing that will help me get a job. I have spent all my time in getting
bookish knowledge which leaves me with no time to work on my skills and abilities. Lack in
these skills troubled me a lot while getting my dream job because companies were searching
more of skills. Along with this, no previous working experience troubled me with a vacant space
in my CV which lead to the recruiter to questioning me about my previous working. No working
experience shown in the CV leading a doubt in the minds of recruiter about my hiring as they
needed to work more on my organisational behaviour as they thought that lacking in the same
will affect their productivity and profitability as I may not be able to give best effective results
up to my capabilities. At last I was able to get a job of my desire but my incomplete CV in very
less or no professional skills and professional working experience created a lot of hindrances on
the way to my success and to get a desired job.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, this can be concluded that study skill plays a vital role in a
student's life as it helps them in enhancing a better studying ways and also leads to getting their
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desired jobs. Furthermore in this report, various ways through which a CV can be improved were
discussed so that dream jobs or better jobs can be obtained and along with the personal
experience of the CV in order to get better understanding.
INTRODUCTION
Professional skills are considered as the skills that are required by a personnel in order to
get better results while working in a firm. These are the skills that every firm seeks for in an
individual as it help the organisation in getting better productivity and effective results which
directly affect their profitability (Piotrowska, 2019). It is very important for a student to acquire
professional skills while continuing their academic sessions as it opens them a broader scope of
opportunities so that they can choose wisely and effectively about what is best for their future.
This report will be a brief discussion on the skills that are supported and developed by various
universities in student that helps them in chasing their future and judging the best alternative way
that will leasd to their success.
MAIN BODY
Discuss eight skills along with their importance that are developed by universities in
students.
There are many skills that are developed by various universities in order to increase the
working efficiency of their pupils and also enhance better future selection in their respective
student. Adaptive Thinking as in today's world, it plays an important role in a students life as
the world is an ever-changing place (Berka Ey and Doyle, 2021). This nature of the economy
creates the requirement of the candidates who adapts these economic changes rapidly and helps
in decision making of the firm in order to get better results in the firm. Adaptive thinking
enhances the people with better flexibility in order to cope up in a better way with the changes in
environment and and operations of the company. Adaptive thinking also enhances a student with
a better and broader vision of particular thought so that it can be analysed in a better way so that
better effective results regarding the same can be achieved. Employers are always seeking for the
personnels that has the ability to adopt change rapidly and acquire the change so that they can be
benefited from this ability of candidates and it also helps them in gaining competitive advantage
in the market. This skills in promoted in students by various university personnels in order to
make students capable of adapting this ever-changing environment efficiently. Adaptive thinking
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enhances a broader thinking criteria in them which helps them in many sectors of
professionalism. On the other hand almost every skills is useless if a personnel or a student lacks
Communication Skills as it is the centre of every skills. One should know how to communicate
their thoughts and convey them to respective personnels in a manner that no doubts are left in
their minds of listeners (Back Tulsky and Arnold, 2020). Communication skills also enhances a
professional in interacting with different types of peoples and analyse them and their needs or
requirements in order to think better for their respective company. A better communication skills
will enhance a students productivity by being able to communicate freely about new
opportunities that can be availed and any issues or lacking in organisational operations. A good
communication skills will enhance the pupil's CV and increase the chances of getting the job best
suitable for them as organisations nowadays seeks for these kinds of skill in order to get best
effective results in the organisation. Most of the universities programs or organises different
communication development skills in their campus in order to increase their student's efficiency
towards the given task and also to help them in getting better experience in job sector.
On of the other most important skills that are essential for a student to have is Problem
Solving Ability that helps a professional in various aspects of service sector. A firm always seeks
for a candidate who has excellent problem solving skills as it helps them in getting better and
quicker solutions of the given problem. It is also helps a student in identifying problems that are
more important to be solved as a priority and it also enhances better understanding and thinking
skills (Argelagós and et.al., 2022). Employers of different firm seeks for pupils who have better
problem solving capability as it enables one to think out of the box about the given issue which
will let a firm in getting best possible solutions. Various universities across the globe promotes
this skills and organises various group and individual activities in order to develop and sharpen
problem solving skill so that efficiency of their students can be maximised. In order to develop
this skill, there are various programs in which a hypothetical or practical issue is presented in-
front of a pupil and solutions for the problems are asked and suggestions and ways to support
their thinking are made. Another important skill that is promoted or developed by various
universities in their respective students so as to increase the efficiency and enhance better future
of the students is Creativity and Innovation as it is one of the most required skill in almost every
sector of professionalism. Creativity and innovation is the basic skill required by the
organisations as in order for them to survive in a highly competitive market, they continuously
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need to run test and spend on research and development department in order to make their
product highly creative and differentiated form that of competitors products so that better sales
can be enhances through it. Creativity and innovation is a skill that helps a personnel in making
modulations or changing of exiting product in the market so that problems or needs of the
economy can be fulfilled with better efficiency in order to attract customers towards them (Acar
Tarakci and Van Knippenberg, 2019). It helps in creation of a whole new product or develop an
existing product in market in order to optimize and create better profits of the firm. With the
perspective of a student, it is important for them as it highly helps them towards getting their
dream job as well as helps them in understanding a concept in a better way.
Time management skills is also one of the most important skill that is required by
organisations in their candidates as it enhances them in getting best results on appropriate time
that is needed. Time management also helps the students in using their time in a way that every
task that is given to them is done effectively and efficiently by prioritising each task and
managing them appropriately (Ahmad and et.al., 2020). It also helps a personnel in increasing
the focus on the task that is more important and is lying in the hands of the personnel attending
the task as it avoids the tension of doing other tasks that are to be done by them. The need not to
worry about the other tasks as an effective time management skill will enhance and allow the
time that is to be given to other tasks and ensures completion of all the tasks according to the
time period and the priority of the work. It is important for the firms to hire the candidates who
has time management ability as it enhances better productivity and time efficient results that
directly leads to a firm's higher profitability. For an urgent task in the firm that is needed to be
done, a firm can only rely better on the employees who have better management of time skills as
they know that the organisation can rely on these kinds of personnels regarding the task.
Universities organise various sessions explaining the importance of time and needs to manage
time efficiently in order to enhance better future for them. Technological skills is another more
important skill that is to be inherited in a student. In today's world of digitalization, it is very
important for a personnel to understand about the technical infrastructure and have the
knowledge of technological advancement in order to understand new launches in respective
infrastructure in least possible time so that it can be utilised by them as soon as possible to
increase their personal efficiency and organisational efficiency. It is another most required skill
by organisations as it helps them in various sectors and aspects such as it helps them in
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understanding which technology is best for them and helps in guiding them about which
infrastructure will give best effective results. Also, in this era of digitalization, the firm requires
these types of candidates with a good knowledge of technology as they are quick in adapting
technical changes. Every sector of profession requires certain technical skill and lacking in these
skills may create hindrances for professional in order to get their dream job or the job that is best
suited to them.
Along with these skills other major skills that are required by different companies are
Teamwork skills as these skills help the professionals a lot in completing the team task that has
been given to them. Teamwork plays an essential role in an organisations success and one should
know how to get along with a group of individuals in order to complete a group task that has
been given to them. Teamwork also enables the students in completion of the assignments that
has been given to them as it enables researching and communication skills of the personnel
(Wang, 2018). A good teamwork skills enables active participation in team mission
development, and gives effective results through team efforts. In order to develop teamwork in
students so that better job opportunities can be enhanced, there are various ways universities
have adopted in their curriculum and their institutional behaviour such as promoting group
activities in the organisation so that their pupils can get along comfortably with different kinds of
peoples, giving group assignments to students so they can interact with their classmates of
teammates and find a better way to complete respective assignments so that best effective and
creative results can be given, building up interaction between students in different session in
order to comfort them within different groups of peoples. Out of many ways these are the major
ways through which team building and team work can be enabled in personnels. Furthermore,
Quick decision making and flexibility in taking initiatives also plays an important role in getting
their dream jobs as it helps the firms in various ways such as acting frequently about issues that
has been arising in their respective market or in the operations of the organisations. Quick
decision making avoids the excessive time regarding making a particular decision which allows
them more time to think on another issues that has been arising in the organisation and also
leaves them time to think properly on the innovation and launching new products or new
efficient ways to increase sustainability in organisation and enable smooth functioning in
operations of the firms. This skills is developed by universities through various activities and
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sessions that has been organised in the firm so that student's efficiency and opportunities can be
enhanced.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, this can be concluded that skills plays an important role in a
students life who is seeking to for a professional job. A CV can be enhanced through learning
various skills and developing them in order to get the best suitable job. In today's competitive
world, a company seeks for skilled employees or professionals who specialise in certain abilities
in order to get competitive advantage in the market. Some of these skills were discussed in this
report so as to identify key skills one should inherit in them. These discussed skills were adaptive
thinking which enables broader vision about a particular subject, communication skills to
enhance better conveying of message, time management in order to prioritise the task and mange
them accordingly, problem solving ability to identify best possible solution of an issue, creativity
and innovation to ensure better decisions and to increase profitability, technological skills to help
the organisation with support of technical infrastructure, team working skills to increase team
efforts and quick decision making to ensure decision making as soon as possible.
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