Introduction:
“Dreams come true if you want them to, and if you want them to, it is up to you” (Peter Winsley, 2013).
When you start to apply for employment and go to questions and evaluation appointments, almost certainly, bosses will ask you to give instances of how you have learned and increased explicit aptitudes from your time at university. As I know by now, as well as passing all the year through university courses and communication beliefs, employability aptitudes can be picked up from preparation and getting ready assignments, doing exploration, and composing papers. It helps to be a valuable guide to me and everybody when drawing up a CV or applying for employment and work arrangements. The world of employment has changed dramatically, technology is impacting practices and experiences, and societies are becoming more global and multicultural. With the rise of globalization, employability is becoming one of the main goals for education systems. Today’s employers require employees to have soft or non-technical skills in addition to technical skills.
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Main body:
As I showed in Assessment 1, SWOT analyses, and PDP, and after completing and analyzing questionnaires such as Learning Style and Live Style, Individual Learning Profile, and Higher Education QQA Core Skills, I have concluded that ambition, open-minded and mathematical skills are some of my strengths and IT skills, communication, and time management are some of my weaknesses. Some of the STAR analyses and reflections of my skills will be shown in my work forward.
Most of us have the tendency to copy other people, but the best method is to be yourself and focus on your own strengths. For myself these skills and weaknesses will show and will make me complete in the business world, more determined, and much better, I should say with these skills I will be confident in my future career success. For the future, these aptitudes need to be prepared for practice because practice is the key to preparation.
Also, I think my attendance in class is more than good, specifically the time has been adjusted well, but in the private study, I did not devote sufficient time which made me worried about the future. The time spent in the first year at the University of Wolverhampton has been an enlightening and instructive experience. I have learned and also developed my knowledge about the person I am, things that I did not give much importance and time to before if I think about it well. On the other hand, knowing that people are very different from others in general, unique in their ways, I consider that the most sought persons are those who have good skills and are well prepared for what they want to achieve in employment. Ambition is very important for employability skills.
'Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.' Salvador Dali
My ambition motivates me and gives me the power to overcome all the obstacles and finish successfully the things I need to accomplish. This strength skill, I believe is very crucial in a lifetime and in the employability field. According to the course University of Wolverhampton: Skills for Learning, (2018), the basic key skills are::
'Understanding, and analyzing a brief / list of requirements, Knowing how to find and use information, Planning and organizational Skills, Ability to meet deadlines, Ability to problem solve and think analytically.'
As well, according to Chris Corker and Sarah Holland, (2015), 'the following skills which are generally found on lists of graduate employers' most desirable skills, an individual's familiarity with these can be seen as one facet of their understanding of employability, are :
Verbal Communication, Teamwork, Commercial Awareness, Analysis and Investigation,
Initiative/Self-Motivation, Information Technology/Computer Skills, Good Communication,
Planning and Organisation, Independence, Time Management.'
With all these skills, planning, organizing, and knowledge, the progress of my career will be definitely sure.
My 'Open Minded' strengths skill gave me a better understanding of the importance of a questionnaire, adapting myself to a new way of learning and a new way of seeing things that will help me further in life as I wrote in Assessment 1. Also, this is a key skill of mine, able me to express my thoughts and ideas clearly and confidently in speech, able me to influence and convince others, discuss and reach agreement, and able to adapt successfully to changing situations and environments. “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” Albert Einstein
My mathematical skill is an effective one which I got and developed it up along my life career. “Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.” Shakuntala Devi
Until now my results have been well awarded through different projects and actions. According to my feedback received from my friends or partners, referring the my mathematical skills as well as my personal evaluation, I can say that I achieved an excellent level of performance. The feedback received from my friends and also from different exquisite persons gave me the desire to go forward and to increase myself, trying to arrive at a high level. My weaknesses are based on the feedback of the people I worked with, stating as well that I need to focus more, from patience which is low level to sharing responsibilities which are low level for the moment. All these skills presented, together with many others, must be improved with time and developed with a deep concentration, learning new ways of negotiation, performing written communication, and public speaking. If this is what is going to happen, it means that my career should be as efficient as I thought so, of course hoping that my health will be fine.
Now, I will expand my work explaining what I understood with the knowledge I got from the university and also from where I worked about my weaknesses which need to be improved right away, because, these weaknesses will be for sure a vital skill in my future career. Generally, improving a skill needs some knowledge about effective problem solving, which needs some steps like identifying the problem, defining goals, assessing alternatives, choosing the solution, execution, and evaluation. Running these rules might be a very good choice to resolve any of my weaknesses. Every weakness which by improving will become a part of my knowledge and experience will help me, together with what I have learned at university, to go forward in a certain manner.
Technology today is evolving more rapidly than ever before, data and digital technologies are shaping our lives. “If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.” Albert Einstein
Technology skills mean having the capacity to utilize a PC with the programs you have learned. Asking for help when needed and I have kept practicing until I was confident enough to do something without having doubts or having the need to ask for clarifications around me from those who are better informed and prepared, helped me very much. Technology skill needs to be known whatever it costs, a fact which made me study very hard this field and know it better.
Email, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and all the social networking are based on electronic communication, obviously technology knowledge.
Communication is an integral instinct of all living things. Good communication is not just a process of transferring information from one entity to another. It's the art of first listening or reading the information, comprehending it, processing it, and then transferring it, as well gestures, tone of voice, body language, and spoken language are some of the important aspects of communication. Communication skills are consistently in high demand, across all industries. “The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives” ~ Anthony Robbins Obviously, starting from school and being right now at a university and continuing my career is a competence. It shows how important is communication, no comment about it. Without this skill nobody will succeed anywhere, so, I hardly worked all these years to have an improving of good communication.
Another important skill which needs to be improved considering that I have some issues on this matter, is time management. 'If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got.' Lee Iacocca
In 1748, Benjamin Franklin said: 'Remember that time is money', today, this quote is deeply rooted in my mind for a long time. To improve my time management skills,
I made a journal to prioritize my tasks and I gave myself a deadline for my university homework, avoiding the possibility of exceeding my deadlines and, of course in time with my family responsibilities. I have reduced, as well, the time I was spending in the morning on my coffee transforming it into time spent with my son. Some of my minor responsibilities were delegating to some members of my family, because I felt I was running out of time for the ones that I prioritized and I considered it as being more important. A good idea of mine was to cancel watching TV to reading articles in newspapers considering it helps me learn English faster and will help me develop my communication skills quicker. In the future, time management will be surely adjusted.
In the presented skills report I analyzed some of my personal strengths, including ambition, open mind, mathematical skills, and weaknesses in IT, communication, and time management and, surely I have learned new things about myself and discovered new methods of learning and approaching life, and as well, I understood how to know myself better and focus on different ways of improving my weaknesses in order to overcome the obstacles that might appear along the way.
I will need to prove to all my future teachers by facts, my results, by my answers to the reference questions, showing and demonstrating the references have been studied.
Referencing always will be a challenge because I need to analyze very much referencing material on the internet, websites, books, journals, magazines, interviews, conferences subjects…and many other materials. A good structure will help me to express myself more clearly, whether in a work project, dissertation, essay, business application letter, or a CV. Considering that I have a long-standing interest in the business field, the right qualities to become an excellent manager and fully effective communication become integrated into the life of everyone through email, text messaging, and chat online, electronic communication will be definitely helpful and vital for me. For this reason, I have a lot to work on and compare each material and to be honest, is a quite big challenge.
Conclusion:
'Capability is a necessary part of specialist expertise, not separate from it. Capable people not only know about their specialties, but they also have the confidence to apply their knowledge and skills within varied and changing situations and to continue to develop their specialist knowledge and skills...' Stephenson, (1998).
To be a capable person, one needs to know all the skills that are required in every field, a certain level of knowledge, keep studying, keep learning, good researching, good communication, planning and organization, time management, and computer knowledge.
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