Methodology

Discuss about the Developing Professional and Employability Skills for Skills in Business.

Representatives of industry and businesses have expressed their continual dissatisfaction for the available skill set that is available with the employee that are lacking basic employability skills(Aubrey and Cohen, n.d.).The research conducted by the Secretary’s Commission brings to light,facts such as –half of our young generation leave school without the proper knowledge of employability skills that makes it an issue for them to land on and hold onto a good job.It has been widely argued that the dissatisfaction of the typical employer is due to the lack of proper technical skills but a review indicated that employers normally do not have much problem regarding technical skills but it is the non-technical skills that play a big factor here.Employability skills can be simply stated as the specific attributes of an employee rather than his technical know -how that makes him important to his employer.Employability skills mainly consist of reading,problem solving,decision making and also other basic skills (Panth, 2014). This report basically aims at identifying and also listing the various employability skills and ways of developing them.

The methodology is very important for the development of the professional and employability skills. It is a lot on the employer that the company shall excel in the future or not. The employees are the pillars of the company, as a pillar holds the home strong, the employees hold the name of the company strong. The selection of the wrong type of employees can denude the reputation of the company and the correct employee chain can really ascertain a rise in profit for the company (Evers, Rush and Berdrow, 1998). Thus it is evident the employer must be very cautious on selection. This research shall excavate the means and measures to achieve the first rate employment strategy.

The following methods can be used to enumerate the situation in detail:

Descriptive process:

this is the first part of the methodology practice. This is the part where the situation is described in detail. All the constraints of a good and a bad employment. This is an important part of the methodology that shall describe the situation on the basis of which the lateral parts of the same shall be enumerated (Miller, Biggart and Newton, 2013).

Correlation process:

this is the second part of the whole.    This will establish the relation between a good employment and profit and vice versa. While delving deep with the standards of this part, the person will be able to understand the need of a good employment and the need of developing the professional skills and employability measures. This is a modern day analysis procedure to attain the goal point.

Descriptive process

Quantitative process:

after the basic understanding this is the part of the quantitative process. This is a step by step analysis of the whole situation and then there is an inference. The important components of the procedure are:

Make your observations about the issue and then investigate current theory surrounding the predicament or issue.

Hypothesize a clarification for the observations.

Make a prediction of outcomes based on your hypotheses. Formulate a plan to test your prediction.

Collect and process your data.

Analyse the collected data for the well-being of the research and the organization.

Get a complete and detailed picture of the situation.

Verify your findings.

Make your final conclusions.

Present your findings in an appropriate form for your audience.

Have a free flowing reasoning in the application.

Qualitative approach: this is the most modern form. Here the quality of a person is described. The most common procedures of this final part are judging the real authenticity and quality of a particle. The qualitative approach in methodology shall help the reader to understand what the precise effects of wrong employment are. The same shall also discuss the probable ways to achieve that milestone where every employment shall be good and very recruitment shall be fruitful. The qualitative approach shall finally edict the need of the development of professional and the employability skills. This is basically the conclusion of this chapter.

Denicolo and Reeves at their famous speech once had commented that the correct employment is indulged in profit. The correct employment boosts and nurtures the profit of the company. This had been already enumerated that the wrong employment can earn disaster for the company. This book cites a lot of examples. The examples can give a good teaching. There are several diagrams and techniques in the form of charts which concoct the modern annotation of the same.

The (Allan, 2009) book says that modern world is much dependant on the employment strategies. The book rightly says that the employment strategy must be dependent on the area of action and the locality. The employment is a vital question. The company officials must be very sincere of the same. They must know the right condition to judge a person in front of him. Only then the company can run well.

Many researchers in articles like (Pitan, 2016) had envisaged a modern strategy which is dependent on the marketing strategies. The employment skills must be developed to understand what is running on the back of the mind. The employer can be able to judge a person and only then the right process is attained.

Correlation process

Another book mentioning special interest like (Maclean et al. 2013) states clearly that in the modern world if there are no strategies then there would be no remedy. The company can crash or succeed on them.

Thus there are the books which have helped a lot to understand the same.

(Primary)

There are various ways to develop aforesaid skills –

Extra-curricular activities-These are great ways to learn many important skills such as teamwork .Writing for the school magazine will also help develop writing skills.

Home life-It can teach us organization and planning if u run a family while studying.

3.Course-One can learn most employability skills through the current undergoing course .Analytical skills which can be developed from arguing with complex material, drawing conclusions from experiments .Written communication skills can be developed by completing assignments (Allan, 2009). Verbal skills are best learned by attending seminars. Managing the various course loads teachesus the art of planning and organization. Information technology is yet another aspect that can be covered here (Anon, 2016).

4.Work shadowing-It basically means investigating people about their work. This can prove very useful in the long run.

5.Part time job-It is a very important step in developing employability skills>.A part-time job can teach us a lot of things such as handling money, dealing with customers, organization, and planning, working under pressure.

The ways to develop the specific skills are-

1.Writing skills-This can be developed by writing for projects, assignments, even writing for the newspaper, public materials etc.

speaking skills-Joining the drama group, speaking publicly, seminar all these can help develop speaking skills.

3.Adaptability-Adaptability can be developed in various ways such as going somewhere alone, working part time etc.

4.Co-operative skills-This can be developed by taking up group assignments, team sports, group projects and any other act which requires a group (Andrews and Russell, 2012).

Analysing skills- These skills can be a little hard to develop. It can be done by analysing experiments for data, working voluntarily for a publisher (Kent.ac.uk, 2016).

6.Initiative-Running a new society, making new websites, start-ups these are the various ways of developing this skill.

7.Planning and organizing skill-This is probably one of the most important skills which can be developed. Course project management, organizing events for sports or charity are some of the ways of developing the skill.

8.Leadership skill-Another important skill this can be developed by leading a project, being the president of a society, school representatives etc. are some of the ways to work on them (Belfort, 2009).

Quantitative process

9.Negotiating and persuading skills-This are very useful skills for the market place. This is best learned by taking an active part in a debate. Arguing for one’s case in a seminar is yet another way.

10.Decision-making skills-Another important skill which plays a vital role here. This can be developed by representing one’s school or targeting customers in a sales job etc.

An intensive research has been carried out in lieu of this project, aiming to answer some basic questions regarding employability skills.This questions clarify the basic information that one seeks regarding employability skills.

(Secondary)

Do employers value these employability skills above the required professional skills?

Through extensive research, it has been found that employers, in general, do consider these employability skills strongly. This holds true irrespective of the nature of work of the company. The research suggests that employee attitude is given the highest importance by employers (Varlejs and Walton, 2009). The employers they stress on basic skills over the job specific ones and the employers also consider it important for employees to understand the work atmosphere.

Does failure to equip people with the required skills have serious consequences?

The lack of employability skills has shown to have far reaching consequences. Because without the requisite skills, it becomes challenging for the individual to hold on to the job.

Are employability skills learned during the on-going process of classroom education?

No, employability skills are best taught explicitly which stands in opposition to the generic belief that the students will learn them during the course. However, that is definitely not the case. And, these skills should be taught explicitly.

Conclusion

This project has identified the various skills that are required to be employable. It also nurtures the various professional and employability skills that are required to be developed. We see that these skills are very important even over the specific occupational requirements because, these are the skills which can help distinguish an employee, for one bestowed with these is far more suited to take up more challenging roles (Smale and Fowlie, 2015). These are very basic skills but should be developed at the onset and with utmost care because they are instrumental in shaping us. The proper balance of these will also open new avenues for one to explore. These skills need to be taught explicitly contrary to popular belief. Programmes need to be established which can help one hone these skills for a better future.

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