...Dear xxx Re: Employability and personal skills at Waitrose for the role of supermarket assistant In my booklet I have talked about how human resources could be managed at Waitrose, how they currently do human resources and mainlining operations. I will now assess the importance of employability and personal skills in the recruitment and retention of staff in Waitrose. I previously identified 4 personal skills and 4 employability skills which I felt were important to have when applying to become a supermarket assistant and I will now summarise them. The 4 employability skills I identified were: • Suitable qualifications • Experience in a similar role • Knowledge of products • Effective in meeting targets I feel these 4 skills are vital in becoming a supermarket assistant since if you have all 4 of them then you will almost be guaranteed to get the job since it meets the criteria of most jobs. The 4 personal skills I identified were: • Team worker • Communication skills • Hardworking • Punctual Even though these skills aren’t required since they aren’t in the criteria I still feel that they are very helpful and if you acquire these skills then you will do your job well. There are advantages and disadvantages of having these particular skills and I will go through some of them. It is very advantageous to have qualifications since it means you are educated and will not do anything unwise. Also it is helpful to have experience in a similar role since it means you...
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...regarded the preforming arts more suitably. They are a theatre that hires preforming groups to perform at their theatre, they make their money through ticket sales, which can be a high revenue business considering their biggest hall has a capacity of 2300 people and tickets can price up to and over £100 each. This is just one of the ways that they make money from their service, they also provide products such as refreshments, food, and performance merchandise and as it is a ‘opportunist market’ as people are forced to pay big money as they are the only food/merchandise sales within the theatre. Human Resources Human resources is department or support responsible for sourcing and employing, They do things such as application review, skills development and performance tracking, promotion administration and makes sure government regulations involving employment are being upheld, for any job interview there will be a ‘personal specification’, a job description as well as a deadline for the applicants. Specific Human resources for the mayflower theatre, Recruitment is vital they need to be sure they are hiring the correct person who is correctly qualified and trained in the specific area, for example chefs need to be trained to correctly prepare the dishes they will be preparing as well as checking that they are available for the hours that are needed. Human resources are responsible for making sure contracts with employees are issued and make sure that the contract is specific...
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...lContents Executive Summary: 4 1.0 Introduction: 5 2.0 Methodology: 5 3.0 Responsibilities and performance of HR manager: 5 3.1 Responsibilities and performance objectives: 5 3.2 Effectiveness against objectives: 6 3.3 Motivational technique to improve performance: 6 Development: 7 Employee Assistance: 7 Performance feedbacks: 7 Proper Communications: 7 Security: 7 Compensation 7 Performance Bonus: 7 4.0 Develop interpersonal and transferable skills: 8 4.1 Solution to work based problem: 8 4.2 Level and style of communication: 9 Oral communication of HR manager with Operation and middle level employees: 10 Written communication of HR manager with middle and executive level of employees: 10 4.3 Time Management Strategies: 11 Work Prioritizing: 11 Estimation of Task Time: 11 Objective Identification: 11 5.0 dynamic of Working with others 12 5.1 People to achieve goal in a team: 12 Plant: 12 Resource investigator: 12 Shaper: 12 Finisher: 12 Coordinator: 12 Implementer: 12 Monitor: 13 5.2 Analysis of Team Dynamics: 13 Objectives: 13 Self-motivation: 13 Goals: 13 Team meeting: 13 Member’s participation: 13 Sharing: 14 Disagreement: 14 Decision: 14 Respect: 14 Criticism: 14 Leadership Shifting: 14 5.3 Alternative ways to complete tasks and achieve team goals: 15 Lists all activities: 15 Task breakdown 15 Develop sub-task: 15 Execute Plan: 15 6.0 Strategies for Problem Solving: 15 6...
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...Student Assignment Covering Form |Course/Unit Information | |Course |Pearson (Edexcel) BTEC Level 5 Higher National Diploma | |Unit No. |Unit 47 | |Unit Name |Employability Skills | |Unit code |A/601/0992 | |Batch |OME10-ES-ParagTikekar-1605 | |Instructor Information | |Name |Parag Tikekar | |Phone |+97150 578 5927 | |Email |paragtikekar@yahoo.com | |Assignment Information ...
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...Task 01 a. What range of decision are taken for the selected department Expolanka Limited's manufacturing capacity has expanded and it has ventured into the manufacture of value added products for dried fruits, fruit juices, fruit chunks in juice and ethnic dry foods. Great attention and care is applied to how our products are grown under the best possible climatic conditions and their transport, meet the most stringent international standards, ensuring optimum quality and flavors. Established in 1978, Expolanka Holdings' flagship company has achieved remarkable growth over the years and is now the market leader. With such a bedrock for the company to flourish on, it is only natural that our financial might, strength with airlines and shipping companies, reliable supplier network will intensify our competitive advantage. Expolanka (Pvt.) Ltd. is the leading exporter of fresh coconuts, desiccated coconut, fresh fruits and vegetables from Sri Lanka. Expolanka Limited has achieved remarkable success and widespread recognition and its corporate values have played no small part. The hub of our operations is the main office in Wattala with collection centers at Pannala, Madurankuliya & Weerakatiya for fresh coconut and Kirindiwela for pineapple. Honesty, reliability, credibility and innovativeness have been steadfast companions of the company's astute business sense and direction. The company has modern facilities that ensure a seamless quality controlled and centralized operation...
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...faculty and students concur on employability skills? Adeniyi, Adeolu Shola GTB Lagos, Nigeria adeolu.adeniyi@mail.com Abstract This paper is one in a series of establishing what competencies the various stakeholders (students, faculty and industry mentors) think are the ideal competencies needed by employees in the hospitality field in places such as hotels, food service providers, restaurants and lodges, compared to those actually displayed by hospitality management students. This particular paper reports on a comparison drawn between what the faculty and students believe are the ideal competencies compared to those that they actually have on completion of their academic studies, prior to the students engaging in their semester of work-integrated learning (WIL). The results would be used by faculty to focus on ensuring students are aware of the employability and management competencies they need in order to conduct themselves in the business world of hospitality with confidence and competently. Key Words: Competencies, hospitality, soft skills, work-integrated learning. ...
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...Amanda Drew Employability & Study Skills Unit Carol Faiers Word Count - 1438 by Employability/Transferable Skills required by graduate recruiters TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1 2 Section 1.0 Introduction 2 Section 1.1 Rationale 2 Chapter 2 2 Section 2.0 Employability and Transferable Skills 2 Section 2.1 Employability Skills 2 Section 2.2 Transferable Skills 3 Chapter 3 3 Section 3.0 Employer Research - Call to Action 3 Section 3.1 Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) 3 Section 3.2 Employers satisfaction with graduates employability skills 4 Section 3.3 Entrepreneurial Skills 5 Section 3.4 Work Experience 5 Chapter 4 5 Section 4.0 Conclusion 6 1.0 Introduction University graduates are now leaving their place of study with more than an academic or vocational degree. Graduates need to be prepared with the tools to successfully enter into the labour market. This report lays out the key skills and attributes required by a graduate to successfully secure long term employment. 1.1 Rationale In 2009 the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) published a report entitled "Future Fit". The report included a survey of 581 employers, between them employing 2.5 million people, 8% of the UK workforce.(CBI, 2009). All university departments are now informed of a growing landscape of skills (identified by employers) required by graduates. The responsibility to continually develop these skills rests with the university...
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...MARGET JOBE 45230251 UNIT 2 P4 BUSINESS RESOURCES Asif & Sons Ltd EXTERNAL SOURCES OF FINANCE External sources of finance are found outside the business, eg from creditors or banks .External sources of finance can be short term, where it has to be paid within a year or long term where it has to be paid over a period of years. External Sources of finance for Asif & Sons will include: BANK LOAN/ OVERDRAFT ADDITIONAL PARTNERS SHARE ISSUE LEASING HIRE PURCHASE MORTGAGE TRADE CREDIT GOVERNMENT GRANTS Bank loan is funding that is obtained from a bank for short term or long term purposes. An overdraft facility is where a bank allows a firm to take out more money than it has in its bank account. For sole traders and partners this can be their savings. For companies, the funding invested by shareholders is called share capital. Share issue is the stock that the company sells publicly, in order to generate capital and it can also be the stock given to insiders as part of their compensation package. The amount of shares issued can be all or part of the total amount of authorised shares of the corporation. Hire purchase, is where monthly payments are made for use of equipment such as a car. Hired equipment is owned by the buyer after the final payment Leasing, is when monthly payments are made for use of equipment such as property. Leased equipment is rented and not owned by the buyer. A mortgage is a special type of loan for buying property, where monthly payments...
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...------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Search Bottom of Form Home» Reference and Education» College University Ads By Google StudyGood Study HabitsStudy Skills TestHow to Study Veronica M. De Escobar Basic PLUS Author | 16 Articles Joined: January 23, 2008 Was this article helpful? 10 1 Ads by Google BSc Psychology Online www.rdi.co.uk/psychology Study In Nigeria - UK Universities. Apply Online Now For Home Study ACCA Distance Learning StudyInterActive.org/ACCA-Distance Access Full Syllabus Online. Live & Recorded HD Video. Tutor Support! Study in Georgia,Europe www.studyingeorgiaeu.com Affordable quality Universities as low as $1500. Visit us at. A-level Diploma abroad www.ef.com Complete the A-level abroad at the EF International Academy Math Practice - Ages 5-15 www.IXL.com/Math A K-12 math website kids LOVE — Win awards, certificates, have fun! GTBank Mobile Money www.gtbank.com/mobilemoney Send Or Receive Money With GTBank. Mobile Money. Simple Money Transfer Good Study Habits and Academic Achievement Walk Hand in Hand By Veronica M. De Escobar Ads by Google Study in Scotland Study a Postgraduate course in Scotland. View course list here! gcu.ac.uk/postgraduate Consider an SJD from UCLA A small, elite doctoral program for budding legal academics. www.law.ucla.edu/sjd Free IELTS Practice Test Take our 21 minute practice test and get your results right away. www.testden.com If you are reading this article...
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...Classroom English and Employability Skills: An Insight Author: E S Sharmila Sigamany, Assistant Professor, Kingston Engineering College, Vellore. Co-Author: S. Shirly Christina, Assistant Professor, Kingston Engineering College, Vellore. Abstract: Teaching English to students both at higher secondary level and at collegiate level requires a lot of planning and the ability to execute the plan. Language learning involves improvement in all 4 skills involved: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing (LSRW Skills) as well as language areas: vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation. But are all these 4 elements being visited upon in our classrooms? This paper aims at looking at the kind of English that is taught/learnt in our traditional classrooms in schools and colleges across India and how it relates to boosting the employability quotient in an individual. Keywords: LSRW, employability, communication, language learning. Introduction: Down the ages English gained popularity through commerce as there was a time when the sun never set on the British Empire – thanks to their conquests - and their colonies spread from one end of the Earth to the other end. Though English is a foreign language it has been taught in India for decades and as we are all well aware it is an associate official language. All our government documents exist in English as well as Hindi. "I would have English as an associate, additional language, which can be used not because of facilities, but because I do not...
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...Generic Skills in Career and Technical Education Career and Technical Educators Employ a Variety of Strategies for Teaching Generic Skills The Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) identified the general skills that most workplaces require, thus providing a basis for programs that prepare students for employment. Reform programs such as Tech Prep and High Schools that Work strive to incorporate these "generic" skills as they offer students a rigorous academic background, technological literacy skill development, and learning experiences that are situated in the context of real-world environments (Pucel 1999). Integrated academic and CTE programs and contextual learning efforts offer similar opportunities to promote the learning of generic skills by linking them to specific workplace and social practices. Workplace learning experiences are another way of highlighting generic skill development by placing students in job situations where these generic skills are used in combination with occupational or technical skills. Although the United States has adopted a variety of strategies for the teaching of generic skills, it is not the only country to do so. Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom have initiated similar programs to address generic skill development. In Australia, integrated curriculum that infuses literacy into specific vocational courses has served to illustrate the necessity of contextualized, multiple literacies (Searle et al. 1999)...
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...At Costa Coffee when applying for a job you have to have specific skills such as… Employability skills: can be defined as the transferable skills needed by an individual to make them 'employable'. Along with good technical understanding and subject knowledge, employers often outline a set of skills that they want from an employee. Interpersonal skills: The skills used by a person to properly interact with others. In the business domain, the term generally refers to an employee's ability to get along with others while getting the job done. Personal skills: are those concerned with how people manage and express themselves. They are revealed in those attitudes and behaviours people bring to their work, study and daily activities. The job I have chosen to write about is being a Costa Baristas which is a person that makes and serves coffee to the general public. Costa Coffee require employability, personal and communication skills when it comes to working on the public view in the shop and serving customers; Costa coffee except a high level of interpersonal skills and a high level of spoken English when communicating with other members of staff and the general public this is needed because the public differ from person to person and having strong interaction skills help the staff and customers to work alongside one an another very well. Employability skills that Costa Coffee require are experience working in a busy working environment but you don’t need to understand the sales...
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...Guardian, 2008), it is expected that university graduates should be able to find employment but there are many who do not (Ntuli, 2007). The labour market oscillates between the skills shortage on one hand and the number of graduates who are without work on the other. It seems paradoxical that a country with a high unemployment rate, has graduates without work, and that professionals need to be imported or lured to the country. This situation may arise from the fact that students lack employability skills. Behavioural (soft) skills such as those gained through curricula that embed critical outcomes such as analytical skills, teamwork, organize and manage oneself, usually deliver more competent and employable graduates (Coll & Zegwaard, 2006). Employers have indicated that students are often not prepared for the workplace and call on universities to produce more employable graduates (Barrie, 2006; Kember & Leung, 2005) by providing transferable skills that can be taken into the workplace (Smith, Clegg, Lawrence & Todd, 2007). Students’ subject matter knowledge is usually satisfactory (Crebert, Bates, Bell, Patrick & Cragnolini, 2004; Hind, Moss & McKellan, 2007) but by improving and developing their competencies such as interpersonal skills, teamwork, communication and problem solving skills, value will be added to their intellectual capabilities making them more employable (Hind et al., 2007; Maher & Graves, 2007). Employers are expecting graduates to be work-ready...
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...Skills Being a team leader within Tesco requires certain skills to do the job properly. If the candidate doesn’t meet the criteria then they won’t be efficient for the job therefore anyone applying for the job must be confident that they have the skills and the experience required. As the team leader the main responsibilities will be to get to: * Get to know the customers and serve them with the best service and pride and encourage the colleagues to do the same. * Understand the store, the way it works and the departments and identify which areas need improvement and create plans to improve * Ensure the colleagues know what they are doing and are in the right place at the right time * Train the colleagues to give the best customer service What is meant by skills in general? An ability to do an activity or a job well, especially because you have practised it. It can be anything that you are good at that for example skill in accuracy, determination, listening and so on. What is a personal skill and what personal skills are required to be a team leader? Personal skill is the ability to manage your personal responsibilities and challenges in work and life. This involves adapting to changing situations and managing your own time. As a team leader it is crucial that you are adaptable and resilient to meet the changing demands of the business and be able to coach and support colleagues to do the same. Team leaders will also be training the colleagues as well...
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...training and qualifications that is used to develop, measure, assess and recognise the skills sets and knowledge that a person needs to perform in their job function/industry. Accredited training or qualifications are developed by RTO’s/Organisations where there are currently no provisions in a Training Package or where there is a (local) skills / industry gap or an apprenticeship that is not covered by a Training Package. Accredited courses must be developed inline with the current national standards (ATQF) and not conflict with any existing Training Package/guidelines. A proposed accredited course must be submitted for rigorous assessment to the relevant state regulator. Once a course has been accredited by a state regulator, the accreditation last for a period of up to 3yrs in the state that it was accredited. If an RTO/Organisation wishes to deliver this course/training nationally, it must then be submitted to each state and territory training authority where it will be delivered for accreditation. In summary a Training Package is a nationally recognised qualification based on and developed by 1 of the 11 industry skills councils of Australia. It is based on unique industry requirements and government regulation/legislation. This to ensure training and qualification are of the highest standard. Accredited courses or training are developed to meet training needs for a particular skill set or local training need that has not addressed by existing...
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