...Identify Your Transferable Skills Over the years, we have assembled a list of transferable skills that are important in a wide variety of careers. In the checklist that follows, the skills listed as "Key Transferable Skills" are those that are consider to be most important for success on the job/career. These skills are also those that are often required in jobs with more responsibility and higher pay, so you should emphasize these skills if you have them. The remaining transferable skills are grouped into categories that may be helpful to you. Go ahead and check each skill you are strong in, and then double-check the skills you want to use in your career. When you are finished, you should have checked 10 to 20 skills at least once. |Descriptor |Definition | |Skills |Skills are commonly understood to refer to an ability to perform a specific task. | |Competencies |Competency is used to refer to an observable behavior performed to a specified level and therefore provides a basis | | |for the assessment of performance. | |Attributes, qualities and|These refer to those capabilities of an individual in most instances although “characteristics” is sometimes used to ...
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...Transferable Skills Development MGT 495 Instructor: Prof. Dr. Mohammad Majid Mahmood Bagram LECTURE-1 Course Description: • This course on Transferable Skills Development uses a unique three-pronged approach - theory, application, and skill development - to make key concepts relevant to today's students. • The course combines traditional theory with cutting-edge today`s Transferable Skills Development issues & Challenges that focuses on key elements. • Packed with real-world examples, the course illustrates how successful managers deal with challenges, as well as provides students with step-by-step guidelines for effectively handling skills development functions. • Experiential exercises, action learning, individual and group work, role plays, reflective exercises, and self assessment included in this course would help students to immediately apply to their personal and professional lives. Course Objectives: Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: • Develop skills in managing oneself, other people, groups, and ultimately organizations. • Develop rich set of softer interpersonal, influencing, team-building, conflict management, and communications skills. • Understand organizational performance, and career success in modern, dynamic and complex organizations. Transferable Skills Development: Transferable Skills Development is more than getting work done through people. It is developing...
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...Introduction Reminiscing at the first week of this class, we completed an assignment that tested each students’ strengths and weaknesses. The Transferable Skills Inventory (TSI) is acquired expertise from experience. The purpose of taking the TSI test is to recognize areas of improvement and then apply it in the workplace. This week, I will be discussing Convey, and one of his strategies that helped me develop my overarching question throughout the past seven weeks. Further, I will explain the relevance of the proactive approach in the circle of influence as a healthy individual. Briefly summary of chosen habit The problem I will be addressing relates to the direct control of the Circle of Influence. As Convey stated, “Proactive people concentrate their efforts in the Circle of Influence. They work on the things they can do anything about. The nature of their energy is positive, enlarging and magnifying, causing their Circle of Influence to increase (p.83).” Proactive people use a specific language by saying I will do, I can do better than that, I will start the project (self-initiated), and I will take care of my health. In other words, proactive people manage...
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...Summary of Self Assessment Outcomes Jessica Brown Step 1: Skills Assessment Indicate five transferable skills you have to offer to an employer. A list of transferable skills is found in our text book on pages 30-31. Feel free to search the Internet for additional lists. After listing the skill, briefly explain through example how you have put the skill to use. Transferable Skill | Explanation/Example | Providing appropriate feedback | During our peak hours when we make our drive-thru times, I congratulate on a job well done and also explain we need to do this every day to keep the business coming | Expressing ideas | Expressing on how to keep employee morale by giving out incentives so they can actually look forward to coming to work | Identifying problems | Trying to trouble on why we had less customers today then we did yesterday | Managing conflict | When a customer has a complaint whether it be about the service or the food trying to smooth them over so they will continue to be a returning customer | Meeting goals | We have weekly manager meeting to see where we are at in the company and what areas we need to improve on | Indicate five job specific skills you have to offer to an employer. In addition include a minimum of one example for each in which you can prove how you have put the skill to use. Job Specific Skill | Explanation/Example | Communication skills | Someone who can convey information and give clear directions on what to do | ...
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...Moderator*: Date: ------------------------------------------------- External Moderator*: Date: ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- * For completion if part, or all, of the evidence has been sampled by the Internal and/or External Moderator ------------------------------------------------- Unit 01 Evaluate learning F/503/6824 You will: Evaluate own learning to date | You can: | What you’ve done to show this | Location/Portfolio page number | IM/EM signature (if sampled) | 1.1 Identify a previous goal stating whether it was or wasn’t achieved | | | | 1.2 Identify your own transferable skills | | | | 1.3 Identify a current or future goal for yourself | | | | 1.4 Evaluate how your transferable skills may help you achieve this goal | | | | 1.5 Identify the opportunities available to you following a...
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...overview of the different industry segments. 1. Public Accounting – Tax & Audit 2. Private/Corporate Accounting 3. Forensic Accounting 4. Fund Accounting 5. Internal Auditing 6. Tax & Wealth Management Step #2: Review the general description of four main skill categories (highlighted in yellow) used in business today as defined by Career Leader including the sub-skills that comprise each category. |Interpersonal Effectiveness: Good at working with, and through, other people. Understand people and how to motivate them. A good team member, as well as team | |leader. Engender others' trust. A skillful negotiator. | • Ability to Compromise: Able to compromise when the situation calls for it. • Ability to Teach: Clear and patient when explaining things; a good teacher. • Comfort with Differences: Comfortable and effective in relating to people from many different backgrounds and cultures. • Empathy Skills: Can see things from other people's points of view. • Gaining Trust: Inspires other people's trust. • Listening Skills: Listens to other people in a way that they feel understood. • Openness to Criticism: Accepts critical feedback without getting defensive. • Respect for Others: Respectful of other people's points of view, as well...
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...Developing Professional Development Plan and CV Chapter 02 Evaluation on Professional Development Plan Chapter 03 Highlighted on Interpersonal and transferable skills Chapter 04 Focus on Learning in a professional context Table of contents Executive summary 01 Table of contents 02 Chapter 01 03-09 1.1 Introduction on Personal and Professional Development 1.2 Self Assessment 1.3 Personal SWOT Analysis 1.4 Skill Audit 1.5 Personal Development Plan 1.6 Curriculum vitae Chapter 02 10 2.1 Evaluation on Personal Development Plan Chapter 03 11-13 3.1 Interpersonal and transferable skills 3.2 Time Management 3.3 Problem solving 3.4 Communication Chapter 04 14 4.1 Learning Bibliography 15 Chapter 01 1.1 Introduction on Personal and Professional Development Understanding skills, attitudes and knowledge is helpful to develop personal and professional career. According to the Guskey and Huberman (1995)Professional development is those processes and activities designed to enhance the professional knowledge, skills and attitudes of individuals in a working environment so that they might, in turn enhance the performance of the overall organization. This is an ongoing, systematic and intentional process. Knowledge, skills and attitudes enhancement will create confidence about themselves towards work on their future plan. And also it creates a better quality of our life...
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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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...through such things as personal traits, preferences, and values. Evaluate the list of personal values that employers seek, found on page 8 of our text. Share two of the personal values listed that you feel are the most important. Support your view with examples from personal work experiences when possible. week 2 Self-Assessment Exploration (graded) In anticipation of this week’s self-assessment assignment, go to http://www.rileyguide.com/assess.html and explore the many self-assessment sites presented. Without choosing sites that are fee based, take several of the surveys in a few different categories. Did your results confirm what you knew about yourself or did they surprise you at all? Name several of the traits, interests, skills, and/or values that you discovered and link them to success in your chosen field.week 3 SMART Goal Practice (graded) Let’s talk a bit about setting goals. Goals are easy to set but a bit harder to make a reality. This week’s lecture defines and gives advice on setting SMART goals. Review the lecture, and then try to rewrite one or two of the following general goals into one that is SPECIFIC, MEASURABLE, ATTAINABLE, REALISTIC, and TIMELY. After you have written your chosen goal, look at some written by classmates and provide feedback to them. General Goals: I want to lose some weight, I want to get a new car, I want to get a job in...
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...been given in order to enhanced my skills, abilities, awareness and understanding of my role Reflection Semester I started this course as a student As my first semester is coming to an end, This way of learning is completely different to anything I have done before. As a high school student over thirty five years ago, I learnt everything parrot fashion and was assessed by examination only - I lost interest very quickly. So to experience this different way of learning will encourage me to be more creative in my work, my confidence is improving and I am pleased with my performance in my first year though I did feel particularly anxious, stretched and challenged. I have gained knowledge on essay writing, referencing and a variety of research methods which have all been helpful. I see these skills as the basic tools I will need to progress through my course and complete the foundation degree and hopefully, these will be transferable Productive and rewarding. My first year has made me become more positive when accepting ideas from others. I learnt it is okay to say if you do not think somebody’s suggestion will work but in doing so I need to give my reasons and suggest an alternative. My studying and my work based learning has helped me greatly with communication, problem solving and critical thinking skills it has made me reflect on my own skills in this area. Being able to deliver a presentation professionally and confidently is a skill I feel least competent with, on self...
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...This article main presents how three kinds of skills namely teambuilding, communication and delegation, the author learned via military leadership is applicable to the People’s Health Clinic (PHC). It has been manifested that there is more similarities than differences for the application of these three skills in any organization according to the experience of the author. In case of either military or PHC, it is has proved that building a team with personal difference as well as complementary capabilities should be placed with enough importance for it is crucial to complete a mission or a task. In this article, the author produced evidences for how to build a team and the good returns brought by such practices. With three positions set in this article, the PHC succeeded in hiring the qualified people, which can create a team to hold people together and then work for the organization to serve the community. Based on this team, more extensive activities can be facilitated by PHC, proving the significance of building a team. According to the interception of the author, effective communication can be identified as members’ capability of understanding the role and corresponding capability in achieving the mission. Furthermore, the meaning of effective communication has been extended to people’s capability to affect communities to understand that people are doing. In order to apply the explanation of such skill learned in military to the PHC, the author presented how they worked around...
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...Log will record attendance at supervisions, skills training etc. It will also be a vehicle for Personal Development Planning*. This document belongs to you and you must keep it up to date, but it will routinely be seen by your supervisor. Please add pages to the Log as required. At the end of each twelve months, you will have a formal meeting with your supervisor and a joint report of your progress will be entered in the Log. The Local Co-ordinator will also ask to see the Log at this time to check that attendance requirements have been met. The Progress Log should also be an up to date record of your training needs and requirements as a Graduate Student. It will help you to plan your own training (Section 2) and to record the outcomes (Sections 3 and 4). The information accumulated will prove helpful when you come to rewriting your CV and applying for jobs, and will form part of your own Personal Development Plan*. *A Personal Development Plan is “a means by which students can monitor, build and reflect upon their personal development” (National Committee of Inquiry in Higher Education, 1997). Supported by the Government and Higher Education Institutions, the primary objective of Personal Development Planning is to help students • become more effective, independent and confident self-directed learners; • understand how they are learning and relate their learning to a wider context • improve their general skills for study and career management; • articulate...
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...Anthony Reid Business Management Personal Development and Planning Reflective report assignment During my first year of studying in the Cardiff Metropolitan University I have found myself using a number of skills that I was previously taught in my school and now this set of skills is been all brought up together and represented in a more specific and detailed view throughout the PDP course. PDP e-lessons were a good source, which I have used when I have found my self stuck with the referencing and the way to put the sources list in the end of my work the right way. Academic skills Note making is one of the skills that I have applied fully and at which I feel strong. The basics of making the effective notes from printed sources is a very important skill that I have learned and applied quite a lot during the study year. It helped me to quickly take down important notes mostly in a format of bullet points during lectures and seminars, while going through photocopies and piles of hand outs that where given out by lecturers at seminars. By knowing that the notes have to be effective; i.e. focused, organized, targeted and the most important for me – useful, forced me to improve myself in organizing the notes for each subject in a different note taking book as well as a separate electronic folder in a notes app on my iPad, which is synced to Google drive. Another very helpful technic that I have been using since the first time I have started learning languages is note...
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...of impeccable standards. He or she must possess three ideological traits in order to become very successful. This individual will contain qualities of having complete organizational skills, nothing less then setting a standard in punctuality, and most of all they will always be optimistic at any given time. To be organized is a great trait to have. People may say they have organizational skills, on the contrary to that belief not many people can maintain systematic organization skills. In the job market organizational skills is one of the most important transferable job skills a worker can possess. Companies need workers who can stay organized and focus on the projects at hand. However, company managers must also organize the work for their employees. Organizational skills in the workplace are a multitude of key factors. Organization can be classified as systematic, neat, clean, diligent and having a formal organization. To have an organization skill set is one of the most under estimated skill traits in the job market today. Another great trait to have as a leader is punctuality. The importance of punctuality is often overlooked. It reflects on your image as a person and as an employee at the workplace. Punctuality is not exaggeration of an important job skill; it is one of the most ideal skill traits that will contribute greatly in a successful leader. Even punctuality in your day-to-day life has an effect on people around you. To be on time for a meeting, a class, an event...
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...Texas Roadhouse founder Kent Taylor opened first restaurant in 1993 with a people first philosophy. “His focus on employee happiness was a departure from the conventional management wisdom at a time when competitors were focused solely on taking care of the guest. Claiming the status of legendary is a bold move for any organization. But being bold has never been a problem for Texas Roadhouse. For this $1.2 billion, 325-unit restaurant chain the words “Legendary Food. Legendary Service.” are less mission statement and more sincere commitment to employees, customers, and culture.” (OCTanner, n.d.) “If we take care of our employees, they will take care of our customers” is a common phrase. In your experience, is it actually practiced or is it just a cliché on the wall? Discuss the implications of your answer. “If we take care of our employees, they will take care of our customers” is not an overused expression or idea, but one that is spot-on, and will not go out of style. This may not be an original idea but it is significant in today’s business world. Employees are key stakeholders in an organization’s success and if the employees have an emotional commitment to an organization that means they are engaged and care about their work and organization. As support for this premise a recent Tempkin Employee Engagement Study showed, high employee engagement impacts the bottom line: • Companies with strong financial results report employees to be engaged 75% of the time — compared...
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