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02/10/2017

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12/06/2017

This is out 4th segment of Employability Skills Seminar and I am happy to say we have received a lot of feedback on the same. We shall be holding an actual seminar a little later and we shall publish the details here.In the meantime Edumentor Business College is the place to be for more employability.

Our seminar this week is on Personal Management and Work Readiness, after the self audit you did you need to make yourself work ready-lets see how this is done.

Personal management, also known as self-organization is a very important employability skill. In is chapter we shall look at the various ways in which you can reflect on and later develop the ability to manage yourself. Secondly, by the end of this chapter you should have developed new skills of self-management for the benefit of your enterprise or workplace.
Some aspects of personal management that we will cover are:
 Self-awareness
 Time management
 Four P’s: punctuality, planning, pacing, prioritizing
 Goal setting
 Self-evaluation and monitoring at work
 Flexibility and adaptability
 Managing emotions

Work Readiness
There is an ancient practice called apprenticeship, in which a young technician (like yourself) worked under an experienced practitioner. The apprentice would watch, assist and participate in the trade under the supervision of the master craftsman until he becomes competent enough to do it on his own. This practice has continued through the ages, we sometimes call it attachment, placement, work-experience programme or tutelage. Even though it is given different names, the objective is one; to increase a person’s work readiness.
Most professionals experience shock when they are thrown into the world of work because it operates on very different rules from those they were accustomed to at college. The school system is very structured and predictable, with every lesson starting with a clear and stated outcome, a feedback system that works and a fair share of attempt to encourage learners to succeed. The world of work-on the other hand-is difficult to predict, hard to interpret and sometimes unfriendly. Those who are lucky enough to get jobs soon after graduation realize that the predictable annual promotion, that was the norm in the college, does not apply. The title does not change over a long period of time and the boss does not try particularly hard to make tasks either interesting or clear. His feedback and reinforcement skills may not match those of your teacher. Such a perplexed and new employee needs assistance in order to appreciate the way the world of work works.

23/05/2017

The third installment of Employability Skills Seminar, welcome:
Employability Skills Self-audit
The objectives of this section are to enable every jobseeker to:
1. Identify his present levels of employability skills against the expected competencies
2. Take specific steps and actions to develop those skills that are required at different job levels.
The natural way to start the process of developing and enhancing your employability is to find out how employable you are today. This lesson will give you the tools and the opportunity to evaluate your employability against expected industry standards. Now that you know what the general employability skills are, you should be able to take a self-test to find out how well your skills compare to the qualities, levels and expectations described above by employers. The results of this self-test should be taken as a pretty good indicator of what the next employer will find out if you do nothing about it!
Why the self audit?
In any skill development book the reader is taking a metaphorical journey and self assessment is a very natural point of departure; he will check the route, the length, the barriers, the company and the supplies required in order to prepare adequately. If he finds out he is not prepared then, he should take note of the areas that need attention. This audit is important for the following reasons:
• The self audit empowers you to take ownership of the process of building soft skills
• If you carry out this self-audit seriously and honestly you have a higher chance of succeeding in developing employability skills
• The ability and skill to accurately audit yourself is valued at workplaces today.
The following exercise is good practice for this key workplace skill and there are activities to guide you towards the audit in this section.
Reflective Exercise
Pick two subjects that you studying identify four employability skills you think you should have at the end of your course.

12/05/2017

This is my second visit with you on the subject of employability and just before my actual post, did you know, "More than 75% of employers surveyed said that soft skills were as important as – or more important than – technical skills in securing entry-level employment"?

Today's topic is "knowing the employer"-when you know what employers in the 21st Century require, you are in a better position to sharpen your employability skills.
Knowing the Employer
Having looked at the meaning of employability skills, let us now turn to employers and what they want in the persons they hire. Knowing the employer is also called employer-awareness and broadly refers to the ability of a jobseeker to demonstrate that he understands employer as a person, employer as an organization and employer as a part of other employers within the sector.
1. Employer as a person is the employer or his representative. He a person whom you come into contact with at the interview and who has the potential of offering you a job. The employer is interested in you as a person whose personality, qualifications and experiences fit the requirements of the position he is hiring for; someone who is likely to fit in their institution, learn its culture fast and make a contribution. You must understand his needs.
2. Employer as a corporate body: This is the organization in which you are seeking to work for. You need to be aware of the mission, vision and ethos of the institution in which you are seeking to be a part of as well as the products they make or services they offer.
3. Employer as a part of a larger group of competitors: Understand the sector and the environment in which the company operates. For example if you are a tour guide you need to understand details of tourism as an industry such as the percentage of revenue the sector commands in the economy. Whether it is affected by politics, global security concerns, fuel prices and the like? Laws or new taxes that affect the sector or new companies joining the industry.
You realize that this knowledge may have nothing to do with the grades you got in your diploma in business and technology classes in college. It has everything to do with personal attitude, curiosity and the desire to understand the world around you; especially a world in which you want to be a part of. This is highly valued by employers and you must cultivate that habit today. It takes a few minutes on the internet and a few more minutes to sit quietly think and relate the facts you have read to the task of developing crucial soft skills.

Reflective exercise
Identify the kind of employer you want to work for and carry out an employer awareness analysis.

11/05/2017

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26/04/2017

What are Employability Skills?
Employability skills non-technical skills which are career-related. They are also known as core competencies or transferable skills but as we shall see shortly, they are distilled from the soft skills. To employ means to meaningfully engage, to use, to apply oneself or skills in order to achieve a particular goal. Let us now examine a few definitions of employability skills that will guide us in exploring its various attributes. According to Yorke, a UK expert on employability skills, they are “a set of skills, knowledge and personal attributes that makes an individual more likely to secure and be successful in their chosen occupation(s) to the benefit of themselves, the workforce, the community and the economy.” (Yorke, 2006).

Australia is one of the countries that has done a lot of work on employability skills and even integrated them within other school subjects. They define employability skills as “the skills required to gain employment or establish an enterprise, but also to progress within an enterprise or expand employment capability, so as to achieve one’s potential and contribute successfully to enterprise strategic decisions.” Australian Chamber of Commerce, 2002.
Notice carefully that the above definitions:
• Identify the employee, employer, workmates, community and wider society as beneficiaries of employability skills
• Do not look at employability skills narrowly as those concerned with getting employment but also for self-employment
• Are not limited to particular sectors but rather cut across all kinds of enterprises
Conclusion: Employability skills are therefore those non-technical skills that recruiting agents and employers identify as key in determining the success rate of securing a job or business, effectively functioning and succeeding in it. These skills cut across all industries and sectors.

21/03/2017

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