Discuss about the Graduate Employment Skills for Self Reflection Exercises.
Self awareness exercises are those exercises which can turn human being to the ideal perfectness by assessing own strength and weakness analysis. Self awareness exercises are primary exercises to make a human being successful by following regular process of systematic approaches. These exercises can make a human being assess his ability with the identification of different areas of development required for different parts of life. (Adele, 2015) As a graduate student, the highlight of individual’s study is to fix the vision and mission of future professional life with the fixation of objective for short and long term period. (Chtena, 2013) There are certain processes of these exercises which can systematically escalate a graduate student to a successful professional through understanding, implementing and assessing the outcome of the exercises taken up by an individual. (Shores, 2006)
During the study of graduation level, an individual gains some skills, which can be exploited for professional success. There are different types of self reflection exercises, which can enhance the level of skills of a student for his professional success. (Australia, 2017)
As per the book ‘Your Career and You’ published by Graduate Careers Australia, there are certain steps to be followed to make a perfect self assessment process. The steps are defined below as per numerical preference focused by Bronwyn Duncan for GCA:
When an individual is studying in graduate level, he is proved to be matured enough to take his own decisions for his professional life. For this purpose, the individual has to fix his vision, mission and objective related to his professional life. These factors should not be fixed as per the theoretical aspects, but are to be fixed with the practical aspects of skills gathered from the study and the ability to successfully execute the same in the professional life. (Doss, 2016) While vision represents the destination where an individual likes to see him after a reasonable time, mission represents the way to accomplish that vision. The objectives are set for long and short term for an individual and the same are to be monitored on regular periodical basis to assess the success percentage of the individual to accomplish those set targets. This self reflection process can make the individual realize where he is lacking. This process can make the individual able to rectify his professional strategies to accomplish professional goals. (MSW, 2011)
Individual values and attitudes play a vital role in professional success. Being a graduate student, strong level of values and positive attitudes are to be complied with commitment for professional life mandatorily. Values and attitudes attract rewards which are divided into external and internal. There is clear definition of desirable reward, which can meet essential reward for the effort of an individual in professional field. Rewards may be defined as the accomplishment of any job with subsequent recognition of the same. (Sims, 2012)
Interests are the driving forces for any individual to be successful in every sphere of life. Interests generate from personal likings or affluence of skills of any individual. Interests may generate in professional and personal life and are considered as driving forces of success for any individual. Interests of individual can be classified in two spectrum of life- work and leisure or personal. The interests can also be classified into two different levels as per preference- very highly important and fairly important. Maintenance of proper balance in these interests can be the deciding factor for success of individual life.
Personal attributes of an individual is depending upon different factors out of which intellectual capacity followed by the ability of use of innovative power is one. It is not prerequisite of every individual; instead this feature is dominant with rare number of individuals. Innovative power leads to creativity and this virtue makes individual special in the crowd. Projection of innovative power differentiates individual from general as they can do things in other ways than the others with more perfection and professionalism. This is an inherent quality which can be developed through self realization process.
Sense of responsibility is another area of personal attribute of any individual which determines the accountability of him. Readiness to do as per the demand of the situation to comply with the assignment is a major factor for future success of any graduate student. Sense of responsibility makes an individual different from others. (Toolman, 2017)
Leadership is another domain of personal attribute. Leadership forces to lead any team or group of people for any common objective by following a well acceptable strategy. Leadership can contribute to the professional life by guiding the team with proper direction for accomplishment of objective. (Watkins, 2016)
Temperament and personal style of any individual is a predominant factor for success in professional field. Being a graduate student, the individual has to ensure that both these factors should comply with the demand of the situation. In other words, temperament and personal style should not dictate professional life; instead the same should be flexible in order to accomplish the objective successfully. (urdang, 2010)
Competitiveness is another area of success for individual. In the hardcore struggle of professional life, competitiveness is to be faced in every steps of life and is to be faced with proper strategy.
Initiative to make decisions is another area of personal attributes of an individual. Initiative is required to come over the obstacles faced in different sphere of life including professional fields. Self motivation drives towards success while driven motivation leads to slow success rate.
Self confidence, persistence, flexibility, energy and health of an individual are also the basic factors of personal attributes, which are cause of success in professional and personal life. Hence the graduate students should exercise self realization of these areas in order to ensure success in professional life.
Employability skills are developed through rigorous process of self realization followed by continuous practice. Skills can be dormant if they are not exercised. Proper execution of skills is subject to specialization of executing such skills. Graduate student should know how to cultivate skills, sharpen it and apply it as per requirement of the situation.
Each individual is consisting of strengths and weaknesses. Strengths can be identified through the process of application of developed skills. Weaknesses can be identified through self assessment of demand of situation which cannot be met through owned skills. Identified strengths can be well used for accomplishment of objectives in micro as well as macro level of professional life. Good hold of sound communication skill can be defined as identified strength and the same can be used for communicating with other stakeholders of the employment. (Sims, 2012)
When an individual enters professional life, he has to depend on two factors- theoretical knowledge and practical application of the same in job. Due to regular enhancement of technological application, professional development is required to keep updated with the latest technological application and support for any individual. Hence, graduate student should be ready to upgrade their knowledge through sharing process with the experts in order to keep him updated to meet the requirement of the profession in effective manner.
Through self assessment process, I have identified areas of professional development to be done by me to excel in my professional career. Being accounting professional and aspirant accounting personnel in any good organization, I have to be well aware of different aspects of Australian Accounting Standards through the directives of AASB. The implication of International Accounting Standard through the directives of IASB are also to be kept in mind through regular studying and understanding the application of those standards in accounting practice. The accounting reporting standard set by International Financial Reporting Standards or IFRS are to be well considered while managing financial information for preparation of financial reports. Through self awareness exercises, these areas are to be assessed with proper application method of those directives to make the accounting reports as per the standards set and accepted by ASX and the Corporation Act of Australia, 2001. (Harris, 2016) There is another area of communication skill which is to be developed by me. As communicating means expressing myself to others through written or oral presentation, this skill is to be adopted with latest modes so that people on the other side would understand and reciprocate in effective manner. For this purpose, I have to undergo a crash course on communication skill for 30 days to upgrade my communication skill. MS XL, Word and PPT are the basic criteria through which presentation can be made. I have to undergo another short course in XL and PPT to be able to use the latest features of these applications for good and effective presentation for the stakeholder’s benefit.
With the above discussion, it is evident that self assessment process is prerequisite for an individual to be successful in professional field. As a graduate student is ready to enter professional field, he is no exception to this application. Self realization process is the best tool to enhance individual deliverance level with proper application of different factors for self assessment. All these factors are important and none can be denied while success is bull’s eye for the aspirant. (Sims, 2012)
By exercising self awareness programs, I have found my strength in the areas of personal attributes through good hold of innovativeness, readiness to adopt professional development, cope up with the domains of sense of responsibilities, competitiveness and temperament as a team member. Weakness is observed in the areas of leadership exercises and personal style which are to be developed through continuous process of self realization.
Amit Kumar Khurana
24/22, Fourth Avenue, Victoria, Australia. Zip Code- 3030
Contact – +61203486589
Email address- [email protected] gmail.com
A keen learner of latest accounting activities, with the theoretical knowledge of handling receivables and payables along with finalization of accounts by completing income statement and consolidated financial position of any organization. Good awareness of latest standards as per Australian Accounting Standard Board (AASB) and International Accounting Standard Board (IASB) with the application of International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS). Well equipped with the application of different international and Australian Standards in the domain of accounting are my key professional strengths.
Professional Highlights
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Bachelor of Science, Accounting from Victoria College of Business Administration in 2017.
I declare that the above information is true and fair to the best of my knowledge. (career, 2017)
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To emphasis on my selection criteria, a statement of the same is being given below:
Strengths:
These are my areas of expertise on which I would like to emphasize for my professional career in accounting and so, I present them as my selection criteria. (Australia, 2017)
To dated 18.04.2018
The Accounting Manager,
XYZ Ltd.
Victoria, Australia
Zip Code 3034
Subject: application for the pot of Junior Accounting Executive
Reference- Your advertisement in the Guardian on 15th April, 2018
Dear Sir,
Refer to your above advertisement in the Guardian Victoria Edition; I would like place my candidature for the post advertised by you.
Please find my updated resume and the statement of selection criteria, as enclosed herewith.
I would be obliged if you will provide the chance to me for an interview related to above post and I can assure you that you will not find yourself feeling wastage of time for this.
I am eagerly waiting to get a call from you to serve your esteemed organization with my utmost and sincere effort to make value contribution to the organization.
Thanking you,
Yours truly,
Amit Kumar Khurana
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