The employability skills refer to the skills that are required by the individuals to be employable. Employable skills are further sub-classified as interpersonal skills, technical skills, and conceptual skills. Employability skills have great importance to make an employee capable to get a better job opportunity. Employees having these employability skills usually outperform in the organization and get better adjust easily, therefore, most of the time employer companies prefer to recruit candidates with better employability skills. In employability skills, the key important skill is communication skill, critical thinking skills, problem solving skills, attitude, planning and organizing, teamwork, and professionalism (Messum, et al., 2011). In general, employability skills refers to narrow usage of the contrast and concept with attempts to reach a relatively broader defined concept of employability that has also significant importance on the overall labor market policy. Basically, the term employability skill refers to the key skills and reason that makes a person really suitable for a specific job position (Chaita, 2016). Each job position has some particular requirements related to skills, experience, and education. For instance, technical skills and knowledge are essential for the workers working on the front line or production line of a manufacturing plant. While on the other hand, senior job positions require interpersonal skills, communication skills, leadership skills, technical skills, problem solving skills, and conflict handling skills. Thus, in short, employability skills defer according to the job position but remains important for all kind of job position. Employees having better employability skills usually have a greater likelihood of being employed in a good position with attractive packages.             

Personal Analysis of Personal Development Plan

            In this section personal analysis are presented in the light of weakness, strengths, opportunity, and threats related to the selected job position.

Chief Financial Control Officer (CFO)

       The selected job position is Chief Financial Control Officer (CFO) in the local company.  Chief Financial Control Officer (CFO) job position is really important in an organization as it has several duties and responsibilities that can influence the overall financial outcomes of the company. Chief Financial Control Officer (CFO) job duties and responsibilities include leading and directing finance and accounting teams. Chief Financial Control Officer (CFO) provides strategic recommendations to directors and CEO of a company to execute operations in the most profitable way. The job holders of Chief Financial Control job position also manage and forecast budget and financial planning for the next fiscal year or quarter. Chief Financial Control Officer (CFO) job position requires interpersonal skills and communications skills to have a better relationship with executives, stakeholders and senior management of the company. Moreover, they also review formal finance, IT, and HR related procedure to get work done in accordance with the desired patterns (Durrani & Tariq, 2012). Having an interest in the job position I must have employability skills related to this job position to get chances of being recruited by the selected company for this job position.

References of Personal Development Plan

Chaita, M. V., 2016. Developing Graduate Employability Skills: Your Pathway to Employment. s.l.:Universal-Publishers.

Durrani, N. & Tariq, V. N., 2012. The role of numeracy skills in graduate employability. Education+ Training, 54(5), pp. 419-434.

Messum, D., Wilkes, L. & Jackson, D., 2011. Employability Skills: essential requirements in health manager vacancy advertisements. Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management, 6(2).