Development plan section is consist of the plan that will be used to develop employability skills for the selected job position. Moreover, in this section classroom activities and current challenges are also discussed in detail to provide a clear and comprehensive overview of the development plan. The following presented table presents the timeline created for the employability skills development plan. The following table only covers four key skills on which I currently want to focus in order to enhance my employability skills for the job position of Chief Financial Control Officer (CFO).  

            In accordance with the above mentioned table, each skill is allotted 30 days total time duration with different hours per day. Somehow, other than timeline the important question is that “how I will address these development needs?” The following details will present I will address these development needs.

 Numeracy Skills  

            Numeracy skills are not essential but they can build a competitive advantage. I have developed a complete plan to address this development need. In accordance with my plan numeracy skills will be developed through practice (Durrani & Tariq, 2012). I would practice to memorize numbers and use those numbers as evidence while communicating with other students and peer groups. For instance, I would practice remembering solutions and answers to the homework question that I will later discuss verbally in my communication. This practice will support me to get development in this skill. Somehow, other than this I would also read books and conduct research on the internet to learn more ways to get development in the numeracy skills. Although, I will spend 1 hour per day from 20 June 2019 to 20 July 2019 to get improvement in the numeracy skills.     

Decision Making Skills

             Decision making skills are not really easy to be developed unless one pays enough attention to it. For the development of this skill, I would attend online training sessions. I will do practice with them and read out books written on decision making skills development. Moreover, I would try to follow the decision making steps, SWOT analysis, and Smart goals setting techniques to practice decision making skills. Total time suggested to learn and practice decision making skills is 30 days with 2 hours concentration daily.   

Conflict Handling Skills

             Conflict handling skills require the talent for understanding the situation and negotiation skills (Bridgstock, 2009). I have stronger negotiation skills, therefore, I only have to focus on the understanding of uncertainties and conflicting situations quickly. Somehow, such skills can be learned through practice and literature reading. I would read books written on effective strategies to handle conflicting situations as leaders in the organization to grab an idea about the possible methods and strategies for conflict resolution. While on the other hand, I would also try to practice conflicting handling skills in the classroom and playgrounds whenever I would found people having quarrel or conflict. The total time selected for this skill is 30 days a month (Mid of August to Mid of September) with 0.5 hours per day activities related to conflict handling skills development.

Auditing Skills

        Auditing skills are not easy to learn without enough practice. To learn auditing skills I will spend a total 2 hours on a daily basis for a whole one month (Starting from mid of September to the mid of October). I would address the need for auditing skills development by practicing the case studies and questions related to the auditing on a daily basis. I would read at least 1 book and 3 articles written on auditing other than the course textbook to get a more advanced level understanding of auditing. Auditing skills can support me in performing well at the selected job position.

 Role of Classroom Activities

        Classroom activities are meant to design in such a way that support the students get practice for their future career and jobs responsibilities. Oral Presentation and group activities are best to promote communication skills, numeracy or verbal learning skills, situation handling skills, and decision making skills. I would use these activities for the skills of numeracy skills, decision making skills, and conflict handling skills. While the guest speaker's session on the topic of finance and auditing can support me get more knowledge about auditing to enhance my skills development process.   

Role of Other Challenges

        The role of other challenges includes experiences in personal, academic, and professional life in the current semester and its influences or role in the skills development plan. Work experience learned at the workplace can be identified as a challenge that grabbed my attention towards the requirement of conflict handling skills and decision making skills. While on the other hand, during presentation and academic activities I found myself lacking solid evidence related to numeric that also influenced my grades. The academic experience encouraged me to present my views and arguments with the numeric evidence to get better grades in the future.       

References of Development Plan of Personal Development Plan

Bridgstock, R., 2009. The graduate attributes we’ve overlooked: enhancing graduate employability through career management skills. Higher Education, 28(1), pp. 31-44.

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).

Munishi, D. E. J., 2016. FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO LACK OF EMPLOYABLE SKILLS AMONG TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION (TVET) GRADUATES IN TANZANIA. Business Education Journal, 1(2), pp. 1-19.