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This task requires students toinvestigate the skills, capabilities and attributes that employers currently seek and valuein graduate employees. You need to identify and discuss these in order tomake recommendationsfor strategies students could use to make themselves more employable. As it takes time to develop these attributes, your report is written for first year students (doing the same degree and major that you are currently enrolled in), so they can develop them while completing their three-year degree. Think about this report and especially its recommendations as an action plan you would write for yourself.

Your report is written to Turner Smart, the representative of the University of Adelaide 2020 entering cohort.

You can use articles from journals and newspapers, work from researchers, government and university websites, professional and job search websites to gather information on the contemporary needs of employers. You should refer toa minimum of 5 various credible sources. UseHarvard Referencing guide

to accurately reference your sources both in-text and in the reference list.

Your report, written in plain English, should bea formal documentwhich outlines the skills required for successful employment after graduation and could include current trends, examples (if relevant), any challenges or issues (if relevant), strategies for students.

The format of your report should include:

universitycover sheet

;

cover letter (letter of transmittal);

report title page;

table of contents;

executive summary;

introduction;

discussion;

summary and conclusions;

recommendations;

reference list;

appendices (if any).

See Week 10 materials on the myUni course site for guidance and a
model report

with the format to follow.

Your report should be1000 words long (excluding references and headings).Include a word count at the end of your Recommendations section.Do not includeyour letter of transmittal, cover page, executive summary, table of contents, references or appendices in your word count.

Feedback:Comments and a mark will be returned to you within two weeks of submission. Marks will be awarded for the comprehensiveness of your research, your awareness of the contemporary business environment and your audience (job seekers), and report format and structure. Assessment rubric is available below.

Arunavo · Accepted Answer

ACADEMIC WRITING
SKILLS AND QUALITIES EMPLOYERS SEEKING IN GRADUATE EMPLOYEES
Executive Summary
In this article, the major discussion will be regarding the skills and qualities an employer seeks from their employees. Many fresh graduates qualify each year to get them ready for the job. In this article the detailed discussion will be made with respect to the demands of the employers, the skills those are required in present working condition and the skills and qualities the graduates possesses and the kind of improvements required to match the expectations of the employers.  
Table of Contents 
Executive Summary	2
Introduction	4
Discussion	4
The Missing Skills	5
Process of Developing the Skills	5
Conclusion	6
References	7
Introduction
Every year thousands of graduates are qualifying from colleges and making available themselves in the job market. The graduates possess multiple qualities, which relates to their education, extra co curricula activities and many new technologies, which are required in the current job market situation. In this competitive world, it is very much necessary for the organization to be always ahead and front-runner in the market. Therefore, to achieve this organizational goal the organization must have a pool of talented and qualified workforce.  In this report, the detailed discussion will be made with respect to the skills and capabilities that an employer is looking in their employees, particularly from the budding fresh graduates and the kind of skills and qualities the graduates must have to meet the employer’s expectation to get them a job.   
Discussion
When fresh graduates come out of college seeking job, they start looking for graduate position or they plan on going straight into the work. Chin, Xun and Yanan have discussed that employer survey helps in analysing in identifying good key skills, transferable skills and the ability to network and the right attitude a candidate posses which makes them ideal for the job position. There are certain skills and attributes that an employer’s look in the candidates they are hiring. As further discussed by Pang, Wong, Leung and Coombes (2019) the kind of skills that an employer looks for are:
· When the graduates are recruited then the most formal qualification that is seen are the attitudes and aptitudes. 
· Along with the technical and basic skills are seen, other important aspects are also seen such as personal qualities, attitudes and general aptitude
· Every employers look for the quality of resilience among the graduates seeking for job, as they must have the ability to cope with setbacks and criticism. Amidst these situations,

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