Graduate success attribute for this first week of learning taught about some outlines and attributes that are important to be understand by graduate students to achieve their success. It is important because these outlines and attributes are the most forgettable things that can cause huge impacts for graduate students.
The first learning were understanding graduate employability and soft skills. In this part of learning, we were asked to identify the reasons and factors that can cause fresh graduate to be rejected in job or getting extra advantages in finding jobs. The reasons and factors were simple but it causing fatal problems for the fresh graduates. For example, it took 68% of the fresh graduate to fail from getting a job just because they were asking for unrealistic salary/benefits to the company.
The next learning are about employability. Employability is about being capable of getting and keeping fulfilling work. It means that employability is a skill that are needed and important that can benefit themselves, the workforce and the community. It was also an integrity of a graduate to gain their employment and be successful in their chosen occupations. The examples of employability are communication skills, creativity and innovation, teamwork, professionalism and etc.
Then, there are soft skills. Soft skills are a cluster of productive personality traits that characterize one’s relationship in a milieu. It means that soft skills are a particular skills that can benefit a person in a way to survive in some situation and lifes. These skills are a bit similar to employability because it is also needed and important to the society. Things that differs it are that employability is a must for someone who wants to get hired in some jobs and soft skills is an ability that can give extra advantages for a person in any situations. The example of soft skills are language skills, cognitive or emotional empathy, leadership traits and etc.
The last learning is about utm graduate attributes. It is some soft skills that can ensure fresh graduate to be success in their occupation. There are 7 skills that consists of communication skills, thinking skills, scholarship, leadership and teamworking skills, adaptability, global citizen and enterprising skills.
First, there is communication skills. Communication skills is an ability that includes languages not only verbally but physically. By verbally means ability that is used to make a clear conversation and physically means ability to use some body language as a way to communicate. The examples of this communication skills are negotiate to reach agreement, clarity and concision and etc.
Second, there is thinking skills and scholarship. These two skills are different but can be classified into one ability and it is about mind developing. For thinking skills, it is more appertain to a skill that defining things complexly and beyond a normal thinking. As for scholarship, it is more to the side of a skill to think far of a system and more developing and innovating thinking.
Next, skills of leadership and teamworking. These skills are really general but really important because every little things that are being organised need leaders and teamworks. Leadership skills is about how a leader can influence its teams. Teamwork skills is about understanding and respecting decision that are made in some discussion. These skills must came along with each other and if not, all the effort of a team is futile.
After that, there is adaptability. Adaptability is a skill to overcome some foreigness that happened in new places. This ability is to maintain the developing things that happened around job’s environment and also the ability to initiate and implement changes. It is also a way to work affectively in any situations that occured.
Last but not least, there is global citizen and enterprising skills. Global citizen is an ability that take part in sociality. It is an ability to understand the different kinds of impact such as socio-cultural, economic, environmental and politics on professional practises. It is also an ability to make desicion with a prioritize principles of sustainability. As for enterprising skills, it is an ability to seek opportunities and having entrepreneurial mindset in dealing problems.
Overall, in this class, we were taught some imprtant informations that we should and must remember because it was very useful for our needs in the future occupation’s world. All of the learning in this class are very precious that we should keep it in mind if want a victory and success in our future life.