Learning to tackle competition is crucial

Today’s hyper competitive workplace poses a lot of challenges for fresh graduates, and not tackling them professionally can impact career growth in the long run. Being unhappy with your career results in disengagement with your role. More disengagement brings more frustration, which in turn lowers productivity. Each workplace is unique in its own culture and industrial footprint, therefore, becoming aware of today’s multicultural workplace norms and challenges can help understand the nature of challenges that you might face.

Employable skills are the key to manage these type of challenges and can help the individual in his or her quest of finding a job. These skills include communication, teamwork, problem solving, creativity and innovation, planning and organisation, self management, ongoing learning and use of information communication technology. By incorporating these skills, it will add to your self confidence in a positive manner.

In UAE’s multicultural corporate environment, people come from a wide range of cultural backgrounds and bring a variety of work experiences along with a diversity in age groups.

It is important to note that the assessment of employable skills is equally important for employers because it directly impacts their business performance. Having an understanding with your employee will not only help your business generate better results but will also achieve career aspirations and add value to the business and the team.

The mechanism of development, teaching, assessment and reporting of employability skills of fresh graduates is the need of the hour. Employers and universities must develop skilled professionals who are capable to face challenges of enhanced competition and a fast-paced business environment. The employed professionals should be well equipped and responsive to any social, cultural, technological and economic changes.

In addition, self management enhances job satisfaction and fosters career growth. Good communication, teamwork and work planning contributes to a healthy, productive and harmonious relationship between the employer and the employee. As a result, all these outcomes will ultimately impact the country’s economy and also plays a crucial role in shaping the future and paves the way for further research and development in different areas of the economy.

— The reader is a Pakistani life coach based in Abu Dhabi