Introduction

Starting a career might not be that difficult for some people, but I have always been worrying about it. This is my second year of study; this means that I am getting closer to the real professional world, so it will help me focus on my strengths to achieve future goals. MM256 Management skills are a great module that provides a basic understanding of how the employment process works. Most importantly, the material from this course is appropriate guidance that teaches where to start. This essay aims to discuss the application that supports students to get full-time job and internship and focus on students' professional development in the early stage of career.

Learning from MM256

 Through the module, I have learned that recruitment and selection are crucial for the company where employers hire a potential candidate for their company to achieve their long-term goal. So, it is important for a candidate in what ways he/she can attract recruiter to get the desired position in their company. A good candidate prepares questions before the interview, practice it in front of the mirror to maintain an eyes contact with a recruiter, clearly describe plans, stay focused, stay confident while talking with the interviewer or properly dress up, professional greeting because the first impression counts a lot, so the candidate must follow some ethics that help in achieving long and short term goal. Not by only attending seminars and lectures I have gained the academic knowledge but also learned a lot of information from people in the classroom. For instance, seeing my classmates applying in a very reputable company allows me to be more ambitious, dream higher, and encourage myself to be better. Moreover, I take advice from the tutors because they have more experience in the marketplace and explain in a wider perspective. As a student who hasn’t had a full-time job, I always look at the recruitment and selection process from the candidates' perspective so that I can improve my flaws in the interview time. This module leads me to think from employers' perspective and calculate costs of the process, profit, and benefit for the company like when company hire candidate externally then there are risks in money, time and other factors.

 To get useful help in the recruiting personnel, career development and employee appraisal, KSAOs explain the knowledge, skills, abilities and other attributes that are requisite in an organization for the desired vacancy (Wiles and Spiro, 2004). By using KSAOs candidate can easily analyze things in which they are excellent and how they can use those characteristics to get recruit by any well-known company. The module all teach me that what we do wrong in our CVs and cover letter that recruiter sees and rejected in the first phase, that's the major learning from this course that how a candidate makes its CVs and cover letter noticeable. The purpose of sending a cover letter with CV is to tell the organization how an applicant can be useful for them, give proper details of your skills and expertise, and most importantly write honestly about skills that candidates have already mentioned in their CVs (Uwizeyemungu et al., 2020). Some candidates write contradictory information in their CV, which opposes from the cover letter and gives the wrong impression to recruiter. There is no need to write heading as "Resume or CV" if a candidate is applying for any job, which means they are sending their resume (Tsai et al., 2011). Moreover, properly check grammatical mistakes in the CV and cover letter, and put a positive impression at the end of the letter. A candidate must keep their CV concise and start their experience with the most recent one. However, it is a big question for those who have no experience must add their academic experience throughout their university life. And candidates can also list down their achievement in bullet points and give your CV to any professional member who can give appropriate advice and tell errors in CV (Treadway et al., 2014).