Enhancing Your Employability

You will need to develop two sets of skills to enhance your employability—hard skills and soft skills.

• Hard skills include career-specific techniques, knowledge, and experience related to the tasks you will perform on the job. For example, to become a psychologist, you would need to develop hard skills such as knowledge of counseling theories, the ability to administer psychological tests, and the ability to diagnose mental illnesses.
• Soft skills, on the other hand, are the skills you need to succeed interpersonally in any job. They are behaviors and attitudes that help you communicate effectively with others, either verbally or nonverbally. These have also been referred to as signs of emotional intelligence, people skills, or interpersonal skills.

In 2006, a consortium of four organizations conducted a survey of four hundred employers to determine which skills they most valued in recently hired employees. The employers listed soft skills as more desirable than hard skills. The employers listed the following skills as the most important (Conference Board et al., 2006): “professionalism/work ethic, oral and written communications, and teamwork/collaboration.” View a list of applied skills.

• Review the skills most valued by employers. Note the finding that most college graduates lacked many of these skills.

Tasks
In the Discussion Area, address the following:

• Select at least three skills you believe you have demonstrated well in school or at work and provide illustrative examples of situations in which you have demonstrated the skills.
• Select three skills you believe you need to acquire in order to further develop. Provide examples of situations in which you might have demonstrated weakness in those areas. Provide specific details when describing each of the situations. Cover the following:
  • How do you think you can improve your skills in those three areas?
  • Are there any specific steps you can take to increase your aptitude in those particular areas?

Submission Details

• By the due date assigned, post your 100- to 150-word response to the  discussion.

• Each question needs to be answered in its entirety minimum of two paragraphs All answers should be presented as an original work of the student and represent college-level writing. All essay answers will be run through Safe Assign to check for plagiarism.Question 1

  Articulate in writing how law enforcement officers and executives perceive crisis and how force is used against individuals who might be vexed with a mental, emotional, or developmental disability. Compassion would be the operative motivation driving the Christian executive to resolve each situation.

  Question 2

  Discuss the role of the law enforcement officer in crisis intervention, to include Prevention; Restoring of calm; and Referral.

  Question 3
  Identify the short term and long term goals of crisis intervention by law enforcement officers.

  Question 4

  Isolate aspects of personality and emotional development among professionals which may contribute to strained relations among affected populations and outline strategies to mediate such obstacles.

  Question 5

  Describe a minimum of four (4) examples of crisis situations in which police intervention commonly takes place and justify, through a writing assignment, the various methodologies to resolve each situation.

  Question 6

  Discuss a minimum of three (3) potential hazards to the officer which are inherent in crisis situations and outline preparatory measures for training.

  Question 7

  Identify effective intervention techniques with relation to 1) Initial contact; 2) Restoring of calm; 3) Fact finding; and, 4) Courses of action and how these techniques protect the rights of populations with behavioral disorders.