Reflective Essay On Employability Skills

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After completing this task, I can easily say that I have developed my organisation and time management capabilities. Before this experience, I was completely unfamiliar with what would be needed for officiating a competition let alone what officiating was. I am now capable of conducting useful research before opportunities like this to be able to gain some background knowledge. Through prior research, I learnt that thorough organisation is the key to adequately completing goals and taught me so much before I had even turned up. Having brought all the correct equipment, the experience was made just that bit easier for me and I learnt quickly throughout the day how to efficiently complete jobs with my team members. By managing my workload and always being aware of what jobs I was doing, planning to do and what needed to be done, I used all the time I was given effectively and never felt unorganised in any way. I was beneficially forced to manage my time well due to my crucial job of signalling the end of a game every 18 minutes, of which I am thankful for as it divided the day into surprisingly helpful segments. As I usually had my fellow officials involved in the tasks I was approaching, I was also always developing my teamwork capabilities under the surface. By employing teamwork, I had …show more content…

All a competitor has to do is rock up and have an enjoyable experience with their friends, whilst an officiator is responsible for the day running smoothly to allow this enjoyment for competitors. It was a good experience feeling like my position at this event was more meaningful than normal, by being an official rather than a competitor and working with a team of professionals to achieve a common goal. Overall, I really enjoyed my experience as an officiator for a Touch Football competition and would gladly accept any offers to do so

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