Hi everybody,

I am T.Milan Marday a second year marketing student at Durham College which I am having a lot experience both academic and recreational activities in previous semesters and still going on to better enhance myself. My short term goals is to finish my diploma and do my bachelors while working part time to earn some money. I do have some strength and weaknesses which make me the one I am right now with still to experience and grow. My long term goal is to focus and keep dedicating myself to open a  construction company or being able to create a marketing department in the business of my parents back home as its been running for long time.

 Base on my experienced in life I had some oral presentations to do for example for the Cambridge High School Certificate where you had a 5 to 7 minutes of speech and also being in sports and in the music filed I had some interview with audience and some journalist in some special events. Being here in in Durham College taught me another way on how to really look upon on presentations especially in this class where we talks about how to communicate properly in the business world.

Along the course I had the opportunity to have some presentation where I could express myself to people to make myself clear and understandable as am an international student and am in a completely different area where I used to be at ease.

Firstly, I might want to start by saying that feedback at first was important but also very mixed and gave some very contrasting assessments on the oral presentational in all. For instance, a few classmates expressed that eye to eye connection was poor all through most of my oral presentations, but however a few others negate this.  Again this is clear with the clearness and volume of our discourse.  From my opinion I should really work out on the eye contact to improve my communication skills to be better in the business world. For this I made some quick research on how to improve eye contact during presentations because avoiding eye contact can be disrespectful, disinterest or also social phobia. (Mueller, 2016). By improving my eye contact during my oral presentations will surely help me to bring my uniqueness more easily and can be more a serious candidate with nice posture for a job interview for example.

References

Mueller, S. (2016, October 20th). The Importance of Eye Contact and How to Improve It. Retrieved from http://www.planetofsuccess.com/blog/2016/importance-of-eye-contact.

Soft skills are relational aptitudes which are utilized to depict your way to deal with life, work, and associations with other individuals. In contrast to hard abilities, these are not expert occupation explicit aptitudes like finance and accounting, graphic design and so forth. Soft skills are your remarkable selling point which gives you a focused edge over others in the working environment and throughout everyday life. Being more a sports guy than performing better in academic my soft skills which I master the most is teamwork, adaptability, leadership and creativity. Being here in Canada and having the life experience of Durham college and also the understanding of marketing and the world of entrepreneurship I would like to more use my soft skills to have more opportunities. As I want to open my company in Canada I would definitely need those skills as it is in business in nowadays. For example, in given situation in the future my adaptability will surely help me as opposed to diving in my heels, I should have the option to rotate and discover exchange arrangements. On the other side I do have some issue with some soft skills which I do not master. These are time management in some cases, communication am a bit shy at first to start a conversation and also attention to detail. Being in this course will surely help me to overcome my weakness such as to communicate and to have the first approach when needed also my time management skills with respective due dates will help me to manage my time and as I just join the Durham football team which brings back to manage my time properly. Base on the attention to detail I need to be more head focus which am thinking of listening relaxing music to stay focus on a positive energy. Being attentive will help me being both through and accurate in my work as I will have the opportunity to analyze and also do some critical thinking. I hope to be able to make the most of it throughout the course especially with such great teachers pushing students hard to be more professional.

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My name is Milan Marday I am a second year marketing student at Durham College as well as an experienced construction elevator operator as I have successfully completed my apprenticeship back home in Mauritius and I also completed my high school in the science and sport fields. I also play an instrument which is called the ‘Ravanne’ which I have played in various hotels for animations purposes and also a background culture for our island. I am also a volunteer guy in sports events for first aiding as I had completed my course back home. With my new my passion for construction and my developing knowledge and understanding of marketing and the world of entrepreneurship I hope to have some great experienced especially here in Canada.

Along this course I am aiming to develop some of the skills learned and some of my old skills to be reinforced which is body language and my emotional intelligence to build up a new image and me being able to face any challenging situations in the world of communications. I will also have a professional social media account such as Instagram or linked In where more information about me and my passion are posted to add value to my brand. I will surely make the most of social media to promote my brand and to have the opportunities open for me. By participating in class and also gaining some experienced with group work I would walk away with my skills improved at the end of the course and surely be able to create a better brand for myself for my career.