Using this in Parent class to retrieve list of methods from Child class in Java

I have my Parent class which is:

public abstract class Employee {


protected String firstName;
protected String lastName;
protected String position;
protected ArrayList<String> skills;
protected ArrayList<Method> specialMethods;

public String toString() {
    return "Name:" + firstName + " " + lastName + "\n" + "Position: "
            + position + skills.toArray(new String[0])+"\n"
            +"Special Methods: "+ this.class.getMethods();
}

But I can not write this.class.getMethods() in the Parent class, I have to write Employee.class.getMethods(). I want to get the methods of a Child, whichi will inherit the toString() method from Employee, but it will only return the parent methods this way.