sir the first exam wich I did it with you as well, this exam is like A completion of that one but this his report has to be complete based oThis report is a self-reflection report, which will enable
you to identify a career action plan, based on the research conducted for the
first assignment, CW1. It will be 1500
words,
THE TASK – WHAT
YOU ARE BEING ASKED TO DO
Following on from the research
that you undertook in CW1 and making use of the feedback that you received on
this report to assist you, you need to:
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Complete
a personal analysis of what you have to offer this employer at the moment. This
should include your current skills, knowledge and experiences, both academic
and from other areas of your life. However, it needs also to identify if there
are any areas for development. For
example: Where could you do with adding more evidence? What additional skills
& experiences do you need to add?
Once you have
answered the above, you are in a position to develop your Career Action
Plan. This should show both the short-term and longer-term actions
required to prepare you for an opportunity in the area you have
researched. Your actions must be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable,
Realistic, Time-bound)
Finally, you
also need to prepare a Curriculum Vitae (CV) and LinkedIn profile. You are asked to complete these exactly
as your situation is now, as if you were applying for the position you
identified. They can then be tailored and adapted for use in other methods
of recruitment, for example on-line application forms.
THE REPORT – WHAT
YOU ARE BEING ASKED TO SUBMIT AND SUGGESTED STRUCTURE
introduction – Provide a paragraph outlining what your
assignment will cover. From CW1, you will need to include a brief
summary of the job opportunity that you identified and also the full list of
the key skills and knowledge/expertise that you identified as being required. These will form the basis for your
self-evaluation. (10 Marks available for this section)
·
PERSONAL ANALYSIS – a general review of your current skills,
knowledge and experience related to those identified in CW1. You need to
provide evidence for this analysis, so you can include the feedback and
information reviewed within the seminars as well as work experience, and
volunteering. The aim is to highlight
current strengths, and also areas to focus your personal development around.
Reflect on the following areas: What
areas do you lack evidence in? Where do you need further examples / evidence in
your applications? Where do you feel weak in your overall application? (30 marks available for this section)
·
CAREER ACTION PLAN – Once you have identified the areas you need
to focus on, you need to prepare a Career Action Plan which addresses both the
personal development and specific career related activities you will undertake
to take you forward.
This plan should include the knowledge, skills and experiences you need
to further develop. You should come up
with clear SMART actions to get you to where you want to be. You should show
the resources you will use to move the area of development forward and the
timescales you will complete these in. This should cover as a minimum the time
remaining to your graduation. This plan can be presented in the form of a
table (20
marks available for this section)
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CV – Preparation of a CV to apply for the graduate level position
identified in your research for CW1, based on your current situation. Your CV should be included as an appendix and
will thus not form part of the word count for the assignment. (20 marks
available for this section)
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LinkedIn PROFILE – preparation of a LinkedIn profile based
on your current situation. A snapshot of
the profile should be included as an appendix, and include the following:-
photo, headline and summary, education, skills (at least 4), groups (at least
2) and companies (at least 2.) (10 marks available
for this section)
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CONCLUSION – A brief reflection on how you feel having completed the overall
assignment, and how you intend to use the Career Action Plan. (10 marks
available for this section and to include assignment parameters)
You must reference all information used in the
report using the Harvard Referencing Guide
This assignment has been designed to provide you
with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of the following module
learning outcomes:
LO 1: Develop a useful and effective CV and LinkedIn profile;
LO 2: Analyse their own
strengths and development needs in relation to progressing into employment
and be able to construct a development plan
Please reference your work using the Harvard style as
defined in Cite Them Right Online (http://www.citethemrightonline.com.
This information is also available in book form: Pears, R.
and Shields, G. (2016) Cite them right: the essential reference guide. 10th ed.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Copies are available via the university
library.
The Cite them Right database can be accessed via the Library
and Learning Resources page on BB – A to Z of Database list.
Please note the use of a cover
sheet is required for this assignment to include student ID number, title of
the report and word count.
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This assignment should be submitted
electronically using the relevant submission point in the Submit your work
section of your Blackboard module shell.
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Please note that work that is submitted up to
10 working days beyond the submission date will be considered a late
submission. Late submissions will be marked and the actual mark recorded but
will be capped at the pass mark (typically 40%), provided that the work is of a
passing standard. Work submitted after this period will not be marked and will
be treated as a non-submission.
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Ensure that your work has been saved in an
appropriate file format. Turnitin will only accept the following file types:
Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint, PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF, OpenOffice
(ODT), Hangul (HWP), Google Docs, or plain text. Your file must also contain at
least 20 words of text, consist of fewer than 400 pages and be less than 40MB
in size.
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You can submit your work as many times as you
like before the submission date. If you do submit your work more than once,
your earlier submission will be replaced by the most recent version.
Once you have submitted your work, you will
receive a digital receipt as proof of submission, which will be sent to your
forwarded e-mail address (provided you have set this up). Please keep this
receipt for future reference, along with the original electronic copy of your
assignment
