Posted: February 5th, 2015

Employability and PDP

Paper, Order, or Assignment Requirements

1 The portfolio should be backed up with academic sources, where relevant, that you have researched from the relevant journals/ e-journals/ textbooks.
2. You must use Harvard referencing
3.Selection of the compulsory employability activity – we provide you with a list of suitable activities. Please select from the list. Please do not ask if you can do something else. Please do not leave engaging with this task until the end of the semester. Regardless of your maturity, previous experience, current job or otherwise you are required to engage with this activity. There are no exceptions. Please get a supervisor or manager to sign your reflective piece when complete.

PORTFOLIO TEMPLATE
PART ONE: THE REFLECTIVE JOURNAL
A. Your reflections on what you have LEARNED from the lecture, workshops and reflective classes as well as additional reading or activities.
Please use the questions below to structure your response

List the activities you completed to develop your awareness of your competencies, skills, values and interests.
{{Note!! use any 4 activities which can be use in business classes WRITE IN BULLET POINTS}}

What have you learned about YOU from completing these activities? (200 words)

Personal SWOT analysis
{{ note! Use the swot analysis as a future entrepreneur person}}

Strengths
Weaknesses
Threats
Opportunities

What possible career choices have you discovered, which is the most appropriate for you and why? (150 words)

What are the key practices in that job?

What key skills, abilities and competencies do I need to develop to be able to enact these practices? (100 words)

What progress have I made so far in developing these? (100 words)

What else do I need to do? (Hint, your responses here should be used to help you construct your action plan in section 4).

Reflect on your leadership skills by answering the following questions below for each set of skills
Cognitive Skills (evaluation, critical thinking, reflection)

What did I do?
What was I good at?

What do I need to develop?

How will I do that?

Interpersonal Skills (psychological capital, emotional intelligence, listening, coaching)
{{Note!! use any interpersonal skills as a future entrepreneur}}
What did I do?
What was I good at?

What do I need to develop?

How will I do that?

Business Skills (commercial awareness, enterprise skills, practices relevant to MY future job roles)
{{Note!! use any business skills as a future entrepreneur}}
What did I do?
What was I good at?

What do I need to develop?

How will I do that?

Strategic Skills (decision making, complex problem solving)
{{Note!! use any strategic skills as a future entrepreneur}}
What did I do?

What was I good at?

What do I need to develop?

How will I do that?

B. Your reflections on what you learned from the compulsory employability development activity (500 words). Use the questions below to help structure your response.
{{Note use as you attended volunteering activity for enterprises job at my university}}
Which activities did you engage with?

What happened?

What key skills did you have to use and develop?

What worked well?

What could you do better next time?

What have you learned from the experience?

PART 2. DISCUSSION OF THE RELEVANT GRADUATE LABOUR MARKET THAT IS RELEVANT TO YOU (BE SPECIFIC – SECTOR, INDUSTRY, DISCIPLINE, COUNTRY ETC). 500 WORDS. USE PUBLISHED SOURCES AND REFERENCE ACCORDINGLY.
{{Note use entrepreneur labour market }}

SECTION 3b. BUSINESS PITCH (only complete this section if you have opted to develop your own business). This should be a 1000 word report that outlines your idea and includes an analysis of viability, finance, location, competitors and the structure/employees
{{Note!! don’t do this part}}

SECTION 4 PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Objective/Goal
(Be Specific) Key Actions/Milestones
(Things I need to do to achieve objectives) Timescale
(Be realistic) Support Required (Help/resources/ information I need to achieve this?) Progress Made
(How am I doing so far?)