Career Portfolio and COVID-19 Impact on Accounting and Finance Labour Market

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Unit learning outcomes

 

I. Research and critique career opportunities within your discipline through a variety of secondary sources;

2. Identify, articulate and produce a career portfolio suitable for your chosen graduate vacancy 

 

Completing Your Assignment

 

What am I required to do in this assignment? You are required to select one graduate level job in the field of Accounting, Finance, Economics or Banking, which closely matches your future career aspirations. For the selected job, identify the job context, main responsibilities and person specifications and discuss with the help of self-assessment tools and reflection on your education journey which responsibilities you can perform and what knowledge, skills and support you will need for responsibilities that you cannot perform (50%). Secondly, using secondary research, critically analyse the impact of COVID-19 on Accounting, Finance, Economics or Banking labour market (20%). You will apply your research skills acquired throughout this unit to identify, retrieve and assimilate information from a wide range of sources. You will further employ your academic writing and communication skills to develop arguments and present your findings using PPT with Audio Narration. During your presentation, you will use power-point slides to demonstrate your work. Presentations will be graded on strength of analysis, level of interest, and presentation skills that will be submitted through BREO (30%). 

 

What do I need to do to pass?

• Present a range of relevant material by undertaking independent investigation using secondary sources;

• Formulate sound conclusions from the synthesis of evidence collated from a range of sources in support of your arguments;

• Select and apply appropriate research and analytical tools and techniques to appraise and critique career opportunities within your discipline. How do I produce high quality work that merits a good grade? 

 

The presentation should be between 10 and 15 minutes in length. Your presentation will be assessed on the following: 

 

Sound choice of the graduate job selected that demonstrates awareness of the commercial world. - Effective description of the job context, main responsibilities and person specifications. - Reasoned analysis of the events and their likely impact on the labour market. 

 

In addition, your presentation should have the following attributes: 

 

Good organisation and time management skills. - A beginning (introduction), middle and end (conclusion) - Use of support material (no printed handouts, but good use of displays or slides) - Correct pace (not too fast and not too slow) - Eye contact - Tone and volume of voice (don't shout and don't whisper) 

 

Presentation structure: 

 

The oral presentation needs to be planned and structured as follows: 
1. An introduction.

2. A development of an argument.

3. A conclusion.

4. References. 

 

You should read widely to produce a comprehensive and authoritative PowerPoint presentation. Sources should be rigorously referenced using the Harvard system. These sources could include academic journals, books, websites, newspapers, magazines and published annual accounts. 
How does this assignment relate to what we are doing in scheduled sessions? In this assessment you will apply the research skills that you have developed throughout this unit to identify, retrieve and assimilate information from a wide range of sources. You will further employ your academic writing and communication skills to develop arguments and present your findings in a narrated PowerPoint Presentation, which will be submitted through BREO. 

 

More specifically, you will employ skills such as how to perform research, preparation and presentation of high standard academic report, understanding of job market trends, which you have acquired in throughout the unit.