Portfolio Assignment – Building an E-Portfolio for Career Development

1. Demonstrate an awareness of UK working culture and practice
2. Evaluate the (specialist and transferrable) skills required by global employers in the student's speciality or planned caree
3. Understand the UK job application process and prepare properly in relation to their target career or speciality
4. Undertake a self-audit of these skills to identify personal competencies, critically reflect on these findings and prepare a personal development plan

The assignment requires you to submit an e-portfolio using Mahara, which is available through Moodle. The e-Portfolio is to be submitted using Mahara with a total word count of 2,000 words. The standard university 10% +/- margin applies.

The purpose of an e-Portfolio in general and this e-Portfolio in particular is to enable reflection on your learning, to encourage independent research and learning and support your planned career development.

This enables you to demonstrate that you have met the Learning Outcomes for the module that involves building a portfolio of material and reflection, supportive of your career development aspirations.

For this portfolio, you will need to prepare a series of reflections, supported by well researched and considered artefacts such as images, screenshots, documents, videos, links [that will not have expired].

Based upon your planned career and/or your course speciality:

1. Identify your speciality or planned career, reflecting on your goals and aspirations. In the absence of a planned career, throughout the ePortfolio, please use your degree speciality.
2. Identify an appropriate number of global and UK employers with whom you could pursue your target career. Use artefacts to justify/evidence your selections. [LO2].
3. Evaluate the (specialist and transferrable) skills required by these employers in your planed career. Use artefacts to evidence your selections. [LO2].
4. Understand the UK job application process used by appropriate companies that you have identified. Use artefacts to demonstrate your understanding. [LO3].
5. Using artefacts as evidence, demonstrate appropriate preparation in relation to your target career [LO3].
6. Demonstrate an awareness of UK working culture and practice in relation to your planned career, in the context of UK employers you have identified using artefacts to evidence your selections. [LO1].
7. Undertake a self-audit of the skills and personal competencies that you have identified [LO4.]
8. Critically reflect throughout on these findings and prepare a personal development plan [LO4].

This table details the weightings of the criteria by which your work will be assessed.

Please refer to the Rubric for further information on how work is assessed and graded.

In order to pass this module, you need to:

• Ensure that you have fully met allthe learning outcomes and tasks as detailed in this Assignment Brief (if you do not meet one or more of the learning outcomes, you will not be able to pass)
• Ensure that assignment meets academic standards for referencing, spelling and grammar use.
• Use the marking criteria to ensure you demonstrate key academic principles.
• Submit all the work required through Turnitin by the given deadline

Before you submit your coursework, we strongly recommended that you check to ensure you have answered all of the tasks and that you have met all of the Learning Outcomes.