Portfolio Report: Research, HR Practices, and Employability Skills

Learning Outcomes

1.Research a role using big data sets in relation to the current labour market analysis for those who have graduated with your degree

2.Assess the link between how your awareness of work has informed your knowledge of HR practices

3.Evaluate your current skills and skills gap, setting appropriate short, interim and long term goals for their achievement

A Portfolio is a collection of tasks which assemble to demonstrate your working knowledge of HR in organisations and your research and employability skills as you prepare for your placement between Level 5 and Level 6. The portfolio aims to promote your ability to achieve a placement between level 5 and level 6 and a graduate role on graduation which will serve as a foundation for your future career.

The portfolio is divided along relevant tasks and you may begin these in any order.

The recommended route is to start to work towards your Westminster Employability Award: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/current-students/employability-and-career-development/improving-your-employability/westminster-employability-award (begun at level 4) which runs throughout the task. If you achieve Bronze (50 points) in this award you will earn 20 marks towards your assessment.

• MinterEllison Consulting Solutions
• Citi (Markets, Sales and Trading) Virtual Asia Pacific Program
• Accenture: Future Innovator in Training
• Accenture: Developer Program
• Clifford Chance Climate Change: Global Virtual Internship
• Latham & Watkins: Emerging Companies

Have a look at them and choose ONE aligned to your own degree pathway.

You should have completed the task and shared it with the organisation to earn your certificate.

The certificate features in the appendices of your Portfolio Report.

The sole use of these companies for Semester 3 on Forage (formerly Inside Sherpa)

These practical tasks will prepare you to research your own degree in the current labour market. You have support from the module, directing you to big data websites to research the buoyancy of your degree and to help you select a Placement opportunity 2021-2022 or Graduate Trainee Role to apply for in autumn 2021.

For Section 2 you should map the advert in the Assessment Folder marked S3 Employer Branding Advertisement

Compare Dave Stuart of the Met Police’s interview with two others, based on their approach to the Covid-19 situation; you may only apply the leadership models you have been taught on this module.

For the final section you can use what you have already prepared within your WEA as your reflective statement since it will be informed by all you have learnt in the first two months of the module. Remember to keep the SMART goals relevant with numbers or dates or percentages across the short-term (3-5 days), interim (1-3 weeks) and long-term goals (3 months) set.

Tutors’ Combined Comments & guidance for future work:

Portfolio Report Outline

Cover Page including Tutor’s name and Group Number [not counted as wordage]

Table of Contents with Sections and page numbers [not counted in wordage]

Section 1

1.1 Introduce your degree and its position in the current labour market cite the big data sites that you have researched. You should have 4 or more and the research journey is listed in (Appendix iv: sites visited with a one line summary on what you found on each)

1.2 Identify where you would like to spend your year in Industry / which graduate trainee role you would like to apply for when in level 6.

1.3 State how a placement would help you to gain a graduate level role on graduation (applications for Graduate Trainee roles from September of Level 6)

Section 2 Employer Branding and Your Professional Brand

2.1 Employer Branding

See Lecture 3 and be prepared to identify a useful model from those taught to illustrate the Employer’s Brand given to you:

2.2 My Professional Brand: how have you used your professional brand research to  inform your own personal brand?

Section 3 HR Leadership in Covid-19

3.1 HR Leaders Compared to Leadership Models

Here you will look at Dave Stuart of the Metropolitan Police’s interview and compare to two of the HR Leaders’ interviews. Analyse the leaders for the benefits that they have brought to their company.

3.2 Using models from those taught on the module identify how you see these HR Leaders fitting with the models you have chosen, beginning with Dave Stuart of the Metropolitan Police

3.3 Suggest developments for the HR organisations (3.1) you have been researching from the interviews on the Bb site and recommend useful developments based on the theory or other HR leaders’ comments.