Assignment Brief Academic Year 2023-24
Module code MG410 Career Viewpoint Module leader: Zulkiffel Ali
and title:
Assignment CW2 - Career Action plan and Assessment 50%
No. and type: self-reflection 1,500 words weighting:
Submission 24th May 2024 by 2.00 pm. Target feedback 3 weeks after submission
time and date: time and date: deadline
Assignment task
This 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 long.
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:
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 and 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.
Internal approval: Name, Date
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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)
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)
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)
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.
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Practicalities: Referencing, presenting and submitting your work
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.
This assignment should be submitted electronically using the relevant submission point in the Upload
My Assignment section of LSST Connect.
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.
Ensure that your work has been saved in an appropriate file format. Turnitin will only accept the
following file types: Microsoft Word and PDF. Your file must also contain at least 20 words of text,
consist of fewer than 400 pages and be less than 40MB in size.
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 LSST e-mail address. Please keep this receipt for future reference, along with the original
electronic copy of your assignment.
Confidentiality
You are expected to take responsibility for maintaining and managing confidentiality issues in your work.
You should maintain and respect confidentiality in relation to the protection of personal, technical and/or
commercial information of a sensitive nature in your assessed work, whatever the format.
For further information and guidance, please see the relevant section in your programme handbook.
Academic integrity
Academic integrity means taking responsibility for your own work.
When you submit an assignment, you are making a declaration that it is your own work and that you have
acknowledged the contribution of others and their ideas in its development (for example, by referencing
them appropriately).
For further information and guidance, please see the University website: https://www.bnu.ac.uk/current-
students/registry-helpdesk-and-academic-advice/academic-integrity-and-misconduct
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Assessment Criteria Academic Year 2023-24
80-100 (A+) 70-79 (A) 60-69 (B) 50-59 (C) 40-49 (D) 35-39 E – 0-34 (F) –
Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Marginal fail Fail
Weighting Outstanding Excellent Very Good Good Satisfactory Below required Not successful
standard
Knowledge and Exceptional A highly accomplished A refined A sound breadth and depth of A basic understanding is Work demonstrates There is little or no
demonstration of the demonstration of the understanding is understanding is demonstrated sufficiently insufficient demonstration of
Understanding ability of outlining the ability of outlining the demonstrated regarding the outline of the demonstrated regarding understanding of the understanding of the
10 assignment, providing assignment, providing regarding the outline assignment, summary of the job the outline of the assignment outline, assignment outline,
This should include
evidence of: a summary of the job a summary of the job of the assignment, opportunity and the skills / assignment, summary of summary of the job summary of the job
opportunity and the opportunity and the summary of the job knowledge / expertise required for the job opportunity and opportunity and the opportunity and the skills /
- Summary of job advert skills / knowledge / skills / knowledge / opportunity and the the role, as identified in CW1. the skills / knowledge / skills / knowledge / knowledge / expertise
from CW1 expertise required for expertise required for skills / knowledge / expertise required for expertise required for required for the role, as
the role, as identified the role, as identified expertise required for the role, as identified in the role, as identified in identified in CW1
- skills / knowledge /
in CW1. in CW1. the role, as identified CW1. CW1.
expertise required for
in CW1.
the role
Analysis and 30 An exceptionally A highly accomplished A well developed and A well developed and sound review A sufficient review and An insufficient review Limited or no ability of a
accomplished review review and evidence sophisticated review and evidence provided (<6 areas) evidence provided (<4 and evidence provided review of the students’
Criticality and evidence presented ( 6 areas) of and evidence of the students’ current skills, areas) of the students’ (<2 areas) of the current skills, knowledge
This should include presented (> 6 areas) the students’ current presented (<6 areas) knowledge and experience related current skills, knowledge students’ current skills, and experience related to
evidence of: of the students’ skills, knowledge and of the students’ to those required for the job and experience related knowledge and those required for the job
current skills, experience related to current skills, opportunity. to those required for the experience related to opportunity.
- current skills, knowledge and those required for the knowledge and job opportunity. those required for the
knowledge and experience related to job opportunity. experience related to Sound levels of reflection provided job opportunity. Little or no levels of
experience related to those required for the those required for the to demonstrate current strengths Sufficient levels of reflection provided to
those required for the job opportunity. Highly accomplished job opportunity. and weaknesses. reflection provided to Insufficient levels of demonstrate current
job opportunity levels of reflection demonstrate current reflection provided to strengths and weaknesses.
Exceptionally provided to Sophisticated levels of strengths and demonstrate current
- reflections on current accomplished levels of demonstrate current reflection provided to weaknesses. strengths and
strengths and reflection provided to strengths and demonstrate current weaknesses.
weaknesses, using demonstrate current weaknesses. strengths and
evidence to demonstrate strengths and weaknesses.
weaknesses.
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Assessment Criteria Academic Year 2023-24
Application and
Several action points Several unspecific action No action plan included or
practice An exceptionally A highly accomplished A capable and A consistent and informed career noted to a sufficient points noted to an one nonspecific action of
accomplished career career action plan effective career action action plan with 3 action points ability but only one or insufficient ability, are limited or no ability which
This should include action plan with 5+ with 5 action points plan with 4 action noted which are SMART in
evidence of: two are SMART in not SMART in approach is not SMART in approach
action points noted noted which are points noted which approach and linked to previous approach but are and do not reflect the and does not reflect the
which are SMART in SMART in approach are SMART in analysis.
A Career action plan 20 approach and linked to and linked to previous approach and linked
relevant to the previous previous analysis. previous analysis
A consistent and informed CV with analysis.
previous analysis. analysis. to previous analysis. An insufficient CV with Limited or no CV
all key elements covered.
An exceptionally A highly accomplished A capable and A sufficient CV with key elements missing. attempted.
A CV 20 accomplished CV with CV with all key effective CV with all A consistent and informed LinkedIn most of the key areas
all key elements elements covered. key elements covered. profile with all key elements covered. An insufficient LinkedIn Limited or no LinkedIn
covered. covered. profile with key profile attempted.
A highly accomplished A capable and A sufficient LinkedIn elements missing.
An exceptionally LinkedIn profile with effective LinkedIn profile with most of the
A LinkedIn profile 10 key elements covered.
accomplished LinkedIn all key elements profile with all key
profile with all key covered. elements covered.
elements covered.
Transferable 10 Demonstrates an Demonstrates a highly Demonstrates a highly Demonstrates a consistent and Demonstrates a Demonstrates an Demonstrates limited or
exceptional ability to accomplished ability proficient ability to confident ability to communicate sufficient ability to insufficient ability to no ability to communicate
Skills communicate ideas to communicate ideas communicate ideas ideas and information accurately communicate ideas and communicate ideas and ideas and information
(Assignment and information and information and information and reliably in written academic information accurately information accurately accurately and reliably in
accurately and reliably accurately and reliably accurately and reliably English and reliably in written and reliably in written written academic English
parameters) in written academic in written academic in written academic academic English academic English
This should include English English English
evidence of:
Accurate spelling,
punctuation and
grammar
Completing all of the
assignment tasks
Appropriate language
use
Appropriate report
writing conventions
Accurate Harvard
referencing
