Task:
Unit description
This unit assists students to clarify their career aspirations and goals and supports them in planning the development of skills they will need for future career success. Students will complete a series of four online modules. Through the unit, students will undertake selfassessment activities, create a future career development plan and learn to use tools which will help them to showcase their capabilities through an online career learning e-Portfolio.
Assessment details
Assessment 1
In considering your career aspirations throughout mini modules 1 and 2, you have been thinking about your own wellbeing; the personal and professional benefits of building resilience; and considering the kinds of skills employers want, with the underlying idea of exploring how you might actively begin to position yourself for your future career. For this assessment you are going to appraise your current skills, critically reflect on your career aspirations, and form a statement of this as a base line against which you can gauge your development over time.
To complete this assessment, you are going to:
1. Evidence capability for your best/strongest skill using the STAR method
2. Compose a coherent written critical reflection in which you consider your career aspirations, current skills, and how your chosen course of study at Murdoch is part of your personal, professional and career development.
Things that should inform your reflection and discussion:
• What motivates you to commit to the course of study you have chosen?
• How can you prepare for your professional future in a way that makes you employable; what skills and attributes will help you to be flexible and responsive to a changing world of work?
• What are your skill strengths, what skills do you need to work on, and why?
• How can your academic study be used as an environment for skills development?
• What can you do now in creating study/life balance that can also become strategy for maintaining a healthy work/life balance?
Assessment 2
Career Enhancement: Designed materials and reflection In considering ways to enhance your professional and career development throughout mini modules 3 and 4, you have focused on the universality of the digital realm and the importance of building relationships with people. For this assessment you are going to design artefacts that will have practical application in your career development and can form part of a professional portfolio.
To complete this assessment, you are going to:
1. Create a professional profile for use in digital platforms
2. Create a short video of your professional pitch
3. Reflect on how you can use your professional digital profile and pitch to promote your employability to future employers.
Things that could inform your reflection and discussion:
• What is the professional image you want and/or need to convey to others?
• Is there an expected standard or ‘type’ within your field and if so, how might this influence you?
• What are the values you want others to understand about you and the work you do or hope to do in the future?
• Are there things you would not do; clients or partnerships you would not take on; for reasons of values, ethics or business practices? Could this be problematic? How might you address this?
• What elements of a professional network do you already have?
• What elements of a professional network will be beneficial for you to develop and how can you go about doing this?
• What can you offer to others in your professional network?
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