Career Viewpoint

Assignment Brief Academic Year 2021-22
Internal approval: Sarah Hill 10/12/21
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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.
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 4	Analyse their own strengths and development needs in relation to progressing into employment and be able to construct a development plan.
Task requirements
A) 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 & experiences do you need to add?

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Module code and title:	MG410 Career Viewpoint	Module leader:	Kristyna Frankova
Assignment No. and type:	CW2 – Career action plan and self-reflection	Assessment weighting:	50%
Submission time and date:	06/06/2022 by 2pm	Target feedback time and date:	3 weeks after submission deadline

• 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.
B) THE REPORT – WHAT YOU ARE BEING ASKED TO SUBMIT
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. You can also include information from your e-portfolio, if the skills identified
match those in the e-portfolio. 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 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.

Referencing and research requirements

Please reference your work according to 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. (2019) Cite them right: the essential reference guide. 11th edn. Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan. Copies are available via the university library.

How your work will be assessed

Your work will be assessed on the extent to which it demonstrates your achievement of the stated learning
outcomes for this assignment (see above) and against other key criteria, as defined in the University’s
institutional grading descriptors. If it is appropriate to the format of your assignment and your subject area,
a proportion of your marks will also depend upon your use of academic referencing conventions.
This assignment will be marked according to the grading descriptors for Level 4

Submission details

This assignment should be submitted electronically. Please use the relevant Turnitin submission point in
the Upload My Assignment on LSST Connect.
• Please 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 email. Please keep this receipt for future reference,
along with the original electronic copy of your assignment.
• You are reminded of the University’s regulations on academic misconduct, which can be
viewed on the University website: https://bucks.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/9546/Academic
Misconduct-Policy.pdf. In submitting your assignment, you are acknowledging that you have read
and understood these regulations.

Submission date and time

This assignment should be submitted before 14:00 UK time on Monday 6th June 2022.
Work that is submitted up to 10 working days beyond the submission date will be accepted as 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.
Feedback and marks for this assignment will be available three weeks after submission.

Before you submit

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Fit to Submit: Assignment Checklist

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Have you read and understood the assessment criteria?
Have you met the learning outcomes? You will lose marks and your work may even
be failed if you have not.
Have you demonstrated you can think and write critically in the completed work?
This means you have supported your arguments/explanations appropriately e.g.
using relevant academic sources and you have offered discussion points which
extends your own or others’ viewpoints to make reasoned conclusions/judgements.
Have you maintained an academic tone throughout your work? Is your work formal,
focused, developed and clear?
Have you checked that the referencing in your assignment is in line with your
programme requirements?

Have you proof-read your work and used spellcheck software to check your spelling
and grammar?
Have you checked the presentation of your work is as specified by your tutor, for
example, are font size, colour, style, line spacing and margins as the tutor specified?
Have you kept to the word count (or equivalent)? If you are not sure, check with your
tutor.
Can you confirm that the work submitted is your own and not plagiarised?

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Assessment Grid for MG410 CW2 Career Research Report

80-100 (A+) Pass	70-79 (A) Pass	60-69 (B) Pass	50-59 (C) Pass	40-49 (D) Pass	35-39 E – Marginal fail	0-34 (F) – Fail
Criteria	Weig hting	Outstanding	Excellent	Very Good	Good	Satisfactory	Below required standard	Not successful
Knowledge and Understanding Introduction of job opportunity and skills required	10	Exceptional demonstration of the ability of outlining the assignment, providing a summary of the job opportunity and the skills / knowledge / expertise required for the role, as identified in CW1.	A highly accomplished demonstration of the ability of outlining the assignment, providing a summary of the job opportunity and the skills / knowledge / expertise required for the role, as identified in CW1.	A refined understanding is demonstrated regarding the outline of the assignment, summary of the job opportunity and the skills / knowledge / expertise required for the role, as identified in CW1.	A sound breadth and depth of understanding is demonstrated regarding the outline of the assignment, summary of the job opportunity and the skills / knowledge / expertise required for the role, as identified in CW1.	A basic understanding is sufficiently demonstrated regarding the outline of the assignment, summary of the job opportunity and the skills / knowledge / expertise required for the role, as identified in CW1.	Work demonstrates insufficient understanding of the assignment outline, summary of the job opportunity and the skills / knowledge / expertise required for the role, as identified in CW1.	There is little or no demonstration of understanding of the assignment outline, summary of the job opportunity and the skills / knowledge / expertise required for the role, as identified in CW1
Analysis and Criticality	30	An exceptionally accomplished review and evidence presented (> 6 areas) of the students’ current skills, knowledge and experience related to those required for the job opportunity. Exceptionally accomplished levels of reflection provided to demonstrate current strengths and weaknesses.	A highly accomplished review and evidence presented ( 6 areas) of the students’ current skills, knowledge and experience related to those required for the job opportunity. Highly accomplished levels of reflection provided to demonstrate current strengths and weaknesses.	A well developed and sophisticated review and evidence presented ( of the students’ current skills, knowledge and experience related to those required for the job opportunity. Sophisticated levels of reflection provided to demonstrate current strengths and weaknesses.	A well developed and sound review and evidence provided ( areas) of the students’ current skills, knowledge and experience related to those required for the job opportunity. Sound levels of reflection provided to demonstrate current strengths and weaknesses.	A sufficient review and evidence provided ( areas) of the students’ current skills, knowledge and experience related to those required for the job opportunity. Sufficient levels of reflection provided to demonstrate current strengths and weaknesses.	An insufficient review and evidence provided ( of the students’ current skills, knowledge and experience related to those required for the job opportunity. Insufficient levels of reflection provided to demonstrate current strengths and weaknesses.	Limited or no ability of a review of the students’ current skills, knowledge and experience related to those required for the job opportunity. Little or no levels of reflection provided to demonstrate current strengths and weaknesses.

Application and practice Career action plan CV LinkedIn	20 20 10	An exceptionally accomplished career action plan with 5+ action points noted which are SMART in approach and linked to previous analysis. An exceptionally accomplished CV with all key elements covered. An exceptionally accomplished LinkedIn profile with all key elements covered.	A highly accomplished career action plan with 5 action points noted which are SMART in approach and linked to previous analysis. A highly accomplished CV with all key elements covered. A highly accomplished LinkedIn profile with all key elements covered.	A capable and effective career action plan with 4 action points noted which are SMART in approach and linked to previous analysis. A capable and effective CV with all key elements covered. A capable and effective LinkedIn profile with all key elements covered.	A consistent and informed career action plan with 3 action points noted which are SMART in approach and linked to previous analysis. A consistent and informed CV with all key elements covered. A consistent and informed LinkedIn profile with all key elements covered.	Several action points noted to a sufficient ability but only one or two are SMART in approach but are relevant to the previous analysis. A sufficient CV with most of the key areas covered. A sufficient LinkedIn profile with most of the key elements covered.	Several unspecific action points noted to an insufficient ability, are not SMART in approach and do not reflect the previous analysis. An insufficient CV with key elements missing. An insufficient LinkedIn profile with key elements missing.	No action plan included or one nonspecific action of limited or no ability which is not SMART in approach and does not reflect the previous analysis Limited or no CV attempted. Limited or no LinkedIn profile attempted.
Transferable Skills (Assignment parameters) This should include evidence of: • Accurate spelling, punctuation and grammar • Completing all of the assignment tasks • Appropriate language use • Appropriate report writing conventions • Accurate Harvard referencing	10	Demonstrates an exceptional ability to communicate ideas and information accurately and reliably in written academic English	Demonstrates a highly accomplished ability to communicate ideas and information accurately and reliably in written academic English	Demonstrates a highly proficient ability to communicate ideas and information accurately and reliably in written academic English	Demonstrates a consistent and confident ability to communicate ideas and information accurately and reliably in written academic English	Demonstrates a sufficient ability to communicate ideas and information accurately and reliably in written academic English	Demonstrates an insufficient ability to communicate ideas and information accurately and reliably in written academic English	Demonstrates limited or no ability to communicate ideas and information accurately and reliably in written academic English

Career Viewpoint

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