SHN5152 - Professional Development and Placement 2

Objectives:

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
Appraise relevant personal and professional skills for related careers.
Critically reflect on own personal and professional skills for and within the workplace.
Demonstrate satisfactory professional performance across placement periods.

Content:

Students will undertake activities to allow them to appraise their own personal skills and professional skills for the workplace. There will be a particular emphasis on graduate level skills and graduate level careers. Students will identify areas of personal and professional development.

The preparation course will guide students through searching for job opportunities, preparing career and study plans, and undergoing a typical Graduate Trainee recruitment process through an Assessment Centre experience. Students will be required to analyse their professional development and personality, and recognise the importance of effective interpersonal relationships and team work in an organisation. Reflective diaries will help students to select employability criteria and develop professional skills though reflective learning.

Careers guidance and placement support sessions will be embedded into the module. Networking opportunities with employers will take place. Students will be signposted to 'extra-curricular' opportunities for further careers guidance and placement support.

Placement period - 6 weeks full time equivalent in the workplace.

Learning and Teaching Information:

In lectures, students will acquire knowledge and understanding of graduate careers, personal and professional skills and critical reflection.

A variety of demonstrations, practical classes and workshops will involve conferences, networking events and careers guidance workshops.

Individual tutorials will take place with the personal tutor/careers services (MyFuture) and placement mentors.

Lectures
Contact hours: 10
Intended Group size: 100

Assessment Centre
Contact hours: 4
Intended Group size: 30

Tutorials:
Contact hours: 3
Intended Group size: 1

Placement:
Hours: 210

Further details relating to assessment
The Portfolio will include pre-volunteering preparatory tasks to include a skills audit which appraises skills in relation to a graduate destination and a post-volunteering reflective account of the volunteering experience.

The placement is expected to equate to 6 weeks full-time work in a professional setting. Not exceeding 210 hours and representative of typical working hours within the particular vocation.

The assessment centre, facilitated by the Graduate Employment Team, will comprise tasks similar to those used in graduate recruitment (e.g. group work, interviews).

The assessment centre half day will be led by the Graduate Employment Team and delivered to cohorts of approximately 30 students (repeated as required depending on total module cohort size). The assessed component of the centre will comprise a group activity (approx. 6 students) lasting 40 minutes and a 10-minute individual presentation.

Assessment:

001 Portfolio; 4,000 words; end of semester 2 50%
002 Assessment centre; end of semester 2 50%
003 Placement; pass/fail; end of semester 2 0%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Jon Radcliffe
Level - 5
Credit Value - 20
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 5YL

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