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On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
Appraise multiple 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 the placement periods.
Evaluate and reflect on the contribution made through voluntary activity and demonstrate understanding of the limits of knowledge and skills in this context.
Volunteering may take many forms and may be organised by the student, subject to agreement, or by the University. The voluntary activity will be required to meet a set of specific criteria relating to, for example, duration, type of activity, relevance to programme of study, supervision. Students will undertake a professional preparation programme, together with any specific training, selection or security checks.
Students will also be expected to:
- Appraise personal and professional skills
- Engage with career guidance
- Match skills to chosen careers
- Identify areas for personal and professional skills development
- Network with employers
- Critically reflect for improving professional skills.
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. 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.
Critical reflection for improving professional skills will be a key feature of the lecture content.
Students will undertake an 'assessment centre' simulating workplace recruitment procedures.
Lectures whereby students will acquire knowledge and understanding of graduate careers, personal and professional skills and critical reflection essential for increasing graduate employability.
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.
The expected minimum volunteering time is around 60 hours. This could take the form of half a day per week, a block of time, or a series of activities of varied duration. Evidence of attendance will be required.
Lectures
Hours: 10
Intended Group size: 100
Tutorials
Hours: 3
Intended Group size: 1
assessment Centre
Hours: 4
Intended Group size: 30
Volunteering Hours
Hours: 60
Guided independent study
Hours: 123
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.
001 Practical performance; pass/fail; during volunteering 0%
002 Portfolio; 2,000 words; end of semester 2 50%
003 Assessment centre; end of semester 2 50%
Module Coordinator - Jon Radcliffe
Level - 5
Credit Value - 20
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 5YL