Graduate Employability Skills: Career Development- Employability Portfolio Assignment

Internal Code: TV594

Employability Portfolio Assignment:

Task: This Employability portfolio is designed to direct students to: 1. Research and reflect on their future employability and career development. 2. Examine the usefulness of the Graduate Employability Framework (Kinash et. al 2015: 61) for their own future career. 3. Construct part of a Personal Development Plan Further explanation of this assessment will be provided in tutorials; therefore, it is important that you attend. Details Students are required to submit a 1,500 word (+ or – 10%) Employability portfolio. Well-constructed sentences and paragraphs are required. Headings that indicate each of the numbered sections in the Employability portfolio are expected. Please write in third person. The following tasks should be completed: 1. Select a specific role that you would feel qualified to pursue when you complete your degree. 2. Research and outline the following aspects of this graduate role: a. Expected task requirements and responsibilities as described in the advertisement. b. Describe the knowledge, skills and abilities that are required for the role and then classify these as ‘Graduate Employability Skills’ see Graduate Careers Australia, 2015: 21 – refer to Employability models lecture week 2. 3. Place this research material, set out in table format, in an appendix to your Employability portfolio. Provide an introduction to your Employability portfolio 100 words and a 200 word summary of this research material in the main body of your Employability portfolio. 4. Select one of the elements from the Graduate Employability Framework (Kinash et. al 2015:61. Students may not select the first two elements. They must select from between 3) Knowledge and 10) Co-curricular - inclusive. NB: refer to the lecture pod and power point slides in week 2 for information about this framework. The report containing the framework (see page 61) is as follows and is available on this link: Kinash S, Crane L, Judd J-M, Mitchell K, McLean M, Knight C, Dowling D and Schulz M, 2015, Graduate Employability Final Report, Supporting graduate employability from generalist disciplines through employer and private institution collaboration, final report prepared for the Australian Government, Office for Leaning and Teaching, available at https://graduateemployability.com/resources/our-findings/ viewed 28 June 2017. How you would demonstrate to a prospective graduate employer your level of proficiency in this element? Provide examples of how you are proficient. In what areas are you not proficient? (300 words). 5. Based upon the assessment in 4. above, critique the usefulness of the element you have selected of the Graduate Employability Framework (Kinash et. al 2015: 61) in terms of its ability to assist you to evaluate your employability for when you graduate (300 words). 6. Construct part of a Personal Development Plan. This plan should consider the development you feel is required for you to achieve proficiency in the Graduate Employability Skills, as described in 2 for your graduate role. Select one goal from this development and write it as a SMART goal then construct this into a Personal Development Plan using the format provided in Gallagher (2010: 51) see lecture week 6. Place this in the appendix. Provide a 300 word explanation in the body of why you selected this SMART goal and how your Personal Development Plan will help you to achieve this goal (300 words). 7. Create a conclusion that provides a synthesis of arguments and ideas relating to the key aspects of your future employability and career development as discussed (300 words). In researching for this Employability portfolio you are encouraged to use a number of techniques. One of these techniques can be a face-to- face interview with a person currently performing the job that you would like to do. If you use this technique, permission must be sought from the interviewee and their identity must be disguised. Other techniques include conventional reviewing of relevant printed or electronic academic sources. A minimum of eight academic references are required. Do not use Wikipedia. This is not an academic source. The Employability portfolio must use the Harvard system of referencing.