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Career Action
Plan
Reflection
Self
Purpose
of the
report
Required
information
Career Action
Planning
How to structure
and
layout your
report
Reflective Activities
Complete a personal analysis of what you have to offer
this employer at the moment - include your current skills,
knowledge and experiences, both academic and from
other areas
Review where you see yourself against the requirements
of the role identified in the Career Research Report in the
form of a gap analysis - where do you need to add
more evidence of your competence? What additional
skills & experiences do you need to add?
Reflection on Group Presentation assignment team
working - your role and contribution within the team, the
benefits and challenges that working within that team
created, how this will influence how you approach future
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team working
What is Reflection?
looking back on an experience
and making sense of it to
identify what to do
in the future (Drew & Bingham, 2001:221)
In an academic context, reflection is the
process of
looking back (describing) over past events;
analysing how you have learned and
developed as a person and your feelings about
this, and re-evaluating your experience on the
basis of your thoughts.
(McMillan &3 Weyers, 2006: 42)
Why is Reflection
important?
It helps you to identify what you can improve
for yourself as a learner in order to improve
your performance & learning, by identifying
what you do well, identifying problems &
considering what you need to improve
It is personal development: a positive exercise
helps you identify what you are good at and
can build on so to improve and succeed. It
helps you understand that others may
perceive things differently, and consider why
this is...
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Employers require reflective practitioners
About Reflection
Schn (1987) suggests if you reflect on action
(make sense of something afterwards), you are
more likely to reflect in action(what to do next
time when in the situation)
It is not sufficient simply to have an experience
in order to learn. Without reflecting upon this
experience it may quickly be forgotten, or its
learning potential lost. It is from the feelings and
thoughts emerging from this reflection that
generalisations or concepts can be generated.
And it is generalisations that allow new situations
to be tackled effectively. (Gibbs, 1988:9)
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Do
somethin
g
Plan to
try again
keeping
your
conclusio
ns in
mind
Come to
conclusio
ns about
what you
did
Think
about
what you
did
Connect
your
experien
ce to
theory
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Section 1 Personal
Analysis
Review of your skills, knowledge and experience
Personal
Analysis Include information from personal evaluation tests
Career
Action
Plan
Peer
Feedback
Future
Changes
to team
Analysis of role you played in achievement of assignment
objectives
Refection on feedback from peers or team members
How this may support or differ from your perceptions
Consideration of any changes when working with teams in
future
How being more effective team worker may assist you in
future
Task Activities
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
Set dates
Set yourself a date by which you will complete each step. Also set review dates
to check your progress and make changes.
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Personal Analysis
Gap Analysis
Career Action Plan summary
Role in achieving team assignment objectives and requirements
Reflection on any feedback from team members or peers
Consideration of any future development or changes
Brief reflection on how you feel having completed the
assignment and how you intend to use your Career Action Plan
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A report
should be
written
concisely,
in a
business
like
manner,
and have
headings
and subheadings
As this
report is
personal
to you, it
can all be
written in
the first
person ,
ie, I
Note the
available
marks for
each
section
and
ensure
that you
take
account of
these in
how you
construct
your
report
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Remember
to include
your
appendice
s and all
your
references
and
bibliograp
hy
Use 14pt
headings and
12pt subheadings
Have a title
page and a
contents
page
Include a
final word
count on the
title page
Refer to the
CASE Guide
to Report
Writing for
more
information
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Submission
Requirements
Your report must
be submitted to
the correct
assignment tab
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state word count
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Extension Requests
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apply for an
extension if
required by
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References
Cottrell, S. (2003) Skills for Success: The Personal
Development Planning Handbook. Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan.
Drew, S. & Bingham, R. (2001) The Student Skills Guide. 2nd
edn. Aldershot: Gower.
Drucker, P.F. (n.d.) In ThinkExist.com Quotations (2008) Peter
F.
Drucker quotes. Available at:
http://einstein/quotes/peter_f._drucker/ [Accessed:
19September, 2008].
Kolb, D.A. (1984) Experiental Learning: Experience as the
Source of Learning and Development. Eaglewood Cliff, NJ:
Prentice Hall.
Schn, D. A. (1987) Educating the Reflective Practitioner.
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San Francisco: Josey-Bass.