This Assessment has 2 parts:
- Work ready skills action plan (Draft) and
- Essay on reflection of your work ready skills – 1000 words (approximately)
This is a great opportunity for you to reflect on your skills development and plan for ways to ensure that the necessary skills are in your repertoire when you apply for jobs. You are given a work ready skills action plan (template); refer to page 11 of your unit outline. The template has a list of the skills organisations say are important and what they look for when recruiting employees. You can use this template for your work ready skills action plan (Draft).
For each of those skills personally reflect on where you would like to place yourself (in the continuum between ‘High’ on the one end and ‘Low’ on the other). You are also welcome to get some feedback from others (fellow students, family, and colleagues at work) on your skills as to where they would like to place you; this bit is OPTIONAL. In the columns against short term and long term plans; include your thoughts on how to develop those skills especially the ones that you think need to be improved. These plans need not be elaborate (just a few bullet points would do).
Your essay needs to be reflective of your work ready skills and should be approximately 1000 words (not including the draft plan). The essay should identify where your strengths and weaknesses are considering the content you gained in the three weeks with the career work ready sessions. What do you need to do to improve your work ready skills to enable you to get the job that you want? How will you develop these skills? Include research that shows the value of these skills in business (citation required); include a minimum of 3 references (academic/scholarly/business/industry publications).
One of the ways to go about doing this assignment would be to go to seek.com and find your dream job. Find out what skills are required for the job and assess if you would meet the requirements. If not get started on developing the skills you need. For example if you found that you were not good at answering questions in an interview; this comes under ‘communication’ and needs to be addressed. Why is it important and how will you develop this in the short term and long term?
Due Date: 5 pm, 8th September Friday
Submission: Via Turnitin on Leo as a single word document – Work ready skills action plan (Draft) plus Essay
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