QHO336 Academic & Personal Development: Portfolio of Evidence

This portfolio of evidence for the Academic and Personal Development module (QHO336) includes a weekly reflective log detailing learning experiences related to paraphrasing, summarizing, critical evaluation, citation styles, CV building, and presentation skills. The portfolio also features a Future Me questionnaire analyzing career development priorities, a living CV reflecting formative feedback, a LinkedIn profile, a SWOT analysis with SMART goals focused on academic and career aspirations, PowerPoint slides from a presentation, and answers to post-recording Q&A. The student reflects on their strengths and weaknesses, identifies areas for improvement, and outlines action plans to enhance their skills and achieve their goals.

Academic and Personal Development (QHO336)
Portfolio of evidence - February 2022
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This is your Portfolio of evidence which
Contents
Task 1: Weekly Reflective Log
Task 2: Future Me Questionnaire - My results
Task 3: My Living CV
Task 4: My LinkedIn profile
Task 5: My SWOT analysis and SMART goals
Task 6: PowerPoint slides used in my presentation
Task 7: Answers to post-recording Q&A
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Task 1: Weekly Reflective Log
Week What did I learn / experience?
What was
useful/interesting/important
about that learning
experience?
How did I feel?
What was I good at?
Why?
(How do I know that?)
What was I weaker at?
Why?
(How do I know that?)
What action will I take to improve this
skill/situation/experience, etc.? How will I
use what I learned? What are the benefits
of this new learning to my personal and
professional development?
1 I have learned what paraphrasing and
summarising mean and how to avoid
plagiarism. It was an interesting
experience.
I practised all of them and I
felt confident, it is not hard
at all, it is something that I
have learnt and
implemented in my
academic life.
I did not feel weak doing any
of them.
I will start reading books, this will help me practice
more of Paraphrasing, summarising, and avoiding
plagiarism. This will help me a lot with my future
assessments.
2 This week I have learnt how to
critically evaluate sources of
information and to apply
paraphrasing techniques. Also, I
understood the requirements of the
first formative assessment.
I was good at paraphrasing
techniques as I learnt this
when I was in secondary
school.
I felt a bit nervous about
understanding the
requirements of the first
formative assessment, this is
my very first one.
I will keep practising, I will also attend workshops on
Academic skills, and get books from the library to
make myself more confident about this topic.
3 I have learnt how to cite correctly in
SSU style and the reflection point,
academic integrity, and its impact on
the academic work.
Not sure if I was good at
any, it is something new for
me, I will keep practising.
I am not confident in any of
them.
I will keep practising to understand them better as this
is something that I will need in my future assessments.
Look into Solent reference guide from the library or
google search.
4 I learnt about CV, understood the key
sections needed and how to produce
my CV following the UK standard
format, and also identified the do’s
and don’ts in a CV.
I was quite good at it,
already I had a good CV.
After the session, I
upgraded my CV with more
valid information.
I did not feel weak adding
information to my CV.
By including extra
information, I felt I made my
CV look better for the
employers.
I felt really interested in adding more information to
my CV. It looks professional, and it will help me get a
good job.
5 I did analyse reflective sample and
identified the stages of reflective
models, understood how my final
project is assessed and developed
self-awareness by completing self-
I understood all of them, it
was an interesting seminar.
I was not weak at any of
them.
This seminar helped me to understand how my final
project is assessed and this made me feel much
confident doing it as I know where I have to work
more.
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assessments online.
6 I learned what a LinkedIn profile is, it
was quite interested to learn about it,
I did not know how much can help me
in my future career.
It was easy to understand
what it is about. There is
nothing complicated, once
I got into the website, I
followed step by step and I
builded my profile.
I did not feel any difficulty in
creating my LinkedIn profile.
LinkedIn is something new for me, but exploring the
website made me understand better about it.
Definitely I can say that my new LinkedIn profile will
help me in my future career finding a good job.
7 This week I practiced how to use eye
contact, body language and voice in
order to engage the audience in a
presentation. Also, I was trying to plan
my presentation.
I was good at eye contact
and body language, is
something that I use every
day.
I am not confident recording
my voice. I am planning to
make quite few voice
recordings until I feel much
confident.
Being confident with eye contact, body language and
my voice will help me with my presentation.
8 I learned about Power Point Design
Principles by Solent, how to evaluate
the effectiveness of Power Point slides
and how to apply the PPT design
principles to own presentation slide.
I was good at discovering
all about PPT, it is very nice
as I can choose different
colours or designs.
I felt confident using PPT. I will still practise using it as most of the assessments
are in PPT and I must learn to be able to use it
correctly.
Task 2: Future Me Questionnaire – My results
Action plan 1: From results to priorities
Please add your scores to the graph below:
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My Career
My Experience
My Opportunities
My Network
My Creativity
My Attitude
My Communication
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First impressions about your results
‘Overall, I generally… agree with my Future Me results.’
Any surprises? Initial brief reflections?
The initial brief reflection is being framed which helps in analysing the aspects of how
effectively and in appropriate manner the data has been gathered. These results are
helping to create value for analysing and developing the standards of how effectively
and in appropriate manner the results are calculated.
My career development priorities
Think about your Future Me results and reflect about where you are on your career path as a whole.
 Choose your top (most important) and second topic area that you need to work on
 These factors may not have the highest scores – use your judgement
‘My top priority is…’ My Career
‘This is also important…’ My Communication
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The next step/s I need to do…
Write about what you need to focus on and do next to help you move forwards and develop your career.
The needs which I need to focus on are my communication skills, management skills
and problem solving skills.
Task 3: My Living CV
After receiving formative feedback, copy-paste your reviewed CV on this page – At the end of this task, include a
reference list in Solent style of the sources you have used to create/improve your living CV e.g. Solent CV guide or
QA careers video.
Please note that the CV must be your own work - copying and pasting content from example CVs found
online is plagiarism.
Answer – The results which are collected for future me are high which will help to know and analyse my future and will help me in my career at large
scale. My score made me think that I am capable of working more effectively and appropriately. I am also feeling confident that I am able to work hard
and improve my major skills and abilities by analysing and identifying my strengths and weaknesses at large scale. My score which was 77% which was
above the passing criteria made me think that I am capable of initiating and addressing the major key skills and was able to analyse my abilities for my
future career. I got these scores due to my performance and my abilities which I delivered at large scale. This is how effectively and in appropriate
manner I was able to analyse and identify that I am capable of many things which are helping me to develop my career and are making me analyse the
aspects and concerns which are related to how effectively I am considering and valuing the concerns which are related to the effectiveness of my
future.
I did many things to improve my scores which were related to how effectively I was able to analyse and identify my skills and abilities with the help of
SWOT analysis which helped me in evaluating my strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats at large scale. Also, I improved my scores, by
watching videos online for creating a resume, LinkedIn profile etc. I created a CV which was a living CV based on how effectively and in appropriate
manner I mentioned all the details and information about myself. This also constituted many details and information regarding how effectively and in
appropriate manner there were concerns regarding my living CV. This is the most appropriate form in which the CV is being generated as it helps in
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depicting all the information and details regarding myself. The CV was done on the basis of skills as this helped in addressing the major concerns of
how effectively the skills and abilities are being polished.
Future me scores were created for my career which helped me in analysing the concerns and aspects of how effectively my scores were being
analysed and identified. My strengths and weakness were identified which helped me in analysing the major concerns and also motivated me and
made me confident at large scale. The future me scores helped me in knowing that my career is more important for future considerations and due to
this there are concerns which are related to how effectively and in appropriate manner I am able to improve my weaknesses. By using the CV 360
scores I felt that that I am capable of growing more in my future career and this helped me providing motivation and confidence at large scale. I have
also realised that my internship will improve my chances of growing and developing my career best in terms of effectively analysing the concepts of
how effectively there are aspects of my future career at large scale. SWIOT goals were analysed which helped me in analysing my strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities and goals at large scale. These key drivers helped me in knowing that I constitute paraphrasing and summarising along with
this, I was able to gather knowledge of what are the opportunities and threats to me for my future career. There are concerns and aspects as to how
effectively and in appropriate manner there are aspects of how effectively I am able to analyse my core skills and abilities at large scale. With all the
provided information, I am able to create value for noticing the concerns which are important for me such as the scores.
Task 4: My LinkedIn profile
Paste the screenshots of your FULL LinkedIn profile here - At the end of this task, include a reference list in Solent
style of the sources you have used to create your LinkedIn Profile.
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Task 5: My SWOT analysis and SMART goals
Complete the SWOT analysis quadrant and set three SMART goals in the table below and ensure these focus on
academic aspirations and intended career path – At the end of this task, include a reference list in Solent style
of the sources used for completion of SWOT and SMART goals.
Strengths Weaknesses The strengths which I incur are paraphrasing and
summarising.
 My major strength is I was able to frame CV in a good
manner.
 I have also gained information regarding the seminar
which I am good at.
 I am good at displaying and presenting the presentation.
 I have certain weaknesses which are –
 I felt nervous about understanding the
requirements of the formative assessments.
 I am weak at recording my voice which states
that I am less confident.
 I am also weak at framing my own SWOT
analysis.
Opportunities Threats The opportunity such as – gaining information and
knowledge about the aspects such as learning to some
important information regarding my learning activities will
help me in analysing certain aspects which are related to
creating value for my future career.
 Threat is of not being able to learn and identify
the weakness and not being able to analyse the
concern related to the improvement for future
career and developmental goals.
3 SMART goals
Goals How to
achieve
Potential
issues
How to
overcome
Reasons for
achievement
How will I
measure
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