FY026 Preparing for Success At University: Knowledge and Creativity

PREPARING FOR SUCCESS: KNOWLEDGE AND CREATIVITY-FY026
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Student’s Name:
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Table of Contents Page No.
1 REFLECTIVE SUMMARY TO EXPLAIN HOW AND WHY 10 ENCLOSED
ARTEFACTS HAVE SUPPORTED THE DEVELOPMENT OF MY
EMPLOYABILITY. - LO2, LO4
2 10 Appendices
Appendix 1 Photos or Samples of Work Produced in the PSKC Class (During Lessons,
Webinars, Self-Study Sessions or Workshops at LSST) -LO1, LO2, LO3
Appendix 2 Personal SWOT Analysis – LO2
Appendix 3 Personal Development Plan – LO2, LO4
Appendix 4 Reading Log 1 – L01, LO3
Appendix 5 Reading Log 2– L01, LO3
Appendix 6 Resources for Job Hunting 1 – L01, LO3
Appendix 7 Resources for Job Hunting 2 – L01, LO3
Appendix 8 Academic Resources 1 – BNU E-Library – L01, LO3
Appendix 9 Examples of Job Description and Personal Specification (screenshots) – L01, LO3
Appendix 10 Blog – How to Prepare for The Future Job Market? – L01, LO4
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Appendix Poster - New Features of MS WORD (RM Unify version) – L01, LO3
Appendix Step by Step Guide - Work Together on PowerPoint Presentations– L01, LO3
Appendix Reading Log 3– L01, LO3
Appendix Reading Log 4– L01, LO3
Appendix My Favourite Bucks Graduate Attributes – L01, LO4
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HOW AND WHY 10 ENCLOSED ARTEFACTS HAVE SUPPORTED THE DEVELOPMENT OF MY EMPLOYABILITY? (500 words)
Photos or samples of work produced in the PSKC class: In order to successfully fulfil the process of improvement of employment prospects there are 10
artefacts used in the following project. Different objectives are derived by different artefacts in order to make sure that I am providing importance to
future employment growth for myself.
Personal SWOT analysis: This is a useful device which is helping me in analysing all my skills. It is raising my awareness about my skills and possible
opportunities which I can grab in future.
Personal development plan: Personal development plan have successfully contributed in enhancing various strains of mind. It is also making me
available for different job roles that can be successfully fulfilled by me in most suitable manner. The personal development plan is managing all the skills
which are required in different ways which will help me in successfully developing the skills in future. It is necessary to make sure that I am also
measuring the development of these skills in order to work better and achieve all my goals.
Reading log 1: My following situation the plan is affectively helping in learning different potential work and working on my weakness. This is also
successfully working on a various weak areas of mine that I am focusing upon for growth in future.
Reading log 2: The following report have successfully improved learning modes and enhancing learning through proper advancement of different
opportunities which are available in Reading section.
Resources for job hunting 1: The following artifact is providing knowledge of different origins from where a candidate can look for job. Linkedin is one
of the special portal which is providing a number of different jobs opportunities is to the people who are looking for job.
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Resources for job hunting 2: It is a resource which is helping in searching for various alternatives for jobs available through a website called Glassdoor.
Different organisations which require employees and have openings for different job positions post here.
Academic resources 1: This is an important object in educational services which helps in designing and determining different information and their actual
authors. It is necessary to understand the authors from whom the research information is taken and also mention them in the report successfully.
Examples of job description and personal specifications: It is a tool which is assisting individuals to get a number of different job roles. It is necessary
for individuals to make sure that they are successfully looking for various job available and the skills required for job in matching to their own skills. I am
willing to start my job in a good organisation which will help me to start my professional careers successfully. Job description will successfully allow me
to understand the required role of job and whether I can fulfil all the requirements or not.
Blog: The blog have provided improvement in understanding of various level of context for future employment opportunities present for individuals.
There are a number of objects which are crucial to understand in order to make sure that the goals can be achieved in the given time period and higher
professional development will help in enhancing competency in students.
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APPENDIX 1: Photos or Samples of Work Produced in PSKC Class
Figure 1: Workshop on one drive sharing
Caption: Caption:
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Figure 2: Academic writing skills
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Figure 3: Learning outcomes
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Figure 4: Presentation skills
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Figure 5: Digital literacy and technology skills
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Figure 6: Digital college
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Figure 7: Evaluating sources
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Figure 8; Preparing for success knowledge and creativity
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Figure 9: Different topics
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Caption: Caption:
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APPENDIX 2: My Personal SWOT Analysis (as a student of BNU)
STRENGTHS (strong points) WEAKNESSES (weak
points)
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Attentive at work
1 Low self confidence
2 Creativity 2 Lack of Time management
3 Good communication skill 3 Temperament issue
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Team management
4 Lack of decision making skills
OPPORTUNITIES (potential
gains)
THREATS (potential losses)
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Opportunities for start
1 Lack of jobs due to the economic crisis;
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ups
2 Good results in university 2 Rivals with greater involvement
3
Easy accessibility of
resources
3 Many more students go to college owing to the unavailability of jobs
because more rivalry can happen.
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Good and supporting
friend
4 Lack of physical classes due to Covid-19
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APPENDIX 3: My Personal Development Plan (to become an employable graduate after 2024)
OBJECTIVES FOR MY
PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT
ACTIONS REQUIRED TO ACHIEVE MY
OBJECTIVES
SUPPORT
AND/OR
RESOURCES I
NEED
TIMEFRAME ESTIMATED
DATE OF
COMPLETION /
ACHIEVEMENT
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Time management and
controlling skills I have successfully used a number of different
tools in order to make schedule and manage my
time successfully.
Gantt Map and
project
management plan
are the sources
that have helped
me in dividing the
available time
period according
to different
objectives.
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Trust development Prioritizing the tasks and activities has helped
me to enhance the trust of others in my work.
All my
supervisors,
teachers and
seniors have been
there to assist me
at all levels where
I have been facing
any type of
difficulties that
has lead to
development of
the trust level.
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Enhancing the choice
making capacity
I am making a number of decisions in order to
deal with queries and differentiate between
various options.
There has been
assistance of my
colleagues and
classmates with
proper help in
situation of
difficulty.
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Excitement It will successfully help me in achieving my
goals and build excitement for me.
Tutors are
successfully
helped in
motivating me
3 days 19/12/20
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APPENDIX 4: Reading Log 1
TITLE AND
WEBLINK
How you can continue to focus on Career Planning during the Covid-19 Lockdown
https://portal.lsst.ac/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=2214
SUMMARY AND
YOUR
COMMENTS OF
THE BLOG IN
YOUR OWN
WORDS
There are a number of different blogs which are successfully describing the current situation of COVID-19 providing counselling to
the students and various working groups. They are also providing them with preparation of various scenarios that are taking place in
this following unpredictable time. It is helping me to grow my career and prepare for various life problems that will be coming my
way. So I am working on skills required for development of various skills that will help in professional and personal growth. There
has been development of my job in this situation. Performance appraisal is one of the major aspects of success for achievement of
progress.
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IN-TEXT
CITATION
FULL
REFERENCE
He, G., Pan, Y. and Tanaka, T., 2020. The short-term impacts of COVID-19 lockdown on urban air pollution in China. Nature
Sustainability, pp.1-7.
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APPENDIX 5: Reading Log 2
TITLE AND
WEBLINK
Study skills and learning materials
https://portal.lsst.ac/mod/resource/view.php?id=2264
SUMMARY AND
YOUR
COMMENTS OF
THE BLOG IN
YOUR OWN
WORDS
There are a number of different skills that are also including creativity, team management skills, determination to complete the work
and so on. The educational process is providing knowledge about the educational process. Automation of a number of facilities has
also increased educational skills which will research in better professional skills. It is a great help for me in my professional and
personal goals.
IN-TEXT
CITATION
FULL Cottrell, S., 2019. The study skills handbook. Macmillan International Higher Education.
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REFERENCE
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APPENDIX 6: Resources for Job Hunting 1
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Title of the resource
Description
There are a number of different tools that are used in order to find the right jobs as
per the skills, capabilities, knowledge and experience. Facebook, LinkedIn,
Glassdoor are some of such platforms that are providing individuals with various
opportunities to show their skills.
Image
IN-TEXT CITATION IN-TEXT CITATION
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
It is a great platform which has a number of options available LinkedIn is taking time to make research and also get responses from the
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managers in organisation.
It is facilitating and encouraging me to search for the best possible
opportunities as there are wide range of options which are available and
can be used according to range of specific requirements (Shi, Zhu,Liu and
Li, 2018).
There is requirement of high technical knowledge and expertise to make the
righto searches.
Technical knowledge is required in order to deal with searches and use it
successfully.
Conclusion (Will I use it?/ How to use it effectively?)
LinkedIn is one of the best available tools for searching of the right job opportunity. And yes I am definitely going to use this tool for making the right
possible searches.
References
Shi, Y., Zhu, X., Liu, B. and Li, L., 2018. Social networks and the wages of job seekers: the case of China. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 8(1), p.51.
Meccawy, M. and et. al., 2018. The Graduate Helper: Using a Mobile Application as a Feasible Resource for Job Hunting Across Saudi
Arabia. International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), 12(4), pp.152-165.
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APPENDIX 7: Resources for Job Hunting 2
Title of the resource
Description:
Glassdoor is also a platform that is designed according to present requirement of job
seekers and job providers (Fouda, 2020).
Image
IN-TEXT CITATION IN-TEXT CITATION
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
It is a site that is very easy to operate and is easily accessible for users. There is no proper direction for candidates who do not posses processor
accounts.
There are chances of higher effectiveness and accuracy. There is requirement of more time in searching (Ahn, Kim and Han, 2019).
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Conclusion (Will I use it?/ How to use it effectively?)
Glassdoor is used for reaching skilled and talented people who require jobs. There is way to get effective region to manage the job effectiveness.
References
Fouda, A.Y., 2020. Introducing the Zoom interview: tips for job hunting during the coronavirus pandemic. Nature, 582(7811), pp.299-300.
Ahn, R., Kim, T.H. and Han, E., 2019. The Moderation of Obesity Penalty on Job Market Outcomes by Employment Efforts. International journal of
environmental research and public health, 16(16), p.2974.
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Appendix 8 Academic Resources 1
BNU E-Library
Description
EBSCO E-Library, TED conversations, LSST linkage are numerous scholarly sources. Different sources
exist. Google channels are also a source of information,
LSST connections, Scholarly Articles, Google Scholar, Science databases, and TED forums are academic
sources. There are several outlets as well. In my profession, Google learners are the right source for me.
(Fidalgo-Blanco and et. al., 2018).
Image
IN-TEXT CITATION IN-TEXT CITATION
ADVANTAGES
It saves time.
DISADVANTAGES
Few information provided can be wrong (Mukhroji, 2020).
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Conclusion (Will I use it?/ How to use it effectively?)
Google scholar.
References
Fidalgo-Blanco, Á. And et. al., 2018, October. Ontological search for
academic resources. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on
Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (pp. 788-793).
Mukhroji, M., 2020. Exploring the Academic Writing Needs to Improve the
Academic Literacy of the Indonesian EFL Undergraduate and Masters
Students. International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change, 10(10),
pp.252-269.
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APPENDIX 9 Examples of Job Description and Personal Specification (screenshots)
Job description
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Figure 12: Job Description
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Personal Specification
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Figure 13: Personal Specification
Caption: Caption:
IN-TEXT CITATION: IN-TEXT
CITATION:
FULL REFERENCES:
Schwartz, E. and et. al., 2018. Delta-encoder: an effective sample synthesis method for few-shot object recognition. Advances in Neural
Information Processing Systems, 31, pp.2845-2855.
McElreath, R., 2020. Statistical rethinking: A Bayesian course with examples in R and Stan. CRC press.
FULL
REFERENCES:
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Appendix 10 Blog – How to Prepare for The Future Job Market?
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What is the potential work market like with emerging technology?
Throughout the potential, what are the latest work opportunities?
How do we ready ourselves for these new chances?
There was a mistake (In-text citation and reference list)
It is important for me to manage the effectiveness of working in effective manner. There is requirement of managing and developing various ways to
create and assign proper employability skills. It is important for an individual to manage the skills and abilities for planning a proper technical work.
There is need to effectively develop and manage the scenario of completing goals.
Reference
Havers, F.P. and et. al., 2020. Seroprevalence of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in 10 sites in the United States, March 23-May 12, 2020. JAMA internal
medicine.
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Summary
To increase competitiveness, various objects are very important. Read log 2 for all items, such as written assignments and images, linked to reading log 1.
Job searches is used as a resource to do this job efficiently. All such items are very important for a person to help them to find job opportunities,
numerous photos that are part of Appendix 1 have made a successful contribution to the study and timely development of this course's understanding. As
an efficient template that has been possible because of the proper classification of all the abilities, risks and opportunities for an individual, more SWOT
technique has been used. The ultimate personal development approach is focused on addressing the impairment that has become part of the SWOT study,
and it is important to allow careful identification of all the enhancement possibilities open to the practitioners. This research has helped to create several
roots for the best. For the creation of experts, all of these items are very important. Personal enhancement services and SWOT analysis have embraced
greater engagement in employee and personal achievement growth. In order to leverage an open job opportunity wisely so that it can be used to
accomplish set targets, it is extremely important and highly crucial for blog preparation to make this opportunity accessible. The preparation of the blog is
therefore very necessary for the future possibilities to be accomplished. As for any person, there is a need for two face-to-face growth, both professional
and personal development, which takes place concurrently with a high degree of collaboration to ensure that all the goals are accomplished in a timely
manner.
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