Portfolio and Reflective

This document discusses the contribution of mini project workshops towards the development of employability. It also includes various materials such as building creative confidence, career action plan, CV, personality test, and more.

Portfolio and Reflective
Summary

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
How and why have the mini project workshops contributed towards the development of your
employability...............................................................................................................................1
Building creative confidence.......................................................................................................2
Career action plan........................................................................................................................2
Career test....................................................................................................................................3
CV................................................................................................................................................3
Personality test.............................................................................................................................3
Self awareness questions.............................................................................................................3
Self awareness worksheet............................................................................................................4
Stories with numbers: Academic writing.....................................................................................4
Innovation....................................................................................................................................4
Presentation..................................................................................................................................4
Project work.................................................................................................................................5
Data interpretation.......................................................................................................................5
SUMMARY EXPLAINING CHOICES OF PORTFOLIO............................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Portfolio refers to compilation of educational as well as academic evidences that are
assembled for the purpose of evaluating academic achievements together with determining that
all the learning standards are met or not according to requirements of courses (Aversa, Haefliger
and Reza, 2017). The present project comprises answer to the question that is how as well as
why have mini project workshops contributes in development of employability. Further, it also
includes 12 documents or materials that are generated in FY027 academic classes. At last, it
includes summary of explanation of choices of Portfolio contents.
MAIN BODY
How and why have the mini project workshops contributed towards the development of your
employability
Mini project workshops are assembled group of various people that shares common
interest and improve their skill sets for subject with the help of intensive study, discussion and
practice. By attending mini project workshops, a student is been able to improve their critical
thinking and develop confidence that provides various opportunities for developing towards
employability. In workshops, students builds networking with teachers and other learners that
assist them to take guidance together with encourages their ways to think differently as well as
creatively to continue working for their career (Sousa, 2018). In present world, competition is
getting tough and students often come across to the issue related to employability. For bridging
the gap along with equipping towards new age technologies, mini project workshops contribute
in developing employability of a person. Moreover, mini project workshops are great way for
learners to acquire knowledge that is essential for employability. For example, in mini project
workshop of FY027, participation in various activities helped in learning about new projects,
methodologies and many more in an order that is better for developing employability.
Participation in workshops helped a student in attaining success for their academic environment
through application of skills into practice. The workshops aids superiors to chance for
differentiating among learners with related backgrounds. Furthermore, workshops of FY027
support students in showing their talents that contributes effectively on developing their
employability.
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Mini project workshops have contributed in developing employability of a person
because mini project workshop are conducted to improve skill and knowledge of a student as per
requirements of future employment. Such workshops conduct offers huge inexpensive
opportunities and emphasises on planning experiments, defining research methodologies,
finalising primary sites, developing proposals and many more that is core reason to contribute in
developing employability. Moreover, this kind of workshops have been lauded to assist
developing employability to exercise multiple measures for growth along with strengthening
them (Stathopoulou, Siamagka and Christodoulides, 2019). With greater resources addition to
research being put on developing employability at greater level, mini project workshops lead to
prioritising in improving generic and other skills that are significant for future job positions. At
same time, the other reason for contribution of mini project workshops in development of
student' employability is to allow students in organising their time, resources and other areas of
life in all aspects so that they are able to perform carefully, logically and creatively.
Building creative confidence
Creative confidence is said to a situation in life of people in which they have energy as
well as keeping themselves pushing forward to keep trying new thoughts and innovation.
Building creative confidence assist students to rediscover their creativity, learning lessons as
well as imparting for others and showing the ways to exercise innovating muscle through
drawing on experiences workings related to design and innovation. It is important for me to build
creative confidence as lack of creative confidence restricts me to develop mu employability. In
future, it will help me to experience freedom from negative thoughts along with self-doubt
related to my working.
Career action plan
Career action plan is termed to dynamic planning document that is owned along with
managed through students or young people that are intended for reflecting on enhanced career
development learning (Park and Park, 2020). Career action plan is significant for me to set my
objectives, clarifying actions required for attaining the objectives and making commitment for
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engaging in planned activities. In future, career action plan will help in landing to my dream job
and dealing with extreme uncertain ride.
Career test
Career test is delineated as a tool which is design to aid student understanding the ways
variants of personal attributes, satisfaction with various options of career, analysing impacts of
potential success and work environment. Career test result is based on selecting among pictures
showing particular work activities. For me, career test is significant as they helps in to have
knowledge related to various career options that in depth. Moreover, in future, career tests will
direct in knowing self-strengths, aptitude, passion, ambitions, weaknesses, perception and
passion that needs to be taken into account of choosing a career.
CV
Curriculum Vitae is termed to an exhausting listing of entire significant achievement in
an individual career (Saire and Alanoca, 2020). For me, completed CV plays significant role to
enhance my employability as it have objective of impressing recruiters as well as is delivered as
application to occupational adverts to prospective entities. It is valuable along with important as
it is seen as first and only direct communication with potential authority of an organisation. As a
student, CV will help me to get a job according to my requirements.
Personality test
It is a tool that is widely adopted for assessing human personality. In other words,
personality tests is a technique that is particularly designed for measuring characterised patterns
related to traits which exhibit around multiple situations. The test in which I participated to
analyse my personality type are realistic, artistic, enterprising, investigative, conventional and
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social that showed a result that how well I will perform at any workplace on the basis of my
interpersonal skills, inspirational and motivation. At same time, personality test will provide a
brief overview for a role in which I can excel with my behavioural traits.
Self awareness questions
An ability for emphasising on self along with the ways my actions, thoughts as well as
emotions align with internal standards is self awareness. Self awareness questions are set of
questions whose answers helps an individual to become aware about themselves. If a person is
aware about their themselves, then they are able to objectively evaluate themselves, align
behaviour with values, manage emotions as well as understand correctly the ways others
perceives them. For me, self-awareness is essential so to being aware about environment,
lifestyle and body of an individual. In future, to analyse my self-awareness, I will participate in
self-awareness questions that are related to values addition to life goals.
Self-awareness worksheet
Self awareness worksheet is foremost worksheet that is used for the purpose of self-
discovery addition to setting objectives (Cottrell, 2019). In other words, it is an all covering
worksheet which address values, talents, perception, attributes and self reflection. A student
experiences multiple experiences in life, however, still lacks awareness about self. For me, the
worksheet helps in to take time for stepping outside of my own experiences as well as reflecting
on them. In future, Self awareness worksheet will guide me to have knowledge about my views,
thoughts and happiness.
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Stories with numbers: Academic writing
Academic writing could be defined to non-fiction writing that is produced as element of
academic work. In other words, it is a formal writing style which is used by students on some
academic topics along with research papers or dissertation. For me, academic writing is all about
form of writing which conveys information in some impartial manner. As as student, I have
participated in academic writing activity in which I have written about a topic that is “Half of
new parents shown anti-vaccine misinformation on social media”. In coming couple of years,
academic writing will assist me to accumulate wider useful skills which will not benefit me in
work but also in my life.
Innovation
It is said to carrying out various new combinations which involve launching new things,
opening to new places, conquesting new sources related to supply, new production methods and
many more. Innovation inspires me to explore, research addition to use al techniques for uncover
something new. Innovative skills are essential for a student as they direct them for constantly
look towards new ideas, preferring to work in complex environment and become frank for
expressing opinions. In future, with the help of innovation, I will be able to develop my
creativity addition to problem solving abilities.
Presentation
Presentation is said to an activity in which a person communicates information on a topic
by using electronic devises to an audience (Frisby, 2017). For success of presentation, required
attributes are eye contact, belief in point, capturing the attention, contributions of strong people
and group, communication and hence forth. By developing insights about all these, I am able to
present about a topic with full confidence and engage audience with my presentation. I have
learned about how to present a topic, in future, I have potentials to give understandable together
with effective presentation for entities I will be working with.
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Project work
It is working that focuses towards completing any task. Working in project involves huge
number of resources that includes people, efforts, time, material and practice for range of
language system together with skill sets. For me, participation in project work helps in building
team working abilities, sharing knowledge, improving information to devise and implement
decision. Through project work, I will be able to make myself comfortable in working with
others to perform project work effectively.
Data interpretation
It is associated to reviewing data by certain predefined processes that assist in assigning
meaning to data as well as arrive at suitable conclusion (Lussier and Kimball, 2019).
Participation in data interpretation activity is significant for me to acquire usable information
along with making best informed decisions in possible aspects. Through data interpretation, I
will be able improve processes together with determine problems for companies.
SUMMARY EXPLAINING CHOICES OF PORTFOLIO
While attending FY027 mini project workshops as well as employability classes, I
developed an understanding about multiple topics in well structured as well as understandable
manner that assist me to upgrade my skills and knowledge about variant topics. Multiple kind of
materials are needed in order to populating understandable portfolio. In context to populating a
portfolio, I selected different types of materials that includes Career action plan, self awareness
questions, Stories with numbers: Academic writing, Data interpretation, Building creative
confidence, Self-awareness worksheet, Project work, Career test, Presentation, CV, Personality
test and Innovation. To select these materials, there are different purposes. In context to
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Innovation, it is selected to understand requirements of innovative skills to develop future.
Another topic is data interpretation that is selected to analyse benefits and limitations related to
data interpretation for students and businesses. The next chosen material is career action plan
which is chosen to learn the ways to devise effective career action plan for achieving future
success. The material of self-awareness question is chosen as to devise and answer for assessing
how much I am aware about myself and my thoughts. The other is stories with numbers:
academic style that is preferred choice for understanding usage of academic styles for student in
present life. Building creative confidence is another material that is selected so to learn about
significance of creative confidence and building it through unique ways. Another material that is
self-awareness worksheet that is selected to answer set of questions to analyse about self and
experiencing self as separate individual. The next is personality test that is selected to have
information with ways to classify distinct traits about which I am not aware. Project work is
taken into consideration so to analyse how to involve or engage with other in a project work and
fostering collaboration. The last is CV which is selected to learn about the ways to devise a CV
in proper format so to get placed in an organisation.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Aversa, P., Haefliger, S. and Reza, D.G., 2017. Building a winning business model
portfolio. MIT Sloan Management Review. 58(4). pp.49-54.
Cottrell, S., 2019. The study skills handbook. Macmillan International Higher Education.
Frisby, C. L., 2017. The nonverbal assessment of academic skills. In Handbook of Nonverbal
Assessment (pp. 251-267). Springer, Cham.
Lussier, R. N. and Kimball, D. C., 2019. Applied sport management skills. Human Kinetics.
Park, S. and Park, S. Y., 2020. Career adaptability of South Korean engineering
students. European Journal of Training and Development.
Saire, J. E. C. and Alanoca, H. A., 2020. Text Mining over Curriculum Vitae of Peruvian
Professionals using Official Scientific Site DINA. arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.03087.
Sousa, M. J., 2018. Entrepreneurship skills development in higher education courses for teams
leaders. Administrative Sciences. 8(2). p.18.
Stathopoulou, A., Siamagka, N. T. and Christodoulides, G., 2019. A multi-stakeholder view of
social media as a supporting tool in higher education: An educator–student
perspective. European Management Journal. 37(4). pp.421-431.
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