Portfolio and Reflective Summary for Preparing for Success: Knowledge and Creativity - FY026

PREPARING FOR SUCCESS: KNOWLEDGE AND CREATIVITY-FY026
CW2 - Portfolio
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Table of Contents Page No.
1 REFLECTIVE SUMMARY TO EXPLAIN HOW AND WHY 10 ENCLOSED ARTEFACTSHAVE 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 atLSST) -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
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?
Employability skills are one of the most important skills that are required to be developed and enhanced in order to develop a successful career,
move ahead in career and achieve desired career goals in a positive and effective manner within desired time period. For development of
employability skills, university has developed a module where students were taught different artefacts that not only helped in development of
employability skills but also helped me in enhancing my existing skills that are useful in developing a successful career. There are various kinds
of artefacts that were useful for me in development of employability skills. During this module one of the artefacts taught was SWOT analysis. It
was one of the most important artefacts that played a vital role in development of my employability skills because this SWOT analysis directly
helped me in identifying my strengths (skills and knowledge in which I am good at or have command on), my weakness (skills that are required to
be developed), opportunities (development of skills that can help me in moving ahead in career) and threats (that can affect my career growth) in
an effective manner. Another artefact taught was personal development plan. It was another important artefact that helped me in developing my
weak skills that were required to be developed and improved and reduce threats that can impact my career. Personal development plan directly
helped me in developing a plan for enhancing over skills that are required to be developed. With the help of PDP I was able to develop aim
required to be achieved, actions required to be taken to achieve objective, resources required, time period in which those objectives will be
achieved. During this module I was taught about different resources that can be used for job hunting. This artefact helped me in researching for
desired job and search for job vacancy in my dream company. This artefact further helped in enhancing my researching skills which is required to
search for jobs for tarting a carer or for switching from one job to another. Another artefact that helped in developing employability skill was
knowledge of academic resources that can be used for searching for published secondary data and ways in which authentic references can be
researched for enhancing own knowledge and for researching for required data. Reading log was another artefact that helped in learning ways in
which a study material can be analysed and summarized. It is an important employability skill because it helps in analysing and summarizing
data which is available in order to extract important information. During this module I was also taught about importance of job and person
specification. This helped in understanding ways in which job specification should be analysed for identifying and understanding whether a job is
suitable for me or not. Ther than this writing a blog post artefact also helped me in developing employability skill such as writing as it directly
helped me in learning ways in which one’s own knowledge should be noted down in an appropriate manner. It is another important employability
skill as it is important in employment to develop reports of project upon which one work.
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APPENDIX 1: My Personal SWOT Analysis(as a student of BNU)
STRENGTHS (strong points) WEAKNESSES (weak points)
1 I incur effective and efficient communicating skills
which attracts people to talk with me.
1 I am poor in articulating the practical knowledge to any field.
2 I have good writing skills which helps me in my career
development.
2 I have this habit of distributing work to people which is on my part.
3 I also imbibe good management skills which enables
me to work properly.
3 I incur weakness of marketing skills which makes my work difficult.
4 I have leadership skills which helps me in working
along with other individuals.
4 I also have the problem in resolving to any practical part in the
marketing field.
5 I have strong decision making power which helps me
in solving any problem.
5 I have poor time management skill.
OPPORTUNITIES (potential gains) THREATS (potential losses)
1 Marketing opportunities will help me improve my work
and gain practical knowledge.
1 I may not be able to work on the other divisional parts of marketing.
2 Effective and efficient management styles can help
me in knowing about the field.
2 Threat can be created from the external business working
environment on me into work.
3 Leadership and management styles will help enhance 3 I may have problem in solving the issues arising.
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