Preparing for Success At University: Knowledge and Creativity

This portfolio includes a personal SWOT analysis, personal development plan, paraphrasing logs, evaluation of resources for job hunting, and more. It focuses on preparing for success at university with knowledge and creativity. Course code: FY026.

PREPARING FOR SUCCESS: KNOWLEDGE AND CREATIVITY-FY026
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Table of Contents Page No.
Appendix 1 New Features of MS WORD (RM Unify version) – L01, LO3
Appendix 2 Personal SWOT Analysis – LO2
Appendix 3 Personal Development Plan – LO2, LO4
Appendix 4 Paraphrasing Log 1 – L01, LO3
Appendix 5 Paraphrasing Log 2– L01, LO3
Appendix 6 Evaluation of the Resources for Job Hunting (Linkedin.com) – L01, LO3
Appendix 7 My Favourite Bucks Graduate Attributes – L01, LO4
Appendix 8 Evaluation of the Academic Resources – 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
REFLECTIVE SUMMARY- LO2, LO4
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APPENDIX 1: New Features of MS WORD (RM Unify version)
Dictate Function This function is most helpful for the user in which they get their thoughts out, capture notes and create outline or
drafts in MS Word in effective manner. Dictation helps user to text their content through their speech with use of
proper internet connection and microphone in their working area. It saves time in order to type thoughts into a
document as well as make them effective in order to think and create their data and information in effective manner.
Immersive Reader It is a most important features of MS Word for English language learner, it helps them to improve their reading
comprehension as well as increase their fluency in effective manner. It also assist emerging user in order to develop
confidence by learning at higher level. The user can use this feature for hearing posts, assignments and chat
messages that read aloud.
Editor The editor function in MS Word, finds issues and underlines them in which it provides suggestion for the selected
underlines word or phrase either accept it or ignore it. It is an excellent feature that help user to clean their writing
but it ignore some advanced features of grammar.
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APPENDIX 2: My Personal SWOT Analysis (as a student of BNU)
STRENGTHS (strong
points
WEAKNESSES (weak
points)
1 I likes to try new things,
skills and area
1 I need to improve my marketing skills.
2 I am very much capable
for a good leader.
2 My time management skills is not good which creates problem
to manage time for my personal, work and study life.
3 I have a ability to adapt
challenges as well as
complicated situations
3 I also faced difficulty in order to express my opinion to other.
4 I also have an effective
communication skills in
order to interact or
communicate with
other person
4 I have lack of positive attitude that makes me to not perform my
task in effective manner.
5 I can easily learn
multiple concepts as
well as remove
information very fast
5 Lack of professional skills creates problems in order to get
success in my future career.
OPPORTUNITIES
(potential gains)
THREATS (potential
losses)
1 I can meet new peoples
from different countries
1 Latest innovation in technology can affects my future career.
2 I can develop
professional
connection while
studying in
2 Large number of qualified competitors are easily available in
market.
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international school.
3 Volunteer work
experience while
performing in different
programs.
3 Difficulty in finding most effective job due the impacts of covid-
19 situation.
4 I can learn multiple
language.
4 Lack of proper funding for my future career.
5 I can improve or
develop multitasking
skills in effective
manner.
5 My impatience level create problems with other people.
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APPENDIX 3: My Personal Development Plan (to become an employable graduate after 2024)
MY WEAKNESSES ACTIONS I WILL TAKE TO IMPROVE MY
WEAKNESSES
SUPPORT
AND/OR
RESOURCES I
NEED
TIMEFRAME ESTIMATED
DATE OF
COMPLETION /
ACHIEVEMENT
Marketing skills By gaining knowledge for latest marketing
trends and keeping updated with new
technologies helps me to improve my
marketing skills in effective sources.
Internet or
online sources
are needed for
the
improvement of
my marketing
skills
2 years 18/01/24
Time management skills By starting my work early, setting
limitation or deadlines for the particular
task and organising my workplace can
help me to improve my time management
skills in effective manner.
Using proper
technology such
as clock, cell
phones, alarms,
calender, etc.
helps me to
manage time in
effective
manner.
1 year 18/01/23
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Professional skills By taking initiatives, learning new skills,
setting measurable goals and working
with career counselor helps me to develop
my professional skills in effective manner.
An effective
career
counselor,
professional
skills learning
environment
and guidance
from
professional
person are
required to
improve my
professional
skill.
2 years 18 Jan 2024
Positive attitude By interacting with positive people within
positive environment, listening internal
dialogue helps me to develop positive
attitude in effective manner.
Guidance from
positive person,
positive
environment
and by taking
new challenges
help me to
develop positive
attitude in
effective
manner.
6 months 18/07/22
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APPENDIX 4: Paraphrasing 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
Covid-19 is very hazardous pandemic that cause many problems in all over world. It becomes the main reason in which
death rate is increasing rapidly. This situation spoils many people career in which they cannot take classes as well as
improve their skills in effective manner. In this pandemic situation, how will students continue their leaning or studies and
plan their career becomes the main problem in all over the world. In order to resolve this situation educational institutions
helps students to learn or study different courses on limited time through their online links in effective manner. Online
classes becomes the primary solution that helps students to plan their career as well as gain many opportunities in
future.
IN-TEXT
CITATION
FULL
REFERENCE
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APPENDIX 5: Paraphrasing Log 2
TITLE AND
WEBLINK
When the LSST student becomes the lecturer
https://www.lsst.ac/news/when-the-lsst-student-becomes-the-lecturer
SUMMARY AND
YOUR
COMMENTS OF
THE BLOG IN
YOUR OWN
WORDS
In this blog details of the LSST student described when it become lecturer. Graduation plays an
important role in the life of a student as well as helps them to transform their career in effective manner.
One of the former student of LSST that is Mr. Levy Kiazayila Ndongala who became a Trainee
Business Lecturer through LSST's Graduate Trainee Lecturer Scheme. In their childhood, they have
passion to give lectures to their friends and try to keeps them up in effective manner. It provides its
advice in five effective pieces that helps student to develop strong career while doing their higher
education in LSST which includes maintaining link with LSST's academic world, get blogging and
engaging on LSST's social media, believe in their own self, keep learning and from theory to practice.
IN-TEXT
CITATION
FULL
REFERENCE
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APPENDIX 6: Resources for Job Hunting (Linkedin.com)
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Linkedin.com
Linkedin is a website of social networking and it is designed for professionals for business. It allows
them to share information about their work to other users as well as keep online contact of professional
people. Profile page of Linkedin's member describes their skills, education, employment history and it
consist news feeds of professional network as well as customizable modules in limited number.
IN-TEXT CITATION IN-TEXT CITATION
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
Get connected- Linkedin helps user to build numerous of connection
they want to connect. They can connect their request in more
strategically manner in order to build and engage relationships with
their target influencers and customers that exist in their market place.
Required investment of time- It required more investment of time in
order to use it most effective manner. In Linkedin there are many
resources that makes connections with others are needed more time.
Build trust for the brand- Linkedin helps companies to build trust for
their brand by gaining recognition in their field in effective manner. It
helps them to advertise their products and services as well as it
provides information about their offerings.
Not everybody is actively engaged in Linkedin- There are many
persons who create profiles in linkedin but they are not actively
participate or check it in regular basis. That creates difficulties for the
companies to makes connections with most effective professionals in
effective manner.
Conclusion- From the above mentioned data, it is concluded that companies or user should use Linkedin because it provides ability to them in
order to showcase their profile, recommendations, expertise and connections in effective manner.
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APPENDIX 7: My Favourite Bucks Graduate Attributes
Bucks Graduate Attribute Importance of the attribute
Creative and critical thinking, and
problem solving
Graduates peoples are most effective problem solver as well as able to apply creative, evidence based
and critical thinking in order to provide innovative responses to the challenges that occurs in future.
Teamwork and communication
skills
Graduates individual easily conveys their information and ideas effectively in order to attract audiences
for different purposes as well as contribute in collaborative and positive manner in order to achieve
common goals.
Digital capabilities Graduates peoples are well prepared in order to live, learn and work in digital society in effective
manner.
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Appendix 8 Academic Resources
Name of the
Academic resource
A short description of the resource Advantages Disadvantages
1. Module Handbook It is a document that is provided by the
university in which important information
about student courses are included.
Module handbooks are good
resources that gives sense of
security to the student as well as
provides material and ideas for
teachers.
Many module handbooks are very
predictable because it follows same
patterns and becomes boring for
the students and teachers.
2. Lecture Materials It is a type of notes that are provided to
someone in order to attend lecture.
It helps students to get proper
information about lecture if they
missed any of it.
It makes some student
irresponsible and absent in order to
take lectures.
3. University E-Library It is a website of University that provides
books and other reading materials for
students.
There are no physical
boundaries for the user in order
to access information effectively
through internet connections.
Its speed of access decreasing
because more and more electronic
devices are connected to the
Internet.
4. Coursework It is a written or practical work that would
conduct by the student during its courses of
study, usually assessed to count their final
marks.
It helps students to learn more
about subject and field related to
their study.
It takes more times of student in
order to analyse their final grade
and marks.
5. Coursework Guide It provides proper information related to the
work requires for the student in particular
course of their study.
It helps students to have full
information about their particular
courses.
It makes student to learn in beyond
of coursework guide.
6. Coursework
Template
It is a pattern that are designed in order to
guide about course of student.
It makes students course
attractive in order top
understand easily.
It contains huge cost and time in
order to designed it.
7. Samples of previous
submissions
It describes examples related to previous
years students submission.
It makes easiest form for the
student in order to understand
about the project they have to
submit.
It makes students lazy or
uncreative in nature.
8. Formative feedback It is a strategy that generated by teachers in
order to engage students so they can orient
and evaluate their learning.
It helps in removing anxiety in
among the students.
It cause fear and lack of mastery in
among the student.
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9. Summative
feedback
It gives the entire report of student during the
end of course and measure their knowledge
and skills that gain in that period.
It is helpful in motivating
students through their scores
and grades.
It focus on the end output of the
student.
10. Turnitin It is a service of checking originality and
prevent from plagiarism as well as its also
checks citation mistakes in writing or
inappropriate copying.
It allows teachers to ensure
originality and check plagiarism
in student reports.
It sometimes slow to refresh at
times as well as it need internet
access to check.
11. Lectures It is an educational talk that provided to an
audience usually in universities
It allows teachers to deliver
important information to the
students in effective manner.
It makes students passive because
there are no proof that students are
intellectually engaged in the
lecture.
12. Tutorials It is a period of tuition provided by the
university to certain students.
It enables students to learn on
demand basis and when they
are highly motivated.
Students are motivated enough in
order to complete tutorial.
13. Group work Work is performed by the help of
collaboration with other people in work.
It makes people more
productive and reliable in order
to perform their task in effective
manner.
Sometime it creates unequal
participation and intrinsic conflicts
in between the group.
14. Academic Support
Team
It is group of people that provides large
variety of instructional method, school
resources and educational resources to the
student.
It helps student to enhancing
their creativity, problem solving
and resiliency skills.
It makes student inappropriate in
order to conduct their work in
effective manner.
Conclusion
From the above mentioned resources, it is
concluded that university e-library is very
helpful resource for me in which I can study
or learn my course easily whenever I want to
study with the help of proper internet
services.
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APPENDIX 9 Examples of Job Description and Personal Specification (screenshots)
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Appendix 10 Blog – How to Prepare for The Future Job Market?
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How will new technologies change the future job market?
New technologies are increasing rapidly and it also increase the productivity of relative employee in certain tasks as well as it also replaces
employees in some other tasks in effective manner. Revolution in technology has dramatic effects on jobs market. Many task that needed
manual labour are replacing them with the help of automated technologies. It become important for the individual to learning more about new
technologies in order to get job in effective manner. It makes highly skilled jobs that required high skills and knowledge in order to use it.
What would be the new job opportunities available in the future?
There are many job opportunities exist in the future that helps individual to develop their career in effective manner which includes software
developers or engineers, nurse practitioner, market research analysts, financial managers and healthcare administrators. It makes individual to
choose particular field or job in order to develop skills that are needed to conduct that job in effective manner.
How can we prepare for those new opportunities?
We can prepare us for new job opportunities by learning various skills that helps us to conducts our future job in effective manner. By gaining
proper information and learning new technologies helps us to conduct future in effective manner.
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HOW AND WHY 10 ENCLOSED ARTEFACTS HAVE SUPPORTED THE DEVELOPMENT OF MY EMPLOYABILITY? (500 words)
Employability is describes the ability of individual in order to gain initial employment, maintain it and obtain new if required effectively. It is a set
of knowledge, skills, personal attributes and understanding in an individual. It is also a transferable skills that are needed by an individual in
order to make them employable. I am a student of London university and I am taking my graduation from there. In my university there are
various programmes that are organising in my university which helps me to learn various skills in order to develop my employability in effective
manner. In these programmes I have to perform task with other group members that helps me to learn working with other team members as
well as collaborate with others in effective manner. In some programmes I lead my team which helps me to learn leadership skill as well as
become future leader in effective manner. While performing task with group members helps me to improve my communication skills in effective
manner. I also become in order to adapt challenges as well as find quick solution in order to solve it in effective manner. I will also learn
presentation skill in which I have make presentation which improves my creative skills as well as I also give presentation in from of audience
which makes me to reduced my anxiety in effective manner. In order to develop or improve my communication skills more I take participation in
various speech and debates competitions held in my colleges from which my vocabulary is more improved which helps me to get future job
opportunities in effective manner. I can also prepare various projects related to companies helps me to gain more information about them in
effective manner. My university also organised internship in various organisation which helps me to gain experience which helps in my future
job career in effective manner. I also learn self management skills in which I have to manage my overall task in effective manner. In order to
take participate in various programmes helps me to improve my improve my problem solving skills in effective manner. In my university, there
are many professionals that guides how I will improve my professional skills as well as become effective professional in future. Besides these
programmes, my universities studies helps to gain more knowledge which makes to complete my graduation as well as score higher grades in
effective manner. MS word new features that are Dictate Function, Immersive Reader and Editor helps me text my thoughts in document in
most effective manner as well as improve my performance in effective manner. Universities E-library also helps me to learn my studies in most
effective manner. Linkedin resources helps to gain my future job in effective manner in which I shows my skills, educations and experiences in
order to attract top companies for my future job in effective manner.
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