Career Development: Reflective Portfolio and Presentation Analysis

This assignment comprises a reflective portfolio and presentation, focusing on skills development and career goals. It includes weekly reflective logs detailing learning experiences, critical evaluations, and actions for improvement. The 'Future Me' questionnaire highlights areas for focus, such as communication and management skills. A 'Living CV' is presented, improved based on formative feedback, along with a LinkedIn profile and a SWOT analysis with SMART goals. The SWOT analysis identifies strengths (paraphrasing, CV framing), weaknesses (nervousness, voice recording), opportunities (knowledge gain), and threats (failure to improve). SMART goals are set to improve academic and presentation skills. The presentation concludes with post-recording Q&A, reflecting on the portfolio's contribution and references used for CV improvement and analysis. Desklib offers more solved assignments for students.

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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-assessments online.
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.
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
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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 top priority is…’ My Career
‘This is also important…’ My Communication
The needs which I need to focus on are my communication skills,
management skills and problem solving skills.
Write about what you need to focus on and do next to help you move forwards and develop your career.

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.

Task 4: My LinkedIn profile

Task 5: My SWOT analysis 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
issues
Reasons for
achievement
How will I measure
success?
1) To improve academic
skills.
By reading books from
library so as to feel
more confident.
Unable to improve my
academic skills.
By using appropriate
resources which helps
in improving the
academic skills.
Usage of effective
resources and ways of
improving the work.
By reviewing my
performance within 2
months.
2) To improve presentation
skills.
By making more eye
contact and using
more body language
and practising more.
Unable to improve my
presentation skills.
By reading books,
reading articles,
journals, watching
online videos, etc.
By practising on daily
basis for improving
the presentation skills.
By reviewing my
performance within 1
month.
3) To improve my
understanding skills
towards SWOT analysis.
By reading and
practising more about
what is about the
SWOT analysis.
I was unable to
understand the SWOT
analysis and how
assessment is being
done.
By reading and
understanding what is
included in the SWOT
assessment.
Through reading and
learning along with
understanding aspects
of how effective the
SWOT analysis can be
done.
By reviewing my
performance within 3
months.

Task 6: PowerPoint slides used in my presentation
SUMMARY
TASK 1
 I have been able to understand the different ways to effectively paraphrase and summarize paragraphs in order to
avoid plagiarism and improve my knowledge. I have prepared different strategies that have been useful for
gaining better advantage in the industry.
TASK 2
 The questionnaire have been appropriate in order to identify my priorities and develop career opportunities that
are beneficial in gaining better quality of output. These aspects have been helpful in improving my focus and
increase the career development activities.
TASK 3
 By drafting an appropriate CV, I have been able to improve identify my major skills and abilities that are crucial
for improving my performance and gaining better opportunities in the working environment.

Task 7: Answers to post-recording Q&A
Post-recording reflective questions
 These questions should be answered AFTER you have completed your Panopto recording. Please
allow sufficient time between recording the presentation and the submission deadline to complete
these questions.
 What was the most significant way in which your portfolio of evidence contributed to the content
of your reflective presentation?
 Answer – the most important way by which it contributes to the evidence as I get to learn about the new
aspect of conducting such presentation and by such way it developed my skills and get to know about the
weakness as well. With the help of swot analysis and smart goals it provides the ability to develop these
skills. By reflective log I am able to carry out the kills I would have and how can I develop it more on
the day to basis. So all of these task make the contribution towards the reflective presentation.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
 Teixeira da Silva, J.A., Dobránszki, J. and et.al., 2020. Curriculum vitae: challenges and potential
solutions. KOME: An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry. 8(2). pp.109-127.
 Benzaghta, M.A., Elwalda, A. and et.al., 2021. SWOT analysis applications: An integrative
literature review. Journal of Global Business Insights. 6(1). pp.55-73.
 Costa-Pazo, A., Vazquez-Fernandez, E. and et.al., 2019. Challenges of face presentation attack
detection in real scenarios. In Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing (pp. 247-266). Springer,
Cham.
 Hadi, M.J., Rizka, B.H. and Tarmizi, T., 2020, August. " I Feel Nervous and Lose My Ideas
When Having Presentation": Mapping Senior Students' Challenges in Academic Oral
Presentation in English. In 1st Annual Conference on Education and Social Sciences (ACCESS
2019) (pp. 20-23). Atlantis Press.