MN3040QA Report: Career Development, Employability, and Reflection

This report, prepared for the MN3040QA: Orientation for Success in Higher Education module, focuses on career development and employability. It begins with an introduction that outlines the report's structure, followed by an in-depth analysis of three key topics: personal branding, networking, and curriculum vitae (CV). Each topic is explored in terms of its definition, importance for career advancement, and practical strategies for development. The report then transitions into an assessment reflection, summarizing the results of a workplace motivation assessment and discussing how these results can be applied to enhance career development and performance within a professional setting. The report concludes with a synthesis of the findings, emphasizing the continuous need for skill enhancement and adaptability in the pursuit of career success.

REPORT AND
REFLECTION

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Career development and employability ......................................................................................3
Assessment reflection .................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Career development usually refers to managing the individual career in an intra
organizational or inter organisational scenario . It leads with training on various new skills,
moving with higher responsibility in the job, making a change in the career with the same
organisation or can be by moving to the different job or starting of one's own new
business(Career Development.2020). Employability refers to the attributes and characteristics of
the individual that makes the person with the ability to maintain and gain the employment. The
present report will brief into three topic that are networking, curriculum vitae(CV) and personal
branding, its importance for career development and employability. It will leads with providing
some strategies and tips for developing the same. It lastly it will lead with the assessment
reflection by summarising the results of the assessment and explaining how these results will be
used for the career development at/in the workplace.
MAIN BODY
Career development and employability
Personal branding-
Personal branding refers to intentional and conscious efforts to influence and create
public perception of an individual by positioning them as an authority in there industry. By
elevating their credibility, and differentiating from that of its competition, which in turn helps
advancing of the employability and career development. It increases the circle of influence, and
leads to have the larger impact. It is the process that involves finding the individual uniqueness,
the things which individual want to be known for and then allowing individual to be known for
it.
It is being important for career development or employability as it is the unique
combination of experiences and skills that make the individual who he / she is. It is how one
present in front of the world. This will helps in differentiation that from the competition and
allows to build of trust with the prospective employer and clients ( Rangarajan,Gelb, Vandaveer,
2017).
The strategy and tip for developing this is figure out what an individual is in term of its
strengths and weakness , determine what an individual want to be known for. It leads with
following the experts and making the role models. It could also be by the means of asking for
the recommendation for knowing the areas to improve upon the same.

Networking-
Networking refers to building the relationship. It refers to the set of behaviours which are
being used to maintain and develop relationship that can potentially give information, influence,
support and guidance to individual in there career. Actively maintaining with the inside and
outside of individual organisation, engaging in community and professional activities and
increasing with the individual enterprise visibility, through work assignment are examples of
individual behaviour of relationship building and networking.
Networking is important for career development, whether it is with the company, industry
or outside the field of interest, it helps with uncovering of various opportunities. It helps with
connecting with different types of advisors and mentors. Increases with the individual visibility
with top professional and senior management of the company. It helps with developing
interpersonal and soft skills which further helps in developing the areas of expertise of
individual. It helps with be in lookout with potential mentors, upcoming with professional
development opportunities or with new job opportunities which are not being advertised publicly
(Johannisson, 2017).
Strategies for developing this relates with practice to improve the communication habits,
maintaining eye contact when speaking and not the head in agreement. It can be by the means of
attending the networking events which focus on building with genuine human connection with
people being meet. Asking friends and other for genuine feedback which lead with areas to
improve for facilitating better networking skills for career development.
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
It refers to the brief account of individual qualification, education, skill, achievement
which is being possessed. It is simply referred as the course of individual life till date. It is the
written overview of, education ,skill and work experience. It layman language it is the document
used by the individual to showcase with professional and academic accomplishments, which
increase the chance for better career opportunities.
It is being important for career development as it serves as the effective marketing tool
that gives up with the opportunity to sell individual and there abilities to the employers which
increases the chance of getting selected for the better opportunities (da Silva,2020) . It helps in
highlighting with the strengths and experience which are most relevant for the job being applied
for.

The strategy for developing this leads with choosing the right format which leads to
attract the the employer. The next things is grabbing the attention of employer by having the
summary which disclose the whole picture of what is being included in the CV. And lastly it
should be focused around covering the things which are true and not falsely presented.
Assessment reflection
For my assessment reflection I have taken test as motivation at the work . I have chosen
this as by having this at the workplace, it helps with me to increase my level of effectiveness and
efficiency to achieve my target and goal . It has helped me with the ability to boost up my level
of confidence to undertake various challenging task. It has led with the overall growth of my
career development in various uncertain business dynamics. I have choose this assessment as this
helps with judging my level of focus, commitment and dedication at the workplace. It is being
chosen as it will help me with the level of output being produced without major flaws and errors
(Breda, Pino-Fan, Font, 2017). I have taken this assessment to understand how employers of
the company motivates the employees to retain and sustain its talented and qualified workforce,
which helps in achievement of goals and objectives. I have chosen this assessment to ascertain
the importance of motivation at the workplace and what are the the different types of motivation
by which the employer of the company can achieve the desired goals from its employees
The results of my assessment were quite good as there were being several question
which were being asked in the assessment. It was being divided in 4 major portion where each
assessment comprises of 10 question each. The first was being related with the case study in
which certain scenario was being given to us, in that I got 80% of my score . The 20% which I
was not able to score was being due to shortage of time and non surety of the Answer as one
wrong will leads to negative marks and affect my overall scoring. The second part was being
related with different type and strategies to motivate employees at the workplace, where I got all
my question right. The third part of the assessment comprised of more of logical thinking
process where the level of test become the hard, in that I was able to score with 70%. The 30%
which I was not being able to score was due to varied reason as it included high level of critical
thinking which were not in accordance with the time being given for the test. And lastly it
comprised of two statement related to motivation where the assessment required to answer on the
basis of true or false. I scored 75% with this part as the statement were being confusing and not

understandable easily, which has led with not getting the right score for the same part. (Alsina,
Ayllón, and Colomer, 2019)
These result can be used for career development and at workplace. This have lead to
understanding of various concept of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation by which I can be
motivated to thrive for better accomplishment of goal. Higher the motivation in myself, higher
will be my performance, the more I will get the recognition as a result will lead with the
development of my career (Meijer,2020) . The result can be used in manner, where by the means
of motivating it will lead to develop the sense of understanding that efforts are being taken by the
company to retain the employees.

CONCLUSION
From the above report it is being concluded that for career development and
employability, individual needs to enhance and continuously implies with learning of new skill
and talents. This will helps in recognition and better performance of individual. The report has
been focused around means of development of employability for fostering career development.
It has led with the understanding of what is personal branding, networking and curriculum vitae.
Understanding the importance of the same for career development and employability. The tips
and strategies to develop the same. It is being lastly concluded with the assessment reflection of
motivation at the workplace. It has explained why the assessment is being chosen, by
summarising the result of the assessment. It lastly have explained with explaining how these
results can be use for employability and career development and at the workplace in the
organisation,

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Rangarajan, D., Gelb, B.D. and Vandaveer, A., 2017. Strategic personal branding—and how it
pays off. Business Horizons. 60(5). pp.657-666.
da Silva, and et.al., 2020. Curriculum vitae: challenges and potential solutions.
Johannisson, B., 2017. Networking and entrepreneurial growth. The Blackwell handbook of
entrepreneurship, pp.368-386.
Breda, A., Pino-Fan, L.R. and Font, V., 2017. Meta didactic-mathematical knowledge of
teachers: criteria for the reflection and assessment on teaching practice. EURASIA
Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education. 13(6). pp.1893-1918.
Alsina, Á., Ayllón, S. and Colomer, J., 2019. Validating the Narrative Reflection Assessment
Rubric (NARRA) for reflective narratives in higher education. Assessment & Evaluation
in Higher Education. 44(1). pp.155-168.
Meijer, H.,and et.al., 2020. Unfolding collaborative learning assessment literacy: a reflection on
current assessment methods in higher education. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher
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