Portfolio on Student Support Services at Leeds Trinity University

This portfolio provides a reflection on the student support services available at Leeds Trinity University. It highlights the impact of career counseling in making informed career decisions, the benefits of health support services in managing student well-being, the importance of networking training and events in enhancing communication skills, and the value of language centers in facilitating cross-cultural interactions. The reflection details how these services have been utilized and how they will contribute to both academic success and future employment, emphasizing the development of skills applicable to marketing, business, and international relations. The portfolio concludes that these services are invaluable resources for students, fostering personal and professional growth.

PORTFOLIO BASED ON
LECTURES ACTIVITIES
AND WORKSHOPS
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Reflection.....................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTION
Student Support Services are basically a list of services provided by the university to their
students in order to facilitate their success at the learning institution. The report will cover the
reflection on different support services available to student at Leeds Trinity University. Lastly,
the portfolio will cover when I will use this services and how this services help in university and
my future employment.
Reflection
Being a student of Leeds Trinity University, I have found out that there is various student
support service provided by university to their students. The various support services I have
enjoyed at university are as follows:
Career Counselling: The first service I have enjoyed at my university is career
counselling. I have attended career counselling workshop at Leeds Trinity University the impact
of which I am able to explore my assets, skills and motivations. With the help of this service, I
am able to decide whether I wants to join job or start my own business. In simple term, I am able
to decide that at starting point in order to gain more skills, I need to join a company as a
marketing executive role rather than starting my own business. The career counselling has helped
me a lot in deciding my future direction at that point when I’m not quite sure which direction to
head in (Quinn and et.al., 2019). The career counselling has helped me in deciding my new
pathway. I will use this service at the time of applying for my first job after completing my
college. This is also helpful for me in my future employment because career counselling services
helps in deciding when and how I can switch to new company or also start my new business
which is basically my ultimate goal.
Health support: Wellbeing and Health support is also one of the most significant support
service provided by the University to its services. Being a student of Leeds Trinity University, I
have always viewed that my college always support the students with disabilities in which my
college provide advice and additional support to students. Not only that, my college also get me
registered with the doctor and dentists for student’s regular check-up. Along with this, my
college also arranges vaccination setup in order to provide vaccination does to each student. This
are some of heath support service provided by Leeds Trinity University to their students (Shikulo
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and Lekhetho, 2020). This service has helped me in managing and controlling my health issue
without any gap.
Not only that, I will use this service for my employees at the time when I start my own
business. It means I will provide healthcare service to my employees on a regular basis so that
their health does not get affected too much. Basically, this service will help me in both my
university as well as future employment. With the help of this service, I am able to protect the
right of disabled people and support them towards their personal and professional development.
Networking Training and events: This is another student support service provided by my
university to its student. In such events, the college motivates its students to effectively
communicate with each people in order to build a professional network. This service has helped
me in enhancing my interaction as well as communication skills to the large extent. I have
basically joined this event in my last year of college and this has helped me a lot in liking with
the professionals. Not only that, this service has also helped me how I can approach
professionals both on online as well as offline platform. I will use this service in my employment
as well as when I start my own business. With the help of this service, I can approach customers
to buy the product of company in which I will start my job. Also, I will use this service to
approach investors to invest in my business. The strong networking skills is most significant part
of marketing as well as business (Picton and Kahu, 2021). This service will help me in creating
strong customer portfolio in my employment and future business the impact of which I can
achieve my targets and goals without any difficulty.
Language Centres: From my point of view, this is one of the best student support service
provided by Leeds Trinity University to its students. In this service, my university has provided
various language learning so that international students learn local language and local students
learn international language (Bellon-Harn and et.al., 2018). I have joined this service in my
university in order to learn international language because I already know local language. This
service has helped me a lot in understanding and speaking international language such as
Spanish, French, Russian etc. I will use this service at my university to interact with the
international students. With the help of this service I can easily communicate with the
international students who knows their local language only.
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Further, I will also use this service in my employment because as a marketing executive I
need to communicate company’s products in different language to attract international customers
(Coghill and Coghill, 2020). At the time when I will start my own business, I will use this
service provided by my college to attend international business meetings and attract the
customers towards my business. This service basically helps me in identifying and understanding
the taste and preferences of the international customers so that I can provide them products and
service as per their own demand. Having knowledge of different language on my CV will
improve my employability as well as chance of finding work in best company after completing
my graduation.
CONCLUSION
The above reflection has concluded the list of four student support services provided by
Leeds Trinity University to its student such as language centre, networking training and events,
health support and career counselling. Further, the reflection has also cover when I will use this
service and how this service helps me in my future employment along with my university.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Quinn, D. E. and et.al., 2019. The success of first-generation college students in a trio student
support services program: Application of the theory of margin. Critical Questions in
Education.
Shikulo, L. and Lekhetho, M., 2020. Exploring student support services of a distance learning
centre at a Namibian university. Cogent Social Sciences. 6(1). p.1737401.
Picton, C. and Kahu, E. R., 2021. ‘I knew I had the support from them’: understanding student
support through a student engagement lens. Higher Education Research & Development,
pp.1-14.
Coghill, E. M. and Coghill, J. G., 2020. Supporting neurodiverse college student success: A
guide for librarians, student support services, and academic learning environments.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Bellon-Harn, M. L. and et.al., 2018. Quantity, Quality, and Readability of Online Information for
College Students with ASD Seeking Student Support Services. Reading
Improvement. 55(1).
Online
Student support and Wellbeing, 2021. Online. Available through:
https://www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/student-support-and-wellbeing/
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