Work Based Experience: E-commerce Internship Report

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UNIT 50
WORK BASED EXPERIENCE
Student name:
Student id:

Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................3
LO1 be able to negotiate industry experience.................................................................................4
1.1) Research and evaluate suitable organizations that could provide industry experience.. . .4
1.2) Negotiate with work and academic supervisors a proposal for the work experience.......6
1.3) Recognize the business constraints on the work experience offered................................7
LO2 Understand the specific requirements of the placement..........................................................9
2.1) agree and priorities the tasks and responsibilities involved in the work experience............9
2.2) produced a plan for work experience.................................................................................11
2.3) analyze the benefits of the proposed activities...................................................................13
LO3 Be able to undertake work experience as identified..............................................................16
3.1) fulfill specified requirements of placement conforming to all related codes of practice.. .16
3.2) produce systematic records of work undertaken................................................................18
3.3) revise the initial plan as required........................................................................................19
3.4) make suggestions for improvement and review these with appropriate supervisor...........21
LO4 Be able to monitor and evaluate own performance and learning......................................23
4.1) monitor progress against original proposal........................................................................23
4.2) evaluate the quality of own performance...........................................................................26
4.3 analyses the learning which has taken place during the work experience using suitable
reflections..................................................................................................................................29
4.4 make recommendations on how the experience could have been enhanced.......................29
Conclusion:....................................................................................................................................31
References:....................................................................................................................................32
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List of Table
Table 1: researched table of different organization.........................................................................4
Table 2: reasons for choosing these organization............................................................................5
Table 3: CV for Database management position.............................................................................6
Table 4: different business constraints according to work experience............................................7
Table 5: Prioritization of workload..................................................................................................9
Table 6: Plan for work experience.................................................................................................11
Table 7: systematic work plan.......................................................................................................13
Table 8: benefits of business and learner.......................................................................................13
Table 9: codes of practice in any industry.....................................................................................16
Table 10: systematic record of work undertaken...........................................................................18
Table 11: Initial plan for work.......................................................................................................19
Table 12: point for improvements in an organization...................................................................21
Table 13: Progress against original proposal.................................................................................23
Table 14: evaluation of own performance.....................................................................................26
Table 15: topics of new technologies learned during work...........................................................29
Table 16: suggestion for improvements........................................................................................29
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Introduction:
In this report it will contain all the information about the work-based experience and how any
learner can gain experience through internship and another job, in this, it will talk and explain
according to e-commerce field and their perspective. It will explain how to do research about
different desired company and make schedule, how to make deal with them according to your
quality, it will also mention a sample of CV so that user can get to know about how to mention
plus point of user in his or her CV, performance and task according to business constraints, how
to make task according to their priorities, how to produce a systematic chart a path to produce
quality work, it will show the benefits and advantages of work experience., how to create initial
plans and strategies, what can be their suggestions and improvement, how anyone can enhance
their skills with their activities.
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LO1 be able to negotiate industry experience.
1.1) Research and evaluate suitable organizations that could provide industry
experience.
Table 1: researched table of different organization
Criteria Amazon.uk Argos Apple
Travel All over the world
with respective
domain name
All over in the UK. All over the world.
Salary £13,764 per year
and for warehouse
worker £80,129 per
year (Amazon.com
Salaries |
Indeed.co.uk, 2015).
£10,000 per year
for driver, for
product manager it
is £72,640 (Argos
Salaries in the
United Kingdom |
Indeed.co.uk,
2015).
£27,000 per year Or £10 per hour
(Apple Salaries, 2019).
Flexible Yes Yes yes
Type of job Private limited Private limited Private limited
Technical
skills
expected
Different languages
example: - Java,
ROR, Python, cloud
and also another
different language
so that website
could be easier to
use.
Digital
technologies and
different languages,
especially back end
coding because all
the main work is
running on back
end.
As it is available in MAC OS X,
Classic MAC OS, Windows 2000
or later. So, it needs the person
who knows all these things and
has that zest to learn these.
Soft skills
expected
Best time
management, better
communication
skill, better public
Management with
work, better
communication
skill, flexibility
Creativity, communication skills.
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speaking, flexible
with all location.
should be quality.
Benefits Best MNC, get
chance to enhance
knowledge, get an
opportunity to
explore yourself.
Can explore and
enhance skills, can
learn new
technologies.
Can learn about latest
Technologies.
Table 2: reasons for choosing these organization
Rating of the company Reasons
Amazon UK
MNC Established well with different latest
technologies, better work culture, and have
chance to work in a different location.
Argos
Space of self-work and have space to enhance
yourself, chance to learn about different
product project.
Apple It works with different interfaces and
operating systems.
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1.2) Negotiate with work and academic supervisors a proposal for the work
experience.
Table 3: CV for Database management position
Name Sophie Clarke
Job Title Database
Duties Database management or full back end
website with all queries.
Technical skills PHP, Python, SQL, ASP.NET, ROR, java etc.
Brief introduction to your self I have experience in database management
also have the knowledge, how to dealing with
queries.
Reason for the work experience Database seems very essential and it is very
interesting to deal with queries in different
languages.
Future plan Work with a reputed company which can
more enhance my skills in technology.
Supervisors: roles and responsibilities of
academic and industrial mentors
As Database manager in the back end.
CV reflect how you are, what are your skills, what is your personality. What kind of job you are
suited for, a Good CV with proper skills and description is very important when you are going to
deal with any organization? It is very essential to show what you have and what are other skills
by which you are the only one who is suited with appropriate position, you have to make believe
him in you so with your quality work and other skills.
At the time dealing always listen carefully what they are saying to you, understand their point for
this you should have that quality to understand small point and chunks of conversation, in private
life it is very important to understand the small piece of conversation (Williamson, 2013).
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1.3) Recognize the business constraints on the work experience offered.
Table 4: different business constraints according to work experience
Business constraints Explanations How I will manage?
need to be fully trained, In every organization, Training
will be required to train the
employee for a particular work.
For the training session in
every organization, there
is some training manager
so that employee takes
help from them in case
any task.
adherence to quality systems Employee needs to maintain all
the rules and policies of an
organization, it case of
breaking them it can be direct
termination for that employee.
In any organization, if
you want to make an
employee follow rules
then, of course, there
should be a session for
that so that they can learn
the benefits to follow
rules and other codes. It
helps to maintain quality
work.
health and safety
considerations
The organization should
provide some better schemes
for employees to provide
facilities like health and
medical insurance so as to
motivate them for doing good
work and make them believe in
you.
Implement those facilities
in real and apply that in
organisation so that
people can the
opportunities.
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supervision time In every organization, time set
for everyone that this much this
organization need inputs,
which is very strict to everyone
in company.
To achieve this task, the
organization can make
use of systems like
biometric scan and
fingerprint scanner to
mark the presence with
proper timing and absence
of the employee.
workload Work should be distributed
accordingly, means according
to employee’s capabilities and
knowledge.
Always analysis task and
then distribute among
employee for this
organization and the
supervisor need to know
the capabilities and the
qualities of employee,
that which employee can
do which piece of work.
customer satisfaction Every organization work
according to customer
requirements and they also
provide the resources
according to that, in this case,
customers satisfaction is very
important, always try to
understand the needs of
customer, what they are
demanding for and in which
way.
Every task has its
deadline and has its
requirements, need to
understand requirements
and note in down at the
time of implementation
these all should be in the
project.
limited staffing There are many staff and
members in any organization
but it is good to know the
For placement purpose,
there should be a process
to recruit them with all
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requirement of staff which is
required in organisation, others
and small staff who do nothing
in organization, do not stick
with that.
levels after that
appropriate candidate can
be chosen for the
organization.
cost of materials Making budget of organisation
is very important, it maintains
the cash flow and saves the
economy.
Prepare a sheet for every
resource which is need in
an of the organization
with proper budget.
LO2 Understand the specific requirements of the placement.
2.1) agree and priorities the tasks and responsibilities involved in the work
experience.
Table 5: Prioritization of workload
Source: (Kent-Teach, 2019).
Tasks Must have Should have Could have Would
have
this
time
Reason reasons
for
rationalisat
ion of the
order of
tasks.
1. Designing
webpage
layout
1. Designing
webpage
layout and
figure out
all
requireme
nts about
First it is
required to
create web
pages not
the contents.
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website
2 content
writing
about
website
and
editing
content
regarding
website
2 content
writing
about
website
and
editing
content
regarding
website
3.Content
management
3.Content
managem
ent
4.Creating
back up
files
4.Creatin
g
back
up
files
5. prepare to
do list for
work
managem
ent
5. prepare to
do list for
work
managem
ent
6. review
workload
6. review
workload
7. set
deadlines
for own
7. set
deadlines
for own
8. Prepare a
upgrade
list
8. Prepare
a
upgra
de list
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2.2) produced a plan for work experience.
Table 6: Plan for work experience
Day Tim
e
Activities End of
week
self-
evaluatio
n
Manage
rs
review
date
Action
plan and
expected
date of
completi
on
Review
of
action
points
Supervis
or
review
date
Action
and
review
dates
Mond
ay
10-1 Prepare
website
layout and
requireme
nts
Done a
module
of
website
according
to the
layout
10th
May
Need to
improve
layout
accordin
g to the
real
world.
15th May
Improv
ed
layout
of
website
16th May Content
should
be
relevant
accordi
ng to
the
website
topics.
17th
May
Lunc
h
2-4
Tuesd
ay
11-1 Prepare
database
code for
website
Prepared
database
code
according
to
website
10th
May
Improve
database
code and
dependen
cy of
code
Improv
ed
work
which
has
been
assigne
16th May Debug
the
code
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