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BSBLED808 Conduct a Career Development Session
Assessment Task 1:
QUESTION 1
Multiple career development theories have been developed over the years but none of them is able to comprehensively explain the vast area of career development. There are majorly seven developed theories that have their own implications towards career development. Give a brief description of these studies and how would you categorise them?
Answer in 200-250 words.
QUESTION 2
Changing or choosing a career is not an easy task. Apart from social pressure and dynamics, there are other personal factors and attributes that play an important part in deciding one's career. How does an individual's emotions, behaviour and way of thinking contribute in making his/her career choices?
Answer in 150-200 words.
QUESTION 3
A successful presentation/workshop is that from which audience have grasped most of the knowledge and skills imparted to them, with a positive progression reflected on their learning and ability make right choices. Explain the competence and set of skills required to conduct a successful career development session?
Answer in 150-200 words.
QUESTION 4
Career Counselling is a process that focuses on helping the client in understanding himself/herself along with work trends so that he/she can take informed decision about career. The process of career counselling involves creating a safe and secure environment, where the client feels at ease and is able to discuss his/her life and career, without any hesitation
How does effective communication help in creating a harmonious and understanding relationship with your client? Answer in 100-150 words.
QUESTION 5
Give a brief basic/fundamental understanding of the following concepts. Answer in 200-250 words.
• lifelong learning
• holistic career development
• career decision-making
• career coaching
• career maintenance
• work satisfaction
• employability
• enterprising
• positive uncertainty and
• planned happenstance
QUESTION 6
A genuine Career Counsellor is the core of right guidance, which is why he/she is the most important element of any career counselling process. There are set standards of career development.
What are the standards of career development? What role do these standards play in career counselling? Answer in 150-180 words.
QUESTION 7
Career Counselling is a scientific process and involves making calculated moves, based on hard facts and methodical research. It is not a procedure that runs on trial and error. What are the legislative and regulatory requirements while conducting a career counselling?
QUESTION 8
Professional development policy of an organisation draws the guidelines for possible opportunities of their employees to excel in their professional life. It is very closely linked to career counselling as is the advanced step to professional development session where employees seek professional advice on their prospective career choices. Refer to the organisations' policy regarding career counselling in the link provided and create a career development policy for coffeville as they do not have any. You may consider adding information in their existing professional development policy to create a new career development policy. Coffeville policies and procedures and Performance and career development policy
ASSESSMENT TASK 2: Practical Assessment Task (Research and e-Portfolio)- Conduct a career development session
Part A - Research career development theories
TASK INSTRUCTIONS TO COMPLETE PART A OF THE PRACTICAL ASSESSMENT TASK:
• You are to research major career development theories and its different models. In your research, please make sure you find out how a general advice on career development is different to providing information and further to professional career advice.
• You would also figure out which researched theory and model is appropriate to use for your own audience (audience in career development session in Assessment 3).
• Your trainer/assessor would provide you the details of participants in career development session, so that you are aware of the diversity of your audience. All your research should carefully consider the diversity and needs of your clients.
• Once the research is completed, please submit your report along with your e-portfolio (part B of this assessment) at the end of assessment.
• You can use any format for creating a report, it can be a word document as a report or a synopsis paragraph or simple PPT.
This part is in continuation to the Part A of this assessment. You are required to create an e-portfolio based on the research you have done in part A of this assessment. Your e-portfolio must demonstrate your ability to provide a career development session to your audience.
INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS:
Develop an e-Portfolio demonstrating your ability to provide career development session to your audience (arranged by the trainer/assessor). It must contain all the information you would be using while conducting your career development session. Basically, you would be using this portfolio as a guide when conducting your session. You must make sure that
• E-portfolio is based on the research done in part A in terms of appropriate theory and model applicable to the audience. Also the session in e-portfolio has been planned considering the diversity of the audience (cultural and ethnic).
• There is a confirmation of the focus for the career development session with defined outcomes agreed.
• It has all the marketing information required e.g. Flyer, email or article promoting the career development session, outlining expectations, location, duration and timing.
• It contains the information of the presenter supporting credibility for the attendees of the session.
• It has feedback survey forms for the attendees at the end of the session. Please be mindful of the privacy by not asking their details.
• E-portfolio can be created as a web page or PPT. You must submit it along with your research report at the end of the assessment. It should not exceed 5-7 PPT slides. You may like to refer to this for assistance in creating e-portfolio.
• You will be assessed on the ability to create an e-portfolio following above instructions. Please make sure that you include all the relevant material in your project.
• You will be using this e-portfolio while preparing the PPT for your career development session in next assessment. So it is advised that you try to collect all the required information needed for conducting a career development session.
ASSESSMENT TASK 3: Practical Assessment Task- Conduct a career development session
This assessment has been developed to give you exposure in conducting a career development session to a diverse audience. This will provide you an experience of effective and professional communication, building client rapport, counselling career development, assisting individuals to make appropriate choices and using resources and technology to support career development sessions.
This part is in continuation to the previous assessment tasks of this unit. This is an oral and interactive assessment task and requires you to conduct and present a career development session where you would be giving professional advice to your audience based on their situations. You should have all the prior information regarding your audience in hand in form of research report and e-portfolio and you must have prepared your PPT on basis of that research. Once you are done with the presentation, please hand out the feedback forms to your audience for self-evaluation.
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS:
1. This oral presentation is an individual work exercise
2. This will be a role-play presentation and your classmates/ trainer/ assessor will take on the role audience
3. This session is to be presented using MS Power Point slides as a face to face/ virtual meeting
4. You must prepare 15-20 slides and must write only the keywords/ points in the slides.
5. Time-limit for delivering the presentation is 10-15 minutes.
6. You may be video-graphed or photographed during the presentation (with permission).
Attachment:- Conduct a Career Development Session.rar