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Unit 30 Career planning - Pearson BTEC International Level 3 Extended Diploma In Business
Assignment - PLANNING IS EVERYTHING!
Purpose: The learners will study the importance of human resource management and planning, the relationship between a motivated workforce and business success, and the processes and procedures involved in recruiting, training and appraising the performance of employees. You will also have an opportunity to review the human resource practices in a large organisation, which will enable you to better understand how performance is managed.
Assignment Brief:
Case: Most work places nowadays expect and encourage their employees to keep aProfessional development portfolio. You are therefore asked to prepare an online Portfolio that you can continue to use throughout your work life.
Assignment Task 1: Explore employment opportunities to target progression.
Carry out appropriate research into career progression opportunities.
Explain the effectiveness of methods used to identify and research career progression opportunities.
Analyse the effectiveness of methods used to identify career progression opportunities based on own detailed research.
Evaluate the effectiveness of methods used to identify career progression opportunities based on own comprehensive research.
Things to consider.
A1 Researching employment opportunities
Characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of different sources of information for
career opportunities.
• Sources of information:
o education providers, e.g. schools, universities and colleges, private training
organisations
o career specialist organisations, e.g. careers advisers, job centres,
employment agencies
o print publications, e.g. local and national newspapers and magazines,
industry magazines
o employing organisation websites
o networking, e.g. associates, friends and family
o social media platforms.
A2 Employment types and legislation
• Characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of different working contracts
and approaches, including:
o full-time or part-time
o ‘gig economy' and zero-hour contracts
o self-employed
o payment types, e.g. salary, hourly pay, commission, bonus, overtime.
• Impact of employment legislation on career choices and working patterns:
o local employment legislation
o local working regulations.
A3 Requirements for progression
Knowledge and understanding of the characteristics of professional standards required
for progression in chosen fields, and the processes for achieving them.
• General and career-specific knowledge and skills.
• Entry criteria, including ‘ground-floor' entry and ‘fast-track' entry.
• Qualifications and training.
• Professional development.
• Career barriers, e.g. changes in the economic situation, ‘closed-shop'
professions, sector biases such as gender or social status.
• Accessibility, e.g. impact of available training options and costs.
Assignment Task 2: Examine personal skills and goals to produce a personal career development plan.
Produce a simple skills audit identifying career-related skills and skills-gaps.
Explain reasons for decisions taken in the preparation of a personal career development plan.
Assess decisions taken in own personal career development plan, in relation to own detailed audit of career-related skills and skills-gaps
Justify decisions taken in own personal career development plan, in relation to own comprehensive audit of careerrelated skills and skills-gaps.
Things to consider.
B1 Types of skills audit
Features and uses of skills audit tools, including:
oLikert Scale
oSemantic Differential Scale.
B2 Soft and transferable skills
• Definitions, characteristics and importance of ‘soft' and ‘transferable' skills and
ways to develop them, including:
ostrong work ethic
owritten and verbal communication skills
ocreative problem solving
otime-management
oteamwork
oleadership
oorganisation and self-motivation
oresearch and analytical skills
onumeracy and information technology skills.
B3 Skills audit and career development planning
Tools and techniques for developing career progression opportunities.
• Skills audit to measure:
ocurrent skills, knowledge and competency
ogaps in skills, knowledge and competency.
• Characteristics, function and methods for producing effective career
development plans, including:
oestablishing current position
osetting goals - short-term, medium-term, long-term
ousing ‘SMART' goals, i.e. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound
otraining requirements
omonitoring progress.
Assignment Task 3: Develop communication andinterview skills to improve employment prospects
Explain the effectiveness of own appropriately prepared job application documentation.
Explain effectiveness of own, suitable skills used in simulated job interview.
Assess the effectiveness of own competently prepared job application documentation.
Analyse the effectiveness of own, competent skills used in a simulated job interview.
Evaluate the effectiveness of own, proficient job application and interview performance, including rationale for improvements
Things to consider.
C1 Application documentation
• Purpose and characteristics of application documents and the language and
presentation styles used in completing them, including:
oletters of application.
oapplication forms including paper-based and web-based
ocurriculum vitae (CV)
opaper or electronic documents.
• Preparing online profiles, e.g. LinkedIn, assessing historical online presence,
e.g. searchable social media activity.
C2 Interviews and demonstration of skills
Features of different interview approaches and the impact of these different approaches
on skills required and demonstrated by an interviewee.
• Types of interview:
oindividual, or part of a group
oin person or remote, e.g. telephone, video link
oformal and informal
osingle interviewer or panel.
•Skills and competences required for interview situations:
opersonal presentation, e.g. appropriate clothing, attitude
ocommunication skills, including appropriate use of body language, formal
language, technical language, listening skills, and active engagement in
discussions
ounderstanding purpose of interview questions and producing appropriate
responses
odemonstration of work-related competence.
C3 Performance review
Methods for reviewing performance in interviews and the importance of reviewing
performance in relation to future success.
• Individual appraisal of own performance in an interview situation.
• Reviewing own demonstration of work-related competence.
• Suggestions for improvement.
Attachment:- Career planning.rar