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IND301A Industry Consulting Project - Torrens University Australia

Assessment - Career Planning Report

Learning Outcome 1: Apply relevant frameworks, theoretical models and concepts to underpin the response to the assessments and live briefs
Learning Outcome 2: Demonstrate the ability to critically reflect on work- based experience, self-identify personal goals, learning needs and report on how these experiences have enhanced the learner's employability and/or career progression

Learning Outcome 3: Demonstrate planning strategies to respond to the assessments and live briefs

Task summary:

The focus of this assessment is YOU and your career. We would like you to identify ways to enhance your employability, identify a role you aspire to and formulate a plan to achieve that goal.

Context:
Career planning is an ongoing exercise and in a rapidly changing environment, it requires frequent adjustments. Digitalisation, robotics and automation, globalisation and even the recent pandemic have impacted the way we work and how our organisations or industries operate. The days where we could pick a dream career, enrol into a course that would get us where we wanted are gone. The new working life of many employees will include a portfolio of various jobs in quite a few careers, meaning you will be going through a recruitment process several times in your professional life and lifelong learning will play an important role in that process.

In this subject, you are working as a consultant to our live brief client (your practicum). The aim of this assessment is for you to be your own consultant. You would need to identify your current capabilities as well as future skills, competencies and behaviours that will be required of you in a role you would

like to apply for in the future. You will then assess the gap in competencies and formulate a plan that will realistically enable you to get to your next/dream job. In your plan, you will account for various factors that may impact your successful transition.

You are required to:
• Find online or create yourself a job description of a role you would like to apply for in the future. It can be a role that exists within your current organisation or a completely new role, the role you see yourself in. Ensure the job description includes hard and soft/smart skills required. A copy of the job description should be attached in the appendix.
• Assess your current capabilities and your current role. Please attach a copy of your current role in the appendix. If you are not currently employed, please provide an evaluation of your skills and attributes you believe you possess as a student. Remember to include a copy in the appendix.
• Identify the gap between the current role and your desired role.
• Create a professional development plan
• Identify factors (promotors and barriers) influencing your successful job transition. Provide a mitigation plan.
• Include all your planned actions and milestones in a Gantt chart or similar (i.e. what concrete tasks you will undertake to close the gaps and in what timeframes that these tasks be undertaken to achieve your goal of securing your selected job)
• Include justification of how your plan, when completed will enhance your employability in the future.
• Your introduction should include a clear statement of the purpose of the paper and how it proceeds (i.e. provide the structure of the paper).
• Use headings and subheadings to address different assessment requirements. You are encouraged to use infographics in your report

You are required to produce a professional, well-organised, clear and coherent, independent report of 2000 words that includes:
o Cover page ( with your Institution: Torrens University, subject code, your name, student ID, assessment due date, assessment title, your Learning Facilitator's name and the total word count) or attach the TUA Assignment Cover Sheet
o Executive Summary (not included in your word count)
o Table of Content (not included in your word count)
o Introduction
o Discussion section where you address the abovementioned assessment requirements
o Conclusion
o Reference list (not included in your word count)
o Appendices (if applicable, not included in your word count)

Referencing:
It is essential you use appropriate APA 7th style for citing and referencing research.

Attachment:- Industry Consulting Project.rar