Assessment: Career Planning Reflection.
Word Limit: 1000 words

Context

Purpose of assessment: To demonstrate the student's ability to use self-reflection to articulate the values, skills and knowledge that they have developed throughout their undergraduate degree.

The student will submit a 1000 word ‘Career Planning Report' that includes a Values Audit (100 words); Capability Audit (650 words); Graduate Pitch (250 words). This is an INDIVIDUAL assessment piece.

Task 1 - Values Audit

1. List at least 5 of your personal values (eg friendship, loyalty, leadership, achievement, wealth, prestige etc). Rank the first five that are important to you. Explain why consideration of values is crucial to career management. Use 2 academic references to support your answer.

2. What field of work/further study do you intend to pursue? List at least 5 hard skills you have developed via your undergraduate course and explain how they will assist you in your field of work/further study?

Task 2 -Capability Audit

Read the 5 resources below

1. Robles Marcel, 2012 , ‘Executive Perceptions of the Top 10 Soft Skills Needed in Today's Workplace', Business Communication Quarterly Vol 75, No 4, pages 453-465

2. Karl, L 2004 ‘Articulating Skills in the Job Search' Business Communication Quarterly Vol. 67 Issue 2, p198

3. Australian Public Service, Fact Sheet 5 Addressing selection criteria, viewed November 16 2014

http://www.apsc.gov.au/publications-and-media/current-publications/cracking-the-code/factsheet5

4. 2013 Monash University, Sample Interview questions, viewed November 16 2013

http://www.monash.edu.au/careers/students-grads/apply-for-a-job/interviews-sample-questions.html

5. Graduate Capabilities in your Unit Guide BPD3100 Applied Business Challenge

Using the readings and your own reflections provide a written response to the 5 most common selection criteria used by employers when choosing graduates. It is essential that you provide examples to support your responses. (650 words). The selection criterion is

• demonstrated capacity to communicate effectively

• good organisational and administrative skills

• proven ability to work as part of a team

• well-developed customer service skills

• Proven ability to manage projects.

Task 3-Graduate ‘Elevator Pitch'

‘An -Elevator Pitch- is a concise, carefully planned, and well-practiced marketing message about your professional self that your mother should be able to understand in the time it would take to ride up an elevator (2 minutes or less)' (University of California n.d)
Synthesise all the information collected from Task 1 & Task 2 to prepare your graduate Elevator Pitch to the question-"Tell me about yourself/What do you bring to this organisation?"

Locate 2 academic references that will assist you to prepare your pitch. In preparing your elevator pitch do not reference the content-simply use the references to help you prepare the composition. You may wish to video your pitch and add it to your ePortfolio/ CV URL

References

University of California, Creating An Elevator Pitch - Two Minutes or Less, University of California, viewed November 18 2014, http://career.sa.ucsb.edu/students/job-search/creating-elevator-pitch-two-minutes-or-less.