Students are required to complete a Career Path Plan using the following Professional Development Plan template to understand where their career is going to take them and how they will achieve this goal.
The following is a guide on how to use the template.
Professional Development Plan: Key to terminology used in template Development Objectives are objectives that you have identified to enable you to meet the learning and development needs identified at the initial planning stage.
Priority identifies whether your development objective is:
• critical to your progressing in to your future role
• beneficial but non-critical to progressing in to you future role Activities can constitute any learning or development activity that will enable you to achieve your development objectives e.g. formal training, on-the-job training, work-shadowing another colleague etc.
Strengths will help you align what you wish to achieve (Career Goal), what you need to do to get there (Development Objectives) and how to best achieve these through understanding which strengths will allow you to best achieve these. Support/Resources describe what you need to help you achieve your development objectives. Typically this would involve support from your Success Coach, from a current or future employer, or even family.
Target and Actual dates state when you intend to achieve your development objectives followed by the date you actually achieve them.
Data in these columns is particularly useful when you review your PDP as it will enable you to identify any factors that may have prevented you from achieving your development objectives on the target date and build in contingencies to prevent this from occurring in the future.
Review date states when you will review progress on your Professional Development Plan.
Assuming that you undergo the professional development process annually, we recommend that you review your PDP every six months therefore enabling you to:
Assess your progress .
• Reflect on your learning
• Identify whether your development objectives need to be amended
• Identify factors that may have prevented you from achieving your development objectives
• Build in contingencies to enable you (where possible) to meet your agreed target date in the future What are my development objectives?
Priority What activities do I need to undertake to achieve my objectives?
Which Strengths will best support the achievement my objective and Career Goal? What support/resources do I need to achieve my objectives?
Target date for achieving my objectives Once the above template has been completed, students should have a deep understanding of what their career goal is and how they are going to achieve this goal.
Students are required to write a Simple Report and Visual Illustration capturing the following:
• Reflect on what company (s) would be best suited for your plan and what career progression opportunities this company may provide to you
• Identify all job titles you may be required to be employed in within the report with a short description of each of the roles. Title only required in the map.
• Following your research and reflection present your findings and Career Path Plan in a visual map. Map to be submitted in either infographic, pictochart, powtoon or moovly, links to all are below: Canva - Great easy to use site, gives users heaps of free options and templates.
Once the above template has been completed, students should have a deep understanding of what their career goal is and how they are going to achieve this goal. Students are required to write a Simple Report and Visual Illustration capturing the following:
• Reflect on what company (s) would be best suited for your plan and what career progression opportunities this company may provide to you
• Identify all job titles you may be required to be employed in within the report with a short description of each of the roles. Title only required in the map.
• Following your research and reflection present your findings and Career Path Plan in a visual map. Map to be submitted in either infographic, pictochart, powtoon or moovly, links to all are below: Canva - Great easy to use site, gives users heaps of free options and templates.
Piktochart - Easy to use site, lots of templates.
Simple site for creating animated videos & presentations.
Moovly - Another easy to use site for creating animated videos & presentations.
This assessment must be submitted in compliance with the following:
You should make significant references to the subject material and substantial wider reading.
A minimum 2 academic (books & peerreviewed journal articles) & 2 other sources (newspaper article, trade publications, websites, etc.) must be used per post.
These should be referenced in the APA style, both in-text and in a reference list. References to ‘Wikipedia' or similar unsubstantiated sources will not be accepted. this should be 1000 words