Topic - Career planning with special attention to skills frameworks and certification.

Learning Outcomes-

This assessment task relates to the following learning outcomes and values stated in the course description:

• Investigate skills frameworks and develop an awareness of industry certifications relevant to IT professionals.

• Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the cognitive and practical approaches required to manage IT professionals in collaborative, global work environments.

• Utilise professional presentation and communication approaches in a range of IT workplace settings.

• Appreciate the changing business and technological paradigm in which IT professionals operate.

• Appreciate the global nature of the IT industry.

Group composition - This task requires students to work in groups. The group size should be 3 except where the class size requires one or two groups to be of size 4. Group composition is to be confirmed by the tutor who has the final say.

Task -

Each group member should choose ONE of the questions following and research it. The group should allocate different questions for each member. Each group should research on at least one question on skills frameworks and one question on certification. One of the tasks of each group is to integrate the research done by all of its members and to present the result in an oral presentation of 15-minute duration (excluding question time) with each group member contributing roughly equal amount of time. The tutor may vary this duration for an oversized or undersized group. The content of the presentation should be based on research evidence rather than personal opinion. It should assume that the audience is familiar with all course materials and therefore the presentations should skip such materials. Although the focus is on the IT workplace, generic business resources should also prove useful.

Research questions

1) What advice is available for a new graduate who has been granted an interview regarding an IT position to be filled?

2) What contribution can the SFIA framework make to the implementation of a career plan by an IT professional?

3) Why is a university degree unlikely to be a sufficient certification over the lifetime of an IT professional?

4) Research the advice available in the area of professional networking. (Give some attention to networks that are global in scope.)

There are 4 research questions you need to answer each question for 500 words so total 2000 word report. and powerpoint presentation for report for each question there should be 4-5 slides for presentation so total 18-20 slides for presentation.