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Assignment:

Reflective essay on career development and narrative including the production of a CV/or online professional profile

The objective of this coursework is for you to critically engage with some theory and practice around career development and narratives, to draw implications for your own personal and professional development.

For this assignment, you need to undertake the following tasks:

· If you have not done so already, produce a CV or online professional profile as part of the learning activities for week 11 of the module;

· If you have not done so already, produce some creative visual material [a drawing or a collage] reflecting your career aspiration and values;

· Assess your career aspirations as expressed in your collage or creative visual against Schein’s career anchors theory or the type of career you aspired to against one of the models of careers discussed in week 10;

· Based on this, reflect on any existing or further professional development activities that you have done/may need to undertake to build-up your CV and align with your career anchors or the type of career that you aspire to.

The word count for this assignment is 250 words maximum excluding your reference list. When submitting your coursework, you need to include a copy of the CV or professional profile you produced as part of the learning activities for week 11 as well as a copy of the drawing or other visual material on your career aspiration that you produced as part of seminar 5 in two appendices to your assignment. It is important to note that we won’t assess the quality of your CV or the visual material that you produced per se but only your reflection on doing these. If you don’t submit a copy of your CV produced during week 11 and/or the creative visual you produced for seminar 5, points will be deducted from your grades

Module Learning Outcomes:

· LO 1. Conduct a case study analysis and discuss, identify and assess responsible business practices and ways to enhance them at an individual level within organisations.

· LO 2. Identify appropriate sources of data, start to practice research and analysis using various academic and secondary data sources.

· LO 3. Demonstrate engagement with own personal, academic and professional development activities and planning within the context of Management Education and Learning;

· LO 4. Understand what reflective practice is and apply it to own personal, academic and professional development.

Feedback to Students:

Both Summative and Formative feedback is given to encourage students to reflect on their learning that feed forward into following assessment tasks. The preparation for all assessment tasks will be supported by formative feedback within the tutorials/seminars. Written feedback is provided as appropriate.  Please be aware to use the browser and not the Canvas App as you may not be able to view all comments.

Use of Generative AI:  

Unless explicitly stated otherwise, students should assume that the use of generative AI within an assessment or assignment is not permitted.  Any assessment submitted that is not a student’s own work, including that written by generative AI tools, are in breach of the University’s Code of Practice on Academic Integrity (https://intranet.birmingham.ac.uk/as/registry/policy/conduct/plagiarism/index.aspx

Wellbeing Extenuating Circumstances:

The process for Extenuating Circumstances is to support students who have experienced unforeseen issues that have impacted their ability to engage with their studies and/or complete assessments. Students should notify Wellbeing of any extenuating circumstances as soon as possible via the online form, following the guidance provided.

https://intranet.birmingham.ac.uk/social-sciences/college-services/wellbeing/index.aspx

Marking criteria & referencing

The assessment for this module is based on the School assessment marking criteria available in Table 1 below. Please study the criteria carefully before you write your assignments, and consult them regularly while you are writing. In particular, writing assignments should concentrate on argument and analysis rather than description, and build on the material discussed in class. Please proof-read your work before submitting it and make sure that you reference properly all the material used in your essay – have a look here on the guidance on how to reference properly any work you use and cite within your essay.

Table 1: Grading Criteria: