Coursework Assessment Brief

Assessment Details

Assessment Task

You are required to do some personal development planning.  Consider your strengths and weaknesses in terms of your interpersonal skills; what do you want - or need – to do to improve your employment prospects.  You will need to review what skills and attributes employers are looking for.  You will find it helpful to take the Solent Employability Self Evaluation (ESE) test to help to identify your weak areas. You will receive a report from it that reflects your attitudes, ability and experience and will help you to identify the areas (skills, knowledge, experience) that you need to develop.

Select 5 areas in which you feel you need to improve.  For each one, write a single sentence SMART target that encapsulates what you intend to do to improve, what your timescale is and how you are going to do it. Then, for each objective, write approximately 400 words in which you reflect on your ability in that area, consider what the experts say about it, why it is important for your employability prospects, anything you think could make it difficult to achieve and how you might overcome that. 

Then summarise what you propose to do on a development plan (in Appendix), which then will act as your single page reminder of what to do and when you need to do it – this will sit in your appendices and not count in your overall word count.

Your submission will therefore consist of two parts; the explanation about each of your objective (2,000 words) and a personal development plan.

Note that you are expected to research to find out more about the topic areas that you have identified, and this selection of literature and your referencing are part of the marking critieria.