Module Number: BMP5001

Module Name: Business Management & Career Development

Year/Trimester/Cohort: 2022-23/Semester 2/September 2022 Cohort
Module Tutor/s: Fidel Gonzalez/ Syed Bukhari/ Anil Batra/ Chisomje Ezeaku/
Nwayobuije Martins Major/ Mubashir Qurashi/ Raju Saginala
Assessment Number 1
Assessment Type (and Portfolio - 50%
weighting) (2000 words)
Assessment Name Personal Records and Reflective Analysis
Assessment Submission Date Sunday 02 April 2023 at 23:59

Learning Outcomes Assessed:

LO1: Produce effective application documentation for a business management
position.
LO5: Appraise own professional and life skills and reflect on academic and personal
goals.
LO6: Analyse career routes and make recommendations for future career choices.
Assessment Brief:
As part of your preparation for undertaking your Work Based Learning (WBL)
placement and mini-research project for this module, you are required to put together
a practical portfolio (collection) of documents providing evidence that you have:
 Prepared effectively and appropriately to participate in your selected WBL
placement
 Considered your current academic, personal and professional skills and their
relevance for your WBL Placement
 Identified key areas for the development of new skills, and / or the
enhancement of existing skills through participation in your WBL placement
 Reflected upon the choices available to you as a Business and Management
student, and in particular considered how your WBL placement may influence
and support your future career development
 Set out a clear rationale for undertaking your WBL placement, based upon
your relevant skills and capabilities. This should include documentation to
demonstrate that you have matched your profile to the needs of your WBL
placement provider via an application (or proposal) for your selected
placement.

Your grade will depend partially upon the quality of evidence you include in your
portfolio, in support of the learning outcomes and considerations set out above.

However, as a minimum, your portfolio must include the following documents:

1) LO5 / LO6 Personal Career Assessment (Reflective Statement) (800-1000
words) max exploring:
a. An outline of what areas of business you are interested in
b. Explanation of how your selected WBL placement aligns with your interests
c. An assessment of your personal and professional skills that are of particular
relevance to your placement (use the Personal Skills Profile to support this).
d. An outline of any gaps identified by your Personal Skills Profile and how you plan
to address these
e. An assessment of your Research Skills (use the Research Skills Profile to support
this) and an outline of how you plan to reinforce areas where your profile identifies
gaps (in particular you might wish to comment on how your WBL placement will help
you to refine / improve your research skills)
f. A concluding section setting out how you believe your selected WBL placement will
influence your future career direction.
2) LO5 Completed Personal Skills Profile (Indicative Layout)
3) LO5 Completed Research Skills Profile (Indicative Layout)
4) LO1 A completed and signed off Expression of Interest for the WBL
placement you wish to undertake
5) LO1 Either
a. A completed Terms of Reference Document signed off by both your module tutor
and WBL placement ‘sponsor’ OR
b. A completed Project Proposal document signed off by both your module tutor and
WBL placement ‘sponsor’

You are free to include further supporting documents should these be relevant to
your WBL placement, but these may not contribute to your overall assessed grade

This assignment is unusual in that it is more focused on practical outcomes and

outputs for students that normal ‘academic’ assessments. As a result, there may not
be any requirement for academic referencing in constructing your responses to the
assignment brief. You are free, however, to include such references should you
identify sources of relevance to your submission.