Career Plan Portfolio –

support webinar
Taking ownership of your own career
 Career Plan Portfolio

 Based on your career plans and your External

Engagement Experience (at least 50 hours)
 Coursework 2 –
Learning Experience Log

 2000 words 2000 words (+/– 100)

 Based on External Engagement
Experience (at least 50 hours)
 Due Thursday 17th March 2022,
3:59pm
– Subject to change
 Submission
 Step 1: Complete the Portfolio [GCU Learn/Assignments/Coursework 2 –
Portfolio submission
 Add your student name and number as the title
 Select the template form the list: Portfolio – Self Assessment – Test
 Fill in the template content and attach files (artefacts) where needed
 Step 2: Share the snapshot of your portfolio with my email (
Vivian.IkechukwuIfudu@gcu.ac.uk) as a back up
[Portfolio/More/Share/Share snapshot with/external users]
 Step 3: fill in the Portfolio Report Form, include the snapshot link form
Step 2 and submit on GCU Learn [Assignments/Coursework 2 –Portfolio
report Form – Final Submission]
 Complete steps 1 to 3 before the deadline! - DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS BEFORE 7TH
March 4pm 2021.

 See portal under assessment and test for webinar to guide you.
 Structure
 Introduction
 Career goals
 Personal statement
 Career Plan
 Professional Journey
 External Engagement Experience
 Self-Assessment and Development
 Updated PDP
 Future Development
 Personal statement
 Upload a brief (up to 2 minutes) video including your
personal business philosophy
 Present yourself and your approach to work
 Imagine that a future employer is watching the video
 Outline what your key strengths are
 You can either upload a video and post a link (such as
YouTube or other browser streaming, or upload the
video file (artefact) as long as it is not too big of a file)
 2 minutes is the maximum, but the video can be
shorter as well
 Professional Journey
 Provide your short term career plan (1 year
after Masters)
 Provide your mid-term career plan (3 years
after Masters)
 ARTEFACTS: Attach your CV as an artefact
file
 Attach any additional relevant information
(such as a link or artefact file of related job
vacancy(ies) on which you based your career
plans). 
 Around 500 words
 External Engagement
Experience
 Provide description of the external engagement you undertook (main
activities and roles) – around 100 words
 Reflect on what you learned from your experience (around 500 words)
 Make sure you use in depth analysis and apply literature and theoretical
knowledge on your case
 Due to word limit try to focus on a couple of key competences or
competence elements (knowledge, skills and attitudes) that you think
you developed during external engagement or that your struggled with.
 It is better to focus on a couple of competence elements and analyze in
depth than to list all the things you learned and developed, but describe it
superficially
 ARETFACTS: attach evidence of your external engagement with letters
from supervisors, examples of desk-based project work, photos, or any
other evidence that you did the external engagement experience
 Reflection on the external
engagement experience
 Some questions that might aid you in reflecting on what you learned
form the External Engagement Experience. These are just to aid your
thinking and don’t should not be answered one by one in your
portfolio section.
 What went well and why?
 What were the difficulties encountered? Why?
 What was surprising to you?
 What did you enjoy / not enjoy?
 What did you notice about your feelings and reactions at the time?
 What did you observe about the behaviour of others? (good or bad)
 What competences/competence elements do you think your experience was related
to.
 What did you notice about others’ performance?
 What would you do differently next time?
 Be honest, personal and critical
 Updated PDP
 Upload an updated abridged Personal
Development Plan PDP table as an artefact
 Use the table from Coursework 1 but update
(HIGHLIGHTING UPDATED SKILLS ) the
competences/elements that have changed
especially relating to your External
Engagement Experience
 Future Development:
 Indicate what aspects you still need to
develop to reach your personal and
career goals
 Identify any future opportunities there
might be to develop the competences
involved
 Be realistic and concrete with your
future development plans i.e. time
frame
 Around 400 words
 Types of reflection
Reflection can take different forms, as identified by Schon (1983):

 Reflection-in-action, which occurs intuitively in experienced

professionals, e.g. when an experienced professional in a meeting
decides to change their approach because of dynamics within the group.
This happens almost automatically.

 Reflection-on-action, which involves involves consciously thinking

about a specific experience after it has happened, with the aim of
learning from the experience. Reflection-on-action requires knowledge of
‘how to reflect’, as it is a thinking or cognitive process.

 Reflection-for-action uses lessons learned form the previous two types

of reflections and prepare for future activities.
 Why is reflection important for
personal development?

 Reflection encourages ‘active learning’ and can help you to:

• Articulate your key personal abilities in the context of your
future career aspirations.
• Seek appropriate support and development at appropriate
times.
• Improve your motivation and achievement.

 Reflection helps you think critically about how you behave and how
to improve your performance

 Reflection is a key process in personal development planning,

including career planning.
 Receiving feedback at GCU

 Written
 Verbal
 From fellow students or peers
 Electronically – e.g. Turnitin
 Grades or marks
 From University Services, e.g. LDCs, Careers Service, Subject Librarians
 From Class Reps
 Self, through reflection
 Assessment Criteria
Knowledge and Understanding
20%
Practice: Applied Knowledge,
Skills and Understanding
30%
Generic Cognitive Skills
15%
Communication, ICT and
Numeracy Skills
10%
Autonomy, Accountability and
Working with Others
25%
Understanding of key competence concepts and relevant literature
related to personal and professional development and career planning.
Ability to apply knowledge on analysis of own strengths and
weaknesses. Reflection on the experience informed by knowledge and
understanding of the relevant field.
Ability to show thorough critical analysis and synthesis of own
development needs and plan future actions systematically Integrating
feedback from other sources into critical self analysis.
Presentation style and structuring of the career plan: logical structure,
sections followed appropriately and with appropriate artefacts,
academic language, consistent referencing format and presentation
style.
Clear evidence based career planning and motivation for future
development. Concrete and feasible development actions and taking
ownership of managing own career.
 STUDENTS

PLEASE SPEND FIVE MINUTES TO FILL

THE MODULE EVALUATION FORM FOR
TRIMESTER A.