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Semester Three 2021 Deferred / Referred Assignment: Portfolio Report
Learning Outcomes
Assignment
- Research a role using big data sets in relation to the current labour market analysis for those who have graduated with your degree
- Assess the link between how your awareness of work has informed your knowledge of HR practices
- Evaluate your current skills and skills gap, setting appropriate short, interim and long term goals for their achievement
Assignment Details: Portfolio Report
Assessment | Weight | Pass mark | Qualifying mark | LOs | Assessment details |
Individual Work Based Analysis Portfolio Report | 50% | 40% | 30% | 1,2,3 | Coursework (individual submission); 2000 word report |
A Portfolio is a collection of tasks which assemble to demonstrate your working knowledge of HR in organisations and your research and employability skills as you prepare for your placement between Level 5 and Level 6. The portfolio aims to promote your ability to achieve a placement between level 5 and level 6 and a graduate role on graduation which will serve as a foundation for your future career.
Forage opportunities are many, but only those listed on the link are relevant to this module:
- MinterEllison Consulting Solutions
- Citi (Markets, Sales and Trading) Virtual Asia Pacific Program
- Accenture: Future Innovator in Training
- Accenture: Developer Program
- Clifford Chance Climate Change: Global Virtual Internship
- Latham & Watkins: Emerging Companies
Have a look at them and choose ONE aligned to your own degree pathway.
You should have completed the task and shared it with the organisation to earn your certificate.
The certificate features in the appendices of your Portfolio Report.
It earns you 10 marks if it has been completed successfully.
These practical tasks will prepare you to research your own degree in the current labour market. You have support from the module, directing you to big data websites to research the buoyancy of your degree and to help you select a Placement opportunity 2021-2022 or Graduate Trainee Role to apply for in autumn 2021.
For Section 2 you should map the advert in the Assessment Folder marked S3 Employer Branding Advertisement
For Section 3 You can find the recordings from the HR Leaders’ Interviews on the Blackboard (Bb) site under Assignment Resources. Compare Dave Stuart of the Met Police’s interview with two others, based on their approach to the Covid-19 situation; you may only apply the leadership models you have been taught on this module.
For the final section you can use what you have already prepared within your WEA as your reflective statement since it will be informed by all you have learnt in the first two months of the module. Remember to keep the SMART goals relevant with numbers or dates or percentages across the short-term (3-5 days), interim (1-3 weeks) and long-term goals (3 months) set.
The Formative Assessment of your A4 plan on 23rd June is worth 5% when it has been annotated by your tutor and some of your peers. If you do not tune into the live session on 23rd June at 6pm and participate in the peer review of the A4 plans you are not entitled to have this 5%
Marking Grid for Assessment 1: Coursework: Semester THREE
Work Based Analysis Portfolio Report based on HR Leaders’ Insight
Mark Area | Potential Mark % | First Marker | Second Marker | Agreed Mark |
Annotated Plan from 23rd June scanned | 5 | |||
Presentation & report format References & Westminster Harvard System | 10 | |||
Westminster Employability Award If bronze: 20 marks | 20 | |||
At least ONE certificate from the online placement tasks listed for Semester 3 from Forage companies: MinterEllison Consulting SolutionsCiti (Markets, Sales and Trading) Virtual Asia Pacific ProgramAccenture: Future Innovator in Training Accenture: Developer ProgramClifford Chance Climate Change: Global Virtual InternshipLatham & Watkins: Emerging Companies | 10 | |||
Effectively link your labour market research on your degree to research which Graduate Trainee opportunities you can apply for from September 2021 | 10 | |||
Recent & Relevant Analysis of the advert shared with you in your assessment folder or follow the link) persuasively linked to Personal and Employer Branding from the models presented on the module https://www.ratemyplacement.co.uk/jobs/21428/knorr-bremse/field-service-project-manager-assistant-placement-year | 10 | |||
HR Leaders’ insights (comparing Dave Stuart of the Metropolitan Police with two of the other HR Leaders presented & offering recommendations to the Leaders | 20 | |||
Conclusions relate well to analysis | 5 | |||
Goal Development Grid: 3 SMART goals with short, interim and long term measurable specifics: % / date / number | 10 | |||
Total ∑ | 100 |
Tutors’ Combined Comments & guidance for future work:
Portfolio Report Outline
Cover Page including Tutor’s name and Group Number [not counted as wordage]
Table of Contents with Sections and page numbers [not counted in wordage]
Section 1 Introduction
1.1 Introduce your degree and its position in the current labour market cite the big data sites that you have researched. You should have 4 or more and the research journey is listed in (Appendix iv: sites visited with a one line summary on what you found on each)
1.2 Identify where you would like to spend your year in Industry / which graduate trainee role you would like to apply for when in level 6.
1.3 State how a placement would help you to gain a graduate level role on graduation (applications for Graduate Trainee roles from September of Level 6)
Section 2 Employer Branding and Your Professional Brand
2.1 Employer Branding
See Lecture 3 and be prepared to identify a useful model from those taught to illustrate the Employer’s Brand given to you: see your Assessment Folder or follow the link below.
2.2 My Professional Brand: how have you used your professional brand research to
inform your own personal brand?
Section 3 HR Leadership in Covid-19
3.1 HR Leaders Compared to Leadership Models
Here you will look at Dave Stuart of the Metropolitan Police’s interview and compare to two of the HR Leaders’ interviews. Analyse the leaders for the benefits that they have brought to their company.
3.2 Using models from those taught on the module identify how you see these HR Leaders fitting with the models you have chosen, beginning with Dave Stuart of the Metropolitan Police
3.3 Suggest developments for the HR organisations (3.1) you have been researching from the interviews on the Bb site and recommend useful developments based on the theory or other HR leaders’ comments.
Recommendations may come from another of the interviewed HR leaders or from the models or literature found on the module. You must recommend for Dave Stuart of the Metropolitan Police.
Section 4 Conclusion
4.1 Bring your findings together in a succinct paragraph to half a page.
Section 5 Goal Development Grid
5.1 Offer a grid with at least 3 SMART goals with short, interim and long-term goals.
Ensure that your goals have numbers as measurables: dates, % or numbers
Goal | Short Term Goal | Interim Goal | Long Term Goal | Intended Benefits |
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2 | ||||
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Reference List [not counted in the wordage]
A list of all references cited in the text in the Westminster Harvard System
Appendices [not counted in the wordage]
Appendix i) A4 Plan: annotated by your peers
Appendix ii) Westminster Employability Award: Bronze Level achieved*:
Core Tasks + 50 points from optional tasks
Core Tasks include the 3 x approved event attendance
Core Tasks also include your skills audit and self-reflection
[*This will be verified by the WEA team]
Appendix iii) Forage (formerly Inside Sherpa) completion Certificate from one of these:
Appendix iv) Listing your research journey for Section 1: websites visited and data gathered with one sentence under each, detailing what you have learnt on that site.
Appendix v) Anything else that you would like to include.
Potential Task Overview for final submission opportunity
Task 1 i a) Complete the core elements of the Westminster Employability Award (WEA): https://www.westminster.ac.uk/current-students/employability-and-career-development/improving-your-employability/westminster-employability-award
The core elements are a Skills audit and self reflection which will inform your Goals Grid (10 marks). Also book in your 3 x Events on ENGAGE as these count too! You will probably have most of these done as you have had several months to complete them already.
i b) Review whether you already have tasks that could contribute to WEA points
ii) Open ONE of the Forage (tasks listed for you and draft the task MinterEllison Consulting Solutions
iii) Analyse the placement advert with Knorr-Bremse in your Assessment Folder or follow the link: https://www.ratemyplacement.co.uk/jobs/21428/knorr-bremse/field-service-project-manager-assistant-placement-year
Task 2 i) Begin your Labour Market research on LinkedIn & RateMyPlacement and look for companies offering Placement / one year internships
ii) Continue with the WEA by choosing two more tasks worth 10 points or more.
iii) Listen to the six HR Leaders talks and make notes against Dave Stuart’s Metropolitan Police interview as this one will be compared to two others.
Task 3 i) Complete your Forage (formerly Inside Sherpa). The first draft will receive feedback so do not “share” that one with the organisation. Adjust to the feedback given and resubmit, choosing to share with the company for your certificatehttps://www.theforage.com/landing/5HURM008W/XYtM9kXummgoCJuAs/sem3
ii) Choose two more tasks on ENGAGE worth 10 marks each or more for the WEA
If you haven’t already attended core Events, book them now to complete before July.
iii) Research your degree using the big data channels to bolster your Linked In findings and add these to your appendix iv as you write up Section 1
Task 4: i) Building on your Engage, LinkedIn, RateMyPlacement, Prospects etc research and identify a placement that you would like to apply for.
ii) Link your Labour Market research (weeks 2-3) to your chosen placement / Graduate Trainee application
iii a) Complete your WEA with the final task (50 points = Bronze: worth 20 marks). Your Bronze Award will be checked with the WEA team but you should provide evidence in appendix ii). Ensure that you have attended the required 3 x events and have evidence of booking and attendance.
iii b) Tidy up your initial skills audit & reflection for the Goals Grid (10 marks)
Task 5 i) Listen to all of the HR leaders’ interviews again starting with Dave Stuart’s from the Metropolitan Police
ii) Link the HR Leaders’ choices to the leadership styles you have studied on the module beginning with Dave Stuart of the Metropolitan Police: the Leadership lecture sequence is available online with updates (20 marks)
iii) In light of your LinkedIn, personal skills audit and review of your Placement opportunities Branding consider how you see your Personal Brand and that of your chosen employer. Remember to link to the models on the module (10 marks)
Task 6 Attend your A4 plan peer review (5 marks) https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/7d4fd9018b2f44f998f09db89df264fd
Catch up on any missed events
Task 7 Review, edit, add in references, ensure that all appendices are present and write the conclusion (5 marks)
Appendix i) A4 Plan: annotated from
Appendix ii) Westminster Employability Award: Bronze Certificate achieved *
[*This will be verified by the WEA team]
Have you attended the 3 x events and have you completed the Core tasks for your WEA?
Appendix iii) Forage () completion Certificate from one of these: https://www.theforage.com/landing/5HURM008W/XYtM9kXummgoCJuAs/sem3
Appendix iv) Listing your research journey: websites visited and data gathered with one sentence on what you found on each site (at least 4 sites)
Appendix v) Anything else that you would like to include
Submission: Final submission opportunity before 1pm on Wednesday 7th July.