Assessment Brief/ Task

Assessment Briefing and Guide Notes

You are required to produce a 2500 word Personal Development plan

You’re Personal Development Plan for the Masters Skills component .

The design and content of your P.D.P brings together all the various research activity and
study you have undertaken, with specific reference to how your Masters skills, knowledge
and behaviour have developed since you first commenced the module and how you will evaluate
yourself at the end of the Module.

It should include a Personal development matrix with action points as part of the
conclusion..

In particular, your P.D.P embraces elements from each of the key module learning sessions:
Lectures, workshops and Independent Learning activities.

You must use your P.D.P :
Learning Styles Questionnaire.
Skills Audit.
Belbin.
SWOT Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.
SKA Knowledge, Skills, and Attitude.
The Student Oath.
C.V.
You’re Assessment Task

To design and write a professional Personal Development Plan of maximum 2500 words (word
count does not include references and bibliography).

There are personal planning guidelines in both of the Modules recommended reading books
plus the three websites below, you must adapt this guidance into your own Personal
Development Plan Structure..
Other personal planning sources are

http://www.palgrave.com/skills4study/pdp/
http://www.businessballs.com/goal_planning.htm

http://www.mftrou.com/personal-development-plan.html
This is a Post Graduate Academic assignment and as such your work has to go past
description and narrative of you and your life to date.
It is expected as a minimum you include Harvard reference citations from your core reading
books and list and reference to taught input to support your assertions. It is expected you
allude to and adapt the models and concepts you have been introduced to in class and
workshops.

To achieve a high grade and to develop deeper understanding and knowledge of the subject,
you will be expected to conduct and evidence your wider reading and research beyond the
directed reading/teaching materials.

You must compare a wide range of other authors work and current schools of thought in the
subject area. This will be from Academic Journals and other research data gathered.

The critical analysis of this data and your findings must be evidenced in this assignment.

All assertions in the assignment MUST BE!!, evidenced by regular/frequent use of
appropriate Harvard Reference citations, quotations and paraphrasing from taught material
and other authors work to support your assertions, findings and conclusions.
Other information sources.

Information from Induction.

Residential experience or non-residential assignment analysis.

Formal Lectures.

Workshops activities.

Recommended text books.

Wider reading and research you have independently conducted.

Can I have more than 20 references.

Personal development plan

Will you be in-charge of your career, or by default, will you let others do it for you? The purpose of this assignment is to help you take control of your learning and professional development in a structured manner while taking advantage of publically available information and resources.

B. Personal Development Plan (50 pts) – Using the following questions as a guide, prepare a one page Personal Development Plan and upload in the Personal Development Plan DropBox.

Compare your individual career competency model and individual career ladder/lattice with your peers
Identify two or three competencies that you would like to develop further.
Briefly describe how improving each competency will help you achieve important results or meet your primary job goals.
Identify one or more people who could be helpful in your development – either as a role model or a source of information. Write any question that you would like to ask them.
What two or three organizations would you like to learn more about? What specifically would you like to learn about them?
What specific steps will you take? Target date? Finish date?

Additional Resources
• Occupational Outlook Handbook: http://www.bls.gov/ooh/ (Links to an external site.)
• O*NET OnLion: http://www.onetonline.org/ (Links to an external site.)
• Careeronestop: http://www.careeronestop.org/ (Links to an external site.)
• Salaries: Salary.com http://www.salary.com/index.htm (Links to an external site.)

Job Search Websites
• Nittany Lion Career Network (NLCN): http://studentaffairs.psu.edu/career/students/NLCN.shtml (Links to an external site.)
• Indeed: http://www.indeed.com/ (Links to an external site.)
• Careerbuilder: http://www.careerbuilder.com/ (Links to an external site.)
• Monster: http://www.monster.com/ (Links to an external site.)
• Intership: http://www.internships.com/welcome/PennStateUniversityPark (Links to an external site.)
Grade- Sheet: Personal Development Plan

This assignment will be evaluated using this grade-sheet.

_____ Identified two or three competencies that you would like to develop further. (10 pts)

_____ Briefly described how improving each competency will help achieve important results or meet primary job goals. (10 pts)

_____ Identified one or more people who could be helpful in your development – either as a role model or a source of information and included question(s) to ask them. (10 pts)

_____ Identified two or three organizations they would you like to learn more about? And specifically what they would like to learn about them. (10 pts)

_____ Identified what specific steps they take with Target dates and Finish dates. (10 pts)

Personal development plan

Will you be in-charge of your career, or by default, will you let others do it for you? The purpose of this assignment is to help you take control of your learning and professional development in a structured manner while taking advantage of publically available information and resources.

B. Personal Development Plan (50 pts) – Using the following questions as a guide, prepare a one page Personal Development Plan and upload in the Personal Development Plan DropBox.

Compare your individual career competency model and individual career ladder/lattice with your peers
Identify two or three competencies that you would like to develop further.
Briefly describe how improving each competency will help you achieve important results or meet your primary job goals.
Identify one or more people who could be helpful in your development – either as a role model or a source of information. Write any question that you would like to ask them.
What two or three organizations would you like to learn more about? What specifically would you like to learn about them?
What specific steps will you take? Target date? Finish date?

Additional Resources
• Occupational Outlook Handbook: http://www.bls.gov/ooh/ (Links to an external site.)
• O*NET OnLion: http://www.onetonline.org/ (Links to an external site.)
• Careeronestop: http://www.careeronestop.org/ (Links to an external site.)
• Salaries: Salary.com http://www.salary.com/index.htm (Links to an external site.)

Job Search Websites
• Nittany Lion Career Network (NLCN): http://studentaffairs.psu.edu/career/students/NLCN.shtml (Links to an external site.)
• Indeed: http://www.indeed.com/ (Links to an external site.)
• Careerbuilder: http://www.careerbuilder.com/ (Links to an external site.)
• Monster: http://www.monster.com/ (Links to an external site.)
• Intership: http://www.internships.com/welcome/PennStateUniversityPark (Links to an external site.)
Grade- Sheet: Personal Development Plan

This assignment will be evaluated using this grade-sheet.

_____ Identified two or three competencies that you would like to develop further. (10 pts)

_____ Briefly described how improving each competency will help achieve important results or meet primary job goals. (10 pts)

_____ Identified one or more people who could be helpful in your development – either as a role model or a source of information and included question(s) to ask them. (10 pts)

_____ Identified two or three organizations they would you like to learn more about? And specifically what they would like to learn about them. (10 pts)

_____ Identified what specific steps they take with Target dates and Finish dates. (10 pts)