personal career planning
COURSE CODE: PPD311 COURSE NAME: CRAFTING YOUR FUTURE – Professional Development Task brief & rubrics
Task
Considering your successful completion of this course, write a self--‐reflective essay reflecting on the following questions:
Career and Professional Planning:
• What do you think have changed in your perception about job, work, and career?
• What do you think is working calling; and to what extent do you think you are closer to finding your work calling?
• Considering the various career tendencies and behaviors –traditional, protean, boundaryless; Career Anchors, and RIASEC model, what have
you explored about your own career tendencies and characteristics?
• What kind of resources do you think would support you in your process of a successful and achieving career management? Try to be as
specific as possible –people, agents, influencers, training programs, counseling, coaching/mentoring, etc.
Application Process:
• Which job application processes will you be following? Remember, every individual has his/her own style; what is yours?
• What is/are your takeaway/s from this course, regarding following job application tools and strategies? What have you come to realize and have
decided to implement in your journey of job applications?
• What are the dos and don’ts that you have set yourself during your application process? In other words, what are the things you say YES and
NO in this process?
Career Communication:
• What is/are your takeaway/s about job interviews? What have you learnt throughout the course of this program?
• What are the dos and don’ts that you are more aware of while being interviewed? Please be as specific as possible, as to the attitude, behavior,
voice tone, outfit, punctuality, content relevance, etc.
• What are the lessons you have learnt from your past interviews if you had any? If you had the power of turning back the time, what would you
have done differently in one of the interviews you had taken?
Specificities of the essay:
• Individual work
• No need for table of contents
• Title to the essay
• Name Surname, Course Code (PPD311) Group number (ex. Group ABC)
• Submission in pdf format
• Context should be limited with your experiences, awareness, and perspectives you acquired during the course.
Formalities:
• Word count: 2000-2500 words
• Font: Times New Roman 12 pts. Line spacing 1.5
• Text alignment: Justified.
• If referencing or quotes are used, should be indicated in Harvard’s citation style.
Submission: May 9th, 23:59 CEST, via Moodle (Turnitin).
Weight: This task will be evaluated as Pass/Fail.
It assesses the following learning outcomes:
• Outcome 1: Understand the personal career development and management process, and career tendencies and characteristics.
• Outcome 2: Identify processes of job application and putting them in action.
Rubrics
Exceptional 90--‐100 Good 80--‐89 Fair 70--‐79 Marginal fail 60--‐69
Knowledge &
Understanding
(20%)
Student demonstrates
excellent understanding of
key concepts and uses
vocabulary in an entirely
appropriate manner.
Student demonstrates
good understanding of the
task and mentions some
relevant concepts and
demonstrates use of the
relevant vocabulary.
Student understands the
task and provides minimum
theory and/or some use of
vocabulary.
Student understands the task
and attempts to answer the
question but does not
mention key concepts or uses
minimum amount of relevant
vocabulary.
Application (30%) Student applies fully
relevant knowledge from
the topics delivered in
class.
Student applies mostly
relevant knowledge from
the topics delivered in
class.
Student applies some
relevant knowledge from
the topics delivered in
class. Misunderstanding
may be evident.
Student applies little relevant
knowledge from the topics
delivered in class.
Misunderstands are evident.
Critical Thinking
(30%)
Student critically assesses
in excellent ways, drawing
outstanding conclusions
from relevant authors.
Student critically assesses
in good ways, drawing
conclusions from relevant
authors and references.
Student provides some
insights but stays on the
surface of the topic.
References may not be relevant.
Student makes little or
noncritical thinking insights,
does not quote appropriate
authors, and does not
provide valid sources.
Communication
(20%)
Student communicates
their ideas extremely
clearly and concisely,
respecting word count,
grammar and spellcheck
Student communicates
their ideas clearly and
concisely, respecting word
count, grammar and
spellcheck
Student communicates
their ideas with some
clarity and concision. It
may be slightly over or
under the wordcount limit.
Some misspelling errors
may be evident.
Student communicates their
ideas in a somewhat unclear
and unconcise way. Does not
reach or does exceed
wordcount excessively and
misspelling errors are evident.