Human Resource Management

IND 299 Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubric

1) Overview: As you build your goal statement and develop your knowledge, skills, and abilities, identifying your strengths and weaknesses will help you focus on how you can improve or achieve these skills in your educational career and beyond. These skills can then be listed on your resume or employment profile as the primary way you market yourself as a General Studies graduate and professional.

As you prepare for this milestone, review the concentrations list to begin to consider how your concentration will support your SMART goals and reinforce your skills.

In Milestone Two, you will identify three enduring skills that will complement your concentration and help you to successfully achieve your specific goal in a way that is relevant to your career field.

Prompt: In this milestone, you will connect your academic learning to specific enduring skills to determine the value of this knowledge and how it can be applied to your goal statement. Enduring skills refer to skills that will benefit you throughout your lifetime both in your professional life and in your personal life beyond the workplace. Refer to the module resources to refresh your memory on the many enduring skills you can choose from to complete this assignment.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

· Identify three enduring skills that define any aspect of your prior or planned academic learning related to your SMART Goal in Milestone One. Which potential courses did you locate in the SNHU catalogue that are part of a possible concentration that align with these enduring skills? How do those courses support your achievement of these skills? Name at least three courses or prior experiences for each skill. You may combine experiences and courses in your response.

· Explain how any prior or planned academic learning relates to personal strengths and weaknesses. Be sure to refer to the specific enduring skills you are developing.

· What additional learning, courses, or research do you feel you could use to expand on your skills? How will this academic learning connect to your unique pathway and goal statement? Be sure to address why this knowledge is valuable to your goals and how will it help you plan your future.

Rubric

Guidelines for Submission: Your short paper should be a 4- to 6-paragraph Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and a bibliography in APA format. Support your responses with research.

Critical Elements	Proficient (100%)	Needs Improvement (75%)	Not Evident (0%)	Value
Identify Three Enduring Skills	Identifies three enduring skills that define any prior or planned academic learning, and names three courses that support each skill.	Identifies three enduring skills that define any prior or planned academic learning, and three courses that support each skill, but courses do not logically support the skills, or identifies less than three courses and/or skills.	Does not identify three enduring skills and does not name courses that support each skill.	30
Strengths and Weaknesses	Explains how any prior or planned academic learning relates to personal strengths and weaknesses, and refers to specific skills being developed	Explains how any prior or planned academic learning relates to personal strengths and weaknesses, but does not refer to a specific skill, or response is cursory or illogical	Does not explain how prior or planned learning relates to personal strengths and weaknesses	30
Prior or Planned Academic Learning	Explains how any prior or planned academic learning connects to the goal statement and academic plan of study, including why this knowledge is valuable to goals and how it will help plan the future	Explains how any prior or planned learning connects to the goal statement, but not the academic plan of study, or does not address why this knowledge is valuable to personal goals, or explanation is cursory or illogical.	Does not explain how any prior or planned learning connects to the goal statement and academic plan of study, and does not address why this knowledge would be valuable to personal goals.	30
Articulation of Response	Submission is free of errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, and organization and is presented in a professional and easy-to-read format	Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, and organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas	Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, and organization that prevent understanding of ideas	10
			Total	100

2) Thinking back on your personal experience, explain why enduring skills are desirable in today's world (both in the workplace and in other settings).

Share your plan for leveraging enduring skills: Describe the SMART goal you developed for Milestone One and identify three enduring skills that may be integral in achieving your goal. Are any of these skills relevant in your current line of work? Are any of these skills going to feel challenging for you to practice?