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Unit 5 [GM 500: Management Theories and Practices I]

Career Advancement Planner Assignment (CAP) Details Unit 5 Assignment 1: Career Advancement Planner (CAP) Writing Assignment

Overview:

In GM500 you will begin developing your first Career Advancement Planner (CAP). This learning activity will continue throughout your program. There is value in taking time in this Unit 5 Assignment to learn more about what business recruiters are looking for in recent graduates from academic programs. It is clear that scholarly and technical skills are necessary to succeed in most any career path. However, there is strong support to indicate that other competencies in human skills (soft skills) are being also assessed by business recruiters. Taking active steps to plan the development and advancement of specific competencies throughout your academic program is a worthy activity in pursuing future career goals.

It is important to understand that your Career Advancement Planner is much more than an Assignment that you will encounter throughout your Kaplan education journey. Even though this is an emerging and changing Assignment, the greater value will become evident as you approach graduation and are seeking a new career path or leveraging your educational excellence for advancement within your current place of employment. The key fact is that you will have personally planned an accurate advancement in the development of competencies linked to how professional Human Resource Managers are organizing their search for the right person for the job.

With this in mind, this is an opportunity to learn more about the importance and value of your Career Advancement Planner (CAP) and why Kaplan University has created this opportunity for you to develop this type of tool.

Instructions To reach your career objectives requires success in an academic program in combination with an articulate plan that demonstrates strength, growth, and accomplishments that are in alignment with competencies that organizations are seeking. Your Career Advancement Planner (CAP) is a tool in which you can identify and target specific human skill competencies. The Kaplan School of Business and Information Technology have identified the following key competencies that recruiters are seeking. They are: leadership, teamwork, networking, technology, communication, professionalism and ethical behavior, and critical thinking.

Human Resource Management is about building human capital to drive organizational performance. Central in that function is finding the right person, which involves human resource planning, recruitment, and selection. Before writing this paper, gather relevant information from appropriate reading resources. In Chapter 12 of the Daft textbook focus your attention on the section ”Finding the Right People.” You should also draw valuable insights from “Do Soft Skills Matter? – Implications for Educators Based on Recruiters’ Perspective” by Deepa and Seth’s article found in the Kaplan Library.

Reference

Implications for Educators Based on Recruiters’ Perspectives

Deepa, S. & Seth, M. (2013). Do soft skills matter? Implications for educators based on recruiters’ perspectives. IUP Journal of Soft Skills, 7(1), 7–-20.

Unit 5 [GM 500: Management Theories and Practices I]

Criteria

Write a 4 page (1200 words) paper that evaluates and describes key concepts for the Deepa and Seth article that reinforce the value of developing your personal Career Advancement Planner (CAP). Review the grading rubric for this Assignment before you begin writing your paper. Construct and write your paper with sub headings that connect to the key components of the rubric.

Title this paper – “The Value of Developing a Personal Career Advancement Planner”

Sub Headings  Introduction  Analysis  Integration  Conclusion Reference Page

Directions for Submitting Your Assignment

Before you submit your Assignment, you should save your work on your computer in a location and with a name that you will remember. Make sure your project is in the appropriate format (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or other), then, when you are ready, you may submit to the unit Assignment 1 Dropbox.

GM500 Unit 5 Assignment 1: Career Advancement Planner (CAP) Writing Assignment

Areas to be evaluated Points

Possible Points Earned

Title Page 5 Introduction

-What is the objective or purpose of the paper? -What do you intend to learn? 10

Analysis Evaluate key points from all of the reading resources that relate to the value of a Career Advancement Planner (CAP) for Human Resource Managers to find the right people for the job. 30

Integration -Address how organizing a personal Career Advancement Planner (CAP) could enhance your marketability in a current or future career path. 30

Conclusion -Summarize key learning lessons that you will take from this Assignment. 10

Reference Page -Cite at least one other peer reviewed journal article outside our course materials. -Cite the Deepa and Seth article. -Citation and reference per APA 6th edition. 5

Paper Length: Write 4 pages (1200 words), double spaced, and not including the title page and reference page. 5

Writing Style: Appearance, Spelling, Grammar, Organization, Clarity, 20

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Originality, and APA 6th Edition Format and Style.

LATE Paper Deduction -X

Total Points Earned 115

Grade/Percentage Earned 100%