Posted: March 20th, 2017

Assessment 1 – Developing Employability Skills

Assessment

3,000-word Portfolio

• Student Profile Exercise

• Personal Action Plan and Reflective commentary

• Hardcopy and online search for primary and secondary material and
Problem Solving exercise

INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS:

Assessment 1 – Developing Employability Skills I: Personal Profile & Self Evaluation Exercise

Student Number:

Date:

Programme (course):

Current Skills and Qualities

Current skills & qualities

People Skills
Self-rating
5 = good
1 = weak
Give specific examples

Ability to get on with people from different backgrounds

Ability to see and understand other people’s point of view

Teamwork

Dealing with the general public

Managing other people

Teaching or training others

Negotiating

Helping others to arrive at decisions

Speaking clearly and to the point

Current skills & qualities

Activities Self-rating
5 = good
1 = weak Give specific examples

Ability to effectively argue
and debate

Ability to see ‘whole picture’

Classifying and organising information (filing)

Decision-making

Managing change and transition

Prioritising work load

Facilitating meetings

Organising work to meet deadlines

Reading complex texts

Staying calm in a crisis

Information technology

Working with numbers

Problem-solving

Writing reports or official letters

Current skills & qualities

Personal qualities
Self-rating
5 = good
1 = weak
Give specific examples

Ability to recognise my own needs and
ask for help

Ability to learn from mistakes

Stress management

Willingness to take risks
and experiment

Assertiveness

Determination and Perseverance

Ability to set my own goals
and targets

Maintaining a high level of
Motivation

Ability to take responsibility for
my own actions

Trust in my own abilities

Current skills and abilities

Other skills and qualities
Self-rating
Give specific examples

INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS:

Task 2 – Employability Skills: Action Plan

What are my current / future career aspirations within the crime reduction and criminal justice
related fields?

What particular skills and qualities are needed for my chosen career role (and link to relevant National Occupational Skills)?

Summary of my current strengths, skills and qualities: What have I achieved so far?

What do I need to work on, develop or improve in order to gain the skills, knowledge and experience required for entry into my chosen career?

What are my priorities: what am I going to do, when, and how?

(e.g. in relation to acquiring employability skills, knowledge, and experience)

How will I know that I have improved?

(e.g. what new or improved strengths, skills and qualities would I expect to have acquired)

INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS:

Task 3
Prepare a Curriculum Vitae and complete an application form for the Volunteer Witness Support Worker position.

Important Points to Note

A) In order to undertake this task you will need to refer to:

1. Enclosed Job Description and Person Specification

2. Job Application Form

B) Please refer to the Role Description & Person Specification where you will find the
skills and experience required for the Volunteer Witness Support Worker post, please state
on the job application form, how you feel you meet these criteria. This information will
play a significant part in the overall mark that you will be given for this task.

End of Paper

Attachment 2 (Task 3)

Application Form

This form should be completed by anyone interested in working for the East London Borough Council – Witness Support Service. All applicants are required to provide 2 references and complete a DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) check; however we positively encourage people with criminal convictions to apply. If you have any queries regarding the application and selection process please speak to anyone in the HR Team on 020 8223 3000.

Personal details
Student Number:

Address; UEL University Square Stratford (do not put personal address)

Please Attach Your Curriculum Vitae (to include details of your education/training achievements and employment history)

Referral details
How did you find out about the Volunteer Witness Support Worker position who has referred you?
Are there any projects you are particularly interested in getting involved with?

Office use only
Date received into HR
Action taken:

Please read the role description and job specification and using the remainder of this form to evidence the skills, knowledge, achievements and experience you possess to perform the role.

Please use the spaces provided to answer the following questions.

1) Why do want to work for East London Borough Council Witness Support Service? (Including any future employment goals, how you heard about us, fulfilling a personal goal….)

2) Please tell us about the skills and experiences you have to offer which are relevant to the Volunteer Witness Support Worker position?

3) Please tell us about the skills and experiences you hope to further develop whilst working with the East London Borough Council Witness Support Service.?

References

Please give the names of two people who can provide references about your ability to do this job and to work with vulnerable adults. If possible one referee should be your current or most recent employer, or a prison or probation officer. These are professional references so cannot be friends or relatives. You cannot use an East London Borough Council employee.

Name
Name

Address:
Address

Email address
Email address

Telephone
Telephone

Relationship to you
Relationship to you

**End of application form**

This coursework will be assessed by reference to the following criteria:

– ability to reflect on and identify current skills and qualities developed at university and
elsewhere
– ability to identify those areas of their current skills and qualities that require further
development
– ability to construct an action plan which identifies the personal and professional skills
needed by student in order to enter their chosen career path within criminology field
– ability to set goals and targets via the process of constructing a personal development plan
– demonstrate their ability to critically reflect upon the requirements of the criminology job
market utilising online and hardcopy research skills
– ability to construct a curriculum vitae detailing relevant skills, qualifications and work
experiences
– ability to complete an application form which addresses the main skills and experience
criteria for the job role as identified in the enclosed person specification
– ability to put into practice skills and knowledge gained via attendance at relevant
workshop sessions

This coursework assessment is designed to allow students to show how the following learning outcomes have been achieved:

– ability to describe and evaluate personal and professionally relevant skills against a chosen
career path
– ability to reflect on the requirements of the criminology and criminal justice job market
– have an understanding of the major professional roles for criminology and criminal justice
graduates in UK
– ability to describe and evaluate personal, professionally relevant skills against a chosen
career path
– demonstrate an ability to reflect on the requirements of the criminology job market
– demonstrate an ability to reflect upon their own employment aspirations and align them to
current employment opportunities
– ability to describe and evaluate personal and professionally relevant skills against the job
role with attached job description and person specification
– ability to reflect on the requirements of the job role
– knowledge of how to construct an application and critically review the
application process

We strongly suggest that you try to submit all coursework by the deadline set as meeting deadlines is expected in employment. However, in our regulations, UEL has permitted students to be able to submit their coursework up to 24 hours after the deadline. Coursework which is submitted late, but within 24 hours of the deadline, will be assessed but subject to a fixed penalty.

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Please note that if you submit twice, once before the deadline and once during the 24 hour late period, then the second submission will be marked and the fixed penalty applied.

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Notice is hereby given that all submissions (3 tasks) comprising 3,000-word portfolio of this Module must be submitted to Turnitin.” If you fail to submit any one of the three tasks of 3,000 word portfolio, to Turnitin, in accordance with the guidance provided on the Virtual Learning Environment (Moodle), a mark of 0 will be awarded for the portfolio.

Submitting Assessments Using Turnitin:
Turnitin is required for coursework assessments, such as report/research papers or projects in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and in PDF format. There are two main reasons we want you to use Turnitin:
• Turnitin can help you avoid academic breaches and plagiarism. When you use Turnitin before a submission deadline, you can use the Originality Report feature to compare your work to thousands of other sources (like websites, Wikipedia, and even other student papers). Anything in your work that identically matches another source is highlighted for you to see. When you use this feature before the deadline, you will have time to revise your work to avoid an instance of academic breach/plagiarism.
• Turnitin saves paper. When using Turnitin to electronically submit your work, you will almost never have to submit a paper copy.

Late Submissions Using Turnitin
UEL has permitted students to be able to submit their coursework up to 24 hours after the deadline. Assessments that are submitted up to 24 hours late are still marked, but with a deduction in marks (see above). However, you have to be very careful when you are submitting your assessment. If you submit your work twice, once using the original deadline link and then again using the late submission link on Turnitin, your assignment will be graded as late.
Turnitin System Failure
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Resit Assessment
Students will be informed of the July dates for “resit” assessment for those who have not passed the coursework in January.

MARKING
The following table gives indications of the standard for particular ranges of marks.
Grade Standard of work
Between 0% – 39% Fail
Between 40% – 49% The question will be answered to a basic level and be largely descriptive.
Analysis will only include overtly obvious elements.

Between 50% and 59% The answer will reflect a reasonable understanding of the subject and be based on a reasonable level of research and analysis.
The assignment is well structured and includes accurate use of technical terminology and grammar.
Between 60% and 69% The answer will reflect a good understanding of the subject.
Analysis will be developed to a high standard and include insight, justification and critical thinking. A good level of preparation will be evident, with links to other areas.
Use of technical terms will be accurate and fluent and the assignment will be written and presented to a high standard.
Above 70% The answer reflects excellent understanding of the subject and includes detailed analysis, evaluation and justification based on wide research and preparation.
It reflects several perspectives, with critical approaches and linkages beyond the immediate subject area under discussion.
Presentation of the assignment will reflect a high level of academic rigour including attention to structure, grammar and use of technical terminology.

STUDENT FEEDBACK
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