This module is designed to promote your career development, to raise your awareness of a workplace learning environment, and to enhance your employability effectiveness or competitiveness. You'll be supported to find a work placement(s) which reflects your interest and career ambitions. The module offers you an opportunity to understand your potential future role within a particular sector in greater depth, and to analyse and evaluate organisational structures, roles and functions in detail in this area. At your work placement(s) you'll learn to use a range of interpersonal, intellectual and practical (functional) skills. Through gaining experience in the workplace you will develop the kind of professional skills that are sought by graduate employers. You'll also learn how to manage work tasks, work in partnerships with others, and use practical and transferable skills obtained from your course. Your work placement(s) will enable you to gain awareness of work as a learning environment. You'll obtain an understanding of the work agency’s organisations, aims, objectives, and services. You'll also gain experience in industry and commerce. A crucial aim of the work placement(s) is to enhance your employability skills, effectiveness at work, and business or industry competitiveness. Your work placement(s) will give you the opportunity to build a professional network. You'll also reflect on the acquisition of a range of work-based skills and evaluate the importance of these to your longer-term career goals. The assessment for this module requires you to actively engage with Career Pulse The coursework will enable you to demonstrate your professionalism, leadership and other skills to a prospective employer whilst also learning key communication and personal skills. It is recognised that each placement experience will be different, and the experience of students may differ depending on the type/number of placements they undertake. This module and associated assessment is more about your personal development, experiences and learning than it is the particular work/projects undertaken. If you start your course in September, you'll begin your placement at any point from 1 July until 30 September. If you start your course in January, you'll commence your placement at any point between 1 January and 31 January. Your work placements must total 36 weeks as a minimum and this can be taken in up to 3 placements: 1 x 36 week placement; OR 1 x 24 week placement and 1 x 12 week placement; OR 3 x 12 week placement.
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