Part A – Self-awareness (1500 words) 40% of overall mark
Self-awareness is the key to career success. Using a range of relevant literature (both academic and professional sources), choose 2-3 of the core topics we have studied on this module (from **core module mention below) and explore and critically evaluate why it is important for you to develop in these areas for your own successful career development.
You must include the following in your essay:
• A definition of self-awareness and an explanation of why it is important to the development of your leadership and/or management capability.
• Identify 2-3 of the **core module topics from the following: giving and receiving feedback, values, learning to work in a team, emotional intelligence, cultural intelligence, personality, motivating self and others, leadership and management, and explain their importance to the development of self-awareness.
• Provide an overview of the context of your target job/profession/industry/sector with a focus on why you need to develop in the topics you have selected in order to succeed in this chosen sphere of work. * CV attached Recent job is (Sr. Investment Reporting Analyst (Downstream, Upstream assets and other Oil & Gas assets), QATAR ENERGY)
• A conclusion of your own attitudes towards self-awareness and how they might help or hinder your career development and success.
Part B – Establishing the Possessional and the Positional: A self-analysis (1500 words)
Drawing on the results of toolkits and/or psychometric tests (attached) you have completed during the course of this module, including those related to your topics of exploration in Part A , conduct a self-analysis identifying your strengths and weaknesses across the range of interpersonal and intrapersonal skills relevant to your target profession/industry/sector
(Table to be filled as per test result attached)
Firstly you must:
• provide a summary of your strengths and weaknesses
• This summary must be supported with evidence from the toolkits and other psychometric test results. (attached)
– The contents of this table are not included in the word count for your submission
Your template answers the question – what skills, attributes and characteristics do I possess?
Secondly, you must:
• Include a reflective statement in which you critically evaluate your strengths and weaknesses and reflect on any patterns of behaviour that relate to the topics you have discussed in Part A.
• Consider what are the implications of your current skills, attributes and characteristics in relation to your target job/profession/industry/sector, ie. how ‘ready’ are you to enter into the career of your choice? (job descriiption, CV attached)
-You should draw on appropriate academic literature to underpin your reflections and this statement is included in the overall word count for your submission, This reflective statement establishes your ‘position’.
Part C – What Next: Establishing Areas for Development (500 words) 10%
This final part establishes the ‘processual’ – the ‘what next’ element to your career development
• Based on your self-analysis in Part B outline three areas for development – aligned to the topics under discussion in Parts A and B – which will enable you to bridge the gap between where you are now and where you need to be in the future to ensure career success in your target profession/industry/sector.
• Provide an action plan in table format to demonstrate how you will achieve these areas for development
