CAR20001 Future Work Skills

Task:

Assessment Aims

The fundamental starting point for any type of career exploration and planning is self-assessment. Whether you are considering your career direction, choosing options or preparing to compete for work, your success will depend in part on your understanding of your decision-making influences, interests, values, strengths and weaknesses. In this assignment, you will:

1. Apply your understanding of a career development theory to your developing career interests

2. Demonstrate the ability to use a variety of self-assessment methods to reflect on a personal employability factor.

Related learning Outcome

1. Exhibit an understanding of career theory, planning and management 

What you need to produce

Produce a fully referenced reflection on your current target career area, exploring a relevant Future Work Skill and self-assessment methods. The reflection consists of three sections:

1. Career Development Theory 

2. Future Work Skill

3. Methods and Learnings

This report is to be written in a blend of academic and personal reflection (first person) writing styles. The report must be original and correctly referenced (APA or Swinburne Harvard style).

What you need to do:

1. Career Development Theory: Demonstrate your understanding of the Happenstance Learning Theory of Careers (Krumboltz, 2009) by using it to explain how you came to be interested in your target career area.

2. Future Work Skill: Refer to the two readings on Future Work Skills 2020 (Fidler 2016; Davies et al., 2011) and choose ONE of the ten skills that you believe is RELEVANT to your target career area and briefly describe:

a. WHY this Future Work Skill is relevant to your target career area

b. EVIDENCE of your level of competence in the skill, using the STAR model.

3. Methods and Learnings: Drawing on the content cover in this unit, briefly describe how you derived this information about yourself and how this type of reflection might inform your career planning.