A portfolio of evidence weighted at 75% testing learning outcomes 1 , to include a presentation, a CV and a Linkedin profile A personal reflection weighted at 25% testing learning outcome 2.

1. DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HOW TO DEVELOP PROFESSIONAL SKILLS IN ORDER TO OPERATE SUCCESSFULLY WITHIN A CONTEMPORARY ORGANISATION, INCLUDING PROFESSIONAL ETHICS, MANAGEMENT, TEAM-WORKING, HUMAN RESOURCE ISSUES AND RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION PROCESSES.
Knowledge and Understanding
Application

2. CRITICALLY REFLECT ON AND EVALUATE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CAREER NEEDS THROUGH THE USE OF A PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Analysis
Reflection

Building on The Professional Toolkit, the Advanced Professional Toolkit enables you to learn important digital and contemporary skills. This module is tailored towards your chosen career path and the expertise you gain will ensure that you are effective and efficient in the workplace.

This module will use a business start-up case study approach which will involve students preparing for all elements of recruitment and selection procedures, initially focusing on work placement experience and then graduate job opportunities. Students will gain knowledge and understanding of aspects of different types of organisations in which professional work occurs. The module will also focus on the different professional bodies' ethics and codes of conduct.
Students will be able to choose from university, school and external events to further their own personal career development.

Content includes:

Career Development:
- Career Planning
- Recruitment processes, skills and issues
- Business start-up knowledge and skills
- Entrepreneurship

Organisational context of professional work:
- Management structure and teams
- Types of organisations
- Financial context
- Human Resource Management Issues
- Quality and Quality Assurance
- Project Management

Professional Issues:
- Professional Bodies, Ethics and Codes of Conduct
- Legal Issues relevant to professional employment
- The need for Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
- Globalisation Issues and the Professional employee

This module features a wide range of learning methods, appropriate to the content. These will include a case study, interactive tutor-centred workshops, role-playing, lectures and tutorials supported by the use of a virtual learning environment (Blackboard) and the university careers portal, eCoach. The emphasis continues to be upon 'learning by doing', where learning takes place through personal experience, social interaction and reflection. Formative assessment will be provided throughout the module and digital tools will be used to enhance learning.

The module will facilitate close contact with the world-of-work, drawing on contributions from guest speakers and external practitioners to support the student learning experience as well as the development of appropriate networking opportunities.

Students will be supported in identifying and undertaking work-related experience during the module. You will be encouraged to continue your work-related experience beyond the level 5 module itself by engaging in work-related experiences which can include any of the following: work placement, volunteering experience, social enterprise project, existing part time work, organising an event or series of events, or setting up a new club/society.

Cottrell, S (2013) The Study Skills Handbook, 3rd edition, Palgrave, ISBN 9780230573055

Sumner, R (2012) How to use your degree to secure a job: Kaplan's Guide to Core Skills and Employability, Kaplan, ISBN 9780857324863

Van Emden, J. and Becker, L. (2016) Presentation Skills for Students, Palgrave, Basingstoke

Marsden, S. (2013) Professional Writing, 3rd edition, Palgrave

Open Textbook Library (free online)
Business Communication for Success (2015) https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=8

VLE learning support material to be provided for independent /self-directed learning

eCoach careers portal

Module handbooks

Open Textbook Library

Professional body websites

Selected contemporary problem/practice based case examples

Building on The Professional Toolkit, the Advanced Professional Toolkit enables you to learn important digital and contemporary skills. This module is tailored towards your chosen career path and the expertise you gain will ensure that you are effective and efficient in the workplace.