Use a range of methods of enquiry to investigate career opportunities, develop and critically evaluate career plans/action plans to improve future employability.

Enquiry, Reflection



Demonstrate a level of knowledge and critical understanding of models of reflection and their application as part of reflective practice in the development of a skills portfolio

Knowledge & Understanding, Application

Demonstrate through consideration in project work and reflection of work-based experience, a deep knowledge and understanding of professional, ethical, legal and global issues surrounding the development and use of digital technologies

Reflection

Define and manage a work-based project considering a range of established UX techniques to provide solutions to UX problems developing appropriate knowledge, skills and behaviours of the apprenticeship standard

Application

Communication

Project consisting of:

1 - Project Proposal (LO4) weighted at 10%

Proposal including project plan of a work-based project in the context of UX.

2 - Project Mid-Point Presentation (LO 3-4) weighted at 10%

Mid-point presentation of the work completed so far on the project against the project plan.

3 - Project Report (LO 3-4) weighted at 30%

Evaluation and reflection of the work-based project taking into consideration professional, ethical, legal and global issues.

4 - Project Presentation (LO 3-4) weighted at 20%

Presentation and discussion of the final work-based project.





- Personal Development Plan (LO 1-2) weighted at 30%

Career Plan, evidence-based Skills Audit and Action Plan

Professional Development Plan

Promoting yourself for careers and beyond

Building confidence

Determining life goals

Creating CPD portfolios and the key includes
Identification of potential barriers and organisational restrictions to career paths
Understanding personal strengths and how to promote these in different media, including paper and online presence.
Recruitment processes
Skills and issues, job applications, CVs, and interviews
Personal development reflection (Personal Development Planning)
Identification of common career routes/pathways
Determination and adherence approaches
The need for professional competencies
The need for skills currency
Coaching and mentoring approaches
Strategies, efficiencies, and lifelong planning
Personal skills of evaluation and reflection
Addressing unsuccessful job applications / career moves
Learning to read recruitment process and expectations.
Understanding the different types of employment from industry to self-employment
The role of entrepreneurship (identifying opportunity, channelling, evaluation, and exploitation)
The digital workforce and worker within
Social mobility skills
Reading job markets – local and international
Employment and the fit to lifelong learning
External Factors on Digital Careers including the requirements of Professional Bodies, legal, social issues and ethical issues, globalisation, the green agenda.



Identification of potential barriers and organisational restrictions to UX

Understanding personal strengths and how to promote these

Personal development reflection

Creation of a work-based project

Environmental analysis

Stakeholder involvement.

Agreeing goals and deliverables and establishing terms of reference.

Identifying and analysing critical success factors.

Negotiating for resources

Project management methods and tools

Working in teams of multi-discipline

Project management tools: choosing and using a project management package, integrating a project management package into organisations. Producing project reports and maintaining the project plan;

The project will be defined by negotiation but will be derived from the student's place of employment at a level appropriate to level 2 of their programme of study.

Projects should:

Involve project management, evaluation and communication.

Demonstrate engagement with UX as illustrated in the apprenticeship standard.

Involve elements of work which can be mapped against the development of elements of the duties, knowledge, skills and behaviours of the Digital UX apprenticeship.

Review and evaluation/report of specified project.

Project and Professional Development gives you the opportunity to consider how you are progressing against your apprenticeship requirements and career aspirations at the end of the second year of your apprenticeship. You will undertake an assessment of your career goals and investigate how well you are placed to meet those goals, what actions you need to take to address any short falls at this stage of your development. One of your key actions will of course be to complete your apprenticeship, and to check on how you are progressing against this you will undertake a reflective audit of the evidence you already have in place from completed modules and work-based evidence, much of which will have been identified in your Tripartite Reviews. This will mean that you truly understand where you sit against the required Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours of the standard as you head into level 6 of the apprenticeship.

You will develop substantial further evidence by undertaking an individual work-based project which will require you to specify the work by developing a project proposal, and the implementing the work with the underpinning academic requirements, all great preparation for your Honours Project and End Point Assessment.

This will be taught in 4 sprints. Students will be required to read around the subject between sprint weeks, using guided sources. There will be a large content in the working environment, during the work based project



There will be a welcome day for all modules in that term on the first day of the first sprint.



Each sprint will have 1 day (7 hours) of contact totalling 28 hours, plus 6 hours online throughout the module, so 34 hours in total.



Contact will be a combination of workshops, lectures and guest seminars facilitating individual and group work.

Trotman Education, (2022), Careers 2022, Trotman Education; 18th edition

Sosna, E. (2021), The Career Equation: Coaching a Culture of Career Conversations, Open University Press

Newton, A, J. (2021), Start a Successful Career Today in Information Technology: Computer Science + Computer Engineering Career Guide, independently published.



Rogers, Y, Sharp, H, Preece, J (2023) Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction Paperback Publisher ¿ : ¿ Wiley; 6th edition

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