None.

Bolles, Richard Nelson What Color is Your Parachute? 2010 Ten Speed Press 2009
Bright, Jim and Earl, Joanne Brilliant CV What employers want to see and how to say it Pearson Prentice Hall 2007
Cottrell, Stella Skills for Success: the personal development planning handbook Palgrave Macmillan 2010
Inkson, Kerr Understanding careers: the metaphors of working lives Sage Publications c2007

Compilation of personal development portfolio, file of evidence and its presentation weighted at 100%.

Portfolio Presentation (Learning outcomes 1,2,3, 4 and 5)

To pass this module student must obtain 40% marks. . Re-assessment is capped at 40%

The learning strategy for the module requires students to commit 150 learning hours, of this there will be 38 hours of class support and 112 hours of independent and self directed study.

Lectures/ Workshops/ Presentations /Tutorial
Student managed learning/ directed learning

Students will contribute to group discussions to aid their own personal career development. They will access a wide range of available sources to help their career planning, through texts, professional publications, internet sites and computer guidance programmes. They will also undertake practical skills development activities to contribute to their future employability. For example, through psychometric and other self assessment techniques, creating a CV and accompanying letter and through practice as interviewers and interviewees.

Topics will be drawn from

- Personal assessment and career goals
- Confidence building and decision making
- Work ethics and employment regulations
- Leadership and Team management
- Intergroup and interpersonal skills
- Communication skills
- Practical problem solving skills
- Managing diversity

The VLE (NETED)
The Internet
Word Processing software for use in the coursework
Printed and electronic journals.