Developing Future Leaders – Summative Coursework 1 Assignment

Assessing career success

Students will assign themselves to groups (max 4 min of 2 students per group)  and asked to interview other students ( outside their group min 8 max 10 interviews ) to explore how students define their own career success, the qualities /abilities that they believe are linked to this career success including their studies, and which informs their career orientation and the personal strategies they may use to achieve career success.

They will also be expected to design a set of interview questions to help them explore the issue of career success and to undertake interviews. The exercise will require that students are familiar with the previous theoretical research on career success and careers. They will be expected to analyse the interview material using theories covered in the module’s weeks 1-5.

Specifically, these interviews will form the basis of a group-based dataset that all the students in the group can then use individually in conjunction with the theory to explain how students understand their own careers and define success.

There is a reflective element to report where the student writing it can then use the findings to analyse how they perceive their self as a student, how they personally perceive career success. In the reflection they can use the suggested career theorising compare and contrast their values and attitudes with that of the findings to show insight into the relevance of career theorising around careers and career success.

The tutor will organise workshop sessions in seminars to facilitate the group work underpinning the development of the interview questions and interviewing – it is compulsory that all students attend these. These workshops will form part of the formative assessment for the task and as such students should use the feedback from the tutor and peers to help in their summative assessment.

The summative assessment will require individual group members to write a report summarising the following:

The purpose of the report – focus of the analysis (around 50 words)

An explanation of their investigative strategy i.e. their interviewing process. (around 100 words)

Analysis of interview data using the theory/literature to explain their findings from the many theories covered in the module in weeks 1-5 ( around 850 words)

A personal reflection on how you perceive career success using career theorising from weeks 1-5  to give insight into you  and  your potential career choices ( around 750 words)
 
Word length maximum 1,750 words (Reference list and appendices not included in word length and may include summary table of the interview results, questions and methods). Copies of interviews must be included in the appendix. Minimum of 10 academic sources to be used.