Order Description
This essay is regarding to my placement year . I’m doing my placement year at a Hotel. So this essay must be related to the hospitality and tourism industry. Please find the attached document. And check details in PART D.
Welcome to this exciting subject that is all about you and your career path.
Recent research has revealed that the Hospitality and Tourism Industry wants experienced graduates. This industry wants graduates who can also think critically and reflectively, who know their strengths and can use them effectively in the workplace. It is also important to become aware of your ‘areas for improvement’ also known as ‘areas for growth’ and to work toward improving these skills. Knowing and embracing your character strengths and skills and using them in your career can lead to rewarding outcomes. Take the VIA Character Strengths Survey now https://www.viacharacter.org/www/The-Survey.
It is for these reasons that you are required to complete a reflective journal.
This assessment is based on the Dot’s Career Development framework (Smith et al 2009 pp 27-8) providing you with an opportunity to think about and reflect upon your:
– Self awareness
– Opportunity awareness
– Decision making and
– Transition Learning.
For each part of the assessment, there is an allocated topic. You are required to critically reflect on this topic and discuss in relation to your study, career and Work Integrated Learning experiences.
Word Count
Each part of the assessment is 1500 words.
It is recommended that you write 500 words per week.
If you use the resources provided to cover each of the topics, reaching the word limit is very achievable.
Your privacy is respected.
We understand that some of the topics such as ‘identifying your strengths and weaknesses’ are quite personal. You are not obliged to write very private information.
As a result of your reflection and exercises from ‘Your career and you; self-assessment for students and graduates’. (Graduate Careers Australia 2012) perhaps a short statement such as “Time management is an area for growth.” would suffice.
Your work will be assessed by the teaching team and will not be made public.
The topics below are to guide your thinking and reflection.
Part A – Self Awareness (weeks 1-3)
1. Identify knowledge, abilities and transferable skills developed by your course and Work Integrated Learning;
2. Identify your personal skills and how these can be deployed;
3. Identify your interests, values and personality in the context of vocational and life planning;
4. Identify strengths and weaknesses, and areas requiring further development;
5. Develop a self-reflective stance to work and other activities; and
6. Synthesise your key strengths, goals and motivations into a rounded personal profile.
Part B – Opportunity awareness (weeks 4-6)
1. Demonstrate knowledge of general trends in graduate employment and opportunities for graduates in your discipline;
2. Demonstrate understanding of the requirements of graduate employers; and
3. Demonstrate research-based knowledge of typical degree-related career options and options in which one is interested
Part C – Decision making (weeks 7-9)
1. Identify the key elements of career decision-making, in the context of life planning;
2. Relate self-awareness to knowledge of different opportunities;
3. Evaluate how personal priorities may impact upon future career options;
4. Devise a short/medium-term career development action plan;
5. Identify tactics for addressing the role of chance in career development; and
6. Review changing plans and ideas on an ongoing basis.
Part D – Transition learning (weeks 10-12)
1. Demonstrate understanding of effective opportunity-search strategies;
2. Apply understanding of recruitment/selection methods to applications;
3. Demonstrate ability to use relevant vacancy information, including ways of accessing unadvertised vacancies;
4. Identify challenges and obstacles to success in obtaining suitable opportunities and strategies for addressing them;
5. Demonstrate capacity to vary self-presentation to meet requirements of specific opportunities; and
6. Demonstrate ability to present oneself effectively in selection interviews and other selection processes
