This module consists of professional and personal skills training, designed to prepare students for their internship and to improve their employability after graduation. Students will experience a wide range of opportunities to enhance their skills, ensure they make the most of their potential, gain the best possible internship, and give them an edge in the job market after graduation.
Where appropriate, the skills work will be integrated with core curriculum activity. Students will work with the module leader, employability professionals, faculty staff, including their personal tutor, to identify their skills requirements. In addition to the standard skills required by employers, there will be skills development linked to specific subject areas in law.
It is a core part of the 'Professional Experience' part of the LLB with Professional Experience.
On successful completion of the module students will be able to:
The skills will include personal presentation and personal management (eg. time management, communicating, writing and editing, presenting, telephone and email skills, creating a digital persona, problems solving assertiveness), placement/internships (assessing and selecting placement opportunities and preparing for placement eg. interview preparation), team working, general management (eg. project management, leadership, motivation, innovation, enterprise, appraisal, coaching, mentoring, planning) and research (eg. sourcing and using research, making sense of secondary data) and job-seeking (eg. CV preparation, interview skills).
This module involves a combination of workshop-style training sessions, specific employability events, guided independent preparation and tutor-led input, testing and reinforcement of skills by core curricular activity.
Students will be supported by the module leader, employability professionals, the Faculty staff and be monitored by tutors.
Definitive UNISTATS Category | Indicative Description | Hours |
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Scheduled learning and teaching | Time-tabled employability sessions as well as specific practical employability events including employability professionals up to 10 sessions during academic terms | 20 |
Guided independent study | 280 | |
Total (number of credits x 10) | 0 |
Students will be assessed through a written and an oral assessment that form an essential part of the Skills Portfolio, which includes statements of initial skills assessments, activities undertaken to improve skills, assessment of outcomes in terms of improved skills and evidence of skills deployment.
Learning Outcome | Assessment Strategy |
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Function as useful and productive members of their internship organisation's workforce | Portfolio |
Develop career aspirations and enhance personal development | Portfolio |
Understand how to assess and continue to develop their personal and professional skills | Portfolio |
Provide a good account of their current skills level and any gaps | Portfolio |
Identify and provide an account of how their skills have developed | Portfolio |
Understand and develop further work-related skills and behaviours and identify the requirements for additional skills | Portfolio |
Description of Assessment | Definitive UNISTATS Categories | Percentage |
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Coursework | Skills Portfolio | 100 |
Total (to equal 100%) | 100% |
It IS a requirement that all the elements of assessment are passed in order to achieve an overall pass for the module.
Most of the material used will be in the form of a skills manual, continuing training briefs and independent/class exercises, plus on-line links where appropriate.
Kingston University (2016) The Professional Readiness portfolio.
The facilities and resources of the University Careers Service and materials in the Learning Resources Centre are available to placement students.
Links and resources for professional bodies will also be included.
Anderson, L. E. and Bolt, S. B. (2008) Professionalism. Real skills for workplace success. Upper Sadder River, NJ: Pearson - Prentice Hall.
Cottrell, S. (2010) Skills for Success. Personal development and employability. London: Palgrave MacMillan.
Fagan A. (2011) Brilliant job hunting. Your complete guide to getting the job you want. 3rd edn. Harrow: Pearson - Prentice Hall.
Trought, F. (2011) Brilliant employability skills. How to stand out from the crowd in the graduate job market. Harrow: Pearson - FT Prentice Hall.
Fagan A. (2011) Brilliant job hunting. Your complete guide to getting the job you want. 3rd edn. Harrow: Pearson - Prentice Hall.
Trought, F. (2011) Brilliant employability skills. How to stand out from the crowd in the graduate job market. Harrow: Pearson - FT Prentice Hall.