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Law Professional Readiness and Skills (Stage 2)

• Module code: LL5555
• Year: 2018/9
• Level: 5
• Credits: Pass fail module 0
• Pre-requisites: LL4444 Professional Readiness and Skills
• Co-requisites: None

Summary

This module consists of professional and personal skills training, which follow on from the level 4 module and is designed to further 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 further work with the module leader, employability professionals and 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.

Aims

• To further provide students with a rounded set of skills that prepare them for their placement and for their subsequent working lives
• To continue to teach students to identify their particular skills requirements
• To motivate students to use the tools provided to develop their skills and to make the most of face to face teaching and other activities
• To provide employers with the data they require on student skill levels to allow them to choose students that are suitable for placement in their organisations
• To further enhance students' ability and self-confidence to operate in an employment context
• To support career development and enhance career prospects
• To further improve the student's ability to apply for and gain employment
• To enable students to determine their future skills requirements

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the module students will be able to:

• Function as useful and productive members of their internship organisations' workforce
• Develop career aspirations and enhance personal development
• Understand how to assess and continue to develop their personal and management skills
• Provide a good account of their current skills level and any gaps
• Identify and provide an account of how their skills have developed
• Understand and develop further work-related skills and behaviours and identify the requirements for additional skills

Curriculum content

• Completion of an initial situation analysis/assessment of their skills
• Analysis of preferred career paths and identification of additional skills required.
• Training in the relevant skills - these will be developmental and increase in complexity over time. 

The skills will include further work on more advanced aspects of personal presentation and personal management (eg. time management, communicating, writing and editing, presenting, problem solving and 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).

Teaching and learning strategy

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 monitored by tutors.

Breakdown of Teaching and Learning Hours

Assessment strategy

Students will be assessed through a written and an oral assessment that form an essential part of the Skills Portfolio.

The aim of the assessments is:

• to provide students with an insight into the realities of the professional world;
• to enhance students' ability and self-confidence to operate in an employment context;
• to support career development and enhance career prospects;
• to improve the students' ability to apply for and gain employment.

Mapping of Learning Outcomes to Assessment Strategy (Indicative)

Elements of Assessment

Achieving a pass

It IS a requirement that the element of assessment is passed in order to achieve an overall pass for the module.

Bibliography core texts

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.

Videos on job search are available from the Placements Office.

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. 3^rd 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.