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This tutorial focuses on creating a personal development plan (PDP) to map out skills to improve. Students form groups to identify 3 skills needing improvement, actions for developing them, and ways to measure progress. They add this to a PDP template. Students also begin using an online career tool, setting 4 career goals with actions and deadlines in the current academic year. They identify 5 desirable graduate jobs and build a CV guided by the job requirements. Completing these career building tasks forms part of the coursework.

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Tutorial COMP1809 W1

This tutorial focuses on creating a personal development plan (PDP) to map out skills to improve. Students form groups to identify 3 skills needing improvement, actions for developing them, and ways to measure progress. They add this to a PDP template. Students also begin using an online career tool, setting 4 career goals with actions and deadlines in the current academic year. They identify 5 desirable graduate jobs and build a CV guided by the job requirements. Completing these career building tasks forms part of the coursework.

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COMP1809 Introduction to Computer

Science & its Applications


Tutorial Week 1.

The Employability Toolbox

This first week’s tutorial focuses on how you set your career goals, starting from you creating a
Personal Development Plan (PDP). A PDP is essentially a self-reflection mapping of skills you
believe you are lacking and how you may go about improving them. A PDP template is provided
in Moodle for your use. Also, more information on what a Personal Development Plan is and
how to use it can be found (among other places) at:

- http://www.mindofwinner.com/create-personal-development-plan/
- https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/knowledge-hub/personal-development-planning-and-
employability

For this week, you will have to start working on the following 2 areas. You will revisit your
progress and discuss it in the tutorial next week.

1. Create your Personal Development Plan (Group work – 20mins)

Form groups of 3. In your group, briefly identify and discuss


- Three skills that you believe you need to improve in (examples may be ‘presentation
skills’; ‘programming skills’; ‘communication’; ‘presentation skills’; ‘group collaboration’;
‘project managing’ etc)
- What actions you believe you should take to improve these and by when should you
complete these actions?
- How will you know you have actually improved? (e.g. ‘be able to make a 5min
presentation on a topic of interest’; ‘develop an effective code debugging strategy’;
‘meet a group project deadline’ etc)
Your 3 skills and actions should go into your PDP template.

2. Using My Career Builder – getting started (20mins)

Note that you can start this part today but it will only have to be completed by the end of
Tutorial week 2.

Go to  https://www.gre.ac.uk/careers/current-students and scroll down to Log in to


Abintegro
This will take you to the My Career Builder link. It should allow you to login to your personal
space without having to retype your Portal password.
From the top menu bar, click on My Dashboard  KEY ACTIONS. You will have to carry out the
following tasks:

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1. In the Set your Career Goals tab, define up to 4 Goals (Tasks): You can create your own,
or choose from the dropdown menu - Hint: Use your PDP for some guidance as to what
your goals may look like, on the back of what you have set yourself to improve on. Set
also a deadline to yourself for each of them, which does not have to be too short, but it
should reasonably fall within the present academic year. For each one of these goals,
define 2-3 Actions (the option appears once you define each Goal (Task). Post your
Career Goals by clicking the “POST” button at the bottom.

2. Using the Set Job Alerts facility, carry out a job search and identify & tag the 5 most
desirable graduate jobs that you aspire to. Read carefully through the requirements
(Essential & Desirable) as the company outlines these (Also make sure you visit the
company website to find out more about their vision and mission as an organisation).

3. Having identified the jobs in step (2) above, use their requirements as guidance for
building a CV: Using the Create your CV tool, start developing a professional Curriculum
Vitae. Go through the video resources and advice provided.

The outputs of these 3 tasks above will be part of your coursework

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