Assessment Brief
Module title: Digital Skills and Professional Development
Module code: BUS4009
Assignment title: Self-assessment and PDP
Word/time limit: 2000 Words
File type Word Document (.docx file)
Percentage of final grade This assignment is worth 100% of your final grade for this module.
Submission deadline See module iLearn page for date of submission
Grade release You will receive your provisional grade and
feedback within 20 working days of the submission deadline
Useful terms:
Learning outcomes (LOs) The skills and knowledge that you should be able to show in your work.
Rubric A set of rules or guidelines used to grade or assess work.
Task summary:
Task One
Analysis and evaluation of a range of soft and digital skills, knowledge and competencies required for a chosen career goal within the modern and digitalised workplace. Try to follow the structure below.
• Briefly discuss, with the appropriate underpinning, how recent changes driven by Industry 4.0 so digitalisation, business automation innovation diffusion, etc. impacted a chosen sector that you are interested in pursuing career within.
• Then identify a range of soft and digital skills required by that sector for your chosen career goal within the modern and digitalised workplace. This section needs to be underpinned by academic and business research to support your arguments.
• Finally self-assess yourself against those skills, identify and discuss the areas of weaknesses and skill-gaps based on the results from your selfassessments.
Note: Evidence of the range of the self-assessments undertaken, including a personal SWOT analysis, skills diagnostics, and one online self-test of your choice, must be included in the Appendices. These tools are available in the Assignment Guidance document on the iLearn platform.
(1000 Words) (LOs: 1, 2, 3)
Task Two
Design and deliver a Professional Development Plan (PDP) related to the career goal identified within Task One and a range of well-explained, developmental and SMART objectives. Follow the instruction below:
• Here you are expected to deliver a Professional Development Plan (PDP) related to the career goal you previously identified, that aims at developing your current skill gaps. PDP needs to be presented in a tabular format and with use of SMART framework, explain how you are planning to develop in the areas of 3 soft and 2 digital skills in which you are currently underperforming.
Note: The PDP template is provided in the Assignment Guidance on the iLearn platform. PDP table is expected to be part of Task Two wordcount. This section needs to be underpinned by academic and business research to support your arguments.
(1000 Words)
(LOs: 3,4)
Learning outcomes (LOs)
By completing this assessment, you will have shown and be assessed on all four of the learning outcomes:
1. Explain the advancement of business automation technology and the associated range of digital skills required to demonstrate professional competency within an organisation
2. Identify a range of ‘soft’ skills that are key requirements in demonstrating progression in terms of personal and professional development
3. Reflect upon own current levels of digital and soft skills applicable to the workplace
4. Lifelong Learner: develop and justify a Professional Development Plan that will facilitate an increased level of digital skill attainment suitable for effective management and leadership in the contemporary workplace
You will be graded based on how well you meet these learning outcomes.
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