Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
Owner: Prof Peter Wilson
Number of students: 1
Formative Deadline: Friday W2
Learning Outcomes
- Draft a cover letter for a placement or job opportunity
- Create and Update their LinkedIn profile
- Outline their goals for the year with plan of key tasks to achieve them
- Engage with external bodies such as the IET or IEEE.
Knowledge Requirements
For Knowledge, you should complete the “CPD” Moodle quiz available on this unit’s Moodle page.
Application Requirements
To claim this skill at application level, students will need to:
- Draft a suitable cover letter for a placement or job opportunity.
- Create or update their LinkedIn Profile.
- Provide 3 main goals for the academic year and a plan of key tasks to achieve those goals.
- Reflect on the previous academic year, focussing on their goals for the year, how well they were achieved, and lessons learned during the year.
- Complete a 1:1 interview with another student and provide their reflections on how that went, and also comment on their reviewer’s questions.
Synthesis Requirements
To claim this skill at synthesis level students will need to provide one or more of the options below:
- Provide a reflection on their own experience of applying for positions including placements, internships and other jobs
- Describe how they have engaged with professional institutions such as the IET, IEEE or similar technical bodies.
- Describe activities they have undertaken to improve their professional profile including external training, digital certificates, LinkedIn training courses and self-directed learning, reflecting on how they have impacted their abilities and/or how this may have improved their professional profile.
Knowledge Opportunities
During the lab W1
Application Opportunities
Lab W1