Assessment 2

Complete a document where you will reflect on the qualities, values, strengths, areas of improvement, and accomplishments that capture who you are and how they connect to the 10 essential employability skills and your personal, academic, and professional goals.

If you have ever seen ants hard at work, you might have noticed how efficiently and effectively they get a job done. Whether building a new nest or carrying food to the colony, ants inherently understand how to manage their priorities, resources, and time. In the human world, this skill is called productivity, and when it comes to your life and career, productivity is absolutely essential for your success. Productivity is about working in the best way possible to get the job done. If you are a productive employee, you can manage tasks to meet deadlines and share project plans, schedules, and task lists with others so that everyone knows how the work you do fits into your team’s vision. If something doesn’t go as you hoped, you can easily create a new plan to fulfill your changing needs. 

Productivity is wonderful to adopt on its own, but it doesn’t actually stand alone. Improving your productivity skill will help you hone your other essential employability skills, too. Being productive and prioritizing your time helps you communicate the right information at the right moment. It helps you be more agile in the workplace by responding to change with a plan forward. It helps you be a more results-driven employee by giving you the order of tasks to focus on. (Be sure to look out for other connections between the skills as you continue through your Capella education and beyond.) In this assessment, you will make these connections by reflecting on your skills and accomplishments and identifying employability skills that have helped you achieve those accomplishments. You will also begin to think about the skills that you would like to develop and refine going forward in your academic and professional career.

Assessment Instructions

Overview

In this assessment, you will reflect on the qualities, values, strengths, areas of improvement, and accomplishments that capture who you are, and how they connect to the 10 essential employability skills and your personal, academic, and professional goals. You’ll then practice your communication skill by writing about what you’ve identified in ways appropriate for a CV or resume. You’ll use this information later in in the Skill Development Plan assessment to create an action plan for developing skills that will help you reach your future goals. After completing this assessment, you will have a document you can bring to the Career Center where counselors can help you further develop your career strategy.

Preparation

Review the work you have done thus far in the course, including the course readings and your discussion contributions. Download the Reflecting on Your Goals, Skills, and Accomplishments Template [DOCX] and review the list of Accomplishment Categories at the end of the template for ideas. You will use the template for your assessment.

Instructions

Use the Reflecting on Your Goals, Skills, and Accomplishments Template [DOCX] to complete the following steps:

• Step 1: Describe personal and professional values and goals. 
  • Respond to questions 1 and 2 in Part 1: About Me, reflecting on your values, aspirations, goals, strengths, and areas of growth.
• Step 2: Identify skills that are strengths and skills that need improvement. 
  • Respond to questions 3 and 4 in Part 1: About Me, noting skills that are strengths and those that are weaknesses.
• Step 3: Analyze previous accomplishments that demonstrate professional skills. 
  • Complete the three steps in Part 2: Accomplishment Statements, by reflecting on your past accomplishments, using the template to identify the challenge, actions, results, and details, and then writing two concise stories using the accomplishments formula provided.
• Step 4: Explain the benefits of self-reflection. 
  • Complete the four-question reflection in Part 3: Reflect on Your Experiences, considering Parts 1 and 2 of this assessment, and the connections you have made to the 10 employability skills.
• Step 5: Write coherently with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.

Additional Requirements

Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:

• Written communication: Write in complete sentences free from errors that detract from the overall message.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:

• Competency 1: Describe the importance and impact of key skills and behaviors that are necessary for success in the future of work. 
  • Describe personal and professional values and goals.
  • Identify skills that are strengths and skills that need improvement.
  • Explain benefits of self-reflection.
• Competency 2: Analyze factors that contribute to professional presence.  
  • Describe previous accomplishments that demonstrate professional skills.
• Competency 3: Compose text that articulates meaning relevant to its purpose and audience. 
  • Write coherently with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.
• Reflecting on Your Skills, Goals, and Accomplishments Scoring Guide
  Reflecting on Your Skills, Goals, and Accomplishments Scoring Guide Criteria Non-performance Basic Proficient Distinguished Describe personal and professional values and goals.Does not identify personal and professional values and goals.Identifies but does not describe personal and professional values and goals.Describes personal and professional values and goals.Describes in detail personal and professional values and goals, providing insight into their importance. Identify skills that are strengths and skills that need improvement.Does not identify skills that are strengths nor skills that need improvement.Identifies skills but is unclear and/or missing skills that are strengths or skills that need improvement. Identifies skills that are strengths and skills that need improvement.Describes skills that are strengths and skills that need improvement. Explain benefits of self-reflection.Does not identify benefits of self-reflection.Identifies but does not explain benefits of self-reflection.Explains benefits of self-reflection.Explains benefits of self-reflection, including examples to help support explanation. Describe previous accomplishments that demonstrate professional skills.Does not identify previous accomplishments that demonstrate professional skills. Identifies but does not describe previous accomplishments that demonstrate professional skills. Describes previous accomplishments that demonstrate professional skills.Analyzes previous accomplishments that demonstrate 

 

Read all information provided in this section before beginning this assignment, which accounts for 30% of your grade.

You are a Consultant Recruiter with XYZ Recruitment, Inc. You have been contracted by “State University” to assist them with the recruitment and selection of a Project Associate for the university. A job description for this position is attached to assist you with the development of your action plan and presentation.

For this assignment, create a PowerPoint slide presentation for the HR team of the university that details your recruitment strategy, process, procedures, and the timeline for the completion of this contract.

Your submission must be comprehensive to include the role of the recruiting agency and the role of the university HR team and line management in the recruitment and selection process.

Submission Instructions: Submit your work as a Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt) presentation. The body of your presentation should include at least 10-12 presentation slides, plus a title slide, introduction slide(s) detailing the presentation agenda, and a reference(s) slide for a total of no more than 15 slides.

You must support your ideas, arguments, and opinions with independent research, and include at least three (3) supporting references or sources (Note: do not use dictionaries, encyclopedias, Wikipedia, unknown, undated, or anonymous sources, such as brief articles from websites).

Helpful Tips:

Your grade will be based upon:

• Use of PowerPoint software as a presentation and marketing tool, to include the use of color, graphics, and research citations.
• Depth and applicability of the research that you conduct.
• Effectiveness of the recruiting presentation and proposal as a consulting tool.
• Critical thought and analysis.
• APA formatting (APA, 7th Edition).
• Use of the PowerPoint Notes section*

*Students will be graded on their use of the Notes section of the slides in formulating the narrative portion of the presentation to minimize lengthy wording on the slides. This approach will allow the use of bullet points on the slides but demonstrate the depth and scope of the research conducted in the Notes section.

 

Prepare an essay response of at least one page in length that addresses the following items:

• What factors distinguish the labor relations system in the public sector from that in the private sector?
• Propose a public-sector labor relations system for the employees of the city government.
  • What would it borrow from the private sector?
  • What would it not be able to borrow? Why?
  • How would you modify your system to account for specific aspects of city government? Why?

 

In an essay, answer the following questions about the concepts tied to this unit. Your response needs to be at least one page in length.

• To what extent is employment-at-will an issue in discipline cases in nonunion companies?
• To what extent is it an issue in unionized companies?
• Based on your research, what advice do you have for managers?
• What advice do you have for lawmakers (i.e., to what extent should employment-at-will be relevant for employee discipline)?

 

Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness

Overview

Choose one public corporation in an industry with which you are familiar. Research the company on its own website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Filings & Forms page, the Strayer University’s online databases, the Lexis Advance database, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions. Use the Strategic Management and Strategic Competitiveness Template [DOCX] to ensure that your assignment meets the requirements.

Requirements

Write a 4–6 page paper in which you address the following:

• Assess how globalization and technology changes have impacted the corporation you researched.
• Apply the industrial organization model and the resource-based model to determine how your corporation could earn above-average returns.
• Assess how the vision statement and mission statement of the corporation influence its overall success.
• Evaluate how each category of stakeholder impacts the overall success of this corporation.
• Use the Strayer University Online Library and to locate and include at least three quality references. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not quality as academic resources.

 

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is the following:

• Determine the impact of globalization and technology changes, strategic models, vision and mission statements, and stakeholders on a corporation’s success.