Coursework Assessment

Coursework Assessment Semester One 2020
Learning Outcomes
Assignment
1. Research a role in relation to the current labour market analysis for
those who have graduated with your degree
2. Assess the link between how your awareness of work has informed your
knowledge of HR practices
3. Evaluate your current skills and skills gap, setting appropriate short,
interim and long term goals for their achievement
Closed Book Exam: January 2021
4. Understand Leading for the 21st century
5. Consider HR models of Appraisal and Reward as they are applied in practice
6. Evaluate sustainable HRM practices as they align to real work scenarios
Assignment Details: Portfolio Report

A Portfolio is a collection of tasks which assemble to demonstrate your working
knowledge of HR in organisations and your research and employability skills as you
prepare for your placement between Level 5 and Level 6. The portfolio aims to
promote your ability to achieve a placement between level 5 and level 6 and a
graduate role on graduation which will serve as a foundation for your future career.
The portfolio is divided along relevant tasks and you may begin these in any order.
The recommended route is to start to work towards you Westminster Employability
Award: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/current-students/employability-and-careerdevelopment/improving-your-employability/westminster-employability-award (begun
at level 4) which runs throughout the task. If you achieve Bronze (50 points) in this
award you will earn 20 marks towards your assessment.
Forage (formerly Inside Sherpa) opportunities are many, but only 6 are relevant to
this module:
htps://www.theforage.com/landing/Westminster/DsmeGSvb5yvKws4BF/2020
 Boston Consulting Group: Digital Transformation
 Microsoft Go-To-Market Undergraduate & Masters Virtual Internship
 Sydney Romantics Design and Branding Virtual Internship
 Grant Thornton Audit Virtual Experience Programme
 Citi Global Consumer Banking Virtual Experience Programme
 General Electric Human Resources Programme
Have a look at them and choose ONE aligned to your own degree pathway.
You should have completed the task and shared it with the organisation to earn your
certificate. The certificate features in the appendices of your Portfolio Report.
It earns you 10 marks if it has been completed successfully.
The link to Inside Forage(formerly Inside Sherpa) tasks in Semester One is here:
htps://www.theforage.com/landing/Westminster/DsmeGSvb5yvKws4BF/2020
The sole use of these companies for Semester One on Forage (formerly Inside Sherpa)
from the last week in September until November 12th (submission date)
 Boston Consulting Group: Digital Transformation
 Microsoft Go-To-Market Undergraduate & Masters Virtual Internship
 Sydney Romantics Design and Branding Virtual Internship
 Grant Thornton Audit Virtual Experience Programme
 Citi Global Consumer Banking Virtual Experience Programme
 General Electric HR Programme
These practical tasks will prepare you to research your own degree in the current
labour market. You have support from the module, directing you to big data websites
to research the buoyancy of your degree and to help you select a Placement
opportunity. Each seminar group will only allow one of your chosen placement role;
although you can apply for as many as you like.
You can find the recordings from the HR Leaders’ Interviews on the Blackboard
(Bb) site under Assignment Resources. Comparing two of them for their approach to
the Covid-19 situation apply the leadership models you have been taught on the
module.
For the final section you can use what you have already prepared within your WEA
as your reflective statement since it will be informed by all you have learnt in the first
two months of the module.
The Formative Assessment is worth 5% when it has been annotated by your tutor
and some of your peers. If you do not tune into the live session in Week 6 you may
not have this 5%
This is a Turnitin Assignment due for submission before 1pm on 12th November 2020
Marking Grid for Assessment 1: Coursework
Work Based Analysis Portfolio Report based on HR Leaders’ Insight

Tutors’ Combined Comments & guidance for future work:
Portfolio Report Outline
Section 1 Introduction
1.1 Introduce your degree and its position in the current labour market.
1.2 Identify where you would like to spend your year in Industry
1.3 State how your Placement will help you to gain a graduate level role on
graduation
Section 2 Employer Branding and Your Professional Brand
2.1 Employer Branding
See Lecture 3 and be prepared to identify a useful model to illustrate the
Employer’s Brand
2.2 My Professional Brand: how have you used your professional brand research to
inform your own personal brand?
Section 3 HR Leadership in Covid-19
3.1 HR Leaders Compared to Leadership Models
Here you will look at two of the HR Leaders’ interviews and referring to at least one
other, analyse them for the benefits that they have brought.
3.2 Using models from those taught on the module identify how you see these HR
Leaders fitting with the models you have chosen
3.2 Suggest developments for the organisations you have been researching

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Appendices [not counted in the wordage]
Appendix i) A4 Plan: annotated from week 6
Appendix ii) Westminster Employability Award: Bronze Level achieved
[This will be verified by the WEA team]
Appendix iii) Forage (formerly Inside Sherpa) completion Certificate from one of
these: htps://www.theforage.com/landing/Westminster/DsmeGSvb5yvKws4BF/2020
 Boston Consulting Group: Digital Transformation
 Microsoft Go-To-Market Undergraduate & Masters Virtual Internship
 Sydney Romantics Design and Branding Virtual Internship
 Grant Thornton Audit Virtual Experience Programme
 Citi Global Consumer Banking Virtual Experience Programme
 General Electric HR Programme
Appendix iv) Listing your research journey: websites visited and data gathered
Appendix v) Your chosen Placement Role that you would most like to apply for
Appendix vi) Anything else that you would like to include
Potential Task Timeline
Week 1 i a) Complete the hygiene elements of the Westminster Employability
Award: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/current-students/employability-and-careerdevelopment/improving-your-employability/westminster-employability-award
The hygiene elements are a Skills audit and self reflection which will inform your
Goals Grid (10 marks).
i b) Review whether you already have tasks that could contribute to WEA points
ii) Open ONE of the 6 Forage (formerly Inside Sherpa) tasks listed for you and draft the
task https://www.theforage.com/landing/Westminster/DsmeGSvb5yvKws4BF/2020
iii) visit ENGAGE to see the list of one year Placements available
Week 2 i) Begin your Labour Market research on Linked In and look for
companies offering Placement / one year internships
ii) Continue with the WEA by choosing two more tasks worth 10 points or more.
https://www.westminster.ac.uk/current-students/employability-and-careerdevelopment/improving-your-employability/westminster-employability-award
iii) Listen to the first two of the HR Leaders talks and make notes
Week 3 i) Complete your Forage (formerly Inside Sherpa). The first draft will
receive feedback so do not “share” that one with the organisation. Adjust to the
feedback given and resubmit, choosing to share with the company for your certificate
htps://www.theforage.com/landing/Westminster/DsmeGSvb5yvKws4BF/2020
ii) Choose two more tasks on ENGAGE worth 10 marks each or more for the WEA
https://www.westminster.ac.uk/current-students/employability-and-careerdevelopment/improving-your-employability/westminster-employability-award
iii) Research your degree using the big data channels to bolster your Linked In
findings
Week 4: i) Building on your Engage and LinkedIn research identify a placement
that you would like to apply for.
ii) Link your Labour Market research from weeks 2 and 3 to your chosen placement
application
iii a) Complete your WEA with the final task (50 points = Bronze: worth 20 marks).
Your Bronze Award will be checked with the WEA team but you should provide
evidence in appendix ii)
iii b) Tidy up your initial skills audit and reflection for the Goals Development Grid (10
marks)
Week 5 i) Listen to all of the HR leaders’ interviews
ii) Link the HR Leaders’ choices to the leadership styles you have studied on the
module: the Leadership lecture sequence is available online from week 3 (20 marks)
iii) In light of your LinkedIn, personal skills audit and review of your Placement
opportunities Branding consider how you see your Personal Brand and that of your
chosen employer. Remember to link to the models (10 marks)
Week 6 Attend your online collaborate and participate in giving feedback to others (5
marks)
Week 7 Review, edit, add in references, ensure that all appendices are present and
write the conclusion (5 marks)
Appendix i) A4 Plan: annotated from week 6
Appendix ii) Westminster Employability Award: Bronze Level achieved
[This will be verified by the WEA team]
Appendix iii) Forage (formerly Inside Sherpa) completion Certificate from one of
these: htps://www.theforage.com/landing/Westminster/DsmeGSvb5yvKws4BF/2020
 Boston Consulting Group: Digital Transformation
 Microsoft Go-To-Market Undergraduate & Masters Virtual Internship
 Sydney Romantics Design and Branding Virtual Internship
 Grant Thornton Audit Virtual Experience Programme
 Citi Global Consumer Banking Virtual Experience Programme
 General Electric HR Programme
Appendix iv) Listing your research journey: websites visited and data gathered
Appendix v) Your chosen Placement Role that you would most like to apply for
Appendix vi) Anything else that you would like to include
Week 8 Submit before 1pm on Thursday 12th November.