CM501 Professional Development

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CM501 Professional Development

• Assignment 1 Briefing.
• David Miller

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Assessment

• Assessment is through two assignments
• Assignment 1 (60) Job application, interview
  and review.
• Last day for submission for written element Tues
  24th October, 10am
• Assignment 2 (40) Report on the desirability
  of developing a technology to prevent any form of
  mobile telephone use by drivers of road vehicles
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• Last day for submission Mon. 8th January 2007.

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A walk through the assignment

• The assignment specification
• The marking scheme
• Resources
• In class
• On-line
• In library

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A walk through key events

• Sign-up
• Submission of documentation
• Interview and review
• feedback

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• You will be interviewed once for about 12 minutes
  plus 12 minutes feedback sometime during this 5
  week period.
• The interviewer will have read your application
  documents.
• You should dress smartly, as if you were going
  for a real interview.
• Arrive before the interview time.
• Shake hands with the interviewer when you are
  invited into the room.
• Prepare well for the interview, behave as if it
  is a real interview.
• After about 12 minutes the interviewer will
  revert back to being a tutor ask you to discuss
  your planning and performance and give you some
  feedback.
• You get marks for how you handle the discussion.

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• At the end you will not be told what mark you
  got, because the tutor will need to move on.
• The marks will be published once all students
  have been interviewed.

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• It is very difficult for us to to organise the
  interviews for so many students.
• You should show you appreciate this and take a
  professional attitude to ensure you help the
  event to run smoothly.
• In the 5 week interview period two interviews
  will be held in each seminar time in the room
  already booked for that seminar.
• Each tutor will nominate additional times when
  they can do interviews.
• All this information will be drawn up in tables
  on large sheets of paper and these will be pinned
  up at the front of the lecture room.
• This information will also be available a few
  days before the sign up session.

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• Come along to the sign up session with a clear
  knowledge of which interview time slots are
  feasible for you.
• When you come into the room you will be given a
  sticky back label with a number on it. The
  numbers will be in random order.
• Print your name and id very clearly on the sticky
  label in black ink.
• Your turn for sticking your label on the table
  (poetry?) will depend on the number on the label.
• When your turn comes you will have less than
  twenty seconds to place your label if you make a
  mistake you go to the back of the queue.
• If you inconvenience other students or any other
  member of the University you lose marks in the
  assignment.
• Make a careful note of the date, time and place
  of your interview.

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• No matter when your interview is, the deadline
  for handing in your application documents is the
  same Tuesday 24th October 10am.
• There is a huge amount to information and advice
  available about c.v.s, job applications and
  interviews. Examples can be found at
  http//computing.unn.ac.uk/staff/cgdm5/ See
  also the University web site, the library, and do
  some web searching.

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• Research not only application writing but also
  the job type (what do people with this job title
  do?and the context (what does this company do,
  how big is it, how successful is it ?)
• Check your writing with a dictionary that also
  gives the meanings of words, not a spelling
  checker that simply offers you alternative
  spellings. Pay attention to details, not just the
  big picture.

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The five jobs you can apply for in version A

• Remember dont contact the real employers, the
  assignment is for practice and reflection only.
• BMW
• Mental Health NHS Trust  
• Northumberland National Park
• Scientia Solution Ltd
• UK Haptics
• For details see http//computing.unn.ac.uk/staff/
  cgdm5