Transcript ePortfolio Lecture 2014

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ePortfolio
Simon Cotterill
FMS Learning and Teaching Support Unit
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Today’s session
• What is the ePortfolio for?
• Demonstration
• Why bother?
• Sources of help and support for your development
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About the Portfolio
Portfolio:
 Includes support for research skills
 Continue to use if you do a PhD.
Recording meetings with tutors/supervisors
Record and Reflect on Achievements
Portfolios
Awareness of transferable and specialist skills
Promoting your role in actively developing your research skills
-- be more effective during your Masters / PhD
-- broader research & transferable skills for your career
Express your skills and relate them to potential employers
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Record your meetings with tutors
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“My Skills” – you may already
be subscribed to RDF. If not
subscribe as follows…
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Researcher Development Framework
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Blog integrated with “My Skills”
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Demonstration
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Why bother?
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1. Importance of skills and competencies
in getting that job
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2. Generic/transferable skills
used in employment
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Employers’ views on skills needed
“…virtually all of the employers said that they assumed the subject
specific skills would be associated with study at a postgraduate
level…therefore the main basis for deciding to recruit an individual was
in terms of their complement of soft skills”
Institute of Employment Studies / EPSRC study of employers of
PhD physicists
Skills employers believe postgraduates lacked:
– commercial awareness
– flexibility and adaptability
– interpersonal skills, team-working skills and customer orientation
Transferable, complementary, generic, employment related or soft skills
are all terms used. Being able to evidence that you have developed and
used these skills will help you to obtain employment and enhance your
career.
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3. Likely used throughout your career…
• Competency
Frameworks
• Appraisal and
feedback
• Performance
Management
• Self Assessment
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“We spend more time planning our holidays
than we do planning our lives !”
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Student views on the ePortfolio
• 92 student users were surveyed by student
intern in 2011:
‘Serves as a reminder for
skills I’ve used when
‘It encourages you to
writing personal
think about all the
statements and
skills that you have
applications for jobs’
gained’
‘I can see how I’ve
progressed and become
more professional’
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Resources
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Tutors / MRes staff
Programme Handbook
Research Councils
Careers Service www.careers.ncl.ac.uk
Prospects www.prospects.ac.uk
Vitae (UK Grad) www.vitae.ac.uk
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Careers Service
Level 1 Kings Gate
No appointment required – just call in!
Advice & Guidance available
Monday to Friday 11am – 4.30pm
Open from 10am term-time and vacation
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ePortfolio has been developed so you can...
…record meetings with tutors / supervisors
…record your research progress
…plan and monitor your professional development (PDP)
…reflect upon the skills you have gained
Please use it!
Remember to use RDF
ePortfolio instructions/FAQ: https://portfolio.ncl.ac.uk/help/
ePortfolio queries: [email protected]
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