Assessment 4

Create a 7–10-slide presentation and record a 4–6-minute voiceover presentation that explains who you are as a professional, your strengths and professional attributes, how you will maintain lifelong professionalism, and your educational plan for continuing to develop and market your skills.

What does it mean to demonstrate professional presence? An employee, a leader, or an entrepreneur with professional presence has confidence, poise, and competence and knows how to communicate effectively, take initiative, and innovate to achieve results. This course has introduced you to 10 skills that together form a toolkit you can use to demonstrate a powerful professional presence to your current or potential employer. In this assessment, you will explain how your accomplishments, professional attributes, and skills have contributed to your professional presence, and you will also discuss ways you will continue to practice lifelong professionalism. Creating this presentation will help you clearly communicate who you are as a professional and market your talents, skills, and achievements to colleagues and other key stakeholders in your professional life.

Assessment Instructions

Overview

In this assessment, you will build on the work you have done in this course to create and record a professional presentation. Your presentation will explain who you are as a professional, your strengths and professional attributes, how you will maintain lifelong professionalism, and your educational plan for continuing to develop and market your skills. 

Preparation

Review the assessment resources. Use the Capella library to locate at least two additional articles or books that discuss professional presence.

In your presentation, you will need to record a voiceover narration. It is recommended that you use Kaltura, a program that records audio and video. Refer to Using Kaltura if you need help using this courseroom tool.

Note: If you require the use of assistive technology or alternative communication methods to participate in these activities, please contact [email protected] to request accommodations.

Instructions

Create a 7–10-slide PowerPoint presentation that includes the following:

• Step 1: Describe your professional attributes and skills. 
  • Include a Title slide with a title for your presentation and your name. 
  • Include an Introduction slidethat introduces who you are and your chosen professional field, with an appropriate photo.
  • Include at least one Professional Attributes & Skills slide that provides a description of your professional attributes and skills (such as professional attire, strong communication skills, self and social awareness, et cetera). You may need a second slide to cover this component. Reference the course resources or other sources to support your description.
• Step 2: Explain what it means to demonstrate professional presence, citing support from credible sources. 
  • Include a Professional Presence slide that explains what it means to have professional presence, citing evidence from your library sources to support your explanation.
• Step 3: Describe personal examples of professional presence. 
  • Include at least one Examples of Professional Presence slide where you describe clear, concrete examples of how you have demonstrated professionalism in your career and/or academic program. You may need two slides. 
• Step 4: Discuss strategies that will be part of a continued plan for maintaining professionalism.  
  • Include a Lifelong Professionalism slide explaining how you will continue to develop your professionalism. Consider how you will continue to hone the skills you learned about in this course as you continue in your career or enter a new field. 
• Step 5: Demonstrate effective oral and visual presentation skills. 
  • Prepare notes for your oral presentation and add them to the presenter notes in PowerPoint. You can type your notes in the Notes area below each slide.
  • Record a voiceover presentation to accompany your slides (approximately 4–6 minutes). Focus on how you have demonstrated professional presence and your plan for lifelong professionalism. It is recommended you use Kaltura to record your presentation. Refer to Using Kaltura if you need help using this courseroom tool.
• Step 6: Write coherently with correct grammar, usage, mechanics, and citation of sources. 
  • Include a References slide that cites at least four credible references, two from the Capella library. 

Additional Requirements

Your presentation should also meet the following requirements:

• Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• APA format: Citations should be formatted according to current APA Style and Format guidelines. 
• References: Your presentation should include at least four credible references (two from the Capella library).
• Visual appeal: Slides are clear and visually appealing.
• Speaker notes: Notes accompany the content slides to provide more detail and expand on points made in your slides.
• Length of PowerPoint presentation: 7–10 slides.
• Length of voiceover presentation: 4–6 minutes.

Competencies Measured

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

• Competency 1: Describe the importance and impact of key skills and behaviors that are necessary for success in the future of work. 
  • Describe professional attributes and skills.
• Competency 2: Analyze factors that contribute to professional presence.  
  • Explain what it means to demonstrate professional presence.
  • Describe personal examples of professional presence.
• Competency 3: Develop skills to support a successful learning experience and career. 
  • Discuss strategies that will be part of a continued plan for maintaining professionalism. 
  • Demonstrate effective oral and visual presentation skills.
• Competency 4: Compose text that articulates meaning relevant to its purpose and audience. 
  • Write coherently with correct grammar, usage, mechanics, and citation of sources.
• Professional Presence Presentation Scoring Guide
  Professional Presence Presentation Scoring Guide Criteria Non-performance Basic Proficient Distinguished Describe professional attributes and skills.Does not attempt to describe professional attributes and skills. Attempts to describe professional attributes and skills, but the description is unclear or incomplete.Describes professional attributes and skills.Describes professional attributes and skills, including specific examples of how those attributes and skills are demonstrated. Explain what it means to demonstrate professional presence.Does not attempt to explain what it means to demonstrate professional presence.Attempts to explain what it means to demonstrate professional presence, but explanation is unclear or incomplete.Explains what it means to demonstrate professional presence.Explains what it means to demonstrate professional presence, using specific evidence to support explanation. Describe personal examples of professional presence.Does not identify examples of professional presence.Identifies but does not describe examples of professional presence. Describes personal examples of professional presence.Describes concrete personal examples that demonstrate a clear understanding of professional presence. Discuss strategies that will be part of a continued plan for maintaining professionalism. Does not identify strategies that will be part of a continued plan for maintaining professionalism.Identifies but does not discuss strategies that will be part of a continued plan for maintaining professionalism.Discusses strategies that will be part of a continued plan for maintaining professionalism.Discusses strategies that will be part of a continued plan for maintaining professionalism, including examples of how those skills will be honed and refined. Demonstrate effective oral and visual presentation skills. Oral and/or visual presentation components detract from the overall message. Demonstrates oral and visual presentation skills, but the skills are in need of improvement.Demonstrates effective oral and visual presentation skills.Demonstrates effective oral and visual presentation skills, including clear and visually appealing slides and notes that expand on points made in slides. Write coherently with correct grammar, usage, mechanics, and citation of sources.Writing is unclear as a result of poor organization, grammar, usage, or mechanics.Attempts to write coherently, but there are examples of incorrect grammar, usage, or mechanics.Writes coherently with correct grammar, usage, mechanics, and citation of sources.Writes coherently with organization and correct grammar, usage, mechanics, and correct citation of sources. 

Assessment 3
Overview

Complete a plan where you will identify three skills for development and reflect on your strengths and areas for growth as you move forward in your education and career.

What employability skills do you excel at? Which employability skills are more difficult for you? In this assessment, you will identify three of the skills that you would like to focus on and refine, and you will develop a plan to build those skills. As you think of which skills you would like to improve upon, consider choosing skills at varying levels. You might, for example, choose a skill that you are already strong in, but would like to continue exploring and building, as well as a skill where you might have more room for growth. Perhaps, you want to work on your ability to learn new technologies and be confident in dealing with technical challenges. Or, you find that you are usually productive but are looking for more effective ways to organize your time and plan your work activities. By completing this assessment, you will have a tangible plan for personal and professional development that you can review with the Career Center team.

Assessment Instructions

Overview

In this course, you have been learning how the 10 skills are an essential part of being successful in the future world of work. Your understanding of the skills has been refined, and now it’s time to reflect on your strengths and areas for growth again to develop a plan moving forward. For this assessment, you’ll identify three skills that you’d like to focus on and develop a plan for. As you think of which skills you’d like to improve upon, consider choosing skills at varying levels. You might, for example, choose a skill that you are already strong in, but would be excited to continue exploring and building upon, as well as a skill that you might have more room for growth in. At the end of the assessment, you’ll leave with the beginning of a tangible plan for personal and professional development that you can review with the Career Center team.

Preparation

Review the template you completed for the Reflecting on Your Skills, Goals, and Accomplishments assessment and the feedback you received from your faculty. Download the Skill Development Plan [DOCX]

 template for this assessment. Identify the three skills you plan to focus on and develop.

Instructions

Use the Skill Development Plan [DOCX] template to complete the following steps. You will repeat steps 1 through 5 for each of the three skills:

• Step 1: Identify strengths and areas of improvement for targeted professional skills. 
  • Identify the first targeted skill. Summarize your strengths and areas of improvement in this skill area. Then, identify your desired outcomes around this skill area and write a positive goal statement. Complete the Target Skill, Strengths, Areas of Improvement, Desired Outcome, and Goal Statement sections of the template.
• Step 2: Describe previous accomplishments that demonstrate professional skills.
• Step 3: Discuss specific strategies and practices that will be used to further develop professional skills. 
  • To complete Steps 2 and 3, specify the actions you can take to work toward your goals, with specific strategies and practices that you can apply. Identify any potential obstacles and challenges to achieving your goal. Complete the Practices for Growth, Action Steps, and Potential Obstacles/Challengessections of the template.
• Step 4: Identify supporters and resources that will contribute to the development of professional presence. 
  • Keeping your action plan in mind, identify trusted supporters and university resources that can help you in your skill development plan. Complete the Key Supporters and Supporting University Resources sections of the template.
• Step 5: Explain connections between skill development and personal, academic, and career goals. 
  • Reflect on the connections between skill development and your overall personal, academic, and professional goals. Complete the Benefits from Change/Connections to Personal, Academic, and Career Goals section of the template.
• Step 6: Write coherently with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.

Additional Requirements

Your submission should also meet the following requirements:

• Written communication: Written communication is clear and complete and 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. 
  • Identify strengths and areas of improvement for targeted professional skills.
• Competency 2: Analyze factors that contribute to professional presence.  
  • Identify supporters and resources that will contribute to the development of professional presence.
  • Describe previous accomplishments that demonstrate professional skills.
• Competency 3: Develop skills to support a successful learning experience and career. 
  • Discuss strategies and practices that will be used to further develop professional skills.
  • Explain connections between skill development and personal, academic, and career goals.
• Competency 4: Compose text that articulates meaning relevant to its purpose and audience. 
  • Write coherently with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics
• Skill Development Plan Scoring Guide
  Skill Development Plan Scoring Guide Criteria Non-performance Basic Proficient Distinguished Identify strengths and areas of improvement for targeted professional skills.Does not identify strengths nor areas for improvement.Identifies strengths and/or areas of improvement, but identification is unclear and/or areas or strengths are not identified.Identifies strengths and areas of improvement for targeted professional skills.Describes strengths and areas of improvement for targeted professional skills. Describe previous accomplishments that demonstrate professional skills.Does not identify previous accomplishments.Identifies but does not describe previous accomplishments that demonstrate professional skills.Describes previous accomplishments that demonstrate professional skills.Analyzes previous accomplishments that demonstrate professional skills. Discuss strategies and practices that will be used to further develop professional skills.Does not identify strategies nor practices that will be used to further develop professional skills.Identifies but does not discuss strategies and practices that will be used to further develop professional skills.Discusses specific strategies and practices that will be used to further develop professional skills.Discusses specific strategies and practices that will be used to further develop professional skills, providing clear examples of how these strategies and practices can be implemented. Identify supporters and resources that will contribute to the development of professional presence.Does not identify supporters nor resources.Identifies supporters and resources, but identification is unclear or disconnected to the goal.Identifies supporters and resources that will contribute to the development of professional presence.Identifies supporters and resources that will contribute to the development of professional presence, connecting the resources to goals. Explain connections between skill development and personal, academic, and career goals.Does not attempt to explain connections between skill development and goals.Attempts to explain connections between skill development and goals, but the explanation is unclear and/or personal, academic, or career goals are not explained.Explains connections between skill development and personal, academic, and career goals.Explains clear connections between skill development and personal, academic, and career goals, elaborating on how these skills will impact larger goals. Write coherently with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.Writing is unclear as a result of poor organization, grammar, usage, or mechanics.Attempts to write coherently, but there are examples of incorrect grammar, usage, or mechanics. Writes coherently with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.Writes coherently with organization and correct grammar, usage, and mechanics. 

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.

Research Paper Assignment:

Why is it important for HR Management to transform from being primarily administrative and operational to becoming a strategic partner?

Paper Title: Human Resource Management (HRM): Strategic Partnership

1. Write a research paper that address the following two main points. They become Level One Headings.

a. Differentiate why is it important for HR Management to transform from administrative and operational to becoming a strategic partner. 

b. Analyze the background of HR history and data from a specific organization of your choice to support your ideas, arguments, and opinions.

APA 5-page essay focusing on the main points above, include a title page, Abstract, and reference page. 

Include an introduction that outlines the main points and conclusion that summarize the contents of the entire paper. An Abstract. The body of the paper must be organized using Headings and Subheadings. Include a conclusion and References: At least six references.