
Unit 12: Preparing for placement
What do you aim to achieve?
Organisational Awareness and Skills
To develop a range of general and specialist skills, which meet the needs of your organisation and are transferable to broader work contexts. Click on the grey box below for some examples:
- Try developing entrepreneurial skills.
- Improve basic information technology skills like word processing, spreadsheets.
- Develop a creative ability.
- Develop financial skills, like the ability to read accounts or manage personal finances.
- Develop project management skills.
- Develop business skills that are transferable.
- Increase business knowledge of organisations.
- Develop specialist or advanced IT skills.
- Learn to solve work problems effectively.
- Learn about your strengths and weaknesses.
- Develop assertiveness.
- Learn to communicate in a professional environment, for example report writing.
- Learn to be flexible and adaptable - take risks.
- Show enthusiasm, motivation, flexibility and a willingness to learn
Personal Impact
To maximise your impact, become indispensable and provide evidence of the value you add to the organisation. Click on the grey box below for some examples:
- Provide an objective view, such as an ability to observe, analyse and solve problems.
- Provide an extra pair of hands, for example the project no one has time to do.
- Understand how to add value to the organisation.
- Promote the impact of any achievements made.
- Challenge the norm and bring new ideas.
- Improve the organisation, expand and develop publicity and customer services.
- Improve the organisation's performance, for example, sales.
- Pass on the benefits of your experiences to others.
- Improve the organisation's profile through marketing or market research.
- Bring in new expertise and skills, like fund raising skills.
- Improve IT systems.
- Improve administration procedures.
- Improve the working environment and enhance ethical values.
- Help the organisation become more effective.
- Free up people's time
SMILE - Preparing for Placement by Leeds Metropolitan University Employability Office, modified by Marion Kelt Glasgow Caledonian University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/metoffice/employability/resources/learning_objects/workexperience/index.htm.