Employability & Professional Development
Delivered Entrepreneurship and Professional understanding/development Lecture series for Plymouth University School of Arts. #1 Young University for Art, Design & Architecture in the UK (Times Higher Education Young University Rankings 2018).
Also provided direct support to student to explore themselves and capture their journey. Alongside building confidence and understanding int their professional abilities and potential around their experience, skills and unique process.
Project Deliverables
#1 Project Management Lecture - explaining the professional project delivery journey including visual “Gantt Chart - Tool”
#2 Resilience Lecture - understanding professional each individuals development and exploring their “Belbin Team Roles - Tool”
#3 Knowing Yourself Lecture - exploring and capturing each individuals core principles, using MBTI test along with Talents, Passions and Individual Visual Tools
#4 Employability Lecture - using the previous lectures and all visual tools to create both an authentic CV and professional visual Portfolio clearly communicating evidence and competences of each individual.
Mentoring - delivered 1 to 1 mentoring sessions to x4 students at x2 hours each. Exploring self confidence and applying themselves in the professional world, etc.
Judging - industry specialist judge for presentations of all x34 students in x8 groups, delivering a assessment and constructive feedback
Testimonials
“Dan contributed considerably to the enhancement of the level 5 module – Creative Industries at Plymouth University. Dan prepared content to provide students with strategies for self-improvement, resilience, project management and career development.
His sessions were always interactive and engaging allowing students to manage their own learning. Students were improved as a result of Dan’s planning, which was evidenced from feedback and end of module assessment project work. Dan also went above and beyond curriculum needs by offering students one-to-one sessions providing further resilience training and career development.
The module benefited greatly from Dan’s contributions and I thank him kindly for his valuable input and impact that he had on students’ personal and professional development.”
— Karen O’Shea (Lecturer of Information Technology at University of Derby)
“Dan’s involvement with our module (Creative Industries) has left me feeling considerably more confident in my ideas and their possibilities to grow into potential businesses. His use of particular resources (talents and passions sheets) required me to use and apply my knowledge about my own personal and professional traits. This meant that I have now become much more aware of how I can fit in a business.
Dan is clearly very knowledgeable about his position and has the evidence to back this up, however, as a student, this sometimes felt overwhelming and left me slightly confused. Being in a state of confusion did however cause me to think more about my approach to particular areas which perhaps benefitted me in the long run.
The most notable trait of Dan’s that I have picked-up on is his ability to read and identify peoples traits from a conversation. He identified myself as having a ‘passion’ for a particular subject which has definitely empowered me to use this to help further my professional development.”
— Jake Warren (Systems Developer at South Devon College)