PDP for undergraduates: factoringin employability

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PDP for undergraduates factoring-in employability

• Angela Smallwood

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International company

• Outline the most challenging goal that you have
  worked towards recently
• Using a specific example, describe how you have
  established effective working relationships with
  a group of people who have different
  personalities or styles
• Please describe a situation where you faced a
  complex problem

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Chartered Accountants

• What benefits have you gained from your work
  experience?
• Describe an occasion when you worked as part of a
  team, and what your contribution to the team was
• Describe a recent situation where you
  demonstrated motivation and initiative (relating
  to either a work or university experience)

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National Health Service clinical science
traineeships

• Use this page to give details of any relevant
  experience or special skills and training. It
  will strengthen your application if you give
  examples of working in a team, problem solving
  and decision making, communication skills,
  flexibility and using your own initiative.

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Teacher training

• Personal statement Describe briefly your reasons
  for wanting to teach giving the relevance of your
  previous education and experience, including
  teaching, visits to schools and other work with
  young people

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Industrial placement

• Details of your main extra curricular activities
  and interests What do you contribute and what do
  you get out of them?
• Explain a situation when you have been following
  a specific course of action until something
  unexpected happened. Describe what happened and
  what you did to manage the situation

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Large UK retailer summer placements

• What was the most significant thing you have
  learned from your work experience? Please tell
  us how it has developed you
• Thinking about all your positions of
  responsibility and other activities, describe the
  most significant challenge you have faced. How
  did you tackle it? What was the outcome? What
  did you learn?

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Summer work experience SMEs and community
organisations

• Language skills
• Computer skills
• Previous work experience
• What do you consider to be your main skills?
• What have you done, or been involved in, which
  shows an enterprising attitude?

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Inside and outside the curriculum

• Academic work Prog/module specifications set
  learning outcomes in the form of skills
• Placements, field work, work experience, study
  abroad
• Voluntary work community action
• Working for Students Union clubs and societies
• Part-time paid work in term, vacation work