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Development and Career Planning
Personal
Development Planning (PDP) is a process designed to assist you to get
the most from your time at University and help you to plan and reflect
upon the knowledge and skills you are developing. It will record your
progress as you plan activities to enhanceyour skill-set, assisting
with career planning and increasing your employability.
The
University’s PACE (Professional and Career Enhancement) system is an
interactive tool which can support you in developing, reviewing and
recording your employability skills.
PACE (pace.ulster.ac.uk)
has been developed to
help you record all your achievements in one place. The System is
secure, confidential and user friendly and enables you to:
- Assess skills and action plans.
- Set up student events and e-mail
alerts.
- Deliver employability material to
students.
- Manage student meetings.
- Access student placement
resources.
- Review students' CVs and
e-Portfolios.
Why do
it?
Employers
are increasingly expecting graduate recruits to have a good degree and
equally importantly a well-rounded CV. Employers are more likely to
employ a graduate who can show evidence of having developed a number of
key transferable skills which have been acquired across a
number
of settings.
Many
professional bodies have established standards which require you to
clearly show your continuing PDP. After your graduation this process is
often referred to as continuing professional development (CPD) and it
follows a similar process as your PDP.
How do you
participate?
You
will be introduced to PDP at your course induction and directed to the
PACE System which you can use to record how you develop your academic,
professional and personal attributes to illustrate your
employability.
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