BTEC Level 3 Unit 9 Work Experience Plan Assignment: Engineering Skills Development and Career Preparation Portfolio

Learning aim(s)/objective(s)

Learning aim A : Examine the benefits of work experience in engineering for own learning and development

Learning aim B : Develop a work experience plan to support own learning and development

Vocational Scenario (or Vocational Context)

Preparing for a Work Experience Placement

You are an apprentice within an engineering organisation and during your first year you have been working in a number of different areas to gain an understanding of how each operates. Your supervisor has been monitoring your progress throughout the year and thinks that you should now be considering the different engineering sectors and job roles that could appeal to you as a career. She has asked you to investigate the different career options open to you and to then complete a placement working within your chosen engineering sector. Before the placement you will need to prepare yourself and generate a work experience plan.

Task 1:

You are to produce a portfolio of work which demonstrates the benefits to you of carrying out a work experience placement within an engineering organisation. Your portfolio of work should include: a) a reflection of your own skills and abilities; and b) information that considers the importance of preparation before starting your placement. This will form part of your work experience plan.

To do this:
Firstly, reflect on and record your own skills and attributes, providing information on how they will be beneficial when you are working in an engineering workplace. You could consider the range of skills that you have gained, your ability to apply the theory that you have learnt, as well as your personal skills, for example, how well you work in a team. From this, you should identify those areas where you have strengths, and those areas where you need to develop professionally.

You should then consider the importance of work experience as a method of developing your skills and attributes. Your portfolio of work should include information about:

• the role of work experience in supporting the development of your professional skills and personal attributes for work in engineering
• how work experience can inform your career choices and help to prepare you for employment in engineering
• how work experience can provide you with a realistic understanding of the engineering sector in which you intend to carry out your placement

This should be supported by appropriate research to provide judgements about the validity of possible work experience placements.

You should then use a range of relevant research to extend your understanding about an engineering work experience placement and to help you to develop a work experience plan, which must include information about:

• the expectations, responsibilities and limitations for yourself on a specific engineering work experience placement
• a reflection on your own strengths and areas for improvement
• your own specific personal and professional development goals and how to meet them during your engineering work experience placement
• how your own plan is relevant and supports your own learning and development

Criteria reference

A.P1 Explain how work experience can support the development of own professional skills and personal attributes for work in engineering.

A.P2 Discuss ways in which work experience can inform own career choices and help prepare for employment in engineering.

A.M1 Analyse how work experience can provide support in gaining a realistic understanding of the engineering sector.

AB.D1 Justify the benefits of preparation in supporting own understanding of the expectations of work experience.

B.P3 Explain own responsibilities and limitations on work experience in engineering.

B.P4 Explain how to meet own specific personal and professional development goals while on work placement.

B.M2 Assess the importance of own work experience plan to support own learning and development.

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