Opportunity for consulting an advisor or coach
As part of the support for the Life-wide Learning Award, you have the opportunity to meet with someone who can help you consider and progress your plans, this is an optional element of the Award. This is an important way in which you can incorporate professional advice into your life-wide learning experience.
You can talk about:
1. A specific career that you would like to prepare for.
2. Possible career/post-graduate opportunities.
3. Your personal development in a general sense.
Once you have produced your self-evaluation and personal development plan, you can indicate the assistance you would like and we will try to link you with someone who can help you to explore your thinking and planning.
1) If you have a career idea, we will try to organise for you to meet a practitioner in that field who would go through your proposed plan for development with you and comment on how appropriate it was to your employment goal – for example, helping you to identify any obvious areas for development that have not been considered?
When you think that you are nearing completion of the Life-wide Learning Award but before you submit your portfolio and reflective account, you could have a second meeting. You would present the skills you have developed in relation to this area of work. The practitioner would probe these statements, and make suggestions if there are still areas for development. You would then be able to work on these.
2) If you have no firm career plan, but think it would be sensible to start considering your options, you could ask to meet with a Careers Advisor who would discuss with you your self-evaluation and possible career areas that relate to your strengths and interests.
At a second meeting you could update the Advisor on your plans and consider the next steps.
3) If you would just like to have some professional input into your personal development plan, you could meet with a coach. They would discuss your aspirations and consider ways to achieve them.
At a second meeting the coach would listen to your account of what you have done and if necessary, make relevant suggestions to enhance your development plan.
These one-to-one sessions will be confidential and informal, focusing on your aspirations, goals and short term objectives. If you would like us to arrange a meeting please contact the Award Coordinator lifewideaward@surrey.ac.uk
Destinations® is a resource for Surrey students and recent graduates, designed to help you to manage your career from university to work and beyond. Explore Destinations® (university login will be required for off campus access) for information, activities, video clips and links to further resources.
www.surrey.ac.uk/destinations/
Access to help during Lifewide Learning Award
