Module overview
This module aims to equip you with the necessary tools to maximise your success of gaining employment and securing a successful career in the fashion industry.
Professional Planning focuses on career planning and developing your employability profile, identifying career options and writing CVs and applications. The module builds your understanding of how to succeed in interviews, with advice on securing a graduate training scheme through workshops that build confidence and capability for recruitment processes. The module also aims to build the networking skills you will need following graduation.
You will receive advice on how to present and communicate work effectively to industry standards and produce a self-promotion video and personal career plan to support applications for roles across the fashion market.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- how to prepare a professional Curriculum Vitae and career plan aligned to your intended role in Fashion Marketing with Management.
- how to promote yourself and your work to fashion marketing management employers;
- the role and skills required in the area of fashion in which you intend to work;
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- effectively communicate across visual, oral and written formats using an appropriate range of relevant media.
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- critically identify the strengths of your own work and appropriately recognise your own professional position within the fashion marketplace.
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- creatively employ complex practical skills utilising digital technology in developing a personal profile through a promotional video.
Syllabus
This module enables you to build on the knowledge and skills previously acquired, in a manner directly related to your own professional and personal development. Through a series of presentations, tutorials, interview and workshop activities you will develop your confidence and experience in these vital areas to support you in securing employment. Through reflective practice, you will gather and critically evaluate evidence of self-analysis, strengthening your specialist knowledge to reach your target career path. You will create a personal career plan that will support the development of a one minute promotional video to target Fashion Marketing with Management roles in industry.
Indicative content of the module normally includes:
- lectures on Employability skills in the Fashion Industry including presentation, interview skills, assessment days, Skills and Roles;
- Masters degrees and other education opportunities;
- group tutorials on careers mapping, roles, skills and self-reflective practice to determine strengths and weaknesses, & CV workshops;
- technical workshops to support the production of a self-promotion video.
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching methods include:
- lectures;
- workshops;
- group tutorials.
Learning activities include:
- lectures;
- workshops;
- group discussion;
- peer group learning;
- Study Skills Hub.
Type | Hours |
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Preparation for scheduled sessions | 16 |
Lecture | 4 |
Practical classes and workshops | 10 |
Tutorial | 10 |
Wider reading or practice | 30 |
Follow-up work | 40 |
Completion of assessment task | 40 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Internet Resources
Graduate Prospects – the official graduate careers website.
Academic Skills (including Academic Integrity).
Textbooks
Vogt, Peter (2007). Career Opportunities in the fashion Industry. New York: CheckMark.
M, Yate (2008). Great Answers to Tough Interview Questions. Kogan Page.
H, Goworek (2006). Careers in Fashion and Textiles. Wiley Blackwell.
D’souza, Steven (2011). Brilliant Networking. Harlow: Pearson/Prentice Hall.
Jay, R (2005). Brilliant Interview. Prentice Hall.
Granger, Michele (2012). Fashion: the Industry and its careers. New York: Fairchild.
Granger, Michele (2004). The fashion Intern. New York: Fairchild.
Brown, Carol (2010). Fashion Careers. London: Laurence King.
TeenVogue Handbook (2009). An insiders guide to careers in fashion. London: Puffin.
Longson, S (2004). Choosing Your Career. Kogan Page.
Eggert, M (2003). The perfect interview. London: Random House.
Assessment
Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
Plan
- Assessment Type: Formative
- Feedback: Personal Career Plan with verbal and written feedback. There will be a variety of opportunities for formative feedback within the module, for example: •tutorials, •seminars •peer group •assessment •group critiques, •self-assessment •mock interviews The interim submission of the personal career plan and online portfolio is an opportunity for a closer examination of a students’ needs and targeted individual feedback on the marking criteria
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: No
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Portfolio | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Portfolio | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Portfolio | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External