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
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.
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- the role and skills required in the area of fashion in which you intend to work;
- how to promote yourself and your work to fashion marketing management employers;
- how to prepare a professional Curriculum Vitae and career plan aligned to your intended role in Fashion Marketing with Management.
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.
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.
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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Tutorial | 10 |
Lecture | 4 |
Wider reading or practice | 30 |
Practical classes and workshops | 10 |
Follow-up work | 40 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 16 |
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
TeenVogue Handbook (2009). An insiders guide to careers in fashion. London: Puffin.
Vogt, Peter (2007). Career Opportunities in the fashion Industry. New York: CheckMark.
H, Goworek (2006). Careers in Fashion and Textiles. Wiley Blackwell.
Longson, S (2004). Choosing Your Career. Kogan Page.
Brown, Carol (2010). Fashion Careers. London: Laurence King.
Granger, Michele (2004). The fashion Intern. New York: Fairchild.
D’souza, Steven (2011). Brilliant Networking. Harlow: Pearson/Prentice Hall.
Eggert, M (2003). The perfect interview. London: Random House.
Jay, R (2005). Brilliant Interview. Prentice Hall.
M, Yate (2008). Great Answers to Tough Interview Questions. Kogan Page.
Granger, Michele (2012). Fashion: the Industry and its careers. New York: Fairchild.
Assessment
Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
PlanSummative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Plan | 50% |
Digital presentation | 50% |
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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Plan | 50% |
Digital presentation | 50% |
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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Digital presentation | 50% |
Plan | 50% |