Professional Planning

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.

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.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include:

• lectures;
• workshops;
• group tutorials.

Learning activities include:

• lectures;
• workshops;
• group discussion;
• peer group learning;
• Study Skills Hub.

Resources & Reading list

Internet Resources

Lynda (Software Tutorials).

Blackboard.

Graduate Prospects – the official graduate careers website.

Academic Skills (including Academic Integrity).

Career Destinations.

Library.

Study Skills.

Adobe (Tutorials).

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.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

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.