Do you know the requirements of TPA assessment 1?

TPA's Assessment 1 is focused on several tasks that allow you to create

• Professional Development Plan to increase your employability

• A Curriculum Vitae to brand your professional identity

• a gap analysis only to find out your weaknesses and have a better understanding of yourself

• an awareness of the employability skillsets leading a much effective personal identity

Arrange the TPA's tasks as set out in Assignment Brief 1 from 1 to 5.

• Develop a professional development plan including SMART Objectives and Strategies

• Conduct a number of personality types, career [employability] skills, and other "job fit" assessments

• Select one of the dream job roles to find out the gaps in skills as a result of comparison between your current and future job roles

• Research three dream job roles to compare as a result of visiting prospects.ac.uk

• Identify your current professional identity through developing a summary CV

PDP stands for Professional Development ------------, which consists of actions, if carried out, will bring you closer to the future job target.

Which CV component is most important to help you have substantial ground to brand yourself for the targeted job role?

• professional identity tracking the work experience to date

• personal identity of those skillsets that allow you to have a successful life

• a cover letter that makes you stand out by presenting your branded identity

• a statement that makes the employer aware of your strength for the job.

To create PDP, you only need to do the personality and employability skills assessment and gap analysis. By doing these tasks and ignoring the development of "SMART Objectives", you will eventually have a better opportunity to increase your employability.

• Yes

• No

You are expected for every task you've done to keep a record of it as evidence, and there is no need to write a summary about the specifics of the task and the results of it.

• Correct statement

• Incorrect statement

The website that you are encouraged to use to conduct your small-scale search of the three job dreams to select one of them is

You are expected to focus on one dream job before selecting another three. Doing this will make me more confident about the right personality type that matches my current knowledge, skills, competencies and behaviours.

• True

• False

Comparing dream jobs means finding -------------------------------- , as a result I will be able settle on one of them to conduct a gap analysis for the PDP,

• similarities of skills

• differences of skills

• similarities and differences of skills

• contrasting of skills

Gap analysis means

• analysing the strengths and weaknesses to become aware of the gaps and work on overcoming them

• Identifying the personal types of skillsets that are either present or require deskilling to match the requirements of targetted future job.

• Identifying the employability skillsets that are either missing or require improvement to match with the requirements of targetted future job