My Career Action Plan

Year 12

Name: ____________________________

Date: ________________

School: _____________________________________

A Career Action Plan helps you to focus on your goals and plans for the future. It helps you to work out how you are going to achieve what you want relating to school, work and life. A Career Action Plan lets you apply your skills and knowledge to successfully move into your preferred career.

My Profile

Personal characteristics – this will help you work out what your skills are

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/get-started.htm

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/creativity-quiz.htm

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newCS_99.htm

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMC_72.htm

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_50.htm

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_88.htm

My current skills and abilities (Things that I can do well, use your skills profile to help)	I have seen that my current skills are Time management, using time to my advantage and making sure each project and assignment are given in by the certain deadline. -Communication, communicating different ideas to others, also telling them my feelings and thoughts about certain topics so they know what I am having trouble with and others I am comfortable with. - Personal mastery, knowing how to lead myself and know what I want for my future, setting personal goals to help me sculpt my future. -Team leadership, leading a team, making sure team I lead knows what they are doing to me and can look to me for guidance or support. - Leadership, being someone those others can look up to and can lead others through hard times and confusing situations. - First aid, being In St john ambulance gathered many advanced skills linking with first aid, treating casualties with many different injuries with a wide knowledge and understanding of them. - Working with people, understanding certain customer’s needs and wants and working to supply them, knowing how to treat a customer in certain situations.
My current experience	With working in St John Ambulance for 5 years I have picked up many skills with dealing with the general public and also using advanced first aid skills to many problems in may different locations around London. With working in a seafood restaurant for 2 years I have again made and worked on skills with working with the public, cooking different kids of seafood in many different ways. How to work and put together a restaurant account paper together, showing the wages given out and how much was taken in for the day. I also worked in my local hairdressers, which is again Woking with the public, studying and knowing the health and safety rules for a hairdressing environment. And also the different skills on how t cut hair in different styles.
My career interests – what kind of jobs/careers are you interested in and why?	A career I would like to find myself in in the future is journalism connected with something to do with media. I have always been interested and good at creative writing, writing down my views and opinions on different event that are happening. I have also been interested in the making of films the jobs and events behind the camera and how they are done. Another career I am interested in is a producer of a film, due to my study on many jobs in the media industry a producer and its tasks for the creation of a future film.
Jobs identified – what jobs have you chosen to explore and why?	Video journalist Producer journalist Video producer Writer/ journalist Media officer Digital and social media journalist I have chosen all of these jobs because they all involve a path in journalism, which I am interested in, but using this skill in many different lines of work.
Websites used for job search Other websites that you found useful.	http://www.filmandtvpro.com/uk/ http://www.reed.co.uk

Date: ________________

My Future

You will show clearly how your personal skills can best be used in the film and TV industries. – YOU MUST DISCUSS AT LEAST 3 DIFFERENT JOBS YOU HAVE IDENTIFIED.

My career choice

Job Choices - what jobs have you chosen to explore and why?

Video journalist

Writer/journalist

Producer journalist

Qualities/Skills required

Look at PERSON SPECFICATION for each job

Video journalist- Skills to be able to put together a high quality video in a professional marketing context. Having skills to operate a high tech camera. The ability to create storyboards and plan filming schedules, have good time management by keeping to different deadlines.

Writer/journalist- Excellent writing and communication skills needed to start this job. Keeping to deadlines, making sure you have good time management.

Producer journalist- Having good time management, knowing how to solve different problems within the work place, having certain qualifications in English, but its not necessarily needed 9

Duties required = what do you need to do in each of the jobs

LOOK AT THE JOB DESCRIPTION

Video journalist- to create and produce different videos and films about the company and there aims to put on different company websites and media sites such as YouTube and different networking pages.

Writer/journalist- Writing different about different stories about business and lifestyle of different people in the media industry.

Writing it for a different variety of communications if it is online of offline, internal or external, commercial or consumer.

Producing commercial scripts for TV and film ad radio.

Go out with a camera crew and interview different people in the team.

Producer journalist-

To write material for programme scripts, bulletins and links.

To undertake interviewing and reporting duties. To prepare and present bulletins. To produce live and pre-recorded news and current affair.

Potential employers – give details of the employers – who they are, their addresses, the nature of their business

Video journalist- The main employer for this job is the oxford brooks University; they are a branch of the media department offering this job to graduates. The address of the University Harcourt hill, oxford 0x2 9at.

Writer/journalist – This job was advertised by a recruitment centre called Turner fox which puts forward different jobs to job websites. There address is 18 Albert street, Mansfield Nottinghamshire NG18 1EB. They are a independent recruitment agency with experience covering a diverse range of industry’s sectors, working with small businesses through to large blur chip companies.

Producer journalist-

Employer important dates – date for application/interview etc.

(e.g. pre-apprenticeship tests)

Video journalist- Date to hand in application 30^th April 2014

Interview to be scheduled when called by employer.

Writer/journalist-Date to hand in application 15^th may 2014

Call to say selected for interview 14^th June 2014

Interview to be planned over the phone by the employer.

Producer journalist- Date to hand in application 2^nd April 2014

Call from employer to select interview day.

Skills match –

how does your skills match with each job?

Video journalist- My skills match with this job because of what they are asking you to know and understand about cameras and how to put a video together professionally with high Tec equipment and programs, which I have done and able to do because of the practise I have had with projects I have been given for my media Btec course. Putting together and learning how to edit and film a video to a professional standard.

Writer journalist- excellent writing skills needed for this job which I’m starting to achieve due to me taking a English language and literary A level course. Practising different techniques when writing and learning different ways to make a piece of writing sound more efficient. Time Keeping is needed which I do have due to me handing in different projects on time to a good standard.

Producer journalist- Good time management is needed which have due to me finishing projects earlier making me have time to look over and re-draft.

Skills Gaps

Skills gaps - What skills do you need to develop?

The skills that I need to work on are my spelling and grammar skills, making sure that all my written pieces are checked over making sure spelling is checked and grammar has been looked at and changed if needed. To make sure I accomplish this, I could start by creating different pieces of work and going over and over again checking the spelling and grammar giving myself the practise of going over my work and re doing and mistakes I have made.

Experience needed

What experiences/training do you need to enable you to do this job?

Video journalist- Needs experience of 2 years of working within the media, in the same job/studying the same job.

Writer/Journalist- Needs experience of a year, understanding the writing techniques that need to be studied in university.

Producer journalist- Experience in another journalist role and a journalism qualification.

Education/training/ experience required for each job

(e.g. course name)

-Video journalist- Need to have a qualification in journalism from university. There are many different course available from many different universities offering more study into becoming a video journalist. There are different universities like the university of Plymouth and city.
-Writer/journalist - Again there are many different universities offering this course from the university of Portsmouth, Manchester and others. All offering a writers journalist course which lasts 3 years studying the ins and out of a journalist the media and different writing techniques and ways.
-Producer Journalist- A university that offers this study is the multi media journalism course at the university of Bournemouth. Offering different types of journalism branches.

Providers offering courses - Where, when?

University of Sheffield – 19^th October 2014

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/journalism
This journalism degree covers every aspect of the job – TV, radio, digital, newspapers and magazines. Getting together with different teams and experiencing it around the world.
City university London - 18 October 2014

http://www.city.ac.ak/arts-social-sciences/journalism
In there journalism course you are taught tested skills and principles and the latest multi-channel and digital techniques to prepare you for a career in both traditional and emerging journalist roles.University of Edinburgh- 19^th October 2014

http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/careers/explore/occupations/publish-media-perform/journalism

This course shows you in different way how journalists are present in todays media.Giving young journalists the enthusiasm and knowledge to help in further carers.

Possible work experience opportunities?

Where, when? For what jobs would they help with?

With all jobs picked, the work experience needed is to be another job in journalist field to gain the knowledge of a basic journalist job.

Date: ________________

My Plan

¬ Goals are things that you want to achieve in the future. They are things that will help you to be prepared and ready for change at school or in your life. It is important that you think about goals early because then you can work out how to achieve them. Thinking about goals means that you will be prepared to study the subjects you like, do the types of occupations you prefer, and keep your future options open. If you meet a goal throughout the year, set another new one for yourself – maybe a more challenging one.

¬ Think about goals that relate to education/training and employment. For example, an education/training goal might be to hand all school work in on time, and an employment goal might be to find a part-time job.

¬ Think about why the goals you have made are important. For example, handing all school work in on time means you are developing time management skills, and working part-time helps you to develop a school-work-life balance.

¬ Think about how long it will take you to achieve your goals. Some goals are short-term which means you can achieve them in a few weeks. Some goals are long-term which means it might take a year or more before you can achieve them.

New Education and Training Goals

What is my goal?	How will I do it?	Why is it important?	When will I do it by?
Get a B or above in AS courses	By revising and paying attention in class	Getting good grades opens doors in the future and also gets me into university with a course I would like to do.	I will start it a few months before my exams until the need of my exams
Revise in a lot of detail for exams	By making myself do the revision, removing distractions.	Revising refreshes the mind with different topics in a subject that will help me in the exam.	I will start revising a few months before my exams.

New Employment Goals

What is my goal?	How will I do it?	Why is it important?	When will I do it by?
Get a small promotion in my part time job.	By working hard and being reliable and trustworthy.	Earn good money to spend without relying on parents. Also looks good on CV’s because you have experience.	Keep working hard and keep sweet with the boss until the end of the year.

Resources I need to help me

Sources of information

Areas I need to develop to achieve my career choice

		Achievement Date
Attributes* (e.g. personal characteristics such as personal presentation and motivation)	A skill I need to develop to help me to gain a career I would like is to listen to others. I myself talk when I know something or want to share but would be better if I also listened to others and their ideas.	28/8/15

Skills* (e.g. academic skills and employability skills such as organising, learning and team work)	A skill need to work on is becoming organised. This skill will also help me with time management. Knowing where everything is and keeping things neat will help me in the long run.	28/8/15

Skills, attributes, training can be found on the following sites

http://www.skillset.org/tv/newentrants/

http://www.creativeskillset.org/film/industry/

BTEC media

Friday, 20 June 2014

Pitch for music video (New visuals)

Wednesday, 18 June 2014

Action plan

Name: ____________________________

Date: ________________

School: _____________________________________

Friday, 13 June 2014

My CV

Personal Profile

Hobbies and Interests

Education

Employment History/ Work experience