Assignment: Personal Branding
Purpose: The aim of this assignment is to allow the students to develop their personal branding to support them in finding a job/business prospect after graduation. This contributes to learning outcome a, b, c, d and e.
Task Details:
The assignment will require the student to develop, refine and deploy their “personal brand” through the most appropriate social media channel to support them in finding a job or business prospect after graduation.
Personal Brand planning & social media profile:
a. The students need to think about the job/business they want to pursue after graduation, Using at least two job advertisements, investigate the requirements for the job. Please use an Australian job portal for this research (www.seek.com.au or www.careerone.com.au)
b. Conduct personal online presence (google themselves for this) evaluate whether or not potential employers/business partners would get right impression, why or why not?
c. The students need to investigate Four social networking sites which might be suitable for publishing their profile, choose two of them and give reasons.
d. Set up profile on the chosen networking sites as selected in point c above
e. Write a report about the above findings (point a to d)
Suggested structure:
Part 1. Future job/business project
In this section, students need to describe the job prospect they want to pursue and what the requirements for the jobs are.
Part 2. Self Analysis: In this section, the students need to describe their findings of their online presence and discuss whether or not their current profile fits would impress the future employers. Present two SWOT analysis and discuss what personal brand they want to develop in order to attract potential employers.
Part 3. Social Networking profile
In this section, the student need to describe and discuss their profile in two social media networking sites of their choices. Explain why the two sites are chosen and how the profile are appropriately presented (coherent) and how they are able to provide clear image and positioning of the personal brand they are trying to develop. Please provide the screenshots of their profile.
Part 4: Conclusion
Presentation: 1500 words – correctly referenced. Student should use logical paragraphing and may use headings to improve communication. Times New Roman 12pt, Calibri 11pt or 10pt, 1.5 lines spacing, Harvard (Anglia) referencing.